thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races. This is a great way to do that:

It should draw outrage. He's doing this all on the taxpayer dime and there is no official reason for him to be partying in their locker room,.

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

It seems I’ve decided to start watching Twin Peaks again

The perfect soundtrack for this to do list: @themountaingoats.bsky.social “Going to Alaska” then “Going to Georgia” on loop.

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity. Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

Just checked my Sunday afternoon to-do list and it says “bills, grading, death certificates“ and so I am disassociating for a moment, maybe a couple moments, maybe a half an hour at the thrift store

Addendum: It appears she lived until 2004. www.findagrave.com/memorial/214...

4/4 In 1930 her father was a machinist in a factory, but after the depression in 1940 neither parent was working. Evelyn was the eldest of 11 so no surprise she was working in '43. In 1950 she & her father were both working in factories to support her mother and 6 siblings still living at home.

3/4 Catherine Barscz, who lived and worked with her, was also charged with disorderly conduct for wearing men's clothes.

2/4 She was doing war-related factory work, but alas the judge thought her appearance merited psychiatric intervention.

1/4 Evelyn "Jackie" Bross in court, charged with wearing trousers, Chicago (1943) Photo: Chicago Daily News

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

Thinking about other times in history where stimulants were distributed to boost “productivity” .

Did Trump make up the hospital boat story out of embarrassment after learning Denmark had to rescue *our* submariner and provide them urgent medical care in Greenland? All signs point to yes! apnews.com/article/gree...

DHS could stop murdering citizens in the streets to get its funding back, but they’ve chosen to bottleneck every airport in America instead. Cool.

The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare. Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

This dude saw all those bodies powering the matrix as inspo

weird lil guys are worth fighting for

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck. Can’t stop thinking about it.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

$1.2 billion on one of the richest companies on earth is genuinely, sincerely, criminal. That is quite literally money stolen from us on multiple fronts.

hot take apparently but if you're a journalist, maybe you shouldn't publish the rumors of anonymous sources baselessly accusing unnamed gay men of "grooming." you're just reinventing homophobic moral panics from first principles. men doing a little boys club isn't gay "grooming," it's patriarchy.

Like what THE ABSOLUTE FUCK? This is EXTREMELY NORMAL?! Marginalized people in every single industry hold events to can meet and network and help each other advance? A straight guy sneaking into gay networking events is actually the villain here!? Why is @wired.com targeting gay men like this?

I wonder if this is pregaming trying to blame all the tech fascist billionaires connected to epstein on being gay

my favorite part about this weird gay moral panic article is how it sneaks in bits proving the premise of the article is factually inaccurate, but continues on anyway citing rumors from anonymous sources as "proof." the problem with silicon valley isn't the presence of gay men, it's fascism.

ICE thugs pulled over and threatened a University of Scranton employee “I hear one in the back say ‘I think we got the wrong person,’ and the other one says ‘They all look the same, we gotta get this one.’” aquinas.scranton.edu/post/living-...

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

Libraries ♥️

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

I keep this image on my desktop now because of how often I have to use it.

No no no

The FBI conducted 4 separate interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of assaulting her when she was a child. The DOJ released one of those interviews to the public in the Epstein files. The other three were given to Maxwell's legal team as part of standard trial preparation in 2021.

The Epstein Class™️

One year ago, Pam Bondi said the Trump administration was going to release Epstein’s clients. She said they were “sitting on my desk.” Today: No accountability. No justice. More broken promises from the Trump administration.

I, too, have these kinds of fears. It's become quite clear that "following the rules" doesn't matter, so we live in a time where there are no assurances no matter what kinds of documents you flash. I suppose the fear is intended. We're just supposed to be afraid all of the time and submit.

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Buy a box or two or donate for others. Support your local troop also. Half the money stays with the local troop to fund their programs. Girl Scouts are committed to being anti-racist and inclusive. They do a lot of good.

this is how i witnessed an ICE kidnapping in western mass, i paid a $250 bail for a woman accused of trespassing (right...) and ICE snatched her as soon as we got out the door

Data centers have become the most visible manifestation of big tech's power grab, and the fascist means used to crush opposition against them only prove how important it has become to resist

Generative AI is the production of synthetic content based on existing content. It's, almost by definition, a zombie technology, and turning us all into online zombies, neither alive nor dead, endlessly churning out content, is its perfect use case #PlatformRealism

Claiming "administrative warrants", that aren't signed by a judge, give them the legal right to enter homes. They don't. bsky.app/profile/refr...

In Maine, they're now tracking observers to their houses to intimidate them, probably through the license plate tracking mentioned above bsky.app/profile/bah7...

The arrested state senate staffer is the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans—or was until the news broke yesterday. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...