New GOP slogan just dropped: "Protect the Swamp!"

I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

My esteemed colleague Malik Gaines posted this from Black Reconstruction recently & it still hits. "I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience." We been knew. archive.org/details/blac...

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because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

It's too bad that Wyatt is off the canvas, I'd really love for him to confront Ivy about what she's doing to his brother. #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Oh my gawd, a girl wore a bikini at a beach house in LA! How shocking! How inappropriate! smh #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Ivy has long been lowkey weird. Remember that time she dressed up in Steffy's wedding outfit to try to seduce Liam?! That was so bizarre. #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

I regret to inform you that my story regarding a white supremacist dating site will not be published in time for Valentine's Day 💔

Oh God the Saudis are mixed up in this, too. Perfect.

In a stunning shift today, NATO stripped the US of all of its operational-level Joint Force Commands. For the first time since NATO’s founding, all of these commands will be led by Europeans. NATO no longer feels the United States can be trusted. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/nato...

“Our affiant lied, of course, and we have now learned there’s video to contradict him.”

Storytime!

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Ask us when ICE stops murdering American citizens.

People probably wouldn't recognize his name, but I think the person with the most widespread influence would be TV producer, Matt Williams. For name recognition, I'd go with Olympic gold medalist swimmer, Lilly King. FJ Reitz High School - Wikipedia share.google/mn5iNEJTQn4k...

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I can't see how Electra and Ivy work together after this. Will Electra be the next to leave FC for Logan? #boldcbs #boldandbeautiful

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

“Journalism is a public service, and I am proud to be a public servant,” writes Georgia Fort. “Professional reporting, observing and documenting is not a crime. But the freedom to do so is at risk.”

This impromptu wedding is wild. Daphne should say, "Non, merci." #boldcbs #boldandbeautiful

If you’re interested in following many of the best voices in the world discussing better cities that come from OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA (and if you aren’t, I recommend that you should be), then THIS STARTER PACK will be of particular interest. Please share this one as well. Thanks! go.bsky.app/UG85GL8

please have a medievalist on your team if you're gonna do medieval stuff. we've known FOR A LONG TIME that leprosy was not social stigmatized in the medieval world! yes, it's cool that you dug up some graves but don't @ us with Monty Python plague carts! #medievalsky www.popsci.com/science/medi...

I've heard of low information voters, but it's incredible how many people seem to be negative information voters.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

This is a pogrom

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Jordan talking about how it's illegal to invade congress when he supports a man who pardoned 1200+ who invaded congress And Bondi talking.about protecting churches when her President ordered ICE to violate the sanctity of churches. ... There is no self-awareness left in the GOP.

AI is making digital deception cheaper and harder to detect. Intelligent Machines explores what that means.

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong Environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor has helped her field to be more welcoming to researchers of colour. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She is more unhinged than Trump. Unprofessional gutter trash.

Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents. "He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."

Everyone needs to watch the whole hearing! The Dems are on FIRE and Bondi is performing for an audience of one in her contemptible testimony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrQ...

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

LOL. The irony of Ridge telling someone else to "get a room" in the very office where he does more snogging than work... #BoldAndBeautiful #BoldCBS

Trump's Legacy will be taking what isn't his, demanding credit for things he didn't do, and insisting that he built projects with which he had nothing to do. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

My kitchen-table issue is the growing number of Minnesotans with nothing on their kitchen tables because they're forced to hide in their homes from ICE.

For decades, Texas let drillers spread staggering amounts of radioactive and PFAS-ridden waste on the fringes of the nation’s fourth largest metro area — while making it virtually impossible for the public to know where. Absolutely fucking insane story from @saulelbein.bsky.social today

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

Here’s the book by my college professor that I still teach my own jury class with. It’s great on the history of the institution and importance to democracy.

🚨CALL FOR CHAPTERS!🚨 @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

The thing with US reps sounding like Public Enemy songs all of a sudden is very welcome.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much! #AcademicSky #EduSky 🗃️

My novel THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q (m/f/x, historical fantasy romance) is part of this Valentine's Day romance bundle on itch with 28 other books! On sale until Feb 14 itch.io/b/3515/valen...

To have one ICE employee arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness.

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.