"It is white nationalist agit prop — and he's Cuban. And I like, I don't really know any other way to describe what he's doing. He's doing it in Germany, too, just to throw it out there." Tim Miller and Bill Kristol on Rubio's futile attempt to make Trump's foreign policy palatable.

In the hamshack, I'm getting this "comb pattern" from about 25 to 29MHz. The signal is bouncing off the ionosphere from thousands of miles away. The transmitter is most likely Russia’s 29B6 Container "Over The Horizon" Radar. Ukraine hit this site in 2024. It's back. medium.com/the-dock-on-...

Metallurgist Constance Tipper was born #OTD in 1894. Her groundbreaking work on the brittle fracture of metals saved countless lives during #WWII & laid foundational principles for modern fracture mechanics. First female FT faculty member at Cambridge Dept of Engineering (1949). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation khpg.org/en/1608815522

Talarico scares the shit out of many, as he should. He is probably the most intrepid and courageous (to use "old" terms that actually say specific things) candidate out there. I honestly worry for his safety.

Your post enticed me to watch the introductory part and man, Colbert has no fucks left to give. He rocks.

The Republicans are scared af of James Talarico. Period. Early voting in Texas starts (tomorrow) Tuesday February 17. Vote early. 🗳 vote blue 🌊

Holy shit, that’s one way to uplift talarico

Wow, that says something: fcc didn’t pull this shit when Newsom went on, schiff, omg so many since July, but only Talarico gets pulled. Take notice Dems. Be more like James and AOC!!!

“Let’s just call this what it is,” said Colbert plainly. “Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV. Because all Trump does is watch TV.”

After Colbert's departure I won't be watching anything on that network ever again

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

A needless tragedy. May her memory be a blessing to her family & friends.

Today ICE killed Dr. Linda Davis. Not with a bullet, but her death is no less a direct result of DHS’s unhinged violence.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Today in life (& death) under competitive authoritarianism

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

From 2017

Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes. Anthropic refused unfettered use. newrepublic.com/post/206631/...

it is weird to see so much reporting about newborn babies in concentration camps in between updates about the Olympics

9/ The transferable lesson is a counter-right strategy: name hate plainly, refuse to punch down, and offer a hopeful identity people can join without shame. Then reinforce it through disciplined repetition and organizing. MAGA is hate and we are HOPE. Most people want hope and not hate

Breaking: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was expected to do. Ellison, Bezos, and other oligarchs are not trying to make their media properties profitable. They are turning them into regime media--to make their other properties more profitable.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people. A right-wing think tank. www.cato.org/commentary/e...

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan

We are the laughing stock of the world.

Chris Rufo: “We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right to smuggle it into media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have power to topple her. Then squeeze.” Mediocre "meritocracy" NYT editors who hate Me Too and give him affirmative action:

Not Denying anything but just adding on that its also misogyny!

In court if you aren’t nice to the court reporters they can leave these in. It’s not that Aoc isn’t nice to the reporter, it’s that she isn’t nice to the billionaire class the reporter licks the boots of.

I've transcribed dozens of interviews. With rare exceptions, everyone speaks with those um/uh tics, little restarts, hesitations, and most of us speak in sentence fragments with emphases, tones, pauses that create coherence not replicable in print. Spoken and written are distinct. Translate fairly.

“Because my network clearly doesn’t want me to talk about this, let’s talk about this.” Good on Colbert.

“FCC you.” - Colbert to Carr, youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Maybe Senators #Cornyn and #TedCruz could demonstrate their pro-life chops.

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

⚡️Drones strike multiple Russian regions, sparking major fire at oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai. The Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, which supplies fuel to Russian troops, processes 6.42 million tons of oil annually, according to Ukraine's General Staff.

Legalized discrimination against Alaska Natives was rampant, with segregated schools, transportation and public facilities. “No Natives Allowed” signs were common in front of businesses. The Act prohibited these practices, with fines of up to $250 or up to 30 days in jail for violators. /2

TRUTH youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D...

Tlingit leader Elizabeth Peratrovich played a pivotal role in the Act’s passage. Her passionate testimony before the territorial Senate on Feb. 16, 1945, is credited with securing the final votes. Alaska celebrates Elizabeth Peratrovich Day annually on February 16th to honor her contribution. /end

"The ultra conservative Heritage Foundation’s own analysis found that in TWENTY-FOUR YEARS of voting, only 77 undocumented immigrants voted, representing 0.00000764% of all ballots." ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴘᴀʀᴋꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴏʀᴇꜱᴛꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛᴇʀꜱ

#ResistanceRoots Elizabeth Peratrovich was born on this day in 1911 in Peterburg, District of Alaska. A member of the Tlingit nation, Peratrovich fought discrimination against Indigenous Alaskans and played a key role in the passage of Alaska’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. /1

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1945: The Alaskan Territorial Legislature passes the Anti-Discrimination Act banning racial segregation in public accommodations. It was the first such law in the U.S., passed 14 years before Alaska statehood and 19 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. /1

I really hope that translates into "The DHS is dead on arrival, then." The GOP giving the Dems the line of "The admin wants us to pick between the Constitution and the DHS" is one hell of a gift.

2/ Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 …1/

If your favorite team, company, or bank is actively funding, aiding, or abetting rape, terror, or murder, maybe it's a good time to question your loyalty.

Makes sense, educated people who can vote don't tend to vote Republican. The same is true for education, the more educated the less likely you will remain religious. These are their identities, which frightens them to the point of supporting evil. Those actions are driving more people away from both

Same thing Reagan used to pull southern Democrats into the GOP