The Apostle, 1997 RIP, Old Man. One of the last of the greats.

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"Yet again, Trump says one thing publicly while doing the opposite privately. In another “emperor has no clothes” moment, the real story is that the US government is more dependent on the WHO than vice versa." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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NYC! How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm Tickets:

"Each individual operation might use a fairly small amount of power, but a single data center handling millions of queries per day can guzzle as much electricity as an entire city."

"...WHO has significant concerns regarding the study’s scientific justification, ethical safeguards, & overall alignment with established principles for research involving human participants." www.who.int/news/item/13...

My Jacobin Show podcast conversation on American Carnage: How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government. It starts at 14.30 minutes in. www.youtube.com/live/mEbRE9S...

Today’s action “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says #climate scientist Friederike Otto. I report on the EPA revoking its own ruling on the danger of greenhouse gases: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

"Notre Musique" Model: @collibrina.bsky.social

The final EPA ruling revoking its 2009 endangerment finding is posted: www.epa.gov/regulations-... The agency is no longer trying to invoke the discredited DOE climate working group report as justification for the rule change.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reshaping U.S. health policy as HHS secretary, and doctors say his changes are eroding trust.

Worth a look, particularly if there's any doubt about what this simmering civil war of ours is really about. (hint: not the Dow or price of eggs).

For those of you who accuse me of not promoting gold-standard science, herewith:

"Contrary to baseless assertions that movements to defund and abolish prisons, police, and ICE are partially to blame for where we find ourselves, the refusal to heed these calls is precisely what paved the way for the current regime," @dreanyc123.bsky.social writes. https://bit.ly/4kvbZmZ

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor

Keep an eye on Dem leadership. Make sure they dont budget on DHS when it comes to funding and accountability.

What’s often missing from conversations about deepfakes is the harm that these AI-altered images do to all of us. https://bit.ly/4kwH0al

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The roots of ICE List trace back to June, when Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, warned that Americans who identified agents publicly would face arrest. “Well, we’re not in the US, so send them to us,” said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the site.

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Communication from my university today: "given that AI is here and poised to stay..." Maybe! In my classroom, we try not lean on "givens," especially those of no more than a couple years vintage. One doesn't need to be critical of AI to recognize this as an abdication of inquiry.

Keep track of the escalations. The 21-yr-old who's been posting openly white-supremacist, antisemitic graphics for Dept. of Labor just got a giant promotion to run social media for DHS's 222,000 employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Pay attention to what the Republicans are trying to do here. This is a big, bad voter suppression bill.

The U.S.’s drug safety agency declined to review a next-gen flu vaccine that uses the same tech as the coronavirus shots

Decades of social science and health research show that curtailing access to safe abortions does not reduce abortions; it just makes them more dangerous. The Trump Administration’s new rules to "promote families and human flourishing” will increase that needless suffering and death.

Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of the landscape.

As Ida B Wells noted in her 1892 book Southern Horrors: “They forget that a concession of the right to lynch a man for a certain crime … concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Maryland House and Senate gave overwhelming gave final approval Tuesday to identical bills that will prohibit agreements between local police and federal immigration agencies. marylandmatters.org/2026/02/04/s...

"How do you get someone to realize that they’re in a dual state when its darker half has not yet touched their life personally?" If all else fails, try the “grandkid test”: 50 years from now, will our grandkids be proud of how - or even if - we stood up for justice?

My latest @newscientist.com column for subscribers and library patrons is about Elon Musk’s attempts to co-opt Star Trek and how Mars is actually a hostile planet 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

From weekly birth control to emergency contraception, mifepristone’s future reveals who truly controls women’s bodies.

This, so much this.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

‼️The UK government tried to bury a report which warns that ecosystem collapse could trigger food crises, conflict, and displace millions worldwide by the 2030s. Why? Because it was “too negative”: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

President Trump’s call “to nationalize the voting,” as he put it, will be difficult to pull off, since the Constitution gives states control over the administration of elections. But there is one place he could succeed: Fulton County, Georgia. Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post. Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost.

What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.

The National Guard is still on the streets of DC.

One of the world's best historians of ethnic cleansing, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, also happens to be from near Springfield, OH, which may be the site of the next big ICE attack. Here he reviews what got us here and revisits a "tricky city" targeted by fascism. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

I keep thinking about how some of these people really don’t think it will cause lots of people to die but many of them actually do and want that because they’re eugenicists

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

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