When the subtitle is actually the headline: “In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT

10+ years paying student loans just to owe more than i borrowed. never had a job i felt i could quit & find better. i’ll never retire. may never own a home. billionaires say “catapults to the moon!” & every institution works to make it happen for them. how do you not wish for people’s deaths rn?

I walked through the little guys and some kid is singing "if youre happy and you know it than your underwear will show it if you're happy and you know it poop your pants" El ed teachers need a raise.

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

In the past, a president intervening in a foreign‑funded infrastructure project to protect a politically connected private monopoly would likely trigger sustained investigations, congressional hearings, and front‑page coverage as a potential abuse of power. www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/342...

The gynecologist listed in the Epstein files is why the rest of us are losing access to abortions. That’s precisely where trump got his ‘post-birth abortion’ story.

We’re at the point in Trump’s America where they will criminalize any pregnancy outcome they don’t like.

The subtitle is, and is it really that bad to work intoxicated? People do it!

Police will not protect you. They will collude with the feds to ensure ICE can kidnap you and your kids at school. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can we please have a competent resistance leader? Please? I am begging.

This. Either you have to work or you don't. My husband has a PhD. I have a masters degree. We are working class.

Can they please do 2 man luge but the top person is a shelter dog? Please? Also, 4 dogs in a bob sled. This would help adoptions.

The Epstein files are not going away. People across the UK and Europe are resigning. The King is considering criminal charges against his own brother. Yet in the US, doctors who were involved keep their licenses. The White House defends Howard Lutnick They’re protecting predators.

The Care Credit thing that all vets offer is literally bananas. The interest rate is 33 percent. THIRTY-THREE. How is that not usury?? I feel like a loan shark has a better vig for crying out loud.

Me watching the bushes shuffle around the halftime show: I CANNOT BELIEVE I taught Macbeth in the fall!!

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

I much prefer being around people who try to improve things, even if they ultimately aren't successful, rather than folks who assume nothing will ever change.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

It seems to me like one thing AI would be terrible at is absolutely everything the Civilian Conservation Corps did.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Ok now I want them to work dunks into the skating programs

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about. You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership. I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.

Did my capstone work in history on "Whitelash," the common, repeated, and predictable response of howling, self-destructive fury on the part of white America every time Black people make literally any progress towards equality. If there's one thing whiteness can't stand, it's Black flourishing.

The front page of the Hachette Book Group's website urges visitors to "join the fight against censorship" by buying banned children's books that feature LGBTQ characters. This fall, Hachette will publish a book by Sam Alito, who just wrote a Supreme Court opinion making it easier to ban these books.

I agree. Too many of them want the views that come with political content without any of the responsibility.

"A movement that still believed in persuasion would be making an argument to voters; this one is preparing to manage them," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social.

I'm thinking again about the need for robust jail and prison moratorium campaigns in every state. I wrote a couple of years ago about a brief history of jail moratorium campaigns in the US: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - this is a good time for a revival.

Evergreen

This is a good idea until I do not like the pope again.

Good morning, beloved. Release what you must. Steward what you can. Be generous in all. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I already want to burn everything down and then I also precieved someone as a threat to a thing I love and I am just so angry. Im furious. This cannot be sustainable.

Please someone send grandpa home.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

His attempts at fixing education were not good. And also failed.

This is...hot.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

When does our government stop funding this? WE HAVE TO STOP.

Good morning, beloved. Hope is a discipline. It must be practiced to grow stronger. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Democrats should defund and restrain ICE to the degree possible. And they should insist on this condition at least: No ICE (or Border Patrol) anywhere near the polls or early voting election locations this fall.