“It’s about those living inside their personal nightmares, children with no protectors, women with no advocates, young people without fierce defenders; radiant, precious lives who may be carrying decades-old secrets or holding fresh sorrows in silence.”

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

But he isn't ignoring it. Wonder how long it's going to take people to figure that part out: the court struck down a portion of his tariffs while leaving a huge loophole for the rest. All he's doing now is pouring the contents of cup A to cup B. Don't like it? Still on the courts and congress.

Well... I also think people would do well to internalise this about the Epstein files. Yes, influential and powerful people affected the discourse on trans people and rape culture. But what about everyone who agreed with them? What about those who did their dirty work?

Beyond the horrifying, lawless nature of this — which I have written about repeatedly — this is one of those things that we are just stuck with — not for the future, but, to the extent it has happened, as reality — and we are all less safe for it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u... This article is pure propaganda. Trump is corrupt, and Russia is on the edge of failing. The US should be working to see Putin deposed, Ukraine regain its lands, and see Russia lose this war, not working on a Trump hotel Moscow with Trump’s corrupt pals.

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

We only know what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretti because rapid response organizers were there to record it. We don't know how many people they have murdered, but information about more killings keeps coming to light. And who knows what happens in the camps. crimethinc.com/MNRapidRespo...

Last month, ICE staff murdered a man at a detention facility in Texas. Federal mercenaries initially declared that the man died of "medical distress," then were forced to update their claims after an autopsy conclusively showed that they murdered him. They terrorize and lie continuously.

Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”

Trump wasn't elected in a vacuum. A horrible person became president twice because horrible people kept voting for him.

I used to be a CPS investigator and when I tell you that our entire child-rearing culture grooms kids for abuse, know that I say it with a deep well of rage for specific children who were trained not to say no to adults in 1000 small ways AND told nothing about their quote-unquote "swimsuit areas"

*I laughed when you said AI was a shoggoth than could eat the world *But when you said it could dox me personally right here in my gated community with my handgun and don't-tread-on-me-flag, then I got all concerned

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Normally the video of the dangerous leader saying "I can destroy the country if I want" is footage that has to be smuggled to the right person after a movie long chase against people desperate to stop its release and their failure to do so results in the leader's removal. Here it's a Friday.

ICYMI: AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

Bondi threatening right-wing influencers if they dare criticize her. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

It’s a tough job to lie to an entire country on behalf of a monster #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien supported Trump—now it's backfiring spectacularly #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

Correct. Rep. Jody Barrett (Left) Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

Must be nice.

A consistent pattern of Trump 2 has been exploiting the slowness of the courts to just do illegal stuff and then drag out the process whereby the courts actually compel him to stop. With tariffs it looks like he's going to combine that with a kind of bullshit-legal-theory musical chairs.

Looks like National Elevator Industry, Inc is getting their wish on Monday, thanks to an amendment from the chair of the House housing committee. app.leg.wa.gov/committeesch...

How many others have been killed that we don’t know about?

Thrilled for Hegseth to divide the military into 40 independent columns with a promise of spoils to whoever kidnaps a world leader and dishonorable discharge for anyone caught following the laws of war www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...

Food banks are buckling under the pressure of his policies and Orange Caligula wants to spend one hundred million dollars on his fascist arch.

The Roberts Court could’ve avoided all of this if they upheld the Constitution in the first place, instead of thinking they could scrap the parts they don’t like while keeping parts they do.

It’s the epistemic double bind of rape trauma: the rape victim who appears to suffer is unreliable, crazy, untrustworthy either to relay the facts of her rape or to judge its gravity and consequence. The rape victim who does not appear to suffer, by contrast, was not really hurt.

An 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student was arrested Friday after authorities accused him of running a massive “catfishing” and “sextortion” scheme that involved more than 20 underage victims.

For those interested, About 3:45 to 4:00 and 8:20 to 12:03 of this video explains why international harmonization is important and the argument against the National Elevator Industry representative. bsky.app/profile/danb...

TIL that there's yet another fucked up Russian cult that is likely going to want to kill people like me...

Rmeinder to authors who have any ability to negotiate in contracts: make sure your audio contract precludes this.

Oh no. Oh nooooo. Xbox's new CEO is a natalist/birthrater. How did MS miss this in their opsec? Literal stone's throw away from the likes of Palmer Luckey. "Will my son have classmates in the future? ...the fertility rates are declining." Then she suggests the fix is... AI? Timestamped:

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email that says everything about the class war at the heart of the files prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

Man, this is making me wonder how much a certain kind of originalism isn't just a glorified excuse to nullify, not only Reconstruction, but the entire American Revolution

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

‘I Read Very Well!’ President Donald Trump touted his reading comprehension skills as he ripped into the Supreme Court for killing his tariffs.

I remember Multnomah DA Nathan Vasquez went on FOX12 in 2024, lying to Portland voters that then Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt (restorative justice advocate) was lying about Oregon’s Public Defender deficit. Now Vasquez is dismissing cases because of the very real Oregon Public Defender deficit.

write to your representatives to reject this amendment before Monday! (just your reps, the senate already passed it). this amendment would set back elevators from using unified international standards instead of complicated standards that only America uses app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

Justin is right, but the problem they are to solve is right there. Trump doesn’t want to lose. The problem this was meant to solve is that he lost. So, whether something is effective or lasting is irrelevant. Trump was able to claim, on Friday, a win — show that he was not stymied by SCOTUS.

Sue this company out of existence. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

And these are the prepared remarks!

Here’s a correction I’m sorry I have to make: I’m deleting this post because I was wrong and the comedian absolutely got a call from a real kindergarten teacher trying to get one of her kids and the kid’s family deported. Story by @drewharwell.com linked: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

If Obama had reacted to the Supreme Court the way Trump did today, Republicans would have impeached him before noon.

Dealing with Intimate Partner Violence we talk about the impossibility of disproving a negative. “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Hegseth and Noem keep mightily pissing off and humiliating those who serve under them and history informs us that that often does not work out for leaders such as them when regimes collapse taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi owned Palantir stock while voting to fund DHS. https://www.notus.org/money/tom-suozzi-palantir-stock-homeland-security-ice

As the article points out, this is the third time they’ve done this. And each time Todd Blanche claims they do it because “courts don’t pick US Attorneys.” But they do. When the president won’t. Why won’t he? No one knows. He’s just an asshole, I guess. But Blanche just keeps lying about this.