After years of Gregorian chants, Brothers Thomas and Edwin suddenly discover jazz - 13th century, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, f. 405r

Honestly, I don’t know why any of us should pay taxes this year, just so it can go to this. And into Trump’s pockets thru his golf courses, his Board of Peace, to ICE, to build concentration camps and ballrooms.

#oneconductoraday Sue Cryan

The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith. n.pr/4rB8gap

Who made Lara Lee an expert on foreign policy? Or anything?

"silly" and no, it's not a war over territory

Reminder: Republicans control Congress. They shut the government down, again, you twit.

The most high-profile kidnapping case of our time is still unsolved and Kash Patel is slamming beers in the locker room with US men's Olympic hockey team.

AAUP members in Texas are autoenrolled in AFT, the teachers' union. In its infinite wisdom, the lege suppressed faculty senates, which were nonpartisan, free, and represented all profs equally. This silenced conservative faculty, who now have no voice unless they pay to join a left-leaning union.

The Texas Legislature gutted faculty representation on campus, so private organizations like @aaup.org are the only voice college and university faculty have left. Join AAUP here: www.aaup.org/join

sure it was, this was totally not a targeted assassination on behalf of the fascist government

Susan Rice is absolutely right. If you’re making self-interested and short term decisions to stay on Trump’s good side, you need to realize that one day there could be accountability for violating laws to do so. I fail to see anything wrong with stating that.

This whole thing has been so fucking stupid and cost us over $1000 extra that may or may not be refunded. And it’s all just computers that refuse to let humans override them and say look, that is clearly a cello and we allow those.

Welp. Four of us are fine, but our cellist was refused by American Airlines because British Airways rebooked us to them without issuing a second ticket for his cello because that’s how BA does it, and American won’t budge on their way of doing it. So now he’s on a flight 8 hours from now. Maybe.

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

The only passenger in the car when an ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. But the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash on Saturday. Read more: nyti.ms/4qTVeDO

How much do we want to bet that Trump’s SOTU address tonight will just be the same old rant about losing the 2020 election, bathrooms, borders, women’s sports, and fake wars he’s stopped, and nothing that’s actually relevant to the American people or remotely based in truth?

His speech hasn't changed in years. Although he does slur a bit more. He'll be full of drugs so he can stand up for the speech, which will make him more tangential, perhaps. But, we've seen it before and no need to waste more time. I'm going out to dinner with friends to enjoy myself instead.

What's bizarre is that BA seems to have an entirely different procedure for booking a seat for a cello than any other airline in the world. You're apparently *not* supposed to buy an extra ticket and label it as the cello, you must call them to "attach" the cello, and it cannot be done online.

The issue appeared to be that BA has an entirely different procedure for bringing a cello on than any other airline, they don't have that procedure listed anywhere in the booking process, and you're just supposed to know you can't book online. Presumably the LSO knows.

We eventually paid an extra $900 so they could create a new ticket. We’re supposed to be able to get the original one refunded but “we can’t do that automatically, you’ll have to call them” 🙄

Barely made our flight out of Boston last night because British Airways has apparently never heard of a cello before. We spent, I kid you not, THREE HOURS at the check-in desk while every BA employee at Logan tried desperately to convince their corporate office to let us board the plane.

I’ve been here. Why is flying with a cello so impossible??? Some airlines like Air Canada and BA don’t give the cello its own ticket, it’s just a note on yours, but then hell breaks loose if you are moved to a different flight by an airline that does give the cello its own ticket.

‘Ukraine From Within’ is a week-long exhibition at the Social Science Library to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The art books on display celebrate Ukraine’s creativity, diversity, & determination. Find out more at tinyurl.com/mr3hbmcf @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

24th February is the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. To mark this anniversary, we've created a book display featuring the work of two writers-in-residence, Oleksandr Mykhed and Olena Stiazhkina. These books can all be borrowed, so feel free to peruse🌻

We just hit the four-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. The number of soldiers killed, missing, or injured on both sides could reach 2 million by spring and could mark the largest number of troop deaths for any major power since WWII. Tell me again why Trump idolizes Putin?

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1. Until Sunday, it wasn’t clear to me why Savannah Guthrie’s mom was still missing nearly a month after her disappearance. Then came images of the FBI director, Kash Patel, partying with members of the US Olympic hockey team after they won the gold medal. Then it all started to make sense.

6/"Hicks, who lists himself as an “advisory board member” of Entra1 on LinkedIn, is a longtime friend of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., according to The New York Times, and was an early Trump booster." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

5/ In this case, "The company, Entra1 Energy, is largely unknown in the nuclear industry, never completed a nuclear project" gets a 25 billion contract. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

no, he's going to treat it like Festivus, airing his grievances to everyone in the room.

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

Being the only successful and civilized country where people are routinely bankrupted when they get sick is a choice. A bad one.

Six years ago, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging. That was enough to be a death sentence. We remember his life, as a constant charge to continue the fight for justice, humanity, accountability, and an end to the poison of white supremacy.

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Oh, don’t worry, he also feels contempt for all Israeli Reform Jews, especially MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv, but admittedly, they are a much, much smaller percentage of Jews in Israel than in the English-speaking Jewish diaspora.

The contempt the Israeli right feels for the vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora could hardly be clearer. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

an argument about this caused someone in a group chat to ask chat gpt for the seating chart for SOTU ....and it made everyone white men (also JD and Mike are twins now)

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.

Bonnie and Claude

The Texas Republican is facing calls from fellow House Republicans to resign, following allegations of an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. n.pr/4c6Ut6w

Do I smell sulfur? www.texastribune.org/2026/02/23/d...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

We said FREE IRAN, not abandon the Iranian people after they marched unarmed into bullets to ask for their freedom. 40,000 dead, and they are in the streets again. The killing hasn’t stopped, and abandoning them is unconscionable. #IranRevolution2026 #IranMassacre

So they weren't just "allowed" to not follow the law or the constitution, they were actively told not to.

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

You do realize, don't you, that you and I are paying for Kash Patel's disgusting locker room bender in Italy - private jet and luxury accommodations included?

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Here's Carl flailing in response to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social's questions about what "white culture" is. bsky.app/profile/chri...