Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

🇮🇷🛢️ CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S. / Israeli airstrikes.

Thank you @jorifinkel.bsky.social for this superb coverage of Frieze LA’s shameful sidelining of the beloved nonprofit Ambos at the fair www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/27/a...

Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer. Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount. about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

Please watch this teacher’s wrenching testimony from today. The courage of people like Mandy, the only line of defense against the cruelties and trauma enacted upon young children and their families, is astonishing

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

So few people know about data labeling, let alone the psychological and emotional toll it exacts. More essential reporting from @404media.co podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

kid-in-the-brown-hoodie is a whole-ass ideology

From arresting women who miscarry (KY, OH) to this: www.patreon.com/posts/150728...

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

NEW: Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions. In their Friday night ruling, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law. Law Dork:

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

This is so unbelievably moving

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a HUGE CROWD peacefully demonstrating in L.A. to protest the Trump administration and lCE 📍Los Angeles, California #NationalStrike

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

This is like how the Catholic Church passed known pedophiles from parish to parish

"We urgently need more just, equitable systems where nobody is able to accumulate such extremes of wealth and power in the first place. Our puckish little digital graffiti is a call for all the above."

Live at the World Economic Forum: SUCK, an AR intervention by @drawing.bsky.social & me. Read more about it here: www.realitystudies.co/p/wef-davos-...

New from me: As the events in Minneapolis illustrate, the Trump Regime is at war with American Families. Something I feel intensely as a parent. www.altrightdelete.news/p/were-all-d...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further. A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it. Enough is enough.

Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*????????? This is a joke right ? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Speculation here is that Tim Walz is prepared to use the Minnesota National Guard to protect the citizens of his state FROM ICE This may be as close as America has come to a Civil War since the Supreme Court issued the Brown v Board of Ed case and began the process of integrating schools

Endowing LLMs like Grok with human characteristics (intention, remorse) lets its (almost trillionaire human) owner completely off the hook. In an era of zero accountability, we have to ensure our own AI literacies to understand clearly what’s unraveling before us. Superb précis from @404media.co

None of the abuses of AI occurs in a vacuum— as @jessicavalenti.bsky.social points out, what users are doing with Grok both mirrors and aligns with systemic attempts to gaslight and strip American women of all rights; bodily, biometric, & voting.

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

Another great piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-united-s...

Dem strategists are extremely helpful in consistently providing the worst imaginable advice. You can reliably assume that the right move in any situation is the polar opposite of whatever their recommendation happens to be.

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

Murphy: "It's clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. He wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply worried about what's in those files. What we've already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly Trump was at the center of a child sex ring ... the scandal could bring him down."

💯💯💯💯💯💯 @jessedamiani.bsky.social substack.com/@damiani/not...

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Time to register as independent. I mean it. No more “lesser of two evils” voter alignment. It’s a small thing you can do to send the DNC a message.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

substack.com/@damiani/not... Platforms change policies constantly, and generally, we can choose to adapt or not (I left X entirely because no adaptation could salvage the content sewer it had become). @jessedamiani.bsky.social focuses here on Instagram/Meta’s latest move:

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

It's been a good day.