Texas early voting update: Democrats: 638,082 Republicans: 542,943

NEW reporting from @19thnews.org on the Epstein files shows how academic research funding intersected with women scientists and institutional power shaped by male influence. An important story about accountability, impact and who gets protected -- and who doesn't. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The whole thread, but this is evergreen

Who could have foreseen

What a rare thing it is to witness joy these days

This is one hell of an interview.

Have you ever wanted to play a game where you're a spymaster controlling assets for a secret conspiracy vying to take over the world? Do you like the X-Files and the Illuminati games? I recommend you join my discord, the Veiled City is having another playtest starting Monday! discord.gg/jEzC3kQNjc

This book is fabulous!

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

so there was this random coldplay_MP3.exe file we got on kazaa, right and we gave it unfettered access to our entire system, right anyway you’ll never guess what happened next — the entire tech industry right now

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

*taps watch*

Chat is this DEI

My blood pressure cannot withstand statements like this! *raps cane on the floor*

LOOOOOOVE

Gorgeous. What a joy to watch.

Truly love to be living in a world where Vogue is doing a long-form puff piece on two female Olympic medalists getting engaged at the games. You love to see it. Huge congrats to Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe! www.vogue.com/article/hila...

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

I have one of these! So clicky, much satisfying

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

“WEXMAC TITUS allows ICE to treat immigration enforcement like a national security operation rather than a standard civil immigration one,” Michael Wriston, a 20-year veteran military analyst who is now a researcher and reporter with @projectsaltbox.bsky.social told me.

The Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) program was created so the Navy could quickly respond in the wake of international natural disasters, pandemics, etc. There were 26 designated regions—until last year when they added #27: TITUS (Territorial Integrity of the United States)

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

great thread

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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

I welcome you to explore behind the scenes of audiobook narration in the Behind the Mic: Audiobook Narrators Panel hosted by the @brailleinstitute.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 17 at 11:00 AM PT. Register at no cost: www.brailleinstitute.org/find-service...

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Higher Ed, in particular, should have fought 2FA on personal phones and removing our office phones tooth and nail for this reason.

It happens a lot, that someone takes aim at what they feel are the extreme fringes of the romance genre and they land squarely in the normal middle. A podcaster once laughed and told me they don’t write romance novels about short Jewish men — and was shocked when I named a couple, straight off.

Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist! Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book) Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley

I might be the wrong kind of terminally online, but I don’t understand how you write a splashy piece about Mormon mom influencers without talking about Heather Armstrong.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Many such cases!

Happy International Fanworks Day! #IFD2026

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

kind of obsessed with the wall art at this sushi place

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Very much this, but also broader. All sorts of education - gender/ethnic studies, social sciences, natural sciences, literature, history, philosophy - teach people to think in ways that don’t serve the purposes of the powerful.

I picked a hell of a day to be offline

We need Whole Man Disposal Service at scale. Yes, the entire agency.

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek