My two musts for a 2028 candidate: 1 abolish ICE; 2 law that gifting someone's child legos comes with a mandatory 30m of your time to fix and/or cleanup per 100 pieces in the set

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

pretty stunning chart

the guy that hasn't washed his hands in years is threatening a $300 bn AI company's existence because they want guarantees that he won't use their AI to surveil American citizens or kill people autonomously and he refuses to agree to those terms www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

I think people recommend this because genre conventions demand that their essay offer some kind of solution, not because it really follows from aggressive AI predictions bsky.app/profile/euge...

All the "you need to learn AI skills or you'll get left behind" things are patently nonsense. It's easy to use and only becomes easier to use over time. If there's skill it's in knowing what it does well and what is does poorly

Fourth, it’s clear that foreign policy doesn’t motivate her, similar to Bernie Sanders. She’s a domestic policy person trying to scratch together a foreign agenda. That’s pretty concerning considering how much the deep state dominates foreign policy absent a strong willed president.

Third, she is advancing a progressive internationalism and decidedly NOT a leftist foreign policy. It’s similar to the Obama platform. Pro NATO, pro free trade, and nominally anti war but still in the language of allies and enemies. She did call Gaza a genocide multiple times without equivocating.

First, it is quite clear AOC is running for president in 2028. She prepped with a progressive foreign policy team for this visit, and she didn’t bother denying it when the moderator referenced her running. She knows and everyone there knows that she is running.

From the other place, because it was good

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

i fear that the left has become so reactionary to big tech capitalism that their aversion, distaste, and growing illiteracy around technology is just going to inadvertently help the capitalists succeed

I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.

Won't quote post this time but, "I'm no more impressed by the current iterations of chatbots than I was by Eliza when I was a kid". This is just bragging about your ignorance! People should be embarrassed to admit this!

The flu and pneumonia kill over 45,000 people a year. Moderna developed a new mRNA flu vaccine for people 50 and older--who are most at risk. Prasad, unilaterally, against the recommendation of experts within the agency, denied Moderna's appplication. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Last weekend I was on a phone call about an incident related to code I'd written (by hand) with one of the best engineers I've met in 20 years in the industry and the AI working in the background found the subtle bug first. This stuff is not static!

"from three years ago" is also perfect though. End of 2023 LLMs could occasionally write bash scripts for me. End of 2024 they wrote most of my tests. End of 2025 they wrote most of my code, period...

A perfect response. Basically none of the people in the replies to this article appear to have read it but even being curious about how AI works makes you a sucker in the left-liberal conventional wisdom. We are going to be run over, aren't we... bsky.app/profile/chip...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

It's interesting that in the recent Discourse I haven't seen the phrase "diversity of tactics". Yes, let's do leave that in Woke 1

For example, we spent 100s of millions of dollars on a field hospital in Gaza (very much not Best Practice) so that Israel could go in front of the ICJ and say that they're not committing genocide because, look, we let USAID fund this field hospital They bombed the field hospital repeatedly btw

Reminder of when Chotiner interviewed Joe Biden's ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and Lew said that it was OK to kill the children of Hamas fighters. Lew and others in leadership also let slip that the purpose of the USAID humanitarian response in Gaza was to support Israeli military objectives.

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Very fond memories of our oldest saying "babu" which meant both "bubble" and "caboose" (similarly excited tone for both, of course) bsky.app/profile/theo...

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Trump's eager embrace of slop makes me wonder if this is actually our solution to the MAGA base. Give up on bringing them into reality, let them secede into a world of triumphalist fantasy validated by AI companions bsky.app/profile/doug...

This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).

When I was young I thought Schumer type establishment figures were ruthless defenders of the status quo. It turns out they're mostly just feckless climbers who're totally incapable of even understanding what holds up their world bsky.app/profile/jame...

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

US seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, this one not already on the sanctions list for Russian oligarchs and Iran. Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader. Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.

People on this site complaining about someone for getting suspended for... calling for the president to be shot. I mean, come on.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

I think this kind of pointing and laughing is unfortunately going to look pretty silly in a year bsky.app/profile/greg...

A smart Democratic presidential contender would have a very clear stance on gerrymandering, favors/hassles for companies on naughty/nice lists, and anything like this: it's bad and here's a bill to ban it, but until that bill passes, we're going to do it as hard as possible

Every word of this is depraved beyond belief. ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment. I don’t know what to say. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism. But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.