I finally read this whole piece and the sheer scope of chaos and infighting inside DHS it depicts is breathtaking. It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.

You really don’t need to be antisemetic about Epstein. He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.

I’m not totally sure what’s going on but I keep hearing stories from people who post a job and instantly get overwhelmed with thousands of applications.

All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

There is so much crazy shit, outrageous corruption, and naked, hamfisted ambition in this WSJ piece about Noem, Lewandowski, and DHS. Gift link. Read and take note of the of eye-popping number of sources who have knives out for Kristi and Corey. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

People keep asking me if the Twin Cities are celebrating: - Nobody here trusts a word the Feds say. Folks will believe it when they see it. - Even if they leave, it will be hard for people to feel safe and normal again. - What people will really celebrate is justice and accountability.

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

2/ Noem “closely monitored how her national profile compared with other officials. Top of her list was Homan, with whom she has been in a battle for power. “Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him”

Can I just upload a picture of any random person and say they have dementia to stalk them?

Is Extinction Rebellion NYC on Pam Bondi's Secret Domestic Terrorist List? After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7. theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...

FDA’s rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...

ICE's chief testified today that dozens of agents have been investigated for abuse in the last year. So how many have actually been punished and fired? He wouldn't say. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/g...

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

This was the attack where they subsequently threw tear gas into a family's car, causing a baby to stop breathing, they blamed the family for it.

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Another way to phrase this is, “ICE shot someone and got caught lying about it.”

Oh. It’s not as cool as it sounded

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An actual consequence?? In this economy???

Federal prosecutors have moved to drop criminal charges against two Venezuelan men whose highly publicized arrests in north Minneapolis last month have been disputed after conflicting accounts emerged from Homeland Security officials and defense attorneys.

“All along the way, the community has stepped up with our whistles, with our cell phones and with our bodies to defend our neighbors,” Communities United Against Police Brutality president Michelle Gross said. “But what do we see from our public officials? They have utterly failed us.”

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

To be clear this is a completely *different* Ring scandal from the creepy neighborhood search feature they showed off at the Super Bowl, they’re still doing that.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Once again, a reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.

News: The Bari Weiss-led CBS News is set to slash its staff by at least 15% in the coming months, according to people briefed on the network's layoff plans. More details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

I don’t know much about Chinese spies, but I do think the US has a huge continuity problem now. It would seem foolish to expect the US government to keep promises beyond a single presidential term, even if it’s supported by law, because Americans may at any point install a lawless administration.

Incredible how many people are just looking for the right boot to lick

FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...

Yikes. Not feeling good about the future of the rule of law :/

Ring is still an incredibly creepy and dangerous company whose aim is to build an inescapable surveillance state.

I was talking about this yesterday. If you go to your doctor with any warning signs of colon cancer a colonoscopy will absolutely be covered regardless of your age. The 45 cutoff is for routine screenings and that’s based on the academic consensus of risk vs benefit.

Walz said the Trump administration appeared to pull back from an agreement with Minnesota leaders to conduct a joint investigation into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Lol. Moon economy.

NEW: Trump's EPA overturns finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten humans

The damage done to Minneapolis is probably the clearest example of how Trump is simply not like other presidents. Besieging and occupying a city for weeks like that is nearly unheard of

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Bad news for pedophiles: The Dow is now under 50k.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Not to mention the psychological trauma that will linger for years and the neighbors and friends who've been disappeared and may never return again.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm) They shackled him. They held him ten hours. They kept his phone.

I mean let this candid world know that what did happen here was that a rogue federal militia under Presidential orders invaded an American city and systematically and violently violated the rights of its residents in order to exert political pressure over locally elected leaders.

I'll say.

The victory here belongs to the people who drove out the invaders violating their rights and threatening their neighbors.