ah yes, the two genders

The Iranian regime is an autocratic one that has devastated lives at home and abroad. Its people deserve so much better. So much better does not come through illegal strikes involving a genocidal actor that drag multiple countries into conflict and kill more civilians.

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What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Fellow SFers, let your supervisors know how egregious this is. We passed this as voters and a lot of work went into making it happen. (Also read the room, fellas.)

Rainy-ish day. Moved 3 worms off the sidewalk!

"We've finally created the WOPR from the 1983 movie "whatever you do don't create the WOPR" aka Wargames."

also part of the state of our union

Things are bad, and there is a lot to focus on. A small thing you can do? Wear your backpack on your front on the bus!

There's no reason at all to watch the *state of the union* tomorrow unless it's your job to do so.

Me finding out all the things my fellow citizens are doing: wow, we are going to win Me looking at my representatives: it's in doubt

Child jumping in Piazza Adrice, Bagheria, Sicily - Ferdinando Scianna, 1962

Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.

“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.” (Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...

"It is an act of love for Palestinians to patiently counter myths while their loved ones are being killed." @soleilho.com went to a dinner where Palestinian food and drink makers shared their history and their grief. Then came the Q&A.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Margaret Mead was right when she wrote "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." But never forget that the change created by a small group of committed people can be a change for the worse.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Photo Credit: "Observers record federal agents at the scene after a multi-vehicle crash following an apparent pursuit by a federal agent near the intersection of Selby and Western avenues in St. Paul. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune)"

We’re standing with San Francisco teachers, everyone!

A Russian drone smashed into a home in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region overnight, killing a father and his three small children and seriously wounding their mother who is 35 weeks pregnant, officials say.

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.

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. 🧵

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

"God Bless America" and then lists every country in the Americas. Bad Bunny crushed the Super Bowl.

The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

#OtD 29 Jan 1912 striking textile worker Anna LoPizzo was killed by police during the "Bread and Roses" strike in New England. Shamelessly, police then arrested two leading @iww organisers for the crime. Learn more about women in the IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

Demonstration popping off now inside Dilley ICE detention in Texas in response to the news from Minneapolis and the mistreatment of 5 yr old, Liam Ramos. ✊✊✊ 80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation. x.com/EricLeeAtty/...

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

One of the reasons DOGE illegally stole all those government databases and combined them in direct violation of the Privacy Act.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

It is under-discussed that Greenland, more properly Kalaallit Nunaat, is a self-ruling and overwhelmingly indigenous constituent of the Danish Realm, along with the Faroe Island and Denmark. US imperialism toward Greenland should be considered in that light. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...