"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

Ffffuck no!

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard BLOCKED an NSA report of a call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. I will sit down with the whistleblower lawyer TOMORROW at 12 PM PT on @meidastouch.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Ahem

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

ICYMI: 950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Jay Clayton's remarks at an industry conference come as the Justice Department is scaling back ‌corporate crime enforcement and refocusing on immigration and drug cases under the Trump administration. www.yahoo.com/finance/news...

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

Autistic girls are much less likely to be diagnosed, and the fun doesn’t stop there

Sam Polley and The Old Tomorrows tonight in a snow storm. Excellent show!

Jack White is my spirit animal.

We love you Michelle!!!

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

1. What I'm about to post is going to sound egotistical - because it is - but it has a point, so please go with it for moment: I've learned over time that, at least in my own communities, I can no longer rely on how people approach and treat me as an indicator of their own personality.

🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls. The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

This looks like a tremendous amount of fun!

🧵 NEWS: Starbucks wins dismissal of Missouri lawsuit over DEI policies Missouri AG office had filed a complaint against Starbucks, alleging discrimination. Former AG Andrew Bailey had complained that Starbucks workforce had become 'more female and less white.' www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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My husband took this photo this morning when he was out and about in our Victoria BC neighbourhood at 6 am.

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump reportedly told Schumer that he will unfreeze infrastructure funds for New York in exchange for support for renaming Penn Station and Dulles International Airport after himself.

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

I've been banging my head against a project for days that I just couldn't get right. Code and layout were fragile, it misbehaved if you looked at it wrong, not remotely production ready. Got stuck in around 10pm tonight, it's 3am, and goddamn if this isn't working and solid. Pleased. Time to sleep.

This headline uses the words "too much" and "salt" in the same sentence. I don't understand.

Deconstructed, low carb, gluten free, peanut butter and jam sandwiches sounds so much more classy than eating PB&J right out of their respective jars with a spoon. Don't judge me.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

She lost her #lambent sky eyes in the crush of still life. She could see it, pursed behind irises— a dying speck of sun, shivering. She tried to pluck it from a memory, but like the ghosted flicker of stars, it was already light-years away. #vss365

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

“We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” - Charles Bukowski

AS MANY OF US KNEW - the Maxwells/Epstein/Trump had much deeper ties to Putin/Russia than even USA Intel knew. Their decades long child-sex pedophile ring was always but a convenient tool of EXTORTION for Putin & Mossad. Few Americans have yet realized how CRIMINALLY INSANE PUPPET TRAITOR TRUMP IS!!

It's late. Alcohol is wearing off, and the music that energized the crowd earlier is starting to lose power to fatigue, time, and the limits of the flesh. I see you there, bar lights lambent across you as you flow, liquid grace across the room in my direction. A new night begins. #vss365 #lambent

People keep being shocked by the alliance between tech bros and the religious right and alt right gooner scum. Don’t. The SINGLE thing that unifies the men of the far right is the desire to do sex crimes.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

According to @nytimes.com, Trump is mentioned 38,000± times across 5,300+ documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.⁠ Those aren't innocent numbers. Innocent numbers are ones like '13', the age of Katie Johnson who says she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Epstein at Epstein's NYC apartment in 1994.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Desktop system has completely shit the bed this morning. Will not start back up. Good thing I’m not behind on several deadlines!*

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/

Sadness is a downpour—it arrives without asking, soaking through our defenses in seconds. Joy is a garden—it must be planted seed by seed, watered with intention, weeded of doubt, and fiercely guarded against the storms that would drown it.

the direct, self-deprecating desperation of ending the new Muppet Show special (designed to be a fingers-crossed pilot for future continued production) with a big group number to "Don't Stop Me Now" that's EXACTLY THE MUPPETS, BABY

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola" L-O-L-A, Lola Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola 🩷🩷🩷 youtu.be/s_xA6sH9kkQ?...

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social to @donlemonofficial.bsky.social : “They know they can’t go after every journalist… They want to make an example out of one person to get people to self-censor. I just want to say how important it is the example you’re setting by not backing down.”