Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect

Great thread.

You know, if it were me, I just would not be fucking with Stephen Colbert.

The one thing where I’m a poll unskewer is that the scenario people are imagining in in this trans sport issue a like 6’3, 180lb man with a beard dunking on a 14 year old girl—which is entirely made up—while the actual scenario is a red-faced man screaming to see your cisgender daughter’s genitals

hey wolves quick question: What the fuck

Seaman Bryan K. Lee was never found.

This seems broadly undesirable but I can imagine that maybe it could have applications in clandestine or covert operations.

Writing is thinking and if you outsource your thinking to a black box algorithm you might as well not be part of the picture in the first place.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

On Presidents Day we choose to honor Chester Arthur. He saw that a spoils system of public service based on loyalty to party or person was inherently corrupt and ultimately bred violence. Lest we forget.

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

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Many thanks to @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the great questions and being a wonderful host for an NBN interview about my book that takes a broad look at the far-flung American #intelligence efforts during World War I. #FWW #intelhist #milhist

Whether this is true or not, we do not know BUT we do know that ODNI continues to block our client's lawful right to brief Congress abt content of whistleblower complaint & surrounding process. That matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Sen. Murphy: “So, your belief is that white Americans face more discrimination. at least prior to the Trump administration…than Black Americans?” Jeremy Carl, Trump's nominee to be assistant secretary of state for international organizations: "Yes, that's correct.”

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

Related, suspect there's a goodly amount of stuff online that is not *discoverable* : • Not indexed by search engines • So thoroughly de-optimized by SEO that it's unlikely anyone will ever happen upon it • Exists in a DB but the server rendering software is broken/missing

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

CNN aviation reporter

We need as much video as possible. Like this story about a citizen protester being arrested by ICE for following their instructions.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

I suspect this El Paso thing is because of some terrorism threat. Probably one coming out of El Paso, not necessarily into it.

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

Takeaway: the only religious folks (included here anyway) who consistently see things clearly are black Protestants. Unsurprising. Good to see some evidence of others slowly coming to their senses.

🧵 on the ignorance on display. 1) Starting w/diversity. The US military should broadly look like the US as that keeps the military tethered to American society. If it's all just a bunch of door kicking rural white Christian dudes that's bad. It's bad for the military & it's bad for American. 1/

What can you do with a history degree?

Did you know that the Pike Place Market fish guys don't only throw fish, they'll throw anything? Like, for example, my book? www.instagram.com/p/C1uOTueMaqg/

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Casual reminder ahead of this evening!

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies … There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …

Been thinking about Günter Guillaume quite a lot over the last day. IYKYK.

Having some military officers study at civilian universities is a good thing. The SecDef, once again showing how he is irretrievably mired in the tactical, doesn’t understand this.

Trump regime’s latest effort to whitewash history and control narrative: all State department posts on X made before Trump took office in 2025 will be removed. That includes accounts for US embassies, missions, ambassadors, department bureaus, programs. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

I think there is immense potential for a major scandal here. That said, it is just slightly possible that there was a legitimate reason for this, such as a back, back, back channel, that Gabbard might not have been aware of until Wiles told her. Probably not, but maybe.

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Yeah this doesn’t look good at all www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Will NBC censor the booing of J.D. Vance in their broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony at 8pm? I guess we’ll see if they’re committed to journalism ethics or Trump propaganda.

Pretty strong accusation against China on testing. Does this mean the US is now going to have a "yield producing nuclear test" (6 years later?)? Will the US release any supporting evidence?

A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence service is shot and wounded in Moscow apnews.com/article/russ...