Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.

Measles is spreading across Florida. The state's updates lag more than a week www.wusf.org/health-news-...

These people are all thugs.

Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"

Howard Lutnick forced to admit under oath that he went to Epstein Island because of the latest revelations in the files that showed he lied previously, but claims he only went there to have lunch.

“Witkoff had befriended two internet marketers dabbling in crypto and suggested a meetup. Zak Folkman, who created a website called Date Hotter Girls, and Chase Herro,who once described himself as a "dirtbag of the internet," at the time were running a small crypto project that they later shut down”

“While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump's all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families since the president's re-election.” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

"The whereabouts and condition of Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian who was arrested by ICE last year after participating in pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University, are unknown after she was hospitalized this weekend…." www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

Kimbal Musk addresses his appearance in the Epstein Files for the first time, but he leaves a lot of questions unanswered. For example, he claims Epstein did not introduce him to a woman he dated. But why did he email Epstein in 2012 thanking the financier for "connecting" him with someone?

Obesity is a major risk factor for severe infections across many types of pathogens for requiring hospitalization and/or fatal outcomes. Data from 540,000 people. @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan... (left-hospitalizations top, death bottom; right-pathogens)

Yes, we then voted for Trump and we now defend him regularly. But that was just to own the libs

From the archives: (2023) Do birth control pills really need to be prescription drugs? In more than 100 countries around the world, The Pill is sold over-the-counter, but not in Canada, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

“Mr. Clay…loved his country partly because it was his own, but mostly because it was a free country; and he burned with zeal for its advancement, prosperity and glory, because he saw in such the advancement…of human liberty, human right and human nature.” www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

“It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein,” Rep. García posted on X. “Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

74. Do not be complicit, through either silence or participation, in Trump's continued imperialism in the Americas. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

73. Make fossil fuel companies pay for environmental damage and the clean-up of abandoned sites. (And no more subsidies for them either.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“We continue to fight for what survivors were promised — the release of all the files, protection of their identities, and accountability for the men who perpetrated and conspired in the abuse. None of that has happened.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Hegseth, among others, is using the school as a punching bag to express the generic social anxiety and status-based resentment that drives much of the MAGA movement. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854. + First woman officially to attend a Dutch university + First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879 + Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882 + Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns #WomenInSTEM

“What makes Trumpism distinctive is not the invention of misogyny, but its normalization as a public governing style.” open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 304. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Peaked at Twitter while this place was down and they have convinced themselves that the TPUSA halftime extravaganza was the greatest cultural event in the history of mankind

Legendary Carleton journalism professor Elly Alboim dies at 78. He was the living embodiment of the Hollywood casting version of the crusty news editor with a heart of gold. carleton.ca/sjc/2026/leg... www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @carleton.ca

Now we learn from Reps of both parties who saw the unredacted Epstein files today that Trump, Bondi, & Blanche are covering up the absolute worst things in the Epstein files to protect the wealthy, powerful and politically connected. DOJ is being run by criminal co-conspirators.

The lyrics to most of Kid Rock's songs trigger the requirement to report exposure to his son.

Carney faces a leaderless NDP and a douchey opponent in Poilievre, but also a very unpredictable Quebec tilting back to sovereigntists. Not a slam-dunk for a majority.

I want to thank Chief Billy Morin, MP, who was a great ally to the Algonquin Nation in this effort.

One of the great things about the Algonquin Nation is its commitment to pursue equality and justice for all Indigenous peoples, and to prevent the Crown stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from them. I am proud to be their lawyer. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

A friend sent me this old article, reminding me specifically of the part about Bezos & the WaPo, and how I was slammed by basically everyone in media for suggesting media owners influence their media properties. What a difference a few years makes. www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/u...

Was this just in DC? Last night, during the Big Game, there were two Stephen Miller-toned recruiting ads. One for ICE itself, the other for Bovino's CBP. Was this just in DC? Or nationwide? Have not seen them mentioned in most discussion of ad strategies. (Otherwise saturated with gambling, AI etc)

"I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here." www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families" extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

After refusing to answer any questions today before House Oversight, Maxwell’s attorney said she will only answer questions if Trump lets her out of prison.

Charles Taylor is one of Canada’s most important thinkers and an icon in our party.  He kept the NDP flame alive in Quebec for decades, and his values guide our campaign: building a country worthy of the everyday working-class heroes who keep it going.  His support means the world to me.

Bad Bunny ruled the Super Bowl, while Trump raged, and the snowflakes of MAGA beclowned themselves with a lip-synched “alternative” by Kid Rock. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-bad...

Most of the world doesn’t require a prescription for oral contraceptives. Why do Canadians still need one? Newer pills are safer — but Canada's health system still requires doctors to sign off. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

Except for the blowback and backdown, this was not a one-off. Trump&Co. have been moving the window of acceptable racism for years now. Friday’s post was genuinely shocking, but it also had a feeling of inevitability. They were always going to end up here. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-bad...

The data. exclav.es/2026/02/08/e...

Bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Much like what happened after Vance, Trump, and Nazis told lies about Haitians in September 2024. Reportage here. See my substack for background. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...

A Brutal 5th Circuit Ruling Promises More ICE Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

NEWS: The new "centrist" Abundance think tank pressing Democrats to tout deregulation is headed by a registered corporate lobbyist for Open AI, Larry Ellison's Oracle, and a crypto think tank, according to federal records reviewed by @levernews.com. www.levernews.com/do-not-pass-...

Jazz singer, composer & bandleader Blanche Calloway was born #OTD in 1902. Her #music career spanned 50+ years. First Black woman to lead an all-male #jazz orchestra (Joy Boys), she performed alongside musicians such as Cozy Cole, Chick Webb & Cab Calloway (younger brother whom she mentored). #BHM

"You always think the closest water is like a lake or a river or stream, but the closest water is beneath your feet." Princeton's @reedh2o.bsky.social talks about new research that maps out groundwater below the surface — a vital tool during times of drought.

Rough maths says this is 755 GB300 NVL72 racks with 72 GPUs a piece at about 110mw of it load so probably a 140mw-150mw data center at $14m or so per megawatt so another $1.8bn in construction just for these things to turn on. Also lease means musk is paying somebody else’s depreciation!

So wait “greater than 22% annual returns” if they manage to sell the chips that Apollo is renting to xAI in five years for a quarter of their value, but “almost 17%” if it’s just for scrap? And this is under the assumption that musk pays for all five years? Weird stuff