Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*." Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.

Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

One day before the first showdown with Team USA, and 10 days from a gold medal game, Marie-Philip Poulin limped off, and now Canada holds its breath. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych will not be allowed to wear a helmet depicting victims of the Russia-Ukraine war, but after a meeting Monday night, the IOC will let him wear a black armband during competition. This is considered a compromise.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

She sounds like a female David Duke

Jutta Leerdam is a world-class speed skater and athlete, and she just happens to be engaged to Jake Paul, so the Jutta Leerdam show is also the Jake Paul show. In some ways these are the Olympics of influencers, too. www.thestar.com/rolling-file...

Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

After taking a hard, awkward hit in the first, Marie-Philip Poulin is not on the bench in the second period of Canada-Czechia. US round-robin game is tomorrow.

Fifth place. This race was a Dutch tour de force

Seeing Berenson on there made me laugh and laugh

If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism. The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

Pro tip: pay people who can comprehend things, CNN

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

Italy’s long national nightmare of JD Vance being in the country is apparently over

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

This is an unbelievable breakdown of the halftime show

Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

The dull-minded fucks who are running things these days are not normal. They're not a majority. They're fucking weirdos & freaks, scared of their own shadows. Humans are creative, cooperative, & curious, they like novelty & diversity, they like movement & evolution & *life*. Fuck this death cult.

Go Seahawks, but I am not staying up in Italy for this one

Never Forget

Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election

Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Just wrote about the American athletes who are saying extraordinary things like valuing love and compassion, having complicated feelings about their country, and trying to represent their friends and families

Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Incredible, and revealing, shot of a tragic result for Lindsey Vonn. Jacquelyn Martin of the Associated Press captured the picture that shows how Vonn's pole made contact with the right gate at an early jump, which led to the violent crash.

Stomach churning. Incredible that she tried.

As someone recently wrote, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Penis

AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.* www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

It is not, no

I'm not sure even my generation understood what a miracle the Muppets were, and are

Hilarious that this seems to be the only punishment from this tranche of Epstein files so far. Peter Attia is still employed by Bari Weiss at CBS News as far as I can tell. Pathetic.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

I love long-track speedskating. Canadians Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann are about to race in the women's 3,000: there is a medal chance here.

The Milan opening ceremony was weighted towards humanity - our achievements, our beauty - in an inhuman world, and both felt futile, and felt like it mattered. And the crowd cheered US athletes and booed JD Vance, and that was in line with that mission. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Just in — Meryeta O’Dine, who won double-bronze in women's snowboard cross and team snowboard cross in 2022, is out of these Olympics. Her teammate, Tess Critchlow, also sustained an injury and pulled out. Audrey McManiman is the only Canada's lone hope in the event now.

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

I know we’re overly habituated to it, but this is some truly shameful cowardice: a news network afraid to show what happened at a globally watched event

Sometimes I'll just boo a photo of JD Vance in my free time

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The Milan opening ceremony was weighted towards humanity - our achievements, our beauty - in an inhuman world, and both felt futile, and felt like it mattered. And the crowd cheered US athletes and booed JD Vance, and that was in line with that mission. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

After Lake Placid the Star investigated Canadian skeleton coach Joe Cecchini: his alleged mistreatment of athletes, his financial control in the sport, and the reason so many athletes are scared not only of speaking out, but that he could show up at their door. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

American athletes were cheered, and JD Vance was booed, and Italy is having a good night