In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

This is collective punishment and broadly transnational repression. It is regrettable that the Hong Kong court is endorsing and enabling this shameful tactic. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is "arguably the most blatant press freedom violation of this century, and maybe the last century as well," FPF's Seth Stern said. Read more from @brianstelter.bsky.social: view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

I’m happy that Grand Jurys exist but the fact that the DOJ keeps losing to them is a sign that things aren’t normal.

NEW: The DOJ built its case to seize Fulton County’s election records on recycled, debunked conspiracy theories, experts say. Former prosecutors and election experts are questioning how in the world a judge found probable cause.

Trump is aligned with a family of *literal* bridge trolls! 🧌

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border

3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.” From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The oldest known image of an owl: More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

Dave Farber, R.I.P. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Blatantly impeachable offenses.

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

I don't know where the cutoff for notability lies but wherever it is, a woman who helped to calculate the orbit of Pluto and create GPS clears it. And that's before you factor what she had to overcome to get there.

Trump engineering a decoupling from Canada, the question being how much pain it will bring to all involved.

It's true it seems, with no warning or explanation CIA simply discontinued and removed the World Factbook this week. I imagine they'd say we have wikipedia now wo who needs it, but check the footnotes and see how many wiki entries get their data from the CIA factbook. Lots.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

“This is making people in the art world very uncomfortable.”

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

This:

You can be bureaucratically correct while also being ethically and morally bankrupt.

Calvin’s got better things to do this weekend🤣. What are your weekend plans? #CalvinandHobbes

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Baltimore bridge collapse: crew members from ship still held by US two years on

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

The drop in the dollar isn't some unintended result of Trump policies. It is the goal. CFR's Rebecca Patterson explains www.cfr.org/articles/the...

Its interesting that nobody in this Signal discourse is talking about traffic analysis. 😑

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

I think about this from Aristotle a lot. Democracy requires equality, but some people cannot stand to be equal with others and seek to overthrow democracy. "Inferiors become revolutionaries in order to be equals and equals become revolutionaries in order to be superiors." Aristotle, Politics

Thank you, this is the most hilarious thing I’ve read all weekend, and I needed the levity: “Simply being in the right just isn’t enough. Team Trump needs to cool things down, and let the American public see calm leadership.”

Something jarring about seeing Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson on the same speech program. This is for a Saudi Real Estate conference starting tomorrow.

Taxation is theft and thats wrong but its OK to use the army to take Greenland from the people who live there! 🥨

Stagflation is when your interest rates are going up at the same time as unemployment. What is the word for when you’ve intentionally reduced the value of your currency in order to make your manufactured goods more desirable but no one wants to buy anything from you because everyone hates you?

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

This "Board of Peace" is a path to Trump's apotheosis. He is appointed for life as chief of a foreign policy board, which a future President Vance may continue to defer to, making Trump a defacto, unelected "Head of State."

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY I'M BORED--I THINK I'LL BECOME A BEATNIK

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

"Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?" a deep dive for the law nerds new from me, posted over at Volokh. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

What nation arrests and locks up the most 5 year olds in the world? 30,000 children under 10 since 2013? Clue #1: ~Half of the 5 year olds locked up are Black, because it's a super racist country. Clue #2: Other than Black parents, most of their own citizens don't care enough to oppose it.

Reminds me of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I think American elites underestimate the impact that “easy way or the hard way” talk sits with common people in Democracies. The US has taken all of our soft power and thrown it, confidently, into the river. Its easy to see where this is going to be their downfall.

One of the best speeches I've read by a political leader. And certainly, the best, by far, of any political leader in a Trump stained, polycentric world. “Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

“We take the world as it is – not as we wish it to be.”

Black, Red and Black, 1968 #colorfieldpainting #rothko