One of the most prolific liars in the Trump Administration - and that's saying something - is out. Good riddance to *former* DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Stephen Colbert had Democrat James Talarico (running for Senate in Texas) on The LateShow. Trump's FCC goon called CBS and told them they couldn't air that interview. CBS pulled the interview out of fear/fealty. So Colbert put the whole interview up on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Jesse Jackson adapted his “I am Somebody” speech many times, never more memorably than this moving 1971 Sesame Street appearance. RIP. youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY

A giant of fierce defiance has left this world but his legacy will not falter.

Ireland's powerful data protection regulator has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media firm X over the wave of sexualized deepfakes generated by its AI tool Grok.

Like there's not already enough to worry about as an author in the AI era without this level of evil hitting your inbox on a weekly basis (which it now is for me and Jason and - I'm sure - many thousands of others).

📸 Kat in Politico Playbook! www.politico.com/newsletters/...

WOW 🤯 The number of times a State of Emergency has been declared this year in New Zealand ALREADY matches the 2025 total. It’s February. This is what the Climate Crisis looks like.

It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help. Masterful law enforcement.

😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

Went over to X to check out a list of farewell tweets from laid off Washington Post journalists and it was a huge thread with very active accounts. Tried to find some of them on Bluesky and some were absent, some had inactive accounts, and some here, but not many really. A big absence on Bluesky.

Facts

Cass as always is rather crass.

Happy World Whale Day! 🐋 40 years after the IWC’s ban, Iceland, Japan & Norway have still killed 45,000+ whales. EIA + partners are calling for a permanent end to commercial whaling. Add your voice: endcommercialwhaling.org #WorldWhaleDay #whales #Iceland #Japan #Norway #petition

The United States is operating 225 concentration camps across the US with 75,000 men, women, & children being kept in inhumane conditions experiencing abuse, torture, rape, murder, & being denied basic human rights. #Pinks

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com Now he’s much, MUCH worse.

Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power. trib.al/NS4Lf8H

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

They keep changing tactics but keep kidnapping my neighbors. Every time they claim they’re drawing down things get a little worse.

Mandatory ID cards. Scrapping jury trials. Calling genocide protesters “terrorists." There’s a strong authoritarian edge to the Labour Government. With no plan to help people, clearly thrown in the towel in Gorton & Denton. It's Greens Vs Reform. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

As the israelis push their “yellow line” deeper into Gaza, families wake up being shot at, forced out of their home & a “ceasefire” in name only, Middle East Eye reports

Someone took their time to recreate Epstein documents in a data visualization app built in Replit. The complete documents are in an interactive graphic where you can click on and explore all the connections and “conspiracy networks. epstein-file-explorer.com

Alluringly homoerotic and abjectly nonsensical, doubles luge might be the strangest event of any Olympics, winter or summer.

Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Javier Milei's plan to increase the length of the working day by 50% in Argentina but without requiring their employers to increase their wages isn't going so well.

DON LEMON: “I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will not be silenced.”

Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

Im constantly seeing fake AI videos about people stopping ICE in funny ways. Plz, DO NOT post these AI videos as it leads people to question the credibility of real videos featuring confrotations with ICE!

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

“I endured two full years of war without electricity, telling myself to be patient. But now? The war has been over for more than three months & nothing has changed.” Gaza’s destroyed infrastructure makes daily life a struggle, reports Esraa Abo Qamar.

the most on-brand quote a meta staffer may have ever uttered

BOYCOTT Estée Lauder products. #cdnpoli Ronald Lauder, the son of Estée Lauder, uses the fortune he was born into to fund the very authoritarianism that destroyed Europe years ago. He is the architect of the Greenland scheme and the lithium deals in Ukraine.

Merz at MSC: Europe will not adopt MAGA vision of free speech. It does not support tariffs and protectionism. It believes in climate change and the need for the WHO. "The US will run up against its own limits if it tries to go it alone"

Common sense prevails. Will never forget or forgive UK for putting my tiny country on the terrorist list during the financial meltdown in 2008. The way the UK defines terror is rather peculiar and abused. Congrats to Palestine Action for getting deserved justice.

What a brilliant writer. Subject ever so fascinating. Good read on a day like this.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

#booksky do your thing 📚

Let’s make them all famous.

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

Pete Hegseth used an untested laser system powerful enough to down drones, blind pilots & damage planes without notifying the FAA, forcing Sean Duffy to shut down airspace over El Paso, all because they thought we were under attack by what turned out to be… party balloons?! Are you f’ng kidding me?

Notable www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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...

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage from an ICE detention facility has reached new levels of absurdity. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read here: www.404media.co/government-l...