this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Attending IAU Symposium 404: Technosignatures this week. This is the IAU's first ever fully online symposium! First talk by Sara Seager on gas technosignatures - molecules that life doesn't make, so may be useful as indicators of industrial activity on other planets. @bluemarblespace.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Q: “I don’t know, I guess you might tell me about your war plans if you mistakenly added me to the Iran War group chat on Signal?”

No legal basis under either U.S. or international law to attack Iran. No attack upon the U.S., nor imminent threat of one, nor any congressional authorization. And the USG ought to be able to restrain the principal recipient of U.S. military assistance from provocations. All utterly lawless.

“.. a fresh stagflationary wind blowing through the global economy ..”

People ask what it is exactly we expect of Dems in this situation, and for me it's this. Make these assholes fucking scared. Make it clear that they are on borrowed time, that consequences WILL arrive, and that they will be harsh.

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

FIFA Peace Prize Committee just gotta be so upset right now

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

Impeach him

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work. When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.

New: per an indictment unsealed today, 39 people are facing federal conspiracy charges stemming from a Jan. 18 protest against an ICE-affiliated pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, MN. 5 people sharing flyers advertising the protest on social media are listed as "overt acts" of the conspiracy.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

personally I think heads of state should neither say nor do this sort of thing

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

Really has to be heard to be believed

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The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Fix your hearts or die.

fight/don’t fight remains the biggest divide in the Dem party and the data points in only one direction: fight “we aren’t the other guys” can be a winning message when the other guys are in charge, but - as Labour is finding out - it sure doesn’t keep your voters engaged after you win

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Everybody bemoaning the Paramount/WB merger as the end of democracy doesn't get to laugh in six months when the Ellisons realize how much money they just lit on fire for dogshit nobody will watch. I'm sorry, there's a reason Netflix stock just jumped leapt 11 percent.

not me going "OHHHHHHHHHHHHH" like a kid in the lunchroom

Update: The (very annoyed) federal judge issued an order to show cause, naming all the officers individually involved and telling them and ordering them to explain why they should not be held in civil contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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this is an absolute bald-faced lie, these were the exact consequences of the OBBB, there was a whole, separate side negotiation for an insufficient bail out for rural hospitals in order to get the bill passed and it is not to much to ask the press corpse to remember basic details

close readers! read the bill: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

She’s been released 🙏🏽

Absolutely horrifying. This refugee survived genocide and died because of the gross incompetence of federal immigration agents.

We need to be really clear that this kind of incident is going to make it harder for communities to find missing children in legitimate scenarios This puts kids in more danger than they were already in because of ICE

Arrest them.

Really disgusting that DHS implies the building manager and roommate "let" them into the building when it was done under false pretenses, and most certainly under duress.

wow

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

"Star City" prequel series coming after For All Mankind season 5, super exciting

So there's been some discussion about budgets and program cuts and I thought it might be helpful to shed light on a few things. Yes, budgets are moral documents, but as any moral community, universities are complex 🧵

SCOOP: The Department of Energy has made public a set of newly revised nuclear safety rules that slash security and environmental protections. @npr.org first reported on the existence of the rules last month. www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

On Wednesday – almost a year after DHS agents took Mahmoud Khalil from his residency – Columbia students rallied on campus to demand the school protect them from ICE. Less than a day later, DHS took another student from a Columbia residential building.

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

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“Israel was responsible for 81% of the 47 killings that the CPJ classified as intentionally targeted, or ‘murder’.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

A 16yo’s journal in the files contains accounts of their abuse, written using magazine clippings and a basic cipher, and next to a clipping of Ivana Trump talking about trying to retain dignity in her divorce, the text reads “Does this lady know you can’t have any dignity if you’ve been with him?”

This is what the Trump bureau of prisons is doing to trans people, putting them at immediate risk of medical emergency to forcefully detransition them. Unimaginable levels of cruelty.