CRYPTO MARKET HAS LOST $2 TRILLION IN VALUE SINCE OCTOBER 2025 PEAK AS SELLOFF DEEPENS – COINGECKO DATA

> @governor.ny.gov

ANALYST BRENT THILL, on AI’s impact on jobs: “.. It’s really scary. I have two kids in college and I — I’m scared. I think we’re scared for the new graduates. .. Everyone is bracing. This is starting to have an impact. You can already see it.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

(Bloomberg) - Elon Musk can be forced to testify in a lawsuit brought by government workers and contractors who accused him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of the [USAID] while he was a senior White House adviser, a judge ruled. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deeply uncomfortable read

Layoffs this month are the highest since 2009. Is that why you deleted this tweet?

Bitcoin is currently trading for LESS right now than it was when Donald Trump said this two years ago.

‘Trump Has Lost the Country’: Ross Douthat Warns Conservatives Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Failings

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

If I was a faculty member at Yale (lol), this would inspire several emails Gelernter: professor in the emails Brock: dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science

This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

This is precisely what happened to the transcript of the Zelensky call that led to Trump’s first impeachment. They stashed it in a code-word classified system for political reasons.

Found another RW synonym for "white."

I'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

IMDB has flagged Melania the documentary for “unusual voting activity”. Someone is trying to pump up the viewer ratings after critics said it was a worthless piece of shit.

"She's 16. It's not like she's four." And that's how it *starts* 🤢

🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨 Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...

"I did not think that the case could get worse than what I learned in 2009," Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who handed sex trafficking cases, told USA TODAY. "For the last 16 years, it has only gotten worse. ... They have exposed the victims and protected the perpetrators."

Food prices up, employment down, tariffs up, trade down, soldiers in our streets up, American soldiers murdering Americans up! Please feel free to add your take too this

On the death penalty in Iran for crimes like murder.

"Generated outputs from the base models of ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4, Claude 2.0, Llama 2, & PaLM 2 are more likely to omit characters with minoritized race, gender, and/or sexual orientation identities...or relegate them to subordinated roles as opposed to dominant ones" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

This is like a scene out of Monty Python. ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???) It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.

KIM: When Binance founder Zhao pleaded guilty to violating money laundering laws & was sent to prison, Binance injected billions into Trump's business & Zhao was pardoned. Is that a conflict? BESSENT: I'm unfamiliar with any of that KIM: Is it a conflict? BESSENT: Again, I'm not going to respond

What is remarkable about this NYT fluff/PR piece to glorify a Trump bootlicker in Cong is that they didn't bother doing any profile on the MoC - @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social - who did the hard work of getting Liam Conejo Ramos out while Katie didn't lift a finger to help out the 5 yr old boy.

BREAKING: E-mails reveal Epstein’s bid for clemency from former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Just circling back on this one. Anybody?

RFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable

New Jersey has a special congressional primary today. About one of the Democratic candidates. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

These several Democratic lawmakers have been outspoken against Trump’s immigration policies. But they’ve also personally invested in Palantir, the tech company that scored a huge gov’t contract to work w/ ICE. @bueninvierno.bsky.social of @notus.com reports: www.notus.org/congress/pal...

"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition tool ICE claims offers definitive proof of legal status, isn’t even designed for what it’s being used for, and was rolled out after a Project 2025 guy dismantled DHS’s centralized privacy assessments

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

As I wrote earlier today, waiting for Maduro to say that Venezuela conspired with Obama to swing the 2016 and 2020 elections. Followed by Maduro and his wife being transferred to the same cushy prison occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell.

"With his unerring instinct for the most disturbing timing and symbolism possible, the teardown is to begin this July Fourth, America’s 250th birthday. Yes, folks, a rebirth (of America and the Kennedy Center), with Trump as midwife." What could possibly go wrong? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kenn...

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Stinks to high hell www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

New @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social discussing our most recent Bright Line Watch report (brightlinewatch.org/america-look...) and threats to democracy in a second Trump term www.niskanencenter.org/threats-to-d...

The clarity of @attackerman.bsky.social on @wyden.senate.gov's cryptic public letter to Ratcliffe is something more journalists should be doing. Explaining stuff is important; explaining stuff you don't know but understanding the mechanics is just as important. www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

Unreal honestly. As recently as January 28, the typical investor (weighted by flows) in one of the wave of bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024 was sitting on 20% gains. Today? -12%.

To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

the musk boys are never ever beating the allegations

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

the depths of perversion that epstein descended to are downright legendary

Elon had probably already been to the island by this point, but inviting Epstein to tour SpaceX appears to have been his idea too ("as you suggested")

there is no conceivable context in which a message from Jeffrey Epstein saying "the girls and I are going to see Elon Musk at Space X tomorrow" isn't extremely damning.