Drawing of the Day: Larry the Cat celebrates 15 years as the Chief Mouser. Meanwhile the partial DHS shutdown is mostly causing some workers to have to work without pay and hasn’t stopped ICE from its raids

Drawing of the Day: Love is stronger than hate as people organize against ICE, and European leaders confirmed Navalny was poisoned by Russia while imprisoned.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Even if you don’t want to raise a family- most of us feel protective about children. When a toddler hugs my leg in a grocery store my instinct is to care for them until their adult is back. If someone wants to kidnap their adult that breaks the social construct beyond recognition

90% of people don't give a fuck about politics, they just want to raise a family and watch sports and live their lives in peace But when you terminally fuck with their ability to do that in a direct and obvious way, they get VERY UPSET, and that is how revolutions historically happen

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

Roses are red Congress is too 🤬 They let the ACA credits expire Because they want to kill you Community cares And we can do better If you want a change Send your reps a letter Vaccines save lives Public health share tools We need to fund them And abolish ICE too #HealthPolicyValentines

Roses are red Violets are blue Vaccines and masking Can help you avoid the flu #HealthPolicyValentines

Roses are red, Patients are blue, to see their premiums spike, now that the bill is due. The Senate blocked action, The President, too to extend the tax credits to help millions like you. #HealthPolicyValentines

The genuine joy and love for the city and its residents is such a breath of fresh air. One of the things I have found most frustrating with the SF mayors is they kept buying into the doom loop everything is bad. ‘We’re wonderful and can be better’ is much more compelling

Generative AI promises to make cognitive dissonance entirely vanish. No matter what you believe, it'll confirm it, it'll regurgitate media that minimizes having to feel the discomfort of cognitive dissonance. And it does so at a vast scale, a flood of comforting sewage to drown yourself in.

Think about every billionaire who simultaneously believes his job is indispensable and irreplaceable and extremely taxing, and that he can also do it while chatting nonstop 24/7 with Epstein and shitposting, and then sending exactly 3 emails a day related to business.

At some point I feel like countries around the world will require quarantining if you’re coming from the US at this rate.

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

This seems very cool if they can make it work. When I was recovering from a broken foot I changed my social habits based on my physical endurance not desire for social connection. Something like this to keep up for longer would have made a huge difference

Eugenics. Disabled people have been saying this. It’s intentional.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Millions of people are going to die to protect one man who is the architect of Project 2025. His roadmap is to literally cause death and destruction to pave the way for white “Christian” nationalism. Starting by taking money that was providing life saving aid is right on brand.

I’m very happy for Shaidorov winning a gold medal for Kazakhstan. I’ve barely been there (like 24 hours 16 years ago) but every Kazakh person I’ve met has been overjoyed to learn that I found their country beautiful and the people hospitable. Getting a moment on the world stage means a lot.

Forget Ilia Malinin for two seconds. This is Kazakhstan's first Winter Olympic gold medal since Lillehammer 1994, when Vladimir Smirnov won the men's 50km cross-country skiing. That was 10 years before Mikhail Shaidorov was born.

Drawing of the Day: ICE is spending $38 billion on converting warehouses to concentration camps. They’re also seeking social media data on anti-ICE accounts. And meanwhile in SF the teachers strike is over and lead to better healthcare for teachers

From @theathletic.com: Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov had the skate of his life and it wound up being worthy of gold. His shocking victory in men's individual figure skating is only Kazakhstan’s second-ever gold medal in any Winter Olympics. trib.al/3zGAOKI

Mikhail Shaidorov's triumph marks historic Olympic figure skating gold for Kazakhstan reut.rs/4aiQL8G

From @theathletic.com: The International Skating Union said it stands by the French judge who favored Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France by nearly eight points in the free skate over American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Protecting the environment is our love language 💌

THIRTY EIGHT BILLION ON CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

It’s the 10 year anniversary of a mimosa and pancake brunch in which I found out Scalia died- and we all already had drinks in hand when we heard the news. If any of his fan club want to honor him by making a similar exit I wouldn’t be mad.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

the most on-brand quote a meta staffer may have ever uttered

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Drawing of the Day: Trump could kill us all with the latest attacks on the EPA’s work to protect us from climate catastrophe

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

This administration is trying to destroy the ability for our planet to support human life. They’re a death cult who is literally trying to kill us all. That’s the common thread between their healthcare policies, ICE, climate, judicial theories etc… they want us to die.

guess the GOP didn't abandon climate denial after all

This is eugenics. The flu shot saves lives. It’s bad enough that people are being discouraged from getting vaccines, now the regime is shutting down production of vaccines. It’s a cull. This is your regular reminder that a well fitted mask like an N95 protects against the flu and Covid!

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Drawing of the Day: Flu season, Bondi lying, and DHS caused airspace shutdown around El Paso

Four months after he shot her five times, but the week the video came out

another institution disgraces itself by licking the tyrant's boot

Google has been complying with ICE’s “administrative warrants” which they don’t even need a judge to sign… Just some random mid-level employee at DHS

It’s raining in a nice mid level way where there isn’t a flood warning unlike the last few rains and it’s so nice. Clean air. The sound of raindrops. Top tier. Thanks nature!

Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama is just a delight to watch - such a performer and makes the skating look so easy #olympics

Ilia Malinin is clearly talented but I really didn’t like the choreography or music choices at all… also something about his vibes and the tongue thing just rubbed me the wrong way #olympics

The guy from Kazakhstan looked like he had so much fun out on the ice - less graceful and more power but looking forward to seeing more from him. #olympics

France's Adam Siao Him Fa! Wow! Such a stunning skate - felt like there was so much power behind every jump and spin and movement - such a great performance! #olympics