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/...

There's been a lot of solid reporting from the latest Epstein dump but I think this is the smartest angle I've seen.

Any investigation from the UK into the Epstein files should be extended to investigating the relationship between the disgraced financier and Steve Bannon. What role did Bannon play in our politics? And why?

Do not sleep. If humanity is to break up the networks that would subjugate us we need to understand them. Peter Thiel is turning the human world into a zoo where every action, every heartbeat is tracked "for the greater good" ...and if you're not a designated zookeeper you can never become one.

Documents released by the US Department of Justice show that Epstein helped Ian Osborne establish Hedosophia, one of London’s most secretive technology funds that has backed US companies Uber and Spotify, as well as fintechs including Wise and Ant Group. www.ft.com/content/8b04...

Remember: Alex Karp and Peter Thiel don't know if they want humanity to continue and believe that the antichrist is real…and it's Greta Thunberg. They follow Yarvin's work. If you don't know who that is Behind the Bastards did a multipart episode on him, two sets on Thiel and Karp always be yappin.

Sully discusses all the things about Trump and Epstein that US media is afraid to touch. And does a good job of it too. It's the moral depravity, stupid.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

here’s my latest on the Carney government’s proposed social media ban for kids: “…a social media ban for kids or a prohibition on certain types of content will not be getting to the root of the problem. We need to be demanding actual accountability and responsibility from social media companies”

The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has - built Europe's boom economy - hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221 - cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13% - regularised, not demonised, migrants - stood up for human rights - refused to humiliate itself before Trump No wonder Musk hates it.

Please read and Repost.

Even Full-Time Workers Struggle to Afford Food in Canada: Study via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Dutch olympic speed skaters wearing respirators while travelling to prevent COVID infection. Awesome! Everyone can get infected & become disabled from any COVID infection. EVERYONE must actively prevent COVID infection. Not just olympians. www.the-express.com/sport/other-...

I, for one, question whether this guy's tech should be integrated into every government system. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

Okay Italy, that extra loud cheering when Canada entered the stadium was really nice. Don’t think I’ve heard that during an opening ceremony outside Canada. Nice. #CanadaSky #Olympics

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Unsurprising news for anyone who was following this event in 2019... At least 1 US senator concerned that RFK Jr. lied to Congress. Samoan officials later said his trip bolstered the cred of antivax activists ahead of a measles outbreak that sickened thousands & killed 83, mostly kids under 5. 🛟

Everything is terrible but a really bad part of all of this is these guys became Nazis to seek revenge for a lie.

COVID infection increases clotting risk. New study: Blood from unvaccinated people after recent COVID was more hypercoagulable, and their plasma corrected low clotting (INR) in recipients. This pro-clotting state can persist for ≥6 months after infection. buff.ly/28jDmMu #medsky #hemesky

💯 'A decrease in reported COVID cases doesn't always mean a lower infection risk.' 🤷'This study underscores the critical importance of a multi-layered surveillance system that does not depend too heavily on clinical testing.' @newsmedical.bsky.social www.news-medical.net/news/2026013...