*stares into middle distance* wapo.st/4kM4qbF

This man is so fucking stupid

What the actual F is this?

The state will also fine the Department of Energy millions for violating groundwater standards.

there's so many bad things but this here, this is so bad!

that’s right

NEW: Glyfada Floods Reveal Greece’s Deep-Rooted Infrastructure Failures and Social Inequality On Jan. 21, streets in Athens turned into rivers at night. In the southern suburbs, streets turned deadly and showcase infrastructure failures and inequality.

wow long but worth it... the void at the center is real and they want it to devour us

Man, this is making me wonder how much a certain kind of originalism isn't just a glorified excuse to nullify, not only Reconstruction, but the entire American Revolution

I listened to the teacher call, and this comedian reads their words right back to them, deadpan, nonchalantly, and exposes their own immorality directly to them. This woman asked for a supervisor and claimed he had an "attitude" Nah lady you're just uncomfortable with your own reflection

Trump's FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces the "Pledge America" campaign — urging broadcasters to air "patriotic, pro-American programming" for America's 250th birthday. One example they give: "Starting each broadcast day with the 'Star Spangled Banner' or Pledge of Allegiance."

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

"[T]here are a lot of people that will wind up contributing mightily if you can show them what is actually happening. ... [I]t is made so convenient in U.S. society to not see what is happening for many people."

“Nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training,” says Andrea Pitzer. “Abolish ICE” means that we need to get rid of these camps not reform them.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

"All do so under their own names and in their own persons, because accountability is not a burden imposed on public officials as a matter of grace. It is the structural condition of their authority. Remove it and what remains is not law enforcement."

"Every public official who exercises coercive power assumes some personal exposure as the price of legitimate authority. Judges sentence. Prosecutors accuse. Officers seize. None is entitled to anonymity as a default condition of exercising state force."

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

Martinez’s death would mark the 1st shooting victim under DHS in 2025, and overall 5th under the Trump Administration alongside Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.

Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc

Other MAGA metaphysical certainties are that every person Trump fires or is forced to resign is always replaced with someone worse, and his response to every loss in court is to do something worse than the behavior just prohibited by the court.

"More officers lifted the yellow tape and rushed out into the crowd." "Panic ensued, kids began yelling and adults were screaming, 'They're just kids!'" "These are children! You guys, I'm a teacher! Please!" #California #USA #Policing #Protest #Education #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I'm not a constituent, but as an LGBTQ+ woman who has to use a VPN to access BlueSky because of a similar state law, please reconsider. These laws are almost always used to restrict rights, especially those of already-marginalized people, in the name of "protecting children."

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

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.

They’re not saying they didn’t break the law, they’re saying they’re entitled to break it.

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

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Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

Absolutely

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “We know the average 🇺🇸 household paid an extra $1000 last year because of these tariffs. 90% of the cost was transferred right over to the average American… Gorsuch basically said we have a constitution, I know you don’t like it.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

“The more people know about what RFK Jr. is up to, the less they trust the services he oversees. People who have heard about the vaccine schedule changes are about twice as likely to say they will have a negative impact on kids rather than a positive impact.”

I am becoming increasingly convinced that the absolute worst case result for the Venezuela strike is the one we got: complete tactical success they think they’re invincible now and it’s going to go so poorly for everyone

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...

Voting them out is not enough, we need to enact Sherman's solution on these motherfuckers.

everything is a fucking scam in trump’s america. everything.

Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track women’s research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

This is the world that RFK Jr dreamed of & he can make his dreams come true each & every day cuz he runs the US health system & let's not forget that his extreme anti-vaxx animus & conspiracy theories are also affecting vaccination globally such as through him defunding Gavi the Vaccine Alliance

Hegseth and Noem keep mightily pissing off and humiliating those who serve under them and history informs us that that often does not work out for leaders such as them when regimes collapse taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

I still think about this moment a lot: being offered a glimpse into the lives of immigrants — people who, according to the pastor, were actively seeking *asylum* in this country — as they tried to turn a room just above a church sanctuary into a home.

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

shocking nobody, the new tariffs Trump is putting on to replace the ones struck down by SCOTUS this morning also exempt data center computers

The first step to dealing with Trumpism is to ignore everything they say and only watch what they do.

I think M.J. Porter is wrong here. The PPA doesn't give magistrate judges discretion to turn down warrant applications, & it doesn't require the government to disclose if there's a PPA issue. See Citicasters v. McCaskill, 89 F.3d 1350 (8th Cir. 1996). www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. Let me get this straight: Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files.