For those who don't know, this is a finding from 2009 by the EPA which stated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

They sent 3000 troops to arrest 4000 people. It likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per person on top of the permanent distrust they created for decades. What an absolute failure.

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Oh look, another government scheme did that same thing again and got the same results again and it paid for itself again and everyone was happier and the world was a better place just like 100% of the times this has ever been tried Truly, an inconclusive result we should furiously ignore yet again

AI image generation makes images close to instantly, but it makes those images by remixing work by human artists who take hours, days, weeks to make an image. Those AI-generated images then compete in a marketplace against human artists. That's not sustainable for the humans. (thread)

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

The federal agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about it has been placed on leave. This wouldn't have happened if everyone had accepted Homeland Security's blatant lies in this case.

Interesting short thread on AI.

AI image generation makes images close to instantly, but it makes those images by remixing work by human artists who take hours, days, weeks to make an image. Those AI-generated images then compete in a marketplace against human artists. That's not sustainable for the humans. (thread)

LLMs cannot ever generalize to anything meaningful beyond probabilistic pattern matching, and even then they are limited only to data they've seen before during training. LLMs are a complete technological dead end with no uses, and it boggles my mind we've put so much resources into their R&D

They not only failed to get an indictment, they failed to get a single grand juror’s vote. It’s probable that this has never happened before. Likely because the DOJ has never sent hack political appointees to attempt to get indictments on sitting Congress members over protected speech before.

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site

Quite the chart

"Gaza Children Village [was] created by Palestinian-American Dr. David Hasan in Apr '25 in response to the devastation of Gaza...in particular the impact on 10,000s of orphaned children. GCV provides education, nutrition, healthcare, & psychosocial support for orphaned & vulnerable children..."

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

The work World Central Kitchen does in Gaza is incredible and heroic

For clarity, and for those not grasping how obscenely overblown the scenario, or the extent of the misrepresentation. Counting only written complaints, the NHS in England alone received 256,777 in 2024-25. 4.5 complaints per 1000 people. Tavistock trans services received 0.06 per 1000 patients.

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Remember that Gallup gets 10s of #$MS in government money. If he canceled grants &/or contracts that feed money to Gallup he wouldn't have to sue them to hurt them. I don't say that to excuse them. They've made clear that they're willing to hide data for $ and/or politics. Present credibility = 0.

So did Trump threaten to sue Gallop through backchannels, I wonder? Or is this an attempt to avoid the appearance of bias by not reporting the inconvenient truth?

I notice US media is running with the White House line that the Jobs Report was “better than expected” - Navarro’s ploy yesterday to set a really low bar worked. But having your foot amputated is “better than expected” if they told you it was the whole leg and 130,000 extra jobs is historically low.

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

And the canon that instructs us to draw understanding of a statute’s meaning from its title. The list goes on. The government’s argument for why it is entitled to strip residents of their due process rights and lock them away indefinitely is easily the most frivolous argument I’ve ever seen. 14/

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A whistleblower released 900+ Stephen Miller personal emails 

 Here are some of his views 🔘He believes neo-nazi Great Replacement theory 🔘Writes only negatively about non-white people
 🔘Favours eugenics-era immigration as Nazis did
 🔘Likes a book where hero kills a person who supports migrants

The monsters who are currently calling for US regime-change in Cuba *do not care* about the Cuban people. If they cared about the Cuban people they would be calling instead to end the cruel US blockade which is *explicitly* intended to create mass misery and starvation.

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To understand how monstrous the US blockade on Cuba is, think about the endgame. What are they trying to achieve? The goal is clearly to starve people to the point where they are too weak to resist an invasion, or so desperate they are willing to accept US control.

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation— the ones trying to replace people and shove "AI" into every aspect of our daily lives, whether we consent or not— will try to do that even if it's *Not Actually That Good*. www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...

Even the dog had enough of her shit.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd of hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews have gathered outside ICE headquarters in DC for the largest ever Jewish protest against ICE’s violence and crimes. #jewsagainstICE

trump's election threats are real. also his schemes face bigger and bigger barriers as he gets more and more unpopular. overthrowing democracy is much harder when people hate you. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-pol...

Minnesota still needs your attention

Generic ballot for young men LV (18-29). 61D, 31R. Whoopsie. www.thirdway.org/memo/where-d...

November 20 feels like so long ago.

People like the members of this awesome grand jury - making the correct decision (and incidentally handing Trump's administration some humiliation) - give me hope.

The Heritage Foundation has a plan for girls: Less choice, less information, less careers, more babies. They're Coming for Our Daughters open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

We'll be told "there are millions of people who are uncomfortable with that, and we have to learn to live with them." No, actually. We already are living with each other, including them. They're uncomfortable with some of us. THEY have to learn to live with US. If they won't, that is their problem.

How hard could it be to find a translation & read it, so you're at least prepared to make your (dumb) argument, rather than admit you have no idea what was said & too lazy to figure it out? You know someone will translate it & eventually reveal the hidden knowledge. Why not find out ahead of time?