@talkingpointsmemo.com remains a vital daily read for me.

In light of Kristi Noem’s testimony, I’m re-upping this piece about the murder of Renee Good. I proudly wore a badge for almost my entire adult life; I’m not someone unsympathetic to law enforcement, to say the least. Consider what it means, then, when I support this sentiment: Abolish ICE.

Kash just fired some counter Iranian espionage agents. www.nysun.com/article/excl...

On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

I don't know if people are following this story, but it's wild. Anthropic said they don't want their tech used for surveillance or weapons, and the DOD is threatening to cancel their contract and defacto blacklist them as a "supply chain risk" unless they jettison their ethical policies.

Kudos to the #MBTA workers clearing the switches outside the Reservoir Car Barn #Boston

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

I was just singing the praises of Deadwood yesterday, committing myself to a rewatch. Visited the town 15 years ago. Sad, weird little place.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Thomas Rousseau, leader of Patriot Front, looks to be about 4 PF doxes short of going full Travis Bickle.

Good to get current with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social today, talking protest, politics, social capital, and more. Video here:

So, fun fact: Bangkok reportedly built the first electrified tram line in all of Asia (including Japan) in 1893 And the contractors? None other than the Short Electric Railway Company of Cleveland, Ohio, which built several tram systems throughout the Midwest

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

Please join us tomorrow in Coolidge Corner for the Brookline Rally for Democracy! #coolidgecorner #brookline #massachusetts #democracy #humanrights #immigrantrights #constitutionalrights #humandecency #activism @activistevenings.bsky.social @brooklinepax.bsky.social mobilize.us/s/ZOmmYI

I just quote posted a 🧵 on the mess w/CBP being given a laser weapon by Hegseth to try out for their operations along the southern border. There are a couple of different reasons this was both bad overall & just not a very smart thing to do. 1/

Mark Zuckerberg's G650 Landed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

It's time to start socially shaming everyone who places bets on Kalshi and Polymarket. Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

China is building solar and wind energy capacity equal to 5 nuclear power plants A WEEK, and this guy is using tax dollars to prop up 1800's tech that even the energy companies don't want running anymore. We're goingt o have to jump into an Apollo-program level of electrification post-dipshits.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

Dave Farber, R.I.P. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

My father’s company helped build the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and he’d turn over in his grave if this were to happen. Plus, a cleaning wastewater is the opposite of what Trump does.

The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

It is perhaps notable that it is 3D printed whistles and not 3D printed gun parts that are making a collective difference in actual community resistance.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

I am very concerned about humanitarian archives because of the dismantling of USAID. Is anyone working to track the future of humanitarian archives around the world?

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

#democracytuba (yes yes I know, i do have a degree in this, but i'm now trying to hashtag all the brass bands together)

This will devistate the Boston nursing home, VNA, LPN, and RN pool. So many of our care providers are Haitian.

Folks, is it good when the government starts asking institutions for "lists of Jews"? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Whom

It is a minor point but, in his later years, and in the family death announcement, he was "Bobby".

my hometown synagogue was firebombed yesterday no one was injured and a suspect has been arrested all you fascists are bound to fuckin lose. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

The only synagogue in Jackson, MS burned last night. It was arson. They've been here before--they were attacked by the KKK because the rabbi spoke in favor of civil rights. They have no usable torah for services, all burned. Torahs are handmade! If you can donate a bit this week, here's a spot.

On #Venezuela, On #Minneapolis, Protest Matters … Keep It Up: More public pressure can blunt the Trump administration’s authoritarian ambitions. The latest from BINJ.News' Jason Pramas. binj.news/2026/01/08/o... #commentary #analysis #protest #democracy

I was today years old when I learned why @emptywheel.bsky.social calls him “Big Dick Toilet Salesman.” Accurate, as always.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Dee Snider is one the products of my Long Island home town of which it should be most proud.

I'm just waiting for Taylor Sheridan's Landman: Caracas next TV season.

I'm just waiting for Taylor Sheridan's Landman: Caracas next TV season.

They lie about everything.

ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown