One of those pieces you read and you don't even think you can speak. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Look no further than Johnson, who used the power of the presidency to alleviate poverty like he saw in the Hill Country of Texas and teaching poor Mexican kids.... but also escalated Vietnam.

The US economy is slowly just becoming a service sector industry for elderly Americans via @pbump.com www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A lot of districts along the border voted for a Republican for the first time in a century in 2024 because of the border. Many ICE and CBP officers are Hispanic. But Republicans in South Texas now fear Trump's crackdown on immigrants could cost them the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Everyone seems to hate these things but aren’t they better for the climate and urban traffic than getting stuff delivered by car?

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces. The aim is to short-circuit Donald Trump’s tariffs. 🔗 politi.co/4ayYnTn

The framing might lead you to believe the 23 Democrats who sent the letter are protecting the industry, but in fact they are trying to protect state regulatory power where the markets are suing and the federal government looks to intervene. Ron Wyden usually is on the right side of these things.

"The problem is that, even now that Trump has proven us skeptics right on every one of those counts, too many libertarians continue to position themselves safely in a “pox on both your houses” perch." via @anthonylfisher.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/libe...

Giannis is such an immigrant dad, I can't hate him even though he plays for the Bucks.

Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined other AGs from 21 states in supporting a lawsuit from Louisiana that challenges a Biden-era rule expanding access to abortion pills by mail and telehealth. abcnews4.com/news/state/a...

🧵: Between this and the Swedish study resulting in that autism rates in girls and boys are largely equal, but girls are STILL misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, seeing research validate your experiences is a very surreal experience, esp. as an autistic woman.

On this day in 1847, Missouri passed an act that prohibited Black people from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade free Black people from migrating to the state.

New study shows self-identifying autistic adults were similar to diagnosed adults. But they more likely to be women, experienced worse mental well-being, were more likely to experience unmet support needs faced unique barriers to receiving support. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NC's Partisan Stability vs. Independent Uncertainty Ten months before November's election, Catawba-YouGov results show partisans largely settled—while true independents remain the election’s largest zone of uncertainty in North Carolina. #ncpol ncpoliticscenter.substack.com/p/ncs-partis...

That first bride at the beginning is ready to leave her man for the mayor.

Lesbian Heated Rivalry wouldn’t work because they’d all be out and married by the end of the first season/book. www.outsports.com/2026/2/5/241...

This reminds me of how Catherine Lord, speaking for the workgroup for the revision of autism in the DSM-5, said autism includes strengths but they are irrelevant for diagnosis. Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

YIKES. “Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Thom Tillis still doing the "Good Tsar Bad Boyars." But what does it say about the Tsar if he keeps his boyars around?

This is actually an incredible move: Obama starts by trashing the Indiana Pacers and then admits "nobody terrified me more than Reggie Miller with a possible three point shot at the end of a game." He bookends it by saying Reggie pushed off Michael Jordan.

I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the country’s political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

During her 11 months as the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has wasted millions of dollars and done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Education Department abruptly canceled a federal program that helped underserved students, affecting programs in 11 states and D.C., because the grantees had mentioned DEI in their applications.

The vibecession was primarily driven by lower sentiment among the upper and middle classes, not the lower classes.

Good retort by Matt to AOC’s remarks in Munich.

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?

*Clears throat* Folks....

FWIW, the only person who brought up housing affordability to me when it came to Latino voters who broke for Trump? AOC. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I keep saying this, but some of y'all keep dooming and saying that somehow Trump can somehow stop the new session of Congress or Johnson can take steps to stop it. Nope. That's not how it works. (always pay attention to @kristin-wilson.bsky.social). Trump is not a god-emperor.

AOC speaking in Berlin on Bad Bunny's performance at the Halftime show: "Just putting those values on television, felt counter cultural rebellious resistant, and that I think speaks so much to the moment that we are in that it was defiant."

Wasatch County’s Republican Party chair is facing felony child abuse charges for allegedly “waterboarding” a 16-year-old relative. www.kpcw.org/wasatch-coun...

Man, I remember when former Republican state house speaker Joe Straus said he opposed trans bathroom bans because “want the suicide of a single Texan on my hands.” How things change.

There are Reddit autistic men and there are 4Chan autistic men. I will not be elaborating further.

Why is Chris Coons in Munich instead of getting home in time for Valentine’s Day?

If he wins his primary and general, Briscoe Cain would be the first openly #ActuallyAutistic member of Congress.

A woman thought she was bathing alone in her apartment. When she looked out the window a police drone was staring back

The officer who fatally hit her, who was going 3x the speed limit and not continuously sounding his siren as required, and who had other collisions on his record, "received a traffic citation for negligent driving and paid a $5,000 fine."

Super cool thread on women who built the postwar liberal order.

👀 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of a roster of DOGE employees and affiliates, as well as a text message revealing a top NEH official’s views on “woke” and “progressive” grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"What's my incentive to vote for anything?" Massie said to Axios recently. And asked by Axios on Wednesday if Johnson had his back, Massie replied, "No." www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...

People should not be surprised that someone like AOC talks about the international liberal order. After all, a progressive Democrat from New York helped build the postwar liberal order.

Yet another way Trump is hurting our standing in the world, in addition to costing us billions in tourism dollars by shutting out visitors, is by crushing the power of the American passport and making it harder for his own citizens to travel. My latest: www.cntraveler.com/story/the-am...

We talk a lot about how the tech bros moved right because of Covid. The Epstein files showed elites HATED #MeToo and as @lebassett.bsky.social has written, Trump's election was very much an attempt to exact revenge on #MeToo

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👀 AOC uses part of what she told The Munich Security Conference in her latest fundraising email, saying "we have to have a working class centered politics if we are going to succeed, and also if we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism."

AOC and Gretchen Whitmer on a panel at the Munich Security Conference. We all this foreshadowing.

The Friday Breakdown: Typically when a politician gives a speech, they are laying out their worldview and larger ideology. It's often a tea leaf they want to run for president. So is AOC teasing a run for president? Or something more important? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump threatens to present an executive order on voter ID if it can’t pass Congress

Again, this is for military families in Fort Bragg. This is ostensibly a military event and therefore nonpartisan. (Also, Braxton Bragg was a terrible general, even by Confederacy standards).

For a guy who hates autism, this man really needs a social filter.