NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

They actually tried to indict sitting members of congress for telling the military not to obey illegal orders. They failed because even the grand jury thought this was ridiculous. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Endless shakedowns and protection rackets. Like a Mafia boss in mental decline.

They're acting like it's going to be the Ferris Bueller movie when it's actually going to be WarGames

Today, the WSJ Editorial Board published an essay claiming that climate science is still unsettled and attacking several environmental lawyers. So I got curious: what were they saying about acid rain back in the day? Spolier: the WSJ downplayed the evidence of acid rain's harms without fail

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

This @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed on rare earths repeats a misleading story: that China dominates these industries mainly because of lax labor and environmental standards. It sounds intuitive, but it’s analytically wrong in ways that matter for policy. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections

primary every democrat who thinks ‘reform’ is the answer

MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!” Kid Rock song: “ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)”

📣 The new Chair leading #PlasticsTreaty talks has been elected: Julio Cordano of Chile. @enb.iisd.org’s Noémie Laurens breaks down the three main issues that the new Chair will have to face this year at INC 5.4. 👇

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

“Is it fair to ask the American people to pay for that?” TRUMP: “I’m giving 100% to charity.” P.S. - No he isn’t P.P.S. - He thinks we are all idiots

I don’t think Vance is a true believer and so I believe there’s a place inside him left that still feels this shame and hurt. That some part of him knows that he sold every last inch of his soul he could sell. That he crossed every line of decency and dignity in hope of reward. And this is reward.

They made up a whole story about a White House staffer posting ut in the middle of the night, and Trump just goes Leeroy Jenkins and says, "You're goddamn right I ordered the Code Red!"

Mamdani, obviously. Plot of episode deals with J.P. Grosse trying to strong-arm Kermit about the terms of the theater lease.

Johnny Carson once said the fastest measurable unit of time is that which elapses between when a light turns green in NY and someone honks their horn. But the speed with which Trump's name will be torn off his monuments to himself when he's gone will be greater. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

For these next few years, the game of was he lying or just demented is just going get pretty tedious.

Meet the newest member of team Somerville, Drain Maye!   Drain Maye joined the Mayor's Office today through our adopt-a-drain program. When you adopt a drain, you agree to perform light maintenance before storms to help prevent localized flooding and trash from entering the waterways.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Jeff Bezos responds immediately to my suggestion:

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

TRUMP: “2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.”😕 “But they were Americans who died.” TRUMP: “We’ve been very tough on the waters.” 🤷🏼 All he cares about is himself and his image. Diabolical.

“We've seen ICE draw guns on Americans who are not protesters.” Reporters are now implying it’s ok to draw guns on protesters. That’s how normalization works. The regime is successfully criminalizing protest.

I know it must have seemed odd years ago when I wrote that Susan Collins, even more than Trump, was the person who made me decide to finally leave the GOP because it had no future.

Trump supporters like him because he acts like this, not in spite of it.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Hey @economist.com what was that Senator Collins unique leadership opportunity article you just published?

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.

LOL, these fucking people. Just shameless. “But as you know, it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”

It was literally two days ago that he used his social media platform to endorse her, calling her a "phenomenal Candidate" and "incredible supporter of our Movement" while urging "America First Patriots" to "GET OUT AND VOTE"

Headline should read, UN in danger of collapse because of unpaid United States dues. “Make no mistake, this is a rupture.” U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

JD Vance in 2021:

Not to take away from the ridiculously-on-point righteousness of this order, but it is also clear that these judges are writing for maximum exposure, and that is GREAT.

straight up Gestapo shit

Omg. When I was in law school, it was easier to land a job at an elitemost law firm right after graduating than it was to get one as an AUSA. Now they’re begging to get DMs to fill open slots. Their capacity is gutted. And they’re facing a legal system that is turning more and more against them.

👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

My statement opposing the appropriations package that includes a two-week extension of ICE and DHS funding.

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...