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I’m sorry, the idea of the MAC having both Sacramento State and UMass is an affront to God.

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

sports equinox is when all major U.S. pro leagues have at least one game. sports solstice is when none of them do. we get them in the summer sometimes but in the winter only when the NHL goes on break and the NBA has its all-star-weekend during that break

Seems like I made a good decision to skip the dunk contest and go out for dinner instead

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

Dame Lillard coming off the couch and winning the 3 point contest in a pair of sweatpants, fucking love that guy

Damian Lillard, who is literally not playing this NBA season while rehabbing from a torn Achilles, just won the All-Star Three-Point Shooting Contest in sweatpants

i still feel like we’re all kind of sleeping on the fact that dame is in the three point contest

"There are seven countries in which no religious group makes up a majority of the population: the United Kingdom, Mauritius, South Korea, Australia, France, Ivory Coast and Singapore. [...] Among the world’s 10 most populous countries, the United States emerges as the most religiously diverse."

Shoutout to Julie Letai, daughter of National Cancer Institute director Anthony Letai, who just competed in the women's 1000 m short-track event!! Everything is public health!

The bicycle exists

I think the real risk is how many people view this as propaganda and use this to support anti-vax arguments, like “oh they couldn’t find any real kids who died so they had to make it up”

I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly. Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Here’s @nathangrayson.bsky.social reminding us all of journalism’s golden rule — if it bleeds it leads. Great reporting here on @aftermath.site

Cartoon to support Ukraine Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is disqualified from the Winter Olympics after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia.

In a world of Eileen Gu，be Alysa Liu 在遍地谷爱凌的世界，做刘美贤 Alysa Liu's father was a Tienanmen Square protester who escaped regime after 1989. Both him and Alysa have been harassed by the CCP. Alysa has refused the blood money from the CCP. She is true champion！

Eileen Gu on pack watch 👀

⚡️BREAKING: Russia killed opposition leader Navalny with dart frog poison, UK official says. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a dart frog toxin called epibatidine before he died in 2024, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. kyivindependent.com/breaking-rus...

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I went back and looked at the study that was cited in the op-ed. The researchers studied 10 regional metropolitan newspapers, specifically comparing their circulation and the proportion of story types in 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 1999. (p.109) www.google.com/books/editio...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

One thing that is so apparent to me is that the Trump administration self-selects for people who wouldn't take no for an answer, be it pedophiles, rapists, thieves, and kidnappers

MEDALHA DE OURO BRASIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL Lucas Pinheiro Braathen becomes the first South American ever to win a medal in any Winter Olympic event!!!!!

They should give the speed skaters who had a false start a 10-yard penalty and make them replay the first down

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

You cannot make this up: the California legislator who introduced this bill, Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, is an attorney specializing in environmental law, who also worked with Republicans in a failed attempt to become the first blue state to pass Texas-style online age verification laws

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You cannot make this up: the California legislator who introduced this bill, Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, is an attorney specializing in environmental law, who also worked with Republicans in a failed attempt to become the first blue state to pass Texas-style online age verification laws

That's why they say that JJ Abrams is the best B+ director history has ever had.

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

Update: the judge in the Stanford case has declared a mistrial, with jurors "hopelessly deadlocked" on both felony counts – a big embarrassment for the Santa Clara DA, who has already said he'll retry the case.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

Thinking of this king today.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

The man called himself the Quad God. But in the land of the Pope, only one God reigns, and he’s a jealous one. My column, for the Catholic Register:

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

ooooh there is definitely something to this. (and it goes in multiple directions. because biden was famously resentful towards/envious of the ivy league swells that dominate in DC and in elite press, often in ways that, imo, were self-destructive.)

One of the worst aspects of UK culture that somehow crossed over to the US is the snobbery of going to the “right” uni/schools. It’s across class too.

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I am so disgusted that my son’s public school district in Highland Park, NJ suspended students who participated in an anti-ICE walkout where the mayor and school superintendent were in attendance. If any reporters want to cover this, please reply below or DM me.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.