SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Merchant’s piece on the politics of AI goes perfectly with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social’s recent piece on the politics of data centers. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

"A blind dad of two has died after he was taken into custody by Border Patrol officers and allegedly left miles away from his home, according to reports."

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

Trump introduces the US men's hockey team: "We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me, 'Please, Mr President, we're winning too much! We can't take it anymore! We're not used to winning in our country! Until you came along we were just always losing.'"

As the SOTU begins.

The rest are getting shitfaced at Buffalo Wild Wings

This is a REALLY important read.

Important reminder of the devastation wrought by the Musk/DOGE dismantling of USAID. Hundreds of thousands dead, many more to come. The greatest crime of the 21st century (so far).

How it’s going. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #SaferAir

Deportation has been used by Obama and Biden without INTENDED Brutality The current Republican Regime Supports the traumatizing and inhumane treatment of children and adults because they Like It Vote EVERY Republican OUT Since Republicans can Stop this horrific treatment but choose Not to SHAME

“I cannot and will not contribute my time, energy and expertise to an organisation that has repeatedly failed to safeguard the dignity of its Black guests, members and the Black creative community.”

Fuck BAFTA for not nominating him and fuck BAFTA for this and fuck BBC for censoring “free Palestine” and fuck BBC for not censoring the N word variety.com/2026/film/aw...

It's why they, and everyone else, shows the apology afterwards. Like it was a mistake that that the AI 'understood' it made. That apology is just the AI saying what it thinks statistically the person wanted it to say based on the input the person gave it. It has nothing to do with anything.

No, you don't get it. The entire premise of AI is pretending the industry is something it isn't, intelligent machines. So one going slightly 'rogue' with no real problems is a story they are happy to tell. Of course, it didn't go rogue, their black statistical box is just badly programmed.

Just the fact that she asked it “do you remember that?” and expected a meaningful response really undermines my confidence in her.

I am a physician who will be wearing an N95 in all clinical encounters for the rest of my life because I don’t want to commit the harm of passing on a respiratory pathogen to a patient. This seems like a minimum duty, like handwashing, but I am unfortunately in a vanishingly small minority.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

The Giants are undefeated in the Tony Vitello era. @alexpavlovic.bsky.social shares his notes from the Giants' first game of the spring ⬇️

This is fucking terrifying.

This article begins "After a year in which the Trump administration has pressed to limit the ways Americans can identify as transgender in public life...". "Identify as transgender". If that doesn't give away the New York Times' whole game, I don't know what will. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

The "adult content" is a screenshot of a WIRED magazine post. It's ostensibly NSFW, but they didn't get censored for it...

What in the actual homophobic hell is this shit

ICE killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen—and you likely haven’t heard about it because DHS has been covering it up for nearly a year. My heart breaks for his family, who deserve immediate answers and an independent investigation into his death. ICE will be held accountable.

No body wants to talk about the pandemic though. They see it as political dead space, not unlike trying to discuss Vietnam in the years after the war. The truth is everybody made mistakes and we need to learn from them, because a lot of where we are now (regardless of ideology) is because of covid

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

#GoodNews - saving a language means saving human knowledge and understanding, as well as lifeways www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...

THOSE are MY Americans. ICE can go fuck themselves.

Living the Mr. Rogers Creed.

I know the majority of my followers don’t mask, but I want you to imagine you have a disability - any kind. You need a wheelchair, a hearing aid - to safely access the world. Now imagine someone a liberal with a massive platform says you’re unneighborly and untrustworthy for using it.

King Charles has issued a statement following his brother Andrew’s arrest

"...we have today arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office... We will not be naming the arrested man, as per natl guidance" An all time banger of a press release from the Thames Valley UK Police re: the arrest of Prince Andrew in the Epstein case. 1/

Traveling back in time 250 years and asking folks in the Revolution to guess which country ends up with a king and untouchable royals.

Trump had flags lowered for Charlie Kirk, who was at best a podcaster. Yet he hasn't called for flags to be lowered for Jesse Jackson, who was a Civil Rights icon. So miss me with the "Trump isn't racist" bullshit.

Name me a hoax in all of history that needs to be redacted this much.

Sure, but who could have predicted this? *reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025* Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Waking up to news that Prince Andrew was arrested for ties to Epstein and Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection, meanwhile here in the U.S...