If the registration for the Institutional Review Board (IRB or ethics board) in Guinea-Bissau expired in 2018, as this article in Rolling Stone says, then all previous studies published with data from the research program there must be scrutinized.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

It occurred to me today that carcerality and empire are nothing more than a religion. People who believe police will come and save them if they're in danger, or that only bad people are in cages, or that the US keeps the world at peace through military might,

JFC Quakertown.

Another girl scout campaign that needs love

WE DID IT!!!! THEY'RE GOING TO EUROPE!!!!

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

It didn't get a ton of air time today what with the tariff stuff, but this is good and important.

He definitely pushed that invite off the desk and into the trash can just out of sight.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tree of Life II, by Alice Baber, 1974 (rotated), 📸 by Mike Segar

Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against NYC based Lola Olivia clothing for selling breast binders. He's arguing it's illegal to sell the equivalent of sports bras. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, strikes down Trump’s tariffs as not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Roberts writes the court’s opinion. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Behold my shocked face: www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

More than a year after the Trump administration was first sued over its anti-transgender prison policies, DOJ literally showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy — and it is even more anti-trans, aiming to end trans-related care in federal prisons altogether.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Remember when they tried to make this chucklefuck a senator

BRENDAN FRAISER EISENHOWER MOVIE BRENDAN FRAISER EISENHOWER MOVIE

“If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.” This was said by the mother of a child in South Carolina who has been hospitalized with measles encephalitis since January. I tried out several sentences for this spot, but none could capture my thoughts.

Workers have begun restoring the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia that was removed by the Trump administration

Getting a serene picture of a Shetland pony isn't easy when they are so friendly 😂

Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison suspended two officers for coordinating with Border Patrol in violation of department policy. He said he “intends to terminate them." Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:

"The measure also establishes that “willfully” disseminating or helping a minor access material deemed “harmful” without their parental consent would be a crime... possibility of imprisonment of up to a year, and a fine between $500 and $2,500." I. TOLD. YOU. littlevillagemag.com/iowa-house-b...

The FDA has reversed course and will now review Moderna’s new flu vaccine. Last week, professional agitator Vinay Prasad overrode FDA scientists and sent a letter saying that the FDA would not review it.

PeaceHealth has been worsening emergency care in rural Oregon by cutting costs. Now they fired the ER physicians raising the alarm & replaced these local, rural-Oregon emergency physicians with an Atlanta-based corporate staffing agency that is best known for insecure handling of patient information

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Republicans in Congress have been warned repeatedly that RFK Jr. is destroying the U.S. vaccine program. The problem is that they love it. It’s part of their “medical freedom” platform.

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.) TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Relatable.

ATTENTION #GEORGIA VOTERS: sneaky GOP trick No. 1: Went to #MyGeorgiaVoter to see where early voting is for #GA14 MTG election. There are NO early voting locations for my precinct. #ElectionRigging

This is beyond foul

A guide to watching the speed skating.

My mom sent me a link to this bookshop website that curates interesting and unusual books. Great looking selection, here. societyforunusualbooks.com

Walter Molino (Italian, 1915-1997) The Burst of Flowers, 1958 Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard 60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #ValentinesDay

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Happy Valentine's Day to my cats. thank you for not breaking up with me

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Night of Saint John's Festival, by Candido Portinari (🇧🇷), 1957, 📸 by Dustin Satloff

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

Don't miss this analysis by Abortion, Every Day. The Heritage Foundation has published another chilling roadmap: “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years”, to erase LGBTQ families, decimate the social safety net, and push women out of public life altogether.

We also know that AI (not Meta specifically but come on it’s coming) can already identify people by their gait. Palestinians have been telling people to put a pebble in their shoe to escape this detection, because all these things were pioneered on them by Israel, with our money 🥰

He does this every Friday.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.