@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 17 EITM: Head of ADF explains their "radical incrementalist" to chip away at GAC in the courts -- "We're willing to take a quarter of the enchilada if we can keep working there"-- so that eventually it becomes illegal for all kids and all adults nationwide.

A million dollars a year is SO MUCH MONEY. I live in NYC, and I am incredibly fortunate and privileged and I literally can’t even imagine how you could spend that much money! I don’t want for anything! My dogs are spoiled! What do they do with it all? Pay your fuckin’ taxes sheesh

That song’s getting more prescient by the day.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

You guys remember this? That was crazy right? Did he ever do that? Was the gold actually stolen?

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.

so many members of the media hear about our skymiles donation program and want to do a story about it, but only from the perspective of someone who got home from detention. it drives me crazy. this person was targeted by ICE, unlawfully detained, and you want them to make themselves a target again?

"No country has ever attempted to rip out its economic infrastructure and replace it with something more primitive" says person who co-founded a campaign for the UK to leave the largest trading bloc in the world, wreaking havoc on the country's economic infrastructure.

“Taking the state for granted” is the key problem here. So much political debate is about the state doing things badly, but the populists who would rule instead will destroy a lot of what it does, deliberately or through incompetence. People *will not* be happy when that happens.

Oh sweet Jesus.

This is how you live a life

joyce is going after elon again

"Most members of Generation Z were still children when Trump came down the escalator…They don’t view Trump as sui generis or beyond the pale, because he’s been the dominant force in our politics for as long as they’ve been politically aware." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

New polling on U.S. expansion % of U.S. adult citizens who would support | oppose the following becoming a U.S. state Washington, D.C. 50% | 28% Puerto Rico 48% | 28% Greenland 27% | 48% Canada 24% | 55% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/U_...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

And if they *don’t* socially transition too early do you not think they may get locked into a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them? Should gay people have to sleep with a few people of the opposite sex just in case?

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

I can’t really believe people are still having this argument. Nonetheless here’s my take - each system makes sense to people who grew up with it. In that it’s like your native language. But internationally, people speak English for business because it’s useful for communication. Like Celsius.

Great show. Season One might be a bit clumsy, but 2-4 are just amazing. Also the later arc is depressingly relevant to our current situation in the US. If you’ve never watched this show I’d strongly recommend it.

The Dunk & Egg TV show is surprisingly gripping.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

Honestly this is so depressing. Such incredibly important assets, such parts of maintaining the world's access to information and reasonably accurate news, such as mechanism of British soft power and an illustration of values we claim to hold dear, even more important today since the US backed away.

This is just crushingly disappointing, and if the British government had any sense they’d be working hard to fund these operations, as they did before the Conservatives took over.

Bullshit.

“This is the Epstein Administration.”

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Nick being correct as usual.

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen

Marco Rubio’s celebration of Western Culture and how distinct it is from the rest of the world, and how appalling mass migration is, would be a bit more convincing to me if the United States wasn’t a product of Mass Migration and many of the achievements of said civilization weren’t multi-cultural.

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

Rubio has been telling Europe they need to be more like Trump's version of America. While many Europeans, including myself, love the US, the continent hasn't ever really seen America as the defining model to aspire to, but under Trump that's never been more true. www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/e...

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

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There’s a bit in this week’s Corridor Crew which shows how people are now using AI to match mouth movements in dubbed movies. You can take a movie in French, have people record English dialogue for it, and then use AI to make their mouths move naturally to match. youtu.be/vTPP0-Fos1M?...

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

Genuinely, never using an algorithmic timeline for my news and twitter-like content has been absolutely transformative for my mental health and politics.

A very lovely person I know got arrested for protesting against the ban on Palestine Action. And that makes it impossible for him to get a visa waiver to visit the US. But now the ban on Palestine action has been found unlawful. The government owes them all an apology www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

This moron wrote a really interesting book on the evolutionary origins of virtue, which I loved, except for the final chapter which was randomly about how great Thatcher was. This new stuff, though, what the actual fuck is going on with this?!

Just because we have utter contempt for Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin, does not mean we should have contempt for people who might consider voting for them says @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👏

Yes. This. Fuck’s sake. This.

This is the way.