“This could cripple the superyacht shipbuilding, AI brainwashing, and local datacenter resource sucking industries,” said critic Heywood. “If approved, a high school teacher who exceeded her expected lifetime earnings by a mere 50,000% may be subject to it and if you ask me, that’s just not right.”

This is a very big story. apnews.com/article/anth...

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This is great!

The people and leaders of Ukraine are heroes, fighting valiantly for their own freedom and to help protect ours. The Trump Administration has betrayed them (and by extension us) repeatedly and continues to do so.

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

We've reached the Nazi part of Trump's speech: "The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration ... "

So let’s get this straight. Anthropic “refuses to allow its products to be used for mass domestic surveillance…or in physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input” but Hegseth wants to use it in that way. Idiocy has no bounds. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

ICE whistleblower alleges that Todd Lyons cut training on split second decision making and use of force, and says recruits are taught to treat non-judicial warrants as a “permission slip to themselves” to force entry into homes, effectively normalizing constitutional violations.

It’s teeth grinding to interact with fembot

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. wapo.st/4c3qzA5

When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the president cannot simply declare sweeping global tariffs under emergency powers, it wasn’t a technical trade decision. It was a constitutional one.

The loss of our constitutional democratic form of government will be the story of the Democrats judged to be not good enough to elect and the Republicans judged to be not bad enough not to elect.

Pleading with people to understand the scope of this. It won’t just be for immigrants. They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”. The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents. Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

“He also told a child that ‘since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ ... that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,’ according to the affidavit.”

Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.

Emotional to see the reality of history. The perseverance!!

The 2 hour booming extravaganza on Sunday evening in Seattle a perfect test

This is absolute madness. mRNA vaccines a freaking modern miracle

Fog is lighting up all over

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As others have said, Bad Bunny's halftime performance highlighted the horrible electricity situation in Puerto Rico. For many, blackouts are a weekly occurrence and the situation has only gotten worse in the last few years. Earlier this week, there were about 130,000 customers without power.

Call your Dem Senators and ask them why they voted unanimously for the Sanders Amendment to defund ICE last week, but it's not on this list.

The Seattle Times is hiring a photojournalist for their newsroom; to cover a variety of assignments, from major league sports to spot news to magazine features. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/GeY4AJ...

Very impressive. 💪

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

Can WA state just become part of Canada immediately and it go on as usual, please?

149m passwords exposed in massive online data leak www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/28...

They killed someone who is (checks notes) a white man who works at the VA and had a license to carry a gun. Groups that the right likes: White Men Veterans Guns And they have an ICE person saying that this is like a video game. They can't explain this one away.

Yeah, they took down the wrong one this time didn’t they? We’ve seen unjustified violence against a whole lot of people but now they have the untouchables attention.

Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.

Reminder for WA residents that starting in 2027… www.kiro7.com/news/local/y...

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

This, good people, is the LinkedIn profile of one who has earned their 5 year pin at Amazon corp offices

Yes. Fear. But the tactics they’ve used is almost cartoonish in it’s illegitimacy. So, they’ve bred scorn and contempt that will ultimately override fear. trump’s incompetence has always given me the most hope for his downfall.

“In Oct he became the 1st person to be worth $500B—he hit $600B in Dec—$700B just 4 days later. Tesla approved a compensation package for its CEO which could be worth $1 trillion, should the company achieve several financial and production goals.” Yet he dismantled USAID. I just don’t understand.

i don't *care* how they feel but as I watched this I wondered what it felt like to be one of those cops, sent out to arrest clergy peacefully praying for the humane treatment of others. and agreeing to do it.

Over at The Atlantic, @shustry.bsky.social describes how Putin's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, is as close to happy as he ever gets as he spins Putin's Greenland policy so that it become a perfect analogue of, and excuse for, Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Trump's actions help Putin, not the US.

OKeepers relaunched 2 months ago. Huh.

3) Shortly after the shooting, several agents -- possibly including Ross -- hop into an unmarked SUV and flee the scene. I can't begin to describe how improper this is for an active investigation. Normally, you'd separate the witnesses so they don't, erm, get their stories to coincide.

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"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

FREY: “.. the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

Cops are taught to avoid shooting into cars, for all the obvious reasons, but ICE has shot NINE people in cars since September. Great reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Wikipedia for the Killing of Renee Good is definitely far from accurate right now in describing what is in plain sight here. If you're a Wikipedia editing nerd, get in there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now