Scratch someone obsessed with intelligence, find a eugenicist. Never fails. In this case, a eugenicist affiliating with a human trafficker.

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

"The Trump administration is seeking to expand and intensify this archipelago of torture," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "Mass illness, abuse, immiseration and death will be the inevitable result. How will we live with the shame?"

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Papers don’t quote ANYONE like this. Normal human speech is LOUSY with ums, uhs, and doubling short words (a, I, the). You clean that up as a matter of course.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Hello, just wanted to note that archaeological photographers used to use hot air balloons 🎈to do survey shots (Side Note: during the Civil War, there was a Union Army Balloon Corps). Anyway! I enjoy the history of hot air balloons and liked this: www.penn.museum/sites/expedi...

Every life, a universe.

I'VE HAD TO KEEP THIS QUIET FOR SO LONG BUT NOW THE CAT CAN FINALLY ESCAPE THE BAG I wrote another book!! and it's coming out this November! it's a little like a birdwatching guide, except it's a word watching guide! i poured my heart into it!! you can even pre-order it now!! link in biooo ahhh

and yes, the author, former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman, has--unsurprisingly--been indicted for fraud (www.sec.gov/news/press/2...)

Full on North Korea-Iran-Russian style censorship right here in the US. This is the Trump admin saying ‘no Democrats on TV’ & the Ellison’s & Bari Weiss saying sounds good to us. Truly terrifying times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year of the fire horse and so Gilbert Adrian’s 1945 Roan Stallion dress seems appropriately flame like as it rampages across the surface of black silk @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

It’s interesting to see this at the same time that UNC is looking to allow faculty to be recorded by the university without their knowledge or permission. Such recordings can and will be misused in myriad ways. Several rubicons have been crossed to arrived at this point.

Europeans Declare Rubio a Slightly Smaller Asshole Than JD Vance open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

May his memory really and truly be for the revolution. ❤️‍🔥 May it light our way forward from here. (Honored to have marched alongside him once.)

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

My recent interview with The Weather Channel "Weekend Recharge" about the Trump administration's repeal of the EPA "Endangerment Finding" and what it means for climate action in the U.S.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI1O...

From 2017

This is a CAT checkpoint Show me the most recent cat image on your phone

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

This is what Netanyahu's settler terrorists did this morning, carrying out their pogrom, killing 50 sheep in southern Hebron by brutally torching them to death

Probably the best frame I've shot in at least a year, and I knew it the second I touched the shutter release. South Island oystercatcher. 🪶

Sometimes it’s difficult to decide who is the dumbest senator with this clown, Tuberville and Blackburn in constant competition.

Genuinely between the Cleveland AI journalism bullshit and the “get good at AI yesterday or you will be crushed” essay I’m I dunno tripling my meds.

There is only ever one complaint about "woke humanities" at its root: sheer fury that somewhere, someone "undeserving" (to be clear, they mean Black people) could get funding, however little. It is exactly the same as attacks on the NEH, attacks on welfare, the DOGE cuts. Different verse, same tune.

Top administrators marshaling resources to make a public example of an *exec asst* for exercising her 1A rights: cowardly, performative pre-compliance. The poor woman gets doxxed, her husband's restaurant is threatened and forced to close for weeks.

joyce is going after elon again

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

Keep this in mind when reading the nice articles about the diplomatic tone of Marco Rubio’s remarks in Munich. The deaths of millions and millions of people are on him.

I think this is paywalled but you can get the gist www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

I think it’s awesome how cabinet secretaries take orders from anon randos on the internet

playing an epic prank on my surgeon by not waking up after my procedure

Death Valley superbloom! www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-r...

DOJ’s letter to Congress yesterday claims no improper redactions in Epstein files Hah! Members of Congress found otherwise & so did we @democracydefendersfund.org Tune in @ 7pm on @ms.now as I discuss

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Billionaire Hyatt Hotels chairman Thomas Pritzker announced he is retiring following emails showing his relationship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein

I'm sure it is just a coincidence that this announcement comes after it was discovered that partisan hack Bari Weiss was working to cut Anderson Cooper's 60 Minutes piece on Trump *loving* immigrants—but only if they are white South Africans. www.breakermedia.com/p/scoop-ande...

Hegseth whining about "fat" troops reminded me of this badfaithtimes.com/ridding-ours...

Normally we use the term "witch hunt" to imply a pointless pursuit of non-existent villains and, um, buddy ...

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

Depressingly common anecdotes about medical care at Dilley and an example of why so many of us have fought against family detention since 2014.

Unfortunately for our country, we're more likely to see pigs fly than Republican senators step up to stop the havoc this administration is wreaking

I am sure that Bannon advised Epstein to wear more shirts and stop shaving.

Good thing we are utilizing our top diplomatic and foreign policy experts for this important mission.

Health boss RFK Jr.'s 1-year anniversary week was packed with new disasters and reminders of old ones. But even those who should care most are MIA. GOP senators Bill Cassidy (a doctor) and Mitch McConnell (a polio survivor) top my list. My latest at @thebulwark.com open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...