If you exclude healthcare jobs, the US labor market has actually declined for the past 24 months straight. And the healthcare coverage cuts have only just barely started to kick in.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

If the right’s blatant attacks on higher education are intended to bring "women back into the home," the Trump administration has found the right target. trib.al/rm9eFiV

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

To put ICE Enforcement Removal Operations officers' 6-week, 334-hour training into context here's roughly what others get: - FBI spec agents ~20 wks 800 hrs - DEA spec agents ~18 wks 720 hrs - Secret Service ~30 wks 1,200 hrs - ATF spec agents ~27 wks 1,080+ hrs - CBP ~19 wks, 720 hrs

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

USA!!!!!

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Breaking Sky News: Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He was led out of his London home by police officers this afternoon. Mandelson has faced allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information from Downing Street to Jeffrey Epstein.

A coordinated network of 18,000 bots are being used to drive the algorithms on X to amplify Nicki Minaj’s right-wing political posts. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Top 6 problems with Kash Patel partying with the men’s Olympic hockey team: - a collapsing FBI denial - haunted by his Chris Wray criticisms - wasting taxpayer resources - he has more important work to do - latest in a series of abuses - fresh harm to tarnished reputation www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

At some point we have to face the sad truth that this array of Administration miscreants are living their HS fantasies. Under what other circumstances would a group of athletes welcome this guy into a locker room celebration?

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022)

What a damn clown show of epic proportion! Why is the head of the FBI clout chasing in Italy on our dime?

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

UT-Austin is hiring a free speech czar. Among the "preferred qualifications" is experience in law enforcement. What could possibly go wrong?

A trifecta of stories about the decline in US tourism: @the-independent.com @forbes.com @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...

Do I have treatment resistant depression or am I just conscious and capable of reading the news?

Do not cross @pamherd.bsky.social remains undefeated as a rule

Internal ICE documents obtained reveal that an ICE agent fatally shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez, an American citizen, in South Padre Island, Texas, nearly a YEAR AGO They pretended he drove into them and unloaded guns through his windows.

Microclots and neutrophil extracellular traps merge to form structures that may contribute to thrombosis and atherosclerosis in patients with long Covid. While this research is in its early days, it may pinpoint not only a diagnosis of long Covid but potentially a therapeutic target. #Science 🧪

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Quick update on “the world according to Elon Musk, the richest man in history. —“Gender” is a fake propaganda term —The “woke mind virus,” however, is “real and quantifiable.”

Remember when poli sci consensus was that spending money in politics didn’t really do anything

Exclusive: A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the effects of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in the African nation of Guinea-Bissau. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Lawyers for imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages of documents which include transcripts of over 30 depositions and private information regarding financial and sexual matters related to Maxwell and others.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Indiana U is perhaps the best example right now of the university as private equity fund, with some classrooms attached. And, I will continue to remind folks that its chancellor began his career as an urban poverty scholar. Academic administration is a helluva drug.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Serious question: Shouldn't the judge…also be expected to know this?

The US is mounting its largest military buildup in the Middle East since 2003. Here's a list of the weapons and hardware that it's sent to the region

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

"If you remember Sex and the City... Carrie got together with Big, they broke up... what happens in the next season, they just go right back to the whole thing." And that's sort of what I'm expecting from season two of Trump-and-the-Tariffs. Same writers room + limited imagination = same story.

“.. When you put this kind of image into democratic spaces, spaces untouched by the monochromatic shadows of unfettered state power, you set up the last act, which is when they inevitably come down.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

This country is doomed.

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

this is the original story www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

”A former compliance officer for the international financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after raising concerns about suspicious banking activity from accounts owned by financier and sex predator Jeffrey Epstein“ as well as Jared Kushner

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

You can hear the midterm campaign ads being written right now: @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social