Bad Bunny performs. The NYT: What is sugar cane? WaPo: What are politics? Fox News: What is Spanish?

I guess they fired the graphics team at the Washington Post, too. That first icon is freestyle snowboard, right? Then cross country-skiing while angry, and Star Trek transporter accident.

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

This @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed on rare earths repeats a misleading story: that China dominates these industries mainly because of lax labor and environmental standards. It sounds intuitive, but it’s analytically wrong in ways that matter for policy. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Moderate socialist defeats far-right populist André Ventura, with exit polls putting him comfortably above two-thirds of vote. (Guardian) #Portugal

Ha it'd take those who hold the one political view (A) to stop supporting policies leading to deaths, persecution & misery among (B), who hold the opposite view or who may not hold the opposite view but are in fact those persecuted by policies supported by (A). Jesus man. This is not difficult.

A truly embarrassingly vacuous article from CTV. www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Jesus Christ someone stop this administration.

Not read this new paper properly yet, but it looks interesting "This study...develop[s] a framework specifically tailored to assessing greenwashing in climate and net-zero pledges, combining disclosures, implementation plans, performance data, and lobbying activity" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in January 2026 10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

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

New Brunswick is bailing on Twitter! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is vile.

Haunting.

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? WHY???? it seems mostly pure sadism. But while it took Israel to invent the concept of bombing the mass funeral, in a tent in a refugee camp, of genocide survivors murdered by the same state days before... (1/3)

Thread of bad ideas the Canadian gov't is mixing us up in. Get Palantir & anyone Palantir/ICE/IDF-adjacent the hell out of Canada: they're clear risks to our national security, our already-shredded international legal commitments, our souls, and our stomachs. The mere thought of it is nauseating.

A tendency that goes far beyond Epstein, & one that's utterly pervasive. Infinitely self-justifying bedazzlement by wealth & influence is a very old vice. Greases gears, structures social pyramids. Our current crassest, most sanctimoniously hypocritical of all possible capitalisms runs on its fumes.

Altho—the very rich being busy devastating Earth & all life on it—this march aims 2 get other people 2 march 4 them, as is customary b4 they send us 2 die fighting our fellow peons, the odd Corina Machado & other toady might join in. So let's still wish them a quick long walk off a short sharp pier.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

On Substack: some brief thoughts on hype, with reference to Becca Rothfeld and Dan Sinykin, and another new Rilke translation from the Book of Images:

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned" Read the whole thing.

This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.

Books are mind-altering, and anything that gives pleasure, aspiration or expansion—all aspects of or glimpses of freedom—is to be opposed.

A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.

yikes yikes yikes. we want to avoid buying produce from the US bc of their dismantlement of everything that made their food reliable (plus buying local's better, plus the annexing us thing). why on earth wouldn't we be rapidly improving food safety here instead of the reverse?

This week, Israeli settlers launched an attack on the Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta with an unprecedented level of coordination with the Israeli army. The Israeli settlers attempted to burn down a house with Palestinian children inside of it.

Fascinating.

"I hate my home country, please bomb it" is the lowest form of diaspora politics imaginable.

to give a better sense of this had you asked this question in the 1920s-70s opiates & alcohol probably would've been fairly = opioid addiction was the central measure of true addiction upon which all others were defined 1/

Discovery of an entirely new potential approach to atherosclerotic heart disease: targeted immunotherapy! Studies in human coronary arteries to reduce plaque and the mouse experimental model. Another win for spatial multiomics @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

No. 🤖🫧💥 thewalrus.ca/evan-solomon...

Canada would be wise to hurry on its own very serious reassessment of the wisdom of being totally dependent on technology beholden to a government that repeatedly & credibly threatens to annex or invade us.

This came in the same budget that axed a luxury tax on yachts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

It's 2026 and we have a pencil drawing of incarcerated stick figures from a five-year-old locked in immigration prison in the richest country on earth.

Infuriating 2 not b writing regular science journalism right now. The science & power intersecxn I write about—along w/ purely curiosity-driven 'big think' science—is roiling w/ important (& awful) stories, while being a Canadian writing 4 US media offers a privileged & I think valuable perspective.

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

these sickos won't stop until someone makes them stop.

There’s growing momentum to boycott the FIFA World Cup. What I want to know is why are Canada and Mexico still hosting alongside the US? Trump wants to annex Canada and Canada is still going along with sharing the World Cup? Trump obviously doesn’t believe in Mexican sovereignty either.

We shld institute a Mexican-style, genuinely v. low-cost 'market basket' of a couple of dozen essentials available @ same price @ all grocers. Populist, practical, reduces multiple social costs, supports nation-building & autonomy rhetoric, (vs neolib reality!). mexiconewsdaily.com/news/sheinba...

So the profits of the Canadian grocery monopoly remain intact, publicly funded even? This is much like the food donation bins just past check out, graciously put out by grocery concerns, allowing consumers to buy from them then donate.

Following. This must stop.

If you think I'm joking, I am not. The German Chancellor had to correct Netanyahu publicly.

this seems like a bad idea. As do the layoffs in everything else (other than defence).

Oh yay.