Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

"Also, just got a retweet for Elon. This one has legs."

A lot of people are looking at this as insider trading but it's an even bigger issue for national security if there was advance warning of air strikes.

Iranian media finally confirms the death of Ali Khamenei.

Trump continues that: "heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!" bombing will continue until there's world peace. fuck.

The regime changes the United States are forcing upon millions of people across the world cannot be separated from Sec. Rubio’s full-throated reverence of Colonialism They are telling us exactly what they’re doing.

In a normal timeline, Republicans would be absolutely up in arms about a set-up like this. There's a reason sensitive information is normally shared in a scif. This is just begging for a hostile government to send in an intelligence officer to try and over hear things.

Do it now. Yes, you can leave a message. Yes, call the DC offices. Script here again.

I’d like to know what Carney meant by sovereignty and territorial integrity and the rules-based order when he spoke these words just one month ago.

Abolish this entire industry. bsky.app/profile/lole...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

If you want to know why I’ve consistently argued that Mark Carney isn’t really intent on increasing Canadian independence from the US, look no further than this statement. Independence is something you *do*. Parroting the US line even when it’s against your interests is the mark of a vassal state.

So, it was Iran? Not China? Not Venezuela? Not the radical left? We are living inside the minute-by-minute delusions of a madman.

Feeling blue? This will cheer you up — Ok Go became internet stars with their fun treadmill choreography, but I didn’t know they’d heroically pulled it off perfectly during a live awards ceremony! youtu.be/cgEe6eztb9I?...

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

Obviously he didn't.

In Mark Carney’s Davos speech, he admitted that international law has never been equally applied across the world. He’s proving that through his own words and actions every time the US and Israel violate international law and he backs them up instead of condemning them.

We're not invading North Korea for example.

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

Americans are the main characters, everyone else on earth just exists to facilitate their hero's journey

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Classic stuff

My impression is that any industry that you can obliterate and then you need to obliterate again 9 months later probably was never obliterated

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

The @tomgauld.bsky.social comic, now with alt text.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

"Rather hard to pinpoint" is putting it kindly. How about: incoherent, ad hoc? Carney's Davos speech recognizes that the "international order" is broken. Perhaps the conclusion he draws is not to reestablish a new order (sans the U.S.), but to embrace the breakage here, along with the U.S.?

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Also thinking about how Tehran was contemplating moving the entire 10 million person capital city because they are running out of water. Bombing this fragile infrastructure is almost cartoonish villainy

Thinking a lot about the families who lost people advocating for a future during the Iranian protests who are also now losing more of their future while the US and Israel bomb elementary schools.

Plus it will kill injure and traumatized a lot of people. There’s that too.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

if the ethics rules of an AI STARTUP are too stringent for whatever it is the regime is planning on using it for they must be tryna do some widespread wholly heinous shit

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

Trump tells Iranians to stay inside, “bombs will be dropping everywhere,” and says the U.S. is taking over the country, that no other president has been “willing to do what I have done.” Uhhhhhhhhhh

Listen my starting point is that we could have done more to topple the Iranian regime for more than a decade without war, that war in Iran is insane, and that this administration is uniquely incompetent and bloodthirsty. And we're in the early minutes. But this looks particularly ill-conceived.

A significant part of this whole fascist coup thing America is currently doing is simply about the fact that, for a hot minute more than a decade ago, it became ever so slightly difficult for mediocre wealthy white male failuppers to be completely immune from criticism for being sexual predators.

It’s happening. I guess we’ll see how far Trump wants to go with this www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN. Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/nWEG5jUrP2Q?...

A Donald's Trump shell company trademarked "Donald J Trump International Airport" just in time for the Palm Beach airport to be renamed "Donald J Trump International Airport" and owe Trump for the use of his name.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Dean Ball wrote Trump's AI plan. 👀 You know the one all the AI bros were so excited about and for which they thought it was so important to back Trump to get.

It's all going 1984 so fast, these days.

If you're not in the competitive dance world you've probably never heard of teacher/choreographer Molly Long but I need you all to watch this teen jazz small group number because it is incredible.

Current* conditions near Tiny, ON:

Hey, freelancers. Take five minutes and send out that invoice you forgot to send out. Next-month you will appreciate it.

I was surprised to learn that this is the all-time most popular Effin' Birds comic over the nine year run (so far).

Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases? 8/

This is a major theme of the current trump presidency. We are still digging out of the damage done by his first era. We are still digging ourselves out of the damage done by previous eras. This administration has made the hole several magnitudes deeper

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.