reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

Stephen Colbert, with grace and humor, is making his network overlords look like the most pathetic cowards imaginable, and that’s what they are. The last two nights have been a masterclass in courage and precise examples of how everyone should deal with this stupid administration.

Eugenicist looking for disabilities and preexisting conditions.

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Says the Company Exists to "Kill Enemies" Discreetly

New essay up reacting to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social exceptional book “They Knew” and why it resonates so hard as a clarion call from our recent past.

““Zombie West, Zombie East.” That’s how it feels to live in the middle of a technofascist criminal syndicate spanning the globe”

Insanity. They are laughing at us.

A teacher in Idaho was banned from putting up this sign because it expressed a “personal opinion” in violation of school district policy. So is its position that not every color is welcome?! She resigned and has sued.

I can’t praise the federal district courts enough.

Yup. So many programs were left wide open for brazen corruption.

Part of Elon Musk's modus operandi is to steal sensitive personal information of all subscribers (and using DOGE, of all Americans). If you give him your medical information, you're a fool. Sorry.

So let me get this straight. My tax dollars go to Israel, then Israel gives political entities back in America money to take my rights away?

Do Americans know that in 39 states it is ILLEGAL to boycott Israel? I wrote about it today because we have a chance in Illinois to right this wrong. But I'm realizing most Americans have no idea Netanyahu spent at least $25M to criminalize boycotts of Israel. www.qasimrashid.com/p/illinois-m...

People need to understand what happened strategically in 2025. The US switched sides, helped Putin a great deal, which also encouraged the Chinese to help Putin. And Ukraine fought on, inflicting massive casualties on Russia and taking the war to the Russian economy. .

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

NEW: Denver’s Auditor says he will not countersign Mayor Johnston’s unilateral contract with Flock that bypassed City Council approval. The Mayor says he doesn’t need the Auditor’s approval. 9NEWS has reported Denver is looking to replace Flock with another company anyway.

Tomorrow, I’m leading a deposition of Les Wexner for oversight dems. Wexner was Epstein’s largest benefactor and contributor of wealth. Why? And what does he know? I have a bunch of questions, and I bet you do too.👇🏾

Maximizing lies per sentence

Host: "Anger over Pretti's death and the killing of Renee Good has catalyzed state lawmakers to take matters into their own hands. A new bill introduced today would allow US citizens to sue ICE agents if their constitutional rights are violated."

Not to be argumentative, but Minnesota didn’t “lose” those good people. They were taken by the trump inspired wave of fascist violence washing over the country. 💔

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend." RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him. So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

“The ban forces nine sheriff’s offices in the state to immediately sever agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — including the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, which had one of the nation’s longest-running 287(g) agreements.”

12/ Note the reference to “write access” (ie, editing access) to certain SSA databases in the Borges disclosure. I don’t know if these specific databases link to SAVE or not. whistleblower.org/wp-content/u...

It is totally a made up problem -- from HCR: This lie about undocumented immigrants voting has been part of the Republicans’ rhetoric since 1994, the year after Clinton passed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which made it easier to register to vote at certain state offices.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

We all need to be ready for this -- Lawyers, activists, elected officials, election workers and philanthropists. The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. And it is most squarely before us in the battle for free and fair elections this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Trump backed off calling Renee Good & Alex Pretti domestic terrorists because people didn't like it. But as I wrote, the admin is still doubling down on the use of domestic terrorism investigations to scare Americans away from using their First Amendment rights. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

“Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice.”

Trump pardoned a billionaire who had pledged to illegally route foreign money into U.S. elections as part of a scheme to bribe Puerto Rico’s governor — after the billionaire's daughter gave $3.5M to Trump's super PAC. But the facts point to another legal violation. campaignlegal.org/update/seeki...

A resident expresses concern over those in the city who will be profiled by ICE, “This is not conjecture. This is the reality of cities impacted by ICE operations.” She also talks about the impacts to student safety, as there are multiple public schools directly across from the warehouse.

Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At the same Texas concentration camp: “There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“ Extreme child abuse as state policy. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Guilt by Association: First ‘Antifa’ Case Sweeps Anti-Trump Activists Into One Terrorism Conspiracy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...

Epstein's Eugenics Project: How the Billionaire Promoted His Racist Ideas Through Intellectual Circles With @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Worse, it's really SMART. When/if Trump gets knocked out of power, the tech billionaires behind him will still keep theirs. Because they are also bankrolling Trump's opposition. In early 2026, they have the California Democratic Party on retainer.

But these tech billionaires are just wholesale buying out the California Democratic Party apparatus. That is very obviously the strategy, and it works. The standard bearers of the California Democratic Party are now subsidiaries of Silicon Valley's worst billionaires.

Amazing how many of the state's top Democratic consultants are selling out to tech. Just cashing tf out. This is why I say the biggest threat doesn't come from Republicans—it comes from Democrats selling us out over time. BTW: I spent most of my career working for California Democrats.

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx.

Rep. Robert Garcia: "Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continued to be trafficked from. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations were heard by the FBI years ago?"

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sen. Bill Hagerty says Republicans are looking at weakening the filibuster to ram the SAVE America Act through the Senate (Trump, who has called for "nationalizing" elections, has been pushing hard for the bill ahead of the midterms)