I’m interested in learning more about Amanda Riley who faked Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Are the ‘Scamanda’ podcast and TV show the best/only breakdowns of this story or does anyone have other recommendations?

Posting live from a Shelter In Place Drill and I can’t help but reminisce to high school when I experienced my longest shelter-in-place (not a drill) to date & I spent it knitting or trying to lie down semi-comfortably on my project bag of yarn. I’m currently in the loom room and it feels familiar

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

Good morning

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.

Me every day at work: y’all wanna see a jacquard weaving of Chairman Mao en route to Anyuan?

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

nazi bitches get kicked out of bars

DJ Young Slade, Lil Jon’s son, has been found dead at the age of 27. He was reported missing earlier this week. His body was found by the Milton police department this morning.

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

Seems bad that we have a system where one guy gets to add enough money to allow a family to live in luxury for generations to his Scrooge McDuck money vault every day

I love getting a little bit of giddy delight when I get an update email on a paper I published 🥰 my readership numbers aren’t massive or anything but it’s been downloaded outside the US by folks in a plethora of countries and it’s so cool to see how they stack up!

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embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

“There will still be assholes in communism” nobody said there wouldn’t be. But they’ll be living in an apartment like everyone else. Using the same healthcare system. And not have a trillion dollars of private capital. I don’t care if they are rude

Biggest Revelations From The Epstein Files https://theonion.com/biggest-revelations-from-the-epstein-files/

friendly reminder that post 5 pm sunsets are officially back 🌆

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.

If anybody thinks this is a joke

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

A Paris cybercrime unit has raided the French offices of Elon Musk's X www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

The anti-ICE/CBP rally in Chicago's Daley Plaza has grown significantly in just the last half hour. The crowd is spilling out into street; I'd say there's over a thousand people here at this point.

Local advocacy matters.

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Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

Check out this thread 😐

Elon musk is in the Epstein files, pass it on

Just to be clear: Both independent journalists arrested by the authoritarian Trump regime for doing their jobs in Minnesota — Don Lemon and Georgia Fort — are Black.

damn if only there were something they could do with all those guilty feelings

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

I'm sure it will be available soon but given magistrate judges, district court judges, & the appeals court all said the U.S. couldn't arrest Don Lemon I'm curious exactly how they acquired an arrest warrant

It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island). The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.

Never let anyone tell you this was unforeseeable. I was a teenager when DHS was created and I remember the memes (though we didn’t call them that yet) about “homeland security” being a Nazi term. Plenty of people knew at the time that DHS was a bad, dangerous, and unamerican idea.

I see your "should be removed from their jobs" and raise you "should be prosecuted for murder."