Spike Lee was right about this guy.

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

HGTV has canceled its home restoration series, Rehab Addict, after host Nicole Curtis was caught using a racial slur during filming.

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

I do not shame anyone who's still on Substack and I am still impatient with Patreon's newsletter features but here's a good reminder of why so many of us are putting up with the various difficulties of *not* using Substack www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I feel safe in saying that Nat Turner would have used rockets if they existed

Use promo code ANTIFA on quince dot com

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

This is an incredible photo.

Pam Bondi weaponizing antisemitism against @balint.house.gov to avoid accountability on the Epstein files is, sadly, perfectly on brand - and still disgusting. Via @forward.com

Emerald Fennell is the Jared Leto of directors.

In August, our neighbor, friend, and handyman Ervin was kidnapped by ICE from my friend’s house during the ICE raids in Washington, DC. Please join me in donating to their Go Fund Me for his immigration representation and to bring him home. We miss him. Thanks for your support. 🫶🏽 Link is in my bio.

better a cow than a fascist

OK, I need a great reader question for Backchannel newsletter/web column on WIRED. Ask me anything!

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

I’m relieved that this violent paramilitary force will be removed from our streets, but I won’t believe it until they're actually gone. Minnesotans deserve justice and accountability, and I won’t stop until we get it.

Well said by our (hopefully) next US senator!

Nearly a year ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump “border czar” Tom Homan after ICE took Mahmoud Khalil. Republicans targeted pro-Palestine students. Then, with no firm pushback, expanded their operations to what we see today. Mamdani was among the few Democrats who immediately stood against it.

Israeli forces demolished several Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, including homes, citing a lack of permits. Video shows soldiers assaulting and detaining residents during the operations.

It’s crazy to me how little attention some of these Democratic primary races are getting outside of a few (Maine, Texas). The primary in Illinois is in a month and there’s a left wing abolish ICE progressive versus a corrupt AIPAC hack. It’s a competitive race, but no one is really boosting it.

EXCLUSIVE: Justice Democrats & the new PAL PAC are endorsing Kat Abughazaleh in IL-09. This comes as AIPAC is flooding IL with cash to influence four upcoming races. Abughazaleh is JD’s 12th endorsement this cycle & PAL PAC’s first insurgent candidate theintercept.com/2026/02/12/a...

The UN on Tuesday reported continued Israeli airstrikes, shelling and gunfire across the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, warning that attacks on residential areas are putting civilians at serious risk. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260210-un-...

“Labels are inevitable but standards are what matter.”

as the last thing M.I.A. ever said or did, what a way to go out

Of all the Illinois Senate candidates in the Democratic primary, Christopher Swann has by far the best platform. The problem is that Raja Krishnamoorthi, the current polling leader, has by far the *worst*.

Trump's Department of Justice was apparently monitoring members of Congress as they search through the newly-unredacted Epstein Files, tracking their search terms. Rep. Jamie Raskin calls it "Orwellian" and a "violation of the separation of powers." @premthakker.bsky.social

Yes, by all means, Democrats, whatever you do, in the middle of Trump's SOTU speech, DO NOT stand up and yell, "QUIET PIGGY," unless you want to be the frontrunner for the 2028 presidential nomination.

“He doesn’t agree with the phrase ‘abolish ICE’ because he said there are too many interpretations for it…”—we have been here before. “Abolish ICE” is a demand; it is clear. Don’t let electeds turn a policy question into a comms strategy debate so they can dodge stating they oppose the demand.

🚨 The Department of Justice is monitoring the search history as members of Congress navigate the unredacted Epstein Files

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned. (Yes it’s good character detail.)

It's kind of funny that they showed up to court matching. Also, not that anyone cares—nor should care—it kinda feels like there are only two camps left: People who still defend Blake Lively, and those who have actually read the court docs.

Some friends went to go see The Testament of Ann Lee and I'm so excited to finally have people to talk with about it.

Weyes Blood, Orville Peck, Chelsea Cutler join exodus from Wasserman over Epstein files

“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.” Yasmin Mahani speaking about her son Al Jazeera just released an investigation revealing how US-made bombs vaporized nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

Huh thehill.com/homenews/med...

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Analilia Mejia was doing ICE Watch trainings at her campaign events. She was preparing future constituents for encounters with immigration agents. And she won. In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, one of her big priorities: end ICE's mass surveillance. prospect.org/2026/02/11/p...

Instagram just suspended our account with >137,000 followers with NO explanation or evidence of a violation.

Mejia told Axios that when Democrats try to meet Trump "in the middle ... you're kind of falling into this trap of accepting egregious behavior because it seems like it's halfway to where they're at, when they're all the way to crazy." www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...

In my life, every time Democrats have been given power through election victories they have used that power to enact GOP policies while enshrining whatever awful evil shit the GOP was doing that lost them the election, then Dems lose the next election and act like they powerless for the next decade.

Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.

A message below from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza. Life is perilous for the many thousands of displaced civilians. They rely on us to survive. Please give to Tasneem so she can take care of her children. And to others. ❤️🙏 chuffed.org/project/1587...

Every single president of the United States since Lyndon Baines Johnson has expressed public and private opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, but every single president since LBJ has also greenlit unconditional support while Israel annexes it anyway.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."