Muppets! 😅😂🤣🤣

Dang. I’m gonna need a new drug

Gutted to hear that the institution where I worked with Ronald Hutton, Richard Sheldon, Tim Cole, and others to earn my PhD is under severe duress. Bristol! A top 50 world institution!! epigram.org.uk/university-o...

Stop making sense, making sense

Great argument for raising the luxury tax from yachts to private jets and everything in between

This right here 👇🏼

Enrique Fermi would like a word

Happy Valentines Day! Today is extra special - 40 years as a couple❤️😘😃🥰

What’s troubling about Rubio’s speech is how he sees history framing current alliances but in a racialized way. He misrepresents history (e.g. pioneers brought “civilization” to “empty plains”) when they were not empty—& denies American responsibility for the past but emphasizes European heritage

I claim not to be anti-ICE. I am pro Bill of Rights, pro Constitution, and pro Rule of Law. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

DID YOU KNOW? The Thomas Paine Historical Association's website contains an extensive free online collection that constitutes one of the most complete catalogues of Thomas Paine’s writings, including some recently disputed works. thomaspaine.org/writings/

Credit & Context: This cartoon by Guffo, a Mexican member of Cartooning for Peace, appeared on the front page of the French newspaper Le Monde, February 5.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

When Homeland Security makes Americans less secure, holding up future funding seems reasonable.

I love it when ecology wins

Holy shit, the super-kooky MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration physicians now leading the US federal health system have lost….the Wall Street Journal “It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad.”

Bathrobe lady statue, stat!

The dismantling of independent journalistic outlets, or rather Congress and POTUSes cow towing and allowing mega corporations to swoop them up (since the 1980s), in retrospect, was a great disservice to democracy. Journos now speak for the Epstein class, not for the common citizen.

Well . . . fuck.

That all but three Republicans voted to give away Congressional power of taxation to the Executive Branch is beyond reproach.

Once the corps and oligarchs 100% took the news mass media it was really game over wasn’t it? Reagan killed the fairness doctrine. Clinton & Repubs then scrapped rules prohibiting media consolidation. Followed by 25 yrs of mergers, hiring careerists & firing real journalists and here we are.

there are two things about this, one is that there is no prime minister of switzerland, he's talking about the president of the swiss confederation, which is a different thing entirely, and, two, i'm not sure you could make a more persuasive case to SCOTUS for nuking tariffs than this one

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Isn’t that what the rank and file of the MAGA movement wanted?

He does not—and has never wanted to—represent all Americans. Good to the NGA for standing up against this nonsense.

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery. This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 — is terrifying. dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

If you can’t police in a free society without hiding your face, the problem is with the policing — not the public. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

I did a research stint at Chatsworth House and it truly helped my research into the fall of the Pelham-Fox government and the rise of Pitt.

I see now that my beliefs of one generation wanting to make the world a better place for the next generation was truly misguided www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

The timing of winter, the amount of snowfall and temperatures are all less reliable and less predictable because Earth is warming at a record rate, said Shel Winkley, a Climate Central meteorologist. https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK

This should not be a “political” statement but it is. Esp now. And that’s not Bad Bunny’s fault lol bsky.app/profile/laur...

Gray Lodge is in the southwest corner of Butte County, California. Over 9,100 square acres of wetlands for migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway. The Sutter Buttes off in the distance. Sound up!!!

From the CATO Institute no less! 🙃 www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

Key words here are “people” and “persons.” In other words, those without U.S. citizenship. The founders words. Not mine.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” 4th Amendment Bill of Rights U.S. Constitution 1789

Every American needs to watch this:

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So a guy in the 18th century, from the region known as North America, who fought for independence against a colonizing power with success, is forbidden? 🤔🤔🤔

If only there were a federal agency that worked to protect the environment. apnews.com/article/pfas...

The fact that it’s an “executive order” is important here. More policies being set by authoritarian rule.

It’s as if billionaires lack moral standing

Finally, some good news. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

#JudicialWarrant (not an Administrative Warrant)

Sad to see Mark Harris, who swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, trample on the 4th Amendment’s insistence on judicial warrants. On this alone, he should be removed

Wow

Project 2025 is a POS, says polls

I’ll just leave this right here

It’s as if they never heard of Britain’s Corn Laws

272 years ago, on the 28th of January 1754, the word serendipity was first used. English writer and politician sir Horace Walpole used the word in a letter in reference to the Persian fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip'. #otd #history 🗃️

So, every Hollywood movie ever made that required scenes where a judge was needed to sign a warrant - ala the 4th Amendment - was based on the myth of Constitutional protections???