France: First court case over death linked to hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection. Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress. www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...

Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇 beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...

I never thought I’d see the day. Americans being told by the rest of the world to fight for our own democracy. We should never have gotten here. Keep resisting. ✊🏽 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

it’s so dumb that u can easily look up covid contagiousness & find 9-11 days as THE NORM but prevailing recommendations- policies- ppl think…no fever 24 hrs (meaningless, symptoms improving (probably meaningless), or 5 days to return to work (no basis in reality)… its all lies we just go along with

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Bill Barr’s preemptive interference with the Mueller report — a month into his tenure as attorney general — will one day be understood as one of the most influential and significant inflection points for political journalism and media in U.S. history

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong. With @texastribune.org

White supremacy is just a job you do, like architect or serial killer

Read and share all over..he nails it

Democrats Can Launch Criminal Investigations into DOGE, Today. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Laws are for plebes ... "Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

pretty stunning chart

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

Elon Musk is reportedly scheming with the Trump administration to exact revenge against French authorities for their criminal probe into the miasmic pornography swamp he has created out of Twitter. Top of Musk's target list is Éric Bothorel, a Breton MP.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

They’ve overturned Roe. They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states. Arrested women for miscarrying. They’re making it harder for women to vote. They shout “repeal the 19th!” The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape. It’s a war on women.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We deserve leaders who speak the truth. Happy Presidents’ Day.

Even judges that Trump himself appointed have called out the administration for violating multiple court orders Jesus, when is this guy's term over

“As it ponders perhaps its greatest privacy intrusion yet, Meta is betting on people looking the other way. No matter the touted benefits of facial recognition in Meta’s smart glasses, the trade-off isn’t worth it.”

Multidisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Indoor Airborne Pathogen Transmission 🤷Clearly: 'airborne infection control must become a permanent part of building design, regulation, & public health strategy, not a temporary pandemic measure'. @donmilton.bsky.social et al pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41674314/

These are the oligarchs who seek to rule every aspect of our lives, and the current US regime is doing everything possible to facilitate that because it is owned by them.

I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the country’s political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just horrible.

NOTE I am not suicidal; I don't drink or do drugs; my blood pressure and cholesterol are normal; I don't engage in high-risk activities; my vehicles are well kept and newly serviced. If anything happens to me, please assume foul play and only let state agents—not federal—access my data and drafts.

A very valuable, systematic & concise breakdown of who had the most contact ( reiprocated & unreciprocated) with Epstein, categorised under spheres of influence

The worldview of vast swathes of the right seems increasingly to be that the future is "us" in a castle under siege by "them", and that will be fine because we can go on the battlements and shoot a few of "them" every day to remind them who's boss. But a castle under siege is doomed.

Current state of the world: People who want to save humanity from climate collapse vs. Coalition of ethnonationalist freaks, neoimperialists, believers in the consciousness of machines, and rich dudes who enjoy raping 14-yr-old girls. I'd say "Pick a side, people", but, jeez....

"Regarding truth, generative #AI is fundamentally unreliable. It does not aim at factual accuracy” "Flawed and opaque AI systems are undermining human reasoning, eroding a cornerstone of democratic citizenship and public debate." –Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU, www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear. *See next post.

Writing is thinking. You can't possibly set up early-career journalists for long-term success if you systematically deny them the experience of thinking through their own reporting and structuring it as stories.

As you process the Epstein files, remember: Palantir received early funding from Jeffrey Epstein. It was also backed by the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel. Then came the defense contracts. Then mass data analytics at scale. This isn’t separate stories. It’s one ecosystem: the Epstein network.

12/ “whistleblower reported that ‘DOGE engineers have tried to create specialized computers for themselves that simultaneously give full access to networks and databases across different agencies’” www.brookings.edu/articles/pri...

🟨 Print Edition — ‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent — @nafeez.bsky.social The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire… 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/83/domestic-terrorism-ice-contractor-palantirs-tools-for-tracking-dissent/

"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain. But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

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The late David Golumbia saw weev (real name: Andrew Auernheimer) as a linchpin in Silicon Valley's turn toward fascism. He spends nearly a whole chapter on weev in "Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology."

A strange find from the Epstein files: A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev." Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

Reminder that more networks, just like the Epstein network, exist, and you know exactly who they are.

Vance co-founded a donor network fueled by VC money whose other leaders have talked openly of seeking to create an “aristocracy,” their words. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A critique of Nick Bostrom's--I don't know how else to put it--incredibly dumb new paper in favor of artificial superintelligence. His conclusion is atrocious, dangerous, callous, arrogant, and genocidal, & his argument is patently flawed. I explain why below:

“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one [researcher] said, ‘This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.’” 🔗 archive.ph/2026.02.12-1...