Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event. They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

14 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Manfred Georg Broder, was born in Leipzig. He was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944, from where on 4 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

thank fucking god someone else made a jeffrey epstein wiki so i don't feel like i am leaving it dangling jmail.world/wiki/peter-t...

I love this. Welcome! #GoldenGirls

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

12 February 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Lijmer, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943 together with her mother Naathje. They were most probably both murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

“Canada is crying with you tonight” As Tumbler Ridge grapples with its new reality, a police chronology paired with interviews and firsthand accounts shed light on how events unfolded www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Read it.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

WATCH — @balint.house.gov on the unredacted Epstein files: “There’s a bunch of sick fucks… so many people knew…. Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago. That’s a lie.” (From @dropsitenews.com )

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

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. 🧵

Heartbreaking

Trump threatens to block opening of Gordie Howe International Bridge until list of demands met www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

He's the chair of the Olympic committee?

"He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Omg this is so good I missed this! VERY intentional shot lingering on two men grinding on each other Throughout his career Benito has been an ally to the LGBTQ community and has tried to push back against the machismo prevalent in Latin music

Lesbian singer Brandi Carlile sets up $25k grant to support Minnesota ICE detainees https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/05/lesbian-singer-brandi-carlile-sets-up-25k-grant-to-support-minnesota-ice-detainees/?utm_content=1770616800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox instagram.com/the_lincfox/?h…

this might be the highest gross things per line ratio piece I've read - if Americans are really following this story, the anti-elite backlash will be fierce. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

I started watching Golden Girls this week and I Can't Recommend It Enough

the voters of a rich suburban district outside New York City just voted for a Sanders/AOC-endorsed labor organizer who wants to abolish ICE

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

February 5, 1992: This pass by Philadelphia's Charles Barkley. Barkley had 30 PTS/18 REB/9 AST and Hersey Hawkins scored 31 PTS but the 76ers lost to Cleveland, 110-108. Larry Nance scored 26 PTS and Brad Daugherty had 19 PTS/12 REB/7 AST for the Cavaliers. 📺 NBA Action

Great timing!

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

🧵 At 3pm ET today, I'll be live-posting highlights from the public forum for @lawfaremedia.org. This will some witnesses' very first public appearance and the only one for Brent and Luke Ganger, who do not plan to do any additional interviews. Follow this thread for updates as they happen 🧵👇

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yay!

Happy birthday Tula-Tu! This petite party pachyderm is 1 today 💖

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Gotta say Bully's was a good time tonight. Four great bands, decent crowd, venue is looking and sounding real good #NewWest

The Trump administration approves new arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion as tensions heat up in the Middle East over Iran.

It's passed. Tell any trans or non binary person in kansas to get out ASAP. The community in friendlier states needs to be ready to take these people in and help them get established. This aint a drill.

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers posing as journalists are casting themselves as victims and labeling ICE-watch groups “terrorists.” Their big new evidence—“infiltrated” Signal chats—isn’t a secret, had no calls for violence and urged people to witness, not interfere. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

1/ Even in today's AI age, basic #NewsLiteracy skills are sometimes enough to get the facts of a story: 1 - Critical observation: What am I looking at? 2 - Sourcing: Who posted this? Do they have an agenda? 3 - Verification: Has this video or photo been verified as legit by other credible sources?

On this day in 1700, an 8.7 to 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Coast of North America. The tectonic plate slipped 20 metres along 1,000 kilometres of the fault line. The disaster wiped out several Indigenous villages. Hours later, a tsunami hit Japan.

The last three times a new Pope was elected, the Seahawks have made the Super Bowl as the No. 1 seed. ◽️ 2005: Pope Benedict XVI elected, SEA to SB XL ◽️ 2013: Pope Francis elected, SEA to SB XLVIII ◽️ 2025: Pope Leo XIV elected, SEA to SB LV

Reminder for everyone. If you're shoveling snow and you start sweating and feeling light-headed, STOP AT ONCE AND GO INSIDE AND REST.

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

Oh my gosh

Imagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇

What's your cope tonight? I'm watching 90s music videos. God damn I love music videos

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Very interesting.