An unearthed email from an Assistant US Attorney in 2020 has been revealed. The email refers to Jeffrey Epstein’s death as a “murder.”

“The complaint details multiple incidents in which the plaintiffs said federal immigration officers scanned observers’ faces and license plates, and threatened to appear at their homes and place them on a domestic terrorist database.”

Maybe you live in an immoral country if its priority is killing people abroad instead of keeping people at home alive.

Tuberculosis funding cuts could cost households up to $80 billion A new modeling study suggests that disruptions in international donor funding could outweigh the benefits of a novel TB vaccine. www.cidrap.umn.edu/t... Photo: Courtesy of the Stop TB Partnership

An apology lacking empathy for those harmed, reeking of "I'm sorry if you took offense." He centers himself:"deeply mortified" It doesn't matter if his words were "intentional." Yes, THAT word "carries meaning." Black people are always expected to pour out compassion and never expect any in return.

It's been 25-days since the Epstein file dump revealed the 1700+ emails between Attia and Epstein. 25 days is an outrageously long time to keep an Epstein pen pal on your staff. It doesn't matter whether he stepped down or was pushed out. It's a stain on Bari Weiss either way.

A chunk of my post on @jbpritzker.bsky.social's very smart invoice to Trump reviews how insanely stupid these promises always were.

Attia being ousted at CBS only means so much for accountability when Bari’s wife is in the files getting introduced to Epstein & telling him about introducing Bari to her mom. They need to get rid of Bari too. 🤷‍♂️

Trump's Entire Weekend Was a Disaster — Governors Sent Him an Invoice, Democrats Walked Out, and $4 Billion in Corruption Just Got Exposed

The cover-up continues: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

We should never again hear complaints about “DEI hires,” especially from an administrative clown car of such deeply needy and unserious suck-ups and snake oil salesmen cosplaying as adults.

No Democratic governors showed up to Trump's dinner. See the story corporate media buried: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/guess-what...

Kansas is on the verge of making priests mandated reporters. But if an abuser confesses to a priest in private, the priest can still legally keep it secret. That’s not closing a loophole. That IS the loophole. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/kansas-hou...

All of this.

this is so important. It’s all about making yet another mainstream media outlet trump friendly.

Now, we don't have the PhD student's side of the story. But there's research on women PhD students and postdocs in STEM fields showing that they often leave their programs because of the sexist mistreatment they face from men like this. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Canada's Olympic hockey defeat is driving right-wing influencers into the arms of socialism

Maybe, but there are real problems here — first, slagging an entire generation’s cognitive ability is shitty. And the evidence for that loss is… lower standardized test scores. Which to me is not a metric for “cognitive ability.” YMMV.

NEW: As Epstein survivors pleads for action on Epstein probes and files, FBI Director is filmed partying with USA Hockey in Italy … on taxpayer’s dime Expect Congressional Democrats to launch probes ===> youtube.com/shorts/YRPiH...

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

This is a report that drove Scott Bessent particularly nuts last week, showing that the tariffs SCOTUS just threw out creates s huge hole in the budget (where taxes on oligarchs should be). I especially like the distinction between IEEPA tariffs and actual legal ones. www.crfb.org/blogs/scotus...

"Loneliness *is* a problem. I am inviting you to contemplate how frequently it is treated as a problem for men and only for men, to be solved by everyone else, by doing work on their behalf that can only ever be considered repair if they do it themselves." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

Also, he's a paid agent of the Saudi monarchy. Who is he representing? His clients? Or Ivanka's Daddy?

Today's "One First" goes deep into the snippy Gorsuch-Kagan exchange in the tariffs ruling, and why claims that the Democratic appointees vote in lockstep and are being inconsistent/hypocritical in statutory delegation cases are based upon a refusal to put the relevant cases/statutes side-by-side:

NIH is “…the largest government-funded biomedical research agency in the world, and until recently was the envy of scientists across the globe. The president’s attacks on this legacy have been relentless and all-encompassing…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

JB Pritzker's Invoice: Payback's a Bitch emptywheel.net/jb-pritzkers...

“Just five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019, federal authorities ‘directed’ NYPD to ‘stand down’ its investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. …” Part of this comprehensive new Timeline by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Donald Trump was the president when this stand down order was issued…

US announces plans to deploy a hospital ship to Greenland, claiming its people are sick and have no access to healthcare (they have free public healthcare) Later same day, Danish military does emergency evac of US naval officer from a submarine and transfers them to a hospital in Nuuk

If only we treated racism as an indication of unfitness for ANY law enforcement position.

The Battle of the Bulge Episode 7: The Allies Take to the Air

acab every day all day

Just so it is clear, US disinformation networks and propagandists are helping a drug cartel / terrorist group spread panic during a nationwide government operation.

2026 🌊 Thanks to all those voting!

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

WATCH: “TN Republicans have a bill for women to face the death penalty for having abortions… You write about you and your wife losing a child- how would that experience have ended differently if you lived in Tennessee?” Full @gavinnewsom.bsky.social answer: www.instagram.com/reel/DVETYOQ...

A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal. Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

My investigation into NHS Sussex got picked up by Abigail Thorn and included in her excellent movie about the horrendous and sadly still legal (in the UK) practice of Conversion Therapy. Interviewing victims of conversation therapy was utterly heartbreaking. Watch here. nebula.tv/videos/philo...

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Lord, this is terrifying. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for shining a light. We have to find ways to block these horrors.

Have any journalists each out to Bjorn Lomborg to ask him about his now-known dealings with Jeffrey Epstein?

“For years, companies have employed bots or orchestrated fake ‘AstroTurf’ campaigns to create the appearance of grassroots opinion on an issue, but the introduction of AI technology could make it even harder for elected officials to engage in earnest with the public.”

New Philosophy Tube just dropped on Nebula ⭐️ A complete history of conversion therapy from 1849-now, including an exposè of groups trying to keep it legal in Britain and enforce it on the NHS with the apparent blessing of Health Secretary Wes Streeting nebula.tv/videos/philo...

“The left is anti-law enforcement.” No. The left is anti-abuse of power. Holding police accountable isn’t “hating cops.” It’s called the rule of law. If you’re only pro-police when they’re above the law, you’re not pro-law enforcement. You’re pro-immunity.

VW workers just won BIG. 96% voted yes and they're getting massive raises. This is huge. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/heres-why-...

There isn't 1 Democrat that votes with the GOP more than 25% of the time, let alone all the time, but had her Republican opponent won, they'd vote with their own party 95-100% of the time. How do you like Justice & Sheehy now that Manchin & Tester are gone? ANY Democrat is better than a Republican.🤦🏾‍♀️