Measles in Dilley. TB in El Paso - Inside ICE facilities. These are not accidents. They are the result of policy and leadership failure — all the way up to HHS. People die from these diseases. Vaccines & treatments exist. This isn’t incompetence. It’s cruelty. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast JD Vance was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.

(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

this is the question.

Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi are already black holes for detention. Now obtaining release will be more difficult than ever. As more and more people are locked up, ICE will increase the pressure on those who are detained to give up. The goal is an assembly line of coercion with no day in court.

As Rupert Murdoch TV hammers away telling its viewers that Canadians are their enemies, Republican views of Canada shift on cue. At this point, Murdoch's propaganda machine can make its viewership believe absolutely anything, no matter how absurd.

Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS. The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals. The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing. They know it could derail their careers. They know it could disable them. They’re practicing self care and community care. Give them a gold medal in public health!

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

They endlessly praised Sweden for not having a lockdown but Sweden didn’t escape high long covid cases. www.news-medical.net/news/2023102...

An excellent article debunking immunity debt. www.salon.com/2022/12/04/d...

Blessed are the plane spotters, and the spreadsheets they populate. ‘This was just one of the best ways that I could be a helper, and I'm glad that I'm here to be able to do it.’

Fourth Amendment as a Service™ 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺. We’re confounded too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions. From our colleagues at the @thefern.org:

The family detained by federal agents in a Portland hospital’s parking lot is headed back to Oregon after being released from immigration detention in Texas. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/06/f... by @miamaldonado.bsky.social

This is how Olympic athletes from Australia are boarding buses to prevent airborne viruses from harming their performance 👏🏼 Buses have some of the worst air quality as confined spaces These precautions shouldn't just for the elite. We deserve the same

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Another success by a local community that organized and said no.

And the unstoppable @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

The right said trans athletes had an unfair advantage. The data tells a different story. Data reporter Melissa Lewis looked into the swim times of Meghan Cortez-Fields, one of the last openly transgender swimmers to compete as a woman in the NCAA. We spoke to Meghan for an episode of Reveal:

Once again, RFK Jr has appointed a panel stacked with kooks & anti-vaxxers (see also: his ACIP appointees & ACIP chairs) I spoke with @davidgilbert.bsky.social for this superb news feature, and, um, I did not hold back It‘s a horror show; RFK Jr is such a dangerous menace

“…a lawyer for the man was told Friday morning that Abreu would need a doctor’s note to be able to access the anti-rejection medication vital to his transplant.”

This guy was a patient at the Mayo Clinic, which is a great reminder that people travel from all over the world to visit that hospital because of its reputation. I can’t imagine the federal occupation of Minnesota is giving Mayo a great international reputation right now.

Here's the story that prompted all this trouble... Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP) coordinated quite an election campaign favouring UCP policy platform around drug criminalization –– specifying it had to be completed "before the May election." drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-poli...

Sent a FOI to Calgary Police on June 4, 2024. Followed up. They said they didn't receive it. (They did.) Resubmitted. May 2025, still nothing. Appealed w/ OIPC. OIPC ordered CPS to release docs by Feb 7. CPS *just* acknowledged the FOI. New story on AACP... soonish! oipc.ab.ca/wp-content/u...

It’s time

Oh no, you don’t get to hide, mister.

I started reading this post and thought they were calling out the toddler-in-chief and the other babies around him. Disappointed it wasn’t that. Sad.

He was arrested by the Inquisition-era Spanish for crimes against humanity and mismanaging the New World territories

“POST CAME AFTER MIDNIGHT. WAS THIS STAFFER IN HIS BEDROOM?” Well said. Nailed it.

The next time someone tells you that business owners take on all the risk, send them this link: www.1011now.com/2026/02/06/f...

My parents have lived in Fanjoy’s riding for almost 3 months and they’ve run into him once already while he’s been out working in his riding. He’s out there doing the job.

The Italian audience's ability to rapidly switch from cheering for the American team's entrance to booing JD Vance is honestly pretty impressive. Turned on a dime, and again the moment Vance was off screen

Btw this is literally all this stuff, including ChatGPT and the like Next time someone wants to go off about classism they should remember that someone is getting paid shit wages to edit and sometimes fully create the prompt reply

Anyone have an extra head of lettuce to spare?

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known. go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2

Those boos for Vance, though.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

"Secretive lobbying turns out to be a common practice when it comes to advocacy for data centers. In 2019, locals did not know Google was seeking tax cuts as it built a data center in Texas, given that it did so as Sharka LLC." thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-ai-...

Quick update on the latter half of this week's proceedings from the BC Supreme Court in the Narwhal/Amber Bracken v. RCMP #pressfreedom trial in Vancouver. Stay tuned, there's lots more to come!

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Instead of taking this story’s premise at face value, a more meaningful thought exercise would be to ask why a non-NY paper is reporting out a story on NY property owners

BC Cancer has agreed to treat Francisco Barahona on an urgent basis after The Tyee reported Thursday he had being denied care despite being ravaged by cancer. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...