In an era in which “trafficking” is a cliche used to justify bad policies and politics, my classmate Christa Foster Crawford has spent a career doing real work and making a real difference. This is a good cause.

This can only be a good thing frankly i hope the regulators here take a firm stance. If Polymarket does succeed in arguing they fall under the FMA rather than gambling, they’re unlikely to enjoy that experience. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/16/p...

Wow. How do these so called intellectuals manage to equate holding to account powerful rich men raping underage girls to witch trials? Shirt thinking from shitty people and they should be told so.

Oh my god

i know we're living in a "post-truth" world, etc., but deleting the world factbook still feels too on-the-nose

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

A note from our editors:

1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, Venezuela under Chavez and Turkey under Erdogan, according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today.

Venmo @jessica-shortall pls and thank you.

I really loath purity politics.

All in favor repoast this

It’s a crazy world when NYPD investigates an officer involved raccoon shooting more thoroughly than the Feds investigate the murder of a protester. Officer placed on modified duty after fatally shooting raccoon at a NYC beach apnews.com/article/new-...

The Administration has found its most disposable face.

Summer of ‘28?

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world —...

An experiment we of course don’t need because we’ve done it before. You know, before we had vaccines. People suffer, people die, people live with life long impairment, families are torn apart and in some cases reduced to poverty. GDP lowered. But sure, repeat that.

Welcome back @gregdoucette.bsky.social So, what’s been going on other than work a spilling milk? I assume the suspension was for talking about off milk as a bio weapon - no?

French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.

"Legacy Of Hope" #Teableau 19Jan26 It feels awkward to speak of hope these days, but I won't demean his memory by considering anything less. Hope does not preclude struggle, resistance, or self- defense, but rather, underpins them all. #Tea #MLK

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Makes sense. At least there’s historical precedent for this. France, Spain, UK, Denmark all have historical claims to what is now US territory.

What’s happened to Greg Doucette’s account? Anyone know?

Just gonna plant my flag here: if you’re going to support a person for the most powerful elected office in the world, you should expect that person to *be* one of the adults in the room.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

You peacefully protest with a letter to the editor

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

It's literally a handful of dudes fucking things up for the rest of us. We could....I don't know.......eat them and then never speak of it again.

A good (long) thread that matches some of my experience training in my younger days.

Always bemuses me when I see people who seem to believe that political opposition has to be a monolith. It doesn’t. In fact it’s more efficient and will reach more people the more diverse it is. Yes, you need to take some common approaches, but saying sit in the back seat and shut up is stupidity.

I gotta say, on balance social media has been a terrible mistake.

Halligan: “Now even Borowitz is scoring off of me”

Well I hope that fucker has the grace to be embarrassed. Probably not though.

Funniest BRICS moment is China becoming more supportive of Russia in 2022 than they were in 2014 because they were uncomfortable with the ‘separatist’ charade but 100% fine with imperial conquest

The city of Troy was attacked by the Greeks around 1200 BCE. Paris believed Agamemnon when he said “he wanted Troy to succeed” Little known fact

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Episode 20 is now available with video! With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.

But why would President Child Rapist not want to release the Epstein files?

Ruin a band with law. Holidays Act 2003

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Another great thread from Derek Guy.

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Gary Wars

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich