Looks like Ring cancelling the Flock partnership is helping alter the narrative. Headline after headline reads “Amazon cancels partnership with surveillance company” when a more accurate read is that 2 surveillance companies pause proposed partnership.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

WIN: The Virginia Supreme Court authorized an April special election in which voters will decide whether the state should redraw its congressional map to counter GOP gerrymanders. If passed, Democrats could gain four more seats in Congress, leaving Republicans with just one of 11 seats.

Meanwhile, Trump still President. www.wsj.com/business/cas...

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

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From today's @washingtonpost.com front page: "Abruptly terminated": harsh, contentious, negative "Sunset": natural, pleasant, the circle of life h/t @alecmac.bsky.social

(“The white guys are back in charge” is the message just to speak it plainly.)

Yeah, the Nazi tattoo is part of the appeal for Platner for a lot of people. His candidacy is supposed to signal the left no longer concerns itself with “woke” issues like public displays of bigotry.

man ... lying under oath really ought to be a crime, you know?

ICE is still active all across Minnesota, even parking at observers homes this morning. But we’ve been showing up all weekend with massive food drives, placing hearts where were abducted, at singing marches, and there’s another big protest at Jackson Square Park today at noon. Let’s keep showing up!

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

We need this in Maryland. nj1015.com/nj-ice-porta...

This makes sense to me. The wealthy are used to being enclosed in highly personalized bubbles and think everyone else wants the same thing

We need a supercut of every time Schumer has incorrectly predicted that Republican compromise with the Democrats was inevitable.

Mass deletion of Facebook and Insta accounts, yes? www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Net favorability, by party Among Republicans Trump: +59 Vance: +57 RFK Jr: +54 Rubio: +48 Hegseth: +38 Among Democrats Trump: -87 Vance: -78 Rubio: -68 Hegseth: -64 RFK Jr: -62

When people talk about AI being a con, this is the con part. The companies are holding out the possibility of LLMs actually being intelligent or becoming intelligent any day now and using that to raise investment. LLMs are not going to be intelligent, as Marcus said. That’s a fiction, a swindle.

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

There is no way this is a coincidence. I worked with David at @npr.org, and NotebookLM sounds *precisely* like him, including his conversational cadence.

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

“The plan's $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data."

Police in Minnesota announced Tuesday that a background checker for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement has been arrested as part of a sex trafficking sting.

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Did you see this loooorge bear contently floating?

The Right’s vision of white Christian patriarchal domination is indeed deeply rooted in U.S. history. To counter it, we should take heart from that other American tradition, that boldly democratic promise of egalitarian pluralism. Make MAGA un-American, finally.

MAGA claims that “real America” was only ever intended to be and only ever existed as a white Christian ethno-state. To renounce America’s aspirational tradition is to help them perpetuate this idea that the injustices of the past and present represent the one true essence of the nation.

Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.

Why does everything need to be "hyper-personalized"? Why would that be better? Why not share in common cultural experiences? It's fun when we're all comparing our perspectives about some event, it brings us together. So why would they..... Oh. They don't want us united. They want us divided

37 days in jail bc he couldn't pay a TWO MILLION DOLLAR BOND. Bc he wouldn't delete a Facebook post. Obscene does not begin to describe this.

The devil Steve Bannon worked with the pedophile king to attack the Jesuit pope over Church doctrine on social justice. Time to shine a spotlight on the "trad" Catholic right wing extremists (step forward JD Vance) who abuse Church teaching to drive their hate. www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

as the MMIR march in minneapolis went down franklin ave under a bridge where the sidewalks are all fenced off, an unhoused man stood next to his tent, filming the march and holding his fist up. nearby graffiti reads “we are human also.”

As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise. I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.

Meanwhile, when allegations involve extreme harm and immense power, the process often looks slower, more opaque, more cautious. Or non-existent. It exposes something deeper than any one case. Our system doesn’t respond to harm. It responds to status, narrative, and power.

For nearly all those I once served , the presumption was risk, disposability, and guilt. For the powerful, it is ordinarily complexity, credibility, and patience. That asymmetry is not abstract. It is structural. And once you’ve seen it up close, it’s impossible to unsee.

Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.

the flower bar, owned by GOP donor andrea corbin who is accepted in centrist DFL circles despite that fact, sprayed a person with a garden hose today for chalking on the sidewalk about corbin’s role in helping to fund republicans as they send ICE into minneapolis during this siege

A thread, with lots of data, about how Trump-Vance-Miller have not only lost the big argument about ICE they've also lost it about mass deportation. The country wants DHS to deport criminals and leave the rest of us alone 👇

This eugenic fantasy is shared by a lot of the ruling class and has known in climate advocacy circles for some time now, but is still shocking to see laid out so plainly in the Epstein files.

New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.

Trump’s once impenetrable wall of support among working-class white voters is also showing cracks, driven by disappointment with Trump’s handling of the economy. That should set off alarm bells for the GOP — and not just in their race to keep the House. www.cookpolitical.com/analys...

Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE. A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

dear parents of small testicle-equipped children: mumps used to be the leading cause of testicular malfunction. whether or not you have grandchildren is ultimately not up to you but don't shoot yourself in the foot here. get your children vaccinated.