NEW: CBP signs a new deal with Clearview AI to access its scraped image database for "tactical targeting," including efforts to “disrupt, degrade, and dismantle” networks of people labeled security threats.

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.

GuitarPlayer article on a series of viral videos by the real Shapchuk documenting the process of restoring a Les Paul damaged by a Russian drone strike. www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/gibs...

And what still remains miraculous is how routinely they fail... because they *cannot* believe that freedom of thought is a more basic (and divine) state of being than their attempted control of it.

Trump has suffered major losses recently — in both federal courts and the court of public opinion. It's why he lashes out at the media, spreads lies, attacks his political enemies, and tries to rig elections. These are the actions of a tyrant with his back against the wall. Be warned.

just a reminder: TEXANS, early voting is underway! make a plan to vote today through February 27. Primaries are your chance to say "this is who I'll support in November." the Senate is a big-ticket item, but there are also congressional seats and state offices up for grabs!

Quick reminder that Substack recently sent out push notifications to random users promoting a literal Nazi blog that they host. There's a reason why a lot of us don't share Substacks, or even visit sites hosted with them anymore.

The individuals & institutions who assist a Despot’s rise to power often think they’re entering a partnership of sorts, w/a win/win scenario for both. But Despots seek absolute power so it simply starts the clock. By the time they realize, it’s often too late. SCOTUS is not exempt.

Big things that separate "religion" and "cult" is that cults are primarily profit seeking entities that foster abuse through a structure that encourages isolation from outsiders. Does that make, say, some mega churches cults? Yes, but it doesn't mean Christianity as a whole is.

will the prices that went up because of tariffs now go right back down? or are we now living with higher prices on some goods because of this unconstitutional decision?

Again on the “we cannot restore things to how they were before”… The tariff reversal came one month after the only US importer of a particular brand of machine-embroidery thread closed their doors for good, a decision spurred primarily by being a small business that couldn’t weather the tariffs.

Reminded me of this evergreen post 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Ack, I hate February

Marie Kondo the SHIT out of your social media experience. If it does not spark joy or serve a purpose which you value, to the bin with it!

Jesus Christ we gotta get rid of every single one of these motherfuckers. Can’t even enjoy New Dinosaur.

Hedy Lamarr invented a radio-guided torpedo system during World War II designed to prevent jamming via frequency-hopping technology. That same technology is still in use today, including its use in WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G networks. Nick Fuentes is a YouTuber who lives with his mom.

This is the "we must look forward not back" bullshit that has spared Republicans consequences for their actions for 50 years. It has to end, and it has to end now, and it has to stay ended.

The question is: will the average American - who has already paid $1000 in tariffs on average - receive any of this $$, or is it just more taxpayer $ for mega corporations? Is the $10B Trump just stole for "the board of peace" going to be the first pot to us pay back from?

Anti-trans ideology has: - decemitated the Women’s Institute - made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces - made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman - Reduced women to their anatomy - increased female objectification - reinforced sexist stereotypes

I think it's worth noting that the Trump admin has really been in retreat across a whole swath of areas and doesn't really seem to have the tools to do anything about it.

I think people who don’t like getting mocked for driving a piece of shit car that looks like a dumpster and randomly catches fire should try getting cars that don’t suck.

"Once again, for those in the back, thus far, the only things that AI generates are CSAM, misinformation, and hype."

Consequences are the kindest thing you can give the rich and privileged. It's how they rediscover their humanity.

the comments section after one of my posts about art goes viral

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

“If you’ve ever wondered why some intrusive AI feature that you never asked for is jumping in front of your cursor when you’re just trying to do a normal task, it’s because someone’s KPI was measuring whether you were going to click on that AI button” anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

This is why it works to call the government on their shit. They expect us never to take it to trial or fight for our rights in court. There are so many reasons why we choose not to. But this massive mobilization of lawyers from all backgrounds to file habeas petitions has utterly overwhelmed them.

Hey y’all, I will be participating in this! I’m not sure of my time slot yet but I will be presenting on the only thing in my brain these days: my baby. Do you have any questions about Margot? Send them to me! Want to see her giggle at the screen? Tune in!

Anyway, now that the tariffs were correctly ruled to be illegal, can we go back to discussing the fact that the government is literally building concentration camps?

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things" if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

The commercialization of youth sports is a downstream reaction to the financialization of higher education, which incentivizes upper middle class families to "invest" in coaching/training for children to compete for scholarships with the goal to offset 6-figure tuition costs. In this essay I will...

CORRECT All of these things, like church, are assumed to be immutable features of the landscape until one morning you notice it's gone and go "hey where'd that go? I kinda liked it" after not checking in on it for twenty years

if you squint, you can see why i think so many things (sports, democracy, art forms, cultures) are “like church”, and by that I mean they are things that *appear* to just be a fact of life, but are in fact made up of incessant waves of people inheriting and perpetuating the culture forward.

I might pick Alien Boyfriend by Gregory Dillon.

I wonder why they were wearing them… oh “Judge Carolyn Kuhl, who is presiding over the trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned.”

If you got one dollar every second from the moment you were born, you would hit one million dollars after 11.5 days. You would not hit one BILLION dollars until just before your 32nd birthday.

A blunt reminder to document the truth while you can. Memories fade. Records don’t.

the real political divide on here isn't between leftists and liberals, it's between people who believe in ideas and people who only believe in sides and the sides people really like to post that clip of Trump mocking a disabled journalist recontextualized as "Trump looks [disabled], hoo hoo hoo"

Help Diane out, her books are SO GOOD, the Young Wizards stuff blows That TERF Author out of the water fr

pov: you’re about to get freshly baked biscuits

there is one striking parallel, though. note the phrase "we must do something useful with AI" -- like NFTs, LLMs are a solution looking for a problem. real progress identifies a need and then meets it, not the other way around. bsky.app/profile/sexa...

Deplorables was kind.

SO MUCH THIS, I am also so very tired of this, shaming terrible people is great but shame them for the REASON THEY ARE TERRIBLE and not for anything about their bodies or appearances

Evergreen.

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

CHANNEL THAT ENERGY INTO MAKING ART (then let us auction that art to help our neighbors)

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés