Providence just destroyed the record books. 37.9 inches of snow, crushing the Blizzard of 78 by more than 9 inches. The largest storm in Rhode Island history and the highest snowfall ever recorded at an I-95 Northeast climate site. And it is still lightly snowing.

Virginia Giuffre's family on the arrest of ex-U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson: "The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated." Full statement

The US Women’s Olympic Hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to attend the SOTU speech. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

And he got Trump on the phone to shit on the women’s team and ALL OF THEM LAUGHED

MS NOW's Ken Dilanian on Patel's USA hockey trip: "Nobody believes that Kash Patel would have been in that locker room had Donald Trump not made him the FBI director. It’s not like Kash Patel is famous on his own, so he clearly used his office to get this access and the taxpayers paid for the trip."

Mikaela Shiffrin knows that representing your country doesn’t mean denying its flaws—it means believing it can be better. This #CupOfJoe is for the brave Olympians who lead with humility and speak from the heart. 🇺🇸

Extremely predictable (in fact, predicted by basically everyone) but still a little shocking that Team USA had its best Winter Olympics ever and the Trump administration didn’t celebrate any of the winners until the men’s hockey team, which they are celebrating A LOT

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

If seeing Johnny Gaudreau’s kids get in that Team USA photo doesn’t get to you, nothing will.

Reading the story is intense. Watching this TV report, which interviews his son... is beyond heartbreaking. Paulino's death is a national disgrace, among so many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlIF...

This one hits hard.

Couldn’t agree more with Orla Joelsen. He should focus on providing us with better and more affordable healthcare.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Mr. Trump speaks about the Supreme Court like it's Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. To Trump, the Supreme Court didn't have "courage" to subvert the law and Constitution.

Q - Why can’t you just work with Congress on tariffs. Trump - “Because I don’t have to.”

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Relatedly, days before DHS released the files that revealed DHS was behind this killing, Todd Lyons boasted that ICE had opened a whopping 37 use of force investigations, when the number of incidents must be well over 400. emptywheel.net/todd-lyons-b...

“.. After all the tariff headlines and swings in the data, the trade deficit barely budged in 2025.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Synchronized Shoveling - I saw a team of 4 people in a line one behind the other work together with perfect timing (one threw to the left the next threw to the right). It really caught my attention. Then I saw someone shovel snow into their immaculate path :(

Five years ago today! We imaged Perseverance on its descent to Mars, under fairly challenging conditions but we did it because we have a kickass team. www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...

Oh no!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

One of my favorite costumes.

Just for fun, I checked the 8TB SSD I bought at MicroCenter pre-tariff. It has jumped from $600 to $1,100 sometime in the last 15 months 🫠

In November 2024 I bought a new computer and a PS5. The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe drive I added to the PC was $289 then, it’s $799 now. I also added a 2TB Samsung NVMe drive to the PS5, it was $159. Today - $699. This is not sustainable.

Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bipartisan governors just said NO to Trump's partisan stunt—NGA cancels White House meet after he tried inviting Republicans only. Even GOP chair Stitt called it out: We represent ALL 50 states, not just his club. This is leadership standing firm against division. Who's next? #sheshed

This is how you live a life

Here’s a story about him with no paywall: www.military.com/daily-news/h...

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

Really hard to grapple with the number of people this administration will succeed at killing.

Abortion rights and voting rights: two things that Republicans think are a Constitutional right for men but not for women.

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Thread on the AI dystopia corporate America wants to inflict on us all. Will Congress ever give a damn?

That’s Dan❤️‍🩹🦅

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

posting this for those who are not aware of what whole milk is called in canada

Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org mandamus petition—second one in this case—asking Eleventh Circuit to bar Judge Cannon from ordering the destruction of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report, as Trump’s co-defendants have asked her to do. knightcolumbia.org/documents/z8...

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people meidasnews.com/news/la-lake...

Kareem must be rolling around in his grave. meidasnews.com/news/la-lake...

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Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Jézabel Dabois, the judge in question, not only noticeably scored Chock/Bates lower than the rest of the panel, but more critically she vastly overscored F. Beaudry/Cizeron — and has been doing so for over a year. www.sbnation.com/olympics/110...

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash