brings us back to the ole "get off twitter vs. stay on to counter-message" argument... twitter is actively turning people to the right, like FOX News, so that argument becomes a throwback to the old "should liberals go on fox news?" dispute from 10 years ago.

This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes. No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Texas sued Dow, the largest North American chemical manufacturer, on Friday afternoon, describing hundreds of "habitual" water pollution and waste disposal violations at its Seadrift complex insideclimatenews.org/news/1702202...

I get why ppl are mad about the Texas dem speaking about Christianity so much. Separation of church and state is critical. At the same time, being a PDX transplant, I think a lot of ppl just don't know what the South is like. Look at "frequency of prayer" (red). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Saw an artist on IG whose photography reminded me of this famous painting (really just the coloring). 📷: Oye Diran, The Weight and the Wings

Good news alert!!! “The sharp decline reflects a crackdown on illicit clearing by miners, loggers, and farmers under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who returned to office in 2023.”

nihilistic doomerism is the classic "right where they want us" position

Do I deplore or admire the anti-abortion movement's creativity? Yes? At state & federal levels they're going after mifepristone on water pollution grounds as well as trying to mandate special disposal kits for abortion remains caused by the drug. (Too?) clever? news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

im sure thats fine

On her Instagram, Univision’s Lidia Terrazas reports that baby Juan Nicolás has been deported and “abandoned at the border” with his mother

I mean at least there’s a study to wave about for the thing we all already knew

From six total miles of BAT lanes in October, to 14 miles of BAT lanes today. One member of the project committee said the voices of transit advocates is what made the difference. It would be Portland's largest-ever transit priority project. bikeportland.org/2026/02/17/a...

DHS is abusing administrative subpoenas to target and silence its critics. @repespaillat.bsky.social and I will be introducing legislation that would make this practice illegal and help end these authoritarian abuses.

Today marks the first legislative session since our friend Melissa, her husband Mark, and their dog Gilbert were murdered. It will never be the same again. She accomplished so much as our beloved Speaker, and her legacy will benefit Minnesotans for generations to come.

being the slightest of public figures, with some wildly nonsensical conspiracy theories and defamatory material out there on the internet about me already, makes this a fucking lot to take in

Whoah. This hits hard: unreplug.com/blog/dear-mi...

Not great.

That Goodwin would attract like-minded racists, bigots and neo-Nazi adjacent lowlifes was predictable. That the BBC, Times, etc would entirely ignore this...was also predictable.

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

My latest in @texasobserver.org The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas: As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance. www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

i would strongly recommend you not engage in a debate with someone with an anime avatar and seemingly no memory of the past 10 years of american political history about whether it would be better if everything got worse

When I visited Jordan last November, I met farmers cultivating crops in one of the world's most water-scarce regions. But lately, years of overpumping have rendered their groundwater saline. My story for the inaugural Middle Eastern issue of @wired.com www.wired.me/story/jordan...

You can see the buried waterways of Los Angeles-Orange County in www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview... @awalkerinla.bsky.social

I'm quoted in this Philly Inquirer piece about student-on-student deepfake nudify incidents: www.inquirer.com/education/ra...

😳

basically, they're (1) making following the law illegal in cases of immigrants pursuing green cards and citizenship by (2) violating the law. It's effectively a state of exception... an arbitrary "prerogative state."

I’m sure the growing Nick Fuentesization of the Republican Party’s war on women will be dismissed as “alarmist” by the same people who said Roe wouldn’t be overturned or that “concentration camps” weren’t going to happen.

for years Putin has demanded a multipolar global order unconstrained by liberal rules. Is he ready to live in one? new post

'The episode bore all the hallmarks of a false flag operation designed to stoke anti-Ukrainian sentiment and boost [Orbán's] re-election chances. No evidence has emerged connecting the letter to Ukraine. Two headteachers in fact told the FT that the letters were written in Hungarian, not Ukrainian.'

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

the guy RWers are currently championing on Twitter for boldly terrorizing high schoolers and making them cry

RIP

no true anglo-irish-scotsman

It's snowing raining sunshining

I feel like we've all lost sight of the fact of the sheer magnitude of the failure of Putin's latest offensive, i.e. the one that began in 2024—mainly because it's been so baked into the day-to-day. Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.

Guess who’s back.

This is why Portland f-ing rules.

Some personal news

Never the most famous or glamorous actor of his generation but he’s in more good movies making them better with memorable performances in roles large and small than just about anyone else. RIP Robert Duvall

Civil rights groups sue to protect voter data FBI seized from Georgia office Fulton county office was raided in January amid Donald Trump’s claims that 2020 election was fraudulent

incoming golden age of Canadian dominance. moving from global crypto to global syrup currencies. overnight shift. could be big!

The coverup is Official official: “The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.”

Fed. judge holds that it likely violated the law for the Trump administration to remove displays and exhibits about enslaved people at President Washington's first official residence in Philadelphia. PI issued to stop Trump from trashing President's House. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“If the murder of Alex Pretti…cannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meanings…making the victim the perpetrator, the perpetrator the victim.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

it's funny that this is basically just Abundance bro stuff taken to its logical extreme

Karen Attiah’s work on preserving/expanding access to all of this cool academic work is one of the few bright spots in a depressing time for higher education.

AI is like Bill Brasky. "AI taught me to love a woman... and discipline a child."