Mira Nair liking videos of her son’s speeches posted to random instagram pages is everything.

Wow.

“Saalumarada Thimmakka, an Indian farm laborer who transformed her grief over being unable to conceive children into one of her country’s most enduring environmental legacies…died … in… Bangalore…She was believed to be 113.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

When decency is louder than cruelty: “Their appearance on the screens lasted for only a few seconds but was met with a smattering of jeers and boos that were audible despite the loud music playing for the parade.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

My autocorrect is still changing Veena to Verna, but the AI knows that words starting with Z are likely Zohran!!! 😂❤️

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

People coming out of their musty corners to tell us how un-upset they are by broad scale pedophilia among the rich and powerful was not on my bingo card.

As someone who has written extensively about moral panics regarding sex offenders (I once published an article about the criminal "war on sex offenders"), what is in the Epstein files and the reaction to it is absolutely not a moral panic. These are very real crimes and among the worst imaginable.

Corporate diversity efforts at Nike bring investigated by DoJ as in potential violation of Title VII for “anti-white bias.” War is peace. Up is down. Pleasure is pain. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Incredible. The cruelty in his heart is not even fathomable

Meanwhile in San Francisco… marchforbillionaires.org

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Thinking about how some people went from “lean in” to “trad wife” in a mere decade.

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

I have little doubt that the accidental release of victim names and images was the result of reliance on AI for redaction. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Trump runs into billionaire at Davos who serves as a go-between for Harvard. He said he would lower his price. This is how the future of higher education, research, and learning in the US is being negotiated. It’s like a bad movie. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

In Silicon Valley, amidst a conservative elite political consensus, the library continues to be a site of critical thought and resistance. I love librarians!

I strenuously disagree w/Dean Chemerinsky's legal analysis on the appropriateness of UC Berkeley's disciplining of Prof. Kao. If Kao was teaching w/in duties, then per the 9th cir, the appropriate test is Pickering, not Garcetti. (see Demers v. Austin). If...1/2 www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The number of “I love Bad Bunny” texts I got last night….😍

I would like to know how many of these $7 million dollars worth of ticket purchases were orchestrated by Trump’s team so Melania would look like less of a loser. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

Among many strange things about the Epstein-Ambani correspondence is that an Indian billionaire was arranging meetings b/n Trump & Modi and Modi & Barak. It’s almost like we live in an oligarchic world or something 🥴 open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

My 10yo just asked me out of nowhere if ICE was going to pick me up. I explained I was a US citizen so this is highly unlikely and that if they did, we would sue the pants off of them. Notably she did not ask her white father. This is where we’re at.

Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo

“The violence involves battles over land, kidnappings for ransom, sectarian tensions and terrorism, but the activists wanted Mr. Trump to see the conflict through a single lens: the persecution of Christians.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...

“[T]he documents released on Friday suggested that Mr. Musk was at one point eager to visit. “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Mr. Musk emailed Mr. Epstein in November 2012.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

“To be nice” is my 6yo’s New Year’s resolution. I think he’s pretty nice to begin with but won’t complain about this aspiration

“Mr. Bovino…used the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

These documents are unbearable to read. What sick disgusting people. The QAnon people were onto something about pedophiles running this world.

“BART management, without first getting board approval, has entered into a deal with Uber that will allow riders to use the BART app to book Uber rides at the station.”

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Q: Do you have comment on the career prosecutors that are resigning in Minneapolis? BLANCHE: *walks away*

The man who is saying the White House had no oversight over the DoJ’s review of the newest Epstein release is Todd Blanche - Trump’s former criminal defense attorney.

The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

It was just last week, remember, that the FBI raided a Washington Post journalist’s home and seized her phones in connection with a leak investigation. This administration views journalism as a crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

First they come for the protestors, then they come for the journalists, then they come for you. The first amendment means nothing to this administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

“Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that “the Trump administration is [not] focused…random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...

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“The reality is that ICE could not engage in their operations without technologies supplied to them through contracts with Palantir, Amazon, and Microsoft.” @veenadubal.bsky.social www.kqed.org/news/1207155...

all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Well today I honked angrily at a Waymo that stopped at a green light and of course it couldn’t hear my wrath.

oh, now there's video: youtu.be/L2VRvpPTf9o?...

Incredible: the DoJ acts like the Assoc Dean's interest is "diversity issues in medicine" is a red herring that the UCLA Med School is acting in violation of the EPA. What a way to start the complaint.

I was a lot happier and more hopeful before I could read everyone’s inner evil and cruel thoughts on social media. 😣

2% of immigrants detained in Minnesota have any record of violent crime. And yet…today, “President Trump…vilified the thousands of people arrested by ICE in Minnesota, falsely describing them as “hardened, vicious, horrible criminals. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...