Watching Official Secrets with Keira Knightley.

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!” - Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo www.propublica.org/article/dill...

The Guardian obtained the missing 302s. This story destroys the DOJ's excuse that they withheld the last three interviews because they were duplicative. The accuser covered different ground in different interviews.

Kid just brought home her art project. The dreams of children are so beautiful. 🥲

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."

Get such a sense of what is being lost, discarded, wilfully destroyed and the kinds of skills and gift of apprenticeship in journalism that is being torched

this is how you get furry NATO

The blueberries were distributed in Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and in Canada.

There's been discourse on Long Covid on this site the past few days. I think some people are thoroughly underestimating how hellish chronic illness can make you feel, even if you aren't at an immediate risk of dying.

Love a day where the sun returns for a visit. Where gave you been, sunshine?

You can be Covid-conscious (I am) but you shouldn't spread misinformation that vaccines don't prevent transmission. They do; they reduce transmission and severity, both of which appear to lower the risks of long Covid. Here's why the messaging on Covid vaccines is still abysmal:

This is doubly gross because he is also just trying to justify his carnivore diet BS and rather than acknowledge it’s also ridiculously expensive to eat meat 24/7 he doubles down with extra insult to intelligence

Finally a celestial event i will be awake for: 6 pm! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

To be Black and to think in public is always fraught because there's always a mix of fair critique alongside unadulterated anti-Blackness and racism. The racists are always lying in wait.

"...you stayed to discover that those who play the loudest and use the fanciest gear often suck the most, that hard work can take you beyond talent, that the scary guy in the corpse paint is really very friendly."

Gets harder to push the progressive values are bad /demonization line when their glaring absence from politics hits so many people in the face as an existential threat

They had to *pay for colored pencils* that were confiscated -- just a new level

In 2020, a Jane Doe joined a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate with allegations and biographical details that match those in the interviews. She dropped her claims and it is unknown whether she received a settlement. Her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, declined to comment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Lmao

“The Greens won for a simple reason. Many traditional Labour supporters, in Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned." Andrea Egan, UNISON Unions reaction:

I’m not rolling my eyes, I’m blurgh-maxxing

gotta start asking ppl to leave reviews and ratings on the pod, but any ratings/reviews help immensely! we just recorded our 2nd episode and i can't wait to share it next month, i think we killed it!

City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward.

This Cuban speedboat story is wild. Sign of the times that even the news briefs are WTAF reads

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

Boss, it's the fascism.

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

This really feels like crossing a rubicon, frankly.

Good source protection from Benny here.

Eternal optimism of my dog who really does believe the meanest dog in the dog park, deep down, just wants a friend

this discussion on global consensus around rearmament is worth a listen podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

This quote from neurobiologist Alison Twelvetrees hits: “A lot of men who get to the top, they’re cowards.”

“The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.” - Epstein in email about women attending a scientific conference. “…no really smart women – none.” - Epstein in email about women in science. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

PREACH

When a healthcare system provides risk intervention signage at admitting that absolutely none of the admitting staff follows, it: (a) makes clear that the system's goal is to reduce their liability, not patient health risks; & (b) sends a message to patients that it's fine (& in fact, sensible) 1/3

Ask everyone you know what their favorite and most memorable class was in college and take careful note of how few of them name a course from their major or that is relevant to their current career.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Started the morning with a spirited debate with tween about the merits of wearing a winter coat to school in winter. Concepts of “cold”, “temperature”, and nature of seasonality itself were all litigated to the mental decline of all involved

I'm not certain how British media managed to find such an absolutely corrosive bunch of columnists, but it really is a particularly vile crop nowadays.

Truly astounding as a trans person to watch your community be told we're not worthy of consideration by Democrats on Monday, be told to be silent and grateful all of Tuesday, and by Wednesday an entire state has criminalized trans citizens' existence.

Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.

politicians get away with bullshit because the vast majority of people let them. folks have expectations below the basement.

Disorienting to read an article talking up fed’s male mental heath strategy build up (feelings!) and then read about provincial cuts to OSAP that make higher ed an even more tricky proposition for lower income kids and collective shrug

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

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.

No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

Wow. This story. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...