Miami Herald: Who were the other men in the Epstein files? This is the FBI’s own list www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Offered with affection and hope for Bluesky and beyond, a PSA — Punctuation Service Assistant: wordsmarts.com/comma-rules/

Lit needs a punk mindset — "Screw the platforms. Ignore the stuff that you think sucks. Find books and art you love. Share them. Review them. Recommend them to friends. Make your own art. Share it. Hope it finds people who love it. What else can we do? " countercraft.substack.com/p/why-litera...

#GVerse #FeelGoodMoment Try not to smile or laugh, I dare you!

Jollly Good Ginger @jollygoodginger.bsky.social Operation Dildo Blitz was a raging success

The thrill is gone — www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

good morning from Robert Creeley

Wealthy D.C. group last month asked to buy the WaPo's local and sports operations, which are being gutted. Response from publisher/CEO Will Lewis? Crickets, Status News reports. www.status.news/p/washington...

Oh, puleeeeez. WH "sharpens its focus" on "tackling" housing unaffordability??!! “Trump administration officials are exploring opening an antitrust investigation into US homebuilders as the White House sharpens its focus on tackling the country’s housing affordability crisis,” Bloomberg reports.

“We don’t win by hoping. We win by showing up. Every primary. Every state. Every race. Swamp the polls or watch democracy slip away. Organize. Vote. Repeat.” www.ncsl.org/elections-an...

Nebraska GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts called Trump's Obamas-as-apes vid "a mistake." Racism is not "a mistake." It's conscious, deliberate, embedded, vile. Ricketts reveals how racists paper over racism.

“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender’ … It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. Epstein compared raping a 13-year-old girl to stealing a bagel. Let that sink in. ... jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/understand...

Stupid people take up too much space…

“Neither the Bivens Act nor the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a magic bullet that will save American democracy, but they would provide greater levels of deterrence and accountability” A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

Bovino bounced from LV bar. “Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons,” the venue said. lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

I know this will likely shock no one here, but Trump apparently lied about India agreeing to stop selling oil to Putin. To those shocked by this news, good morning, did you have a nice sleep? www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/t...

We all deserve stronger privacy protections online, and end-to-end encryption is one of the strongest tools to do so. Companies should make it the default more often, rather than optional (or unavailable). encryptitalready.org/

Live dangerously: "Breaking Bad" house is back on the market. A "steal" at $400k, 10% of original listing ... www.abqjournal.com/business/alb...

Crooked dealers: ICE "death cards." www.denverpost.com/2026/02/03/c...

Have doubts about our elections? They are warranted. "We should take over the voting," Trump says. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So, Muskrat self-deals by folding xAI into SpaceX, benefiting no one but Muskrat. Will Starlink sats now beam Grok porn to Earth?? Expect more taxpayer $$ to flow into his fascist pockets.

Moltbook: An AI social network that will destroy humanity? Hasten the singularity? A hoax? www.livescience.com/technology/a...

The Population Bomb, take 2 — Most estimates place the human population at around 8.2 billion, but one study suggests rural areas might be under-counted "by a significant margin." www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

"Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers" Mathematician grew tired of "the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences ..." retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/g...

Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...

Truth defenders are always behind ... What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/02/1...

Down the data memory hole, courtesy of America's biggest a-hole. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Re $7M opening for "Melania," the BS detector smells block ticket sales and giveaways by interested parties. Not believing Amazon MGM.

In South Korea, they're called chaebols — family-run conglomerates, with a penchant for corruption. (And, c'mon, TechCrunch. You need commas after "bye-bye" and "hello" ... 🤡 ) techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/b...

Despite Trumpstein's rear-view oil-igarchic push, solar, wind and batteries will supply virtually all net new US generating capacity in 2026, the EIA reports. electrek.co/2026/01/28/e...

Biography of a Corrupted Court Expose of Roberts deconstructs the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court. lareviewofbooks.org/article/john...

ICE pistol whips a 16 yr old with his hands up

Alarmed yet?

NYer: Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

Is this real? Please tell me this is real

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Time to rename Haley's Comet? New research shows an elderly Benedictine monk in England named Eilmer first noticed it in 1066, and realized it was the same blazing object he'd seen as a young man. It appears every 76 years. Last seen: 1986. Next up: 2062. www.universetoday.com/articles/the...

What will AI "remember" about you?? www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1...

The signs of fascism are everywhere. hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...

More tepid, sudsy, bathwater from a tech Legoman about ICE. Pathetic fascist-coddling. Sam Altman tells staff ICE has "is going too far," while praising Trump as "a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country." www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-i...

Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July. In each case, the Trump administration has declared their actions justified before investigations are completed.

Reshuffling from the bottom of a marked deck. Also known as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic ... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

"This is how authoritarianism operates: one hand pulls the strings, the other takes the blame. The architects stay clean. The enforcers take the fall."

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

Kanew: “One clapped. Another said it was like playing a video game. The way they are brazenly lying about Alex Pretti shows how full of 💩 they were about Renee Good. We are far off the cliff here, folks… Shame on anyone who tells you not to believe your own eyes.”

Tuesday. TACO time.