PBS responding has me CRYINGGGGG 😂 #NBA

I know this is unrealistic/not fiscally responsible, but I wish, when the feds contacted Anthropic about using Mythos, Dario Amodei had just told them, "Hey, you decided to label us a supply-chain risk, so you can just F*** off." Make Trump and Hegseth and whoever else threw that tantrum pay for it.

My brother's book comes out tomorrow. Here's an excerpt. Wild stuff.

The U.S House of Representatives voted to permanently undo protections for the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. Now it's up to the Senate who will likely vote within the next two weeks. Please speak up for this important wilderness area. ⬇️

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

NO. There must be a way to stop this. Taxpayer-funded when billions of dollars have already been spent on a war of choice? HELL NO.

Oh hell no.

Just waiting for the inevitable* announcement that Iran has done enough to stay Trump's mighty fist of destruction. Alternatively, for a vomit-inducing statement from the Orange One that he is "merciful" and is giving more time. *please let it be inevitable.

Who blabbed? There is a lot of detail here.

This is -- one would think -- peak unhinged rhetoric...but who knows? And the spineless Republicans in Congress will say nothing or, if they are Lindsay Graham, express delight in Dear Leader's "candor" and "toughness."

Oh FFS. They closed almost all the programs and offices that combatted foreign disinformation and promoted America... ...and are now giving the job to that bastion of truth, Musk's X. The corruption, stupidity and short-sightedness are at mind-numbing levels.

Seriously: who brought this up? Is it Donald who is demanding it? Or is Bessent doing penance for something? ::: off to get some bills in a variety of denominations before this nonsense occurs:::

conversely, if you read the Bible, specifically the Gospels, right-wing evangelical behavior cannot possibly be reconciled to the teachings of Jesus Christ

Remarkable how many of these concessions boil down to “the administration is willing to follow the law”

That was an elegantly handled In Memoriam, probably the best ever. One of the only times in Oscar history that it actually felt like the show was asking people to stop, think, remember, smile, and mourn.

"Left unanswered were such questions as how to evacuate U.S. citizens in an escalating conflict—or ensure the next Iranian leader was friendly with Washington, U.S. officials said." Gift link 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Opposing "DEI" means opposing anything that attacks anti-white racism, sexism or homophobia. It means you want racism to propagate. Only, you can't say that outright. This idiocy is what it looks like in practice. "I'm a bigot, and you're putting me on the spot. This is uncomfortable. Please stop."

Is it a coincidence that the TCM movie this evening, opposite the State of the Union, is "Gaslight"? #SOTU

The number of publishers/creators who are lining up to pitch "how to stay mentally healthy while competing" output to Alysa Liu could probably form a bridge back across the Atlantic Ocean.

"Where are we going anyway?" asks Alysa Liu of the two people leading her through the tunnel after her win. "Do you want a medal?" jokes one of them. And you know that she valued the fun more than the medal.

AMBER GLENN! YOU ARE HERE! #WINTEROLYMPICS #MILANOCORTINA2026

Hey MAHA...Told ya RFKJr would fold. He gets his vaccine reductions and saturated fats as long as he doesn't protest companies (read: $$$) pouring chemicals into the environment. #Roundup #glyphosate www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

1. Vought is unpopular b/c he is Project 2025's architect & implementor. 2. President Trump hired him. 3. Trump has been personally enriched by at least $1.5 billion during this term. 4. USAID decimation is resulting in death & disease for millions. 5. **WHO SHOULD BE PAYING** for Vought's security?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026

UPDATE: The Park Service returned the brochures to the home, hours after this report. Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that the reason they removed the brochures was because they were “outdated” mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/v...

"When a poorly framed street photo causes the subject to be excluded by the system early, it is a mathematical certainty that any match will be a miss."

:::watching Mark Warner rip everyone involved in the Fulton County raid a new one::: *Any Republican who is silent at this moment is declaring that they would approve of these actions in a Democratic Administration.*

Complaint against Tulsi Gabbard could do ‘grave damage to national security’: Report www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Kennedy Center takeover is now an official emergency. I don't care why they're doing it, I just care about the damage they will do. Sure, there will be lawsuits and pleas to Congress, but how did that work out with the East Wing of the White House???

Galardi expressed exasperation at the left’s reluctance to join forces. “I don’t care what you call it,” she said. “What I would say to the people on the left is, ‘Why are you so reluctant to embrace the people in the movement that are doing the same things you are?’” I'll tell you why: (1/3)

Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔

Did they also arrest Don Lemon's cameraman? Because if not, they don't have a legitimate legal argument, do they? (and if they did, let's name him and support him as well.)

Well, this is another way for the Ellisons and Bari Weiss to reduce the size of their audience.

"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.

Greg Bovino getting pulled out of Minnesota to terrorize another community is not accountability. At all.

It wasn’t just Noem & Bovino who told outrageous lies about the Pretti killing. It was also Miller & Vance.

While Kristi Noem must go, she's just the cosplay face of these horrors & we can't let all the oxygen go to her impeachment.That will be a gift to Miller, Bovino, Lewandowski, et al. #DHS #ICE

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Seeing the threat that the ICE agent made to this chaplain is chilling.

Here's an idea: if Senator Cassidy is as outraged by the video of Pretti's murder as he claims to be, why doesn't he -- and the other supposedly moderate GOP senators (who have all remained remarkably silent these past 24 hours) -- for the good of the country cross the aisle?

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

We must start talking abt two separate issues: (1) this administration's immigration policies, including ICE tactics towards their targets; & (2) this administration's violence against its own citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights. The latter can apply to anything they don't like.

I don't understand "Avatar" being nominated in costume design. Isn't everything (other than the actor performances) digitally created? Does this mean that animated films have been getting snubbed for 85+ years? #OscarNominations #Oscars

Trump's "framework" will end up being a way to work within existing agreements, but despite getting nothing he demanded and having played an extortion game that was never needed, he will declare "victory." #Greenland #Iceland #GoldenDome #Davos

Exactly what we expected

Drives me nuts that whenever trump claims to have "ended eight wars" in a press briefing, NOT ONE REPORTER ASKS HIM "WHICH EIGHT WARS, YOU LYING JACKAL?????" Do. Your. JOBS.

John Roberts...There is...a "clear constitutional right" under the First Amendment for political candidates to be able to knock on someone's door..."But you say that it's different when it comes to the Second Amendment," ..."What exactly is the basis for the distinction?" A pamphlet can't kill you.

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”