the “track aipac” account is extremely sus and I’m glad more people are noticing the weird way they decide if a candidate is good or bad

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

The White House’s failure to think a step or two ahead—such as what Iran could do with the Strait of Hormuz—is another “reminder of what it means to purge government and decision-making of all the experts.” @profsaunders.bsky.social dropping some political science with @gregsargent.bsky.social.

The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:

I don’t think we’ve fully grappled with just how much of U.S. presidential history has been told thanks to scholars accessing records that _literally will not exist_ for this administration, and to a lesser extent Trump v1 and (I strongly suspect) Biden.

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Don't worry everybody, there's a 22 yo in charge of counter terrorism and Kash Patel fired most of the experts in Iranian militant groups.

I realize it isn’t the biggest crisis right now, but it is exhausting to simultaneously be accused by populists of right and left of being primarily loyal to a country where I deliberately choose not to live - even while the government of that country thinks I’m disloyal to my people.

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

But the laws we have would rather see one hedge fund manager push out seven households, rather than allow a larger building to be built. This, supposedly, preserves the neighborhood's character.

The people commenting on this all seem to have insufficient background in genealogical records of Jewish immigration to the US to realize that this is obviously a woman's name. (Sore/Sora being common spellings of the Hebrew/Yiddish version of Sarah)

BOSTON/LOGAN INTL,MA (BOS) ASOS reports gust of 121 knots (139.3 mph) from NNE @ 1715Z -- KBOS 231737Z 35025G43KT 1/4SM R04R/1200V2400FT +SN FZFG VV010 M05/M06 A2933 RMK AO2 PK WND 020121/1715 P0002 T10501056 $

A good view of the snowstorm...

BOX upgrades Winter Storm Watch to Blizzard Warning valid at Feb 22, 4:00 PM EST till Feb 24, 7:00 AM EST Link

So it's the first of three consecutive years when the Chinese New Year roughly lines up with the start of Ramadan. (To be followed by three years when Chinese New Year roughly lines up with the end of Ramadan.) Hooray for calendars that care about when the new moon is.

I really hope someone in dem policy circles is coming up with a plan for ICE and CBP doing what police departments have done when there’s a DA they don’t like: quiet quit and half ass the actually legit parts of the job and loudly tell friendly media that they can’t do their jobs, Because of Woke

Turns out there is a downside to the governments around the world negotiating profit out of pharma R&D: the US became the only profitable market on earth, and so if the US says we don't want vaccines, nobody gets any more vaccines. Will it happens for other drugs? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let's take a look. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

Why did a quarter inch of mostly cloudy just fall from the sky into the nice cleanly shoveled front path and driveway? Do I still have to shovel/sweep it off?

NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program: Massachusetts. Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us

Le acted unprofessionally, but Ken's alternative isn't right either. Our ethics rules assume as rule zero a functioning Constitutional system-which we don't have. Le's client obligations specifically include an oath to the Constitution, above and beyond the obligation to the government.

Lawmakers in Florida (a non-expansion state) are apparently considering a Medicaid work requirements bill. Except Florida's income eligibility thresholds are so low that forcing people to meet an 80-hour/month requirement would force them off of the program. floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/03/m...

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

What we now know about the Potomac air-crash disaster, thanks to this week's NTSB hearings. (Most before paywall.) As always in modern air disasters, lots of things had to go wrong at the same time. But most of them went wrong inside the Army helicopter. fallows.substack.com/p/what-weve-...

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Two statements that are compatible. a. I don't think concealed carry is a good policy. b. I do not believe that someone carrying a gun in compliance with a state's gun laws gives federal law enforcement the right to murder them.

There are approximately 3 million undocumented persons in Texas and Florida, and there are about 100,000 in Minnesota. Ask yourself why ICE has been deployed to MN, but not even close to the same way in FL and TX. This isn't about immigration, it is all about politics and retribution.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

You can travel from the NWS El Paso (TX/NM) CWA all the way to the NWS Caribou (ME) CWA and never leave a Winter Storm Warning

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.

This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

nicest weather -> lowest carbon emissions per capita; NY/Shanghai-level megacities in the Bay would be the best thing California could do for global emissions.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Let's check in a see which year since 1940 was the warmest and which one was the coldest for all of the Earth. Red colors are closest to 2025, and blue colors are closest to 1940. I spot a slight difference.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.