1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Either you see what Trump is doing to the country as an emergency or you don't. Jeffries does not.

if you guessed that the guy who's trying real hard to look like a catholic priest has his "degree" from an unaccredited seminary in Florida, you win the prize* *there is no prize

As a daily pusher of a wheelchair, trust me, this is a very big deal

Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

So if you were of the "never again" mindset -- if you wanted to prevent a situation where, for instance, the US government put thousands of innocent people into torture camps -- the time to intervene was *then*, when it was starting, when it was popular, when all the social pressure was to conform.

It's the latter kind of bravery we most need -- the kind that prevents horrors from happening in the first place. The kind that doesn't get you parades, it gets you sneers & snide remarks. The kind that's dreary & unrewarding.

You probably guessed where this is going: the entire "anti-woke moral panic of the last five years is an absolutely *textbook* example of how horrors happen. It was never going to stop with bathrooms or sports or HR policies.

A clear-eyed assessment of where we are. Highly recommended reading to understand the current situation. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

Every word of this is a nightmare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

🚨 shingled high rise alert. I repeat: shingled high rise alert. 🚨

Wow.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

It’s really starting to sink in how all of the pressure on women to look a certain way and never age are 100% the result of a cabal of powerful men who literally want us to look like children and teenagers.

Yes. This. Fuck’s sake. This.

not sure she understands how elections are supposed to work

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

I cannot think about anything but the children in Dilley. I just lie here with my heart hammering in my chest and I feel like the anger is going to crack my sternum in two.

Remember, kids: it's always just and right to punch a Nazi in the face or dick

It’s been that kind of week. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com @nbcnews.com

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Really wish they’d ask specific questions. Like, independent of what they want to call a database, how did this happen then?

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

if you move you’ll have to reregister. If you get booted from the rolls you’ll have to reregister. In person. With a passport unless your birth cert matches your drivers license. This is a poll tax and will be fought but it’s best to tell them to knock this shit off now before it gets any further

PLEASE BROADCAST THIS INSANITY

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

We can keep our eye on the Epstein scandal, and also remember that Minnesota is still being terrorized by our government. Look at these great Americans. If they can face down lawless secret police in their bathrobes, we can keep calling Congress.

The president of OpenAI has donated almost as much to Trump as the DNC has cash on hand www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This one is in Longfellow

Some of us have always known that a liberal arts education sets people up for success. That’s because at its best a liberal arts education teaches students how to think.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Every single person responsible for the horrors inflicted upon these children must be held accountable

Any election under these requirements will, by definition, not be free & fair, given the unbelievable scale of voter suppression & disenfranchisement that it will cause.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Just chilling over here with the “irreverent internet comedians” and journalists

the halftime show is a master class in joy as resistance

Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy

Every SB commercial is me happily singing along to a good song until I groan “OH NO” when I see what it’s an ad for.

Me at the bar narrating the commercial: “Butts butts, butts butts butts, butts butts…”

good time to bring back this all timer: