Here is one of many consequences of MAHA/Kennedy's policies, unfolding in real time.
Encephalitis is a severe complication of measles. It may lead to convulsions, deafness or intellectual disability in children. It occurs ~ 1 month after infection.
🧪 www.wired.com/story/measle...
It is truly delightful to watch Elon Musk throw tantrum after tantrum as countries wake up to the fact and take action against his child pornogaphy machine
They had a most excellent editorial voice, as demonstrated by this "what's new" entry from December 10th 2020 about the height of Mount Everest simonw.github.io/cia-world-fa...
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
The thing I keep circling back to is that, when Bezos originally bought the Post, it legit seemed like the least-bad option.
The expectation was that billionaires would treat media outlets like they do sports franchises — something to boast about owning, as a form of expensive status.
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
I have never seen anything like it. I don't know what's actually going on, but several attorneys reached out to me this morning and said all of their Somali clients were also transferred to the same judge and now have court on the same date in March. And I don't know for sure why. But it's chilling
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
Maryland legislators introduced emergency legislation last week that would prohibit anyone from operating an immigration detention facility in a building not “originally designed and constructed for the purpose of housing or detaining individuals.”
Where have all the anthems gone? Talking with Dana, Steve, and Carl about what modern protest music looks like, plus Mel Brooks, Catherine O'Hara, and the timeliest Oscar nominee of them all.
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
Pump this directly into my veins:
A top GOP official in Texas says, "It looks like we f***ed ourselves with our gerrymandering. We watered down all the red districts to steal as many blue ones as possible and now the electorate hates us and our turnout is collapsing."
May this not be just a fluke.
We march again, as the attack on facts/accepted truths has only gotten worse.
Fascism succeeds in the absence of truth and transparency.
#NoKings#NoFascists#ProDemocracy#GegenRechtsextremismus
March 28th. If you are in Germany, join us.
We march again, as the attack on facts/accepted truths has only gotten worse.
Fascism succeeds in the absence of truth and transparency.
#NoKings#NoFascists#ProDemocracy#GegenRechtsextremismus
March 28th. If you are in Germany, join us.
the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, especially since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. this doesn't mean the action isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack
So sick of these carpetbaggers running to Texas to start a life of being the biggest assholes they can be.
Also, F CAA. Should’ve been more punished by big names leaving for their Weinstein BS.
Sounds like another comedian from the manosphere circles, who will soon be bitching “cancel culture” because of this.
His lack of humanity makes him a pathetic excuse for a comedian.
Who the fuck is Ben Bankas anyways?
www.twincities.com/2026/01/28/s...
FWIW, whoever comedian Ben Bankas is, should be shunned, ignored, heckled, fucked with, until whatever career he thought he had, ceases to exist. Unfunny scumbags like this POS don’t deserve to be supported.
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
With another wave of dangerous cold heading for the U.S. South on Friday, experts say the risk of hypothermia heightens for people in parts of Mississippi and Tennessee who are entering their sixth day trapped at home without power in subfreezing temperatures.
buff.ly/q7OS4Pk
Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
JUST 1 MORE THING: If we’re to accept this idea that a person having a firearm at a law enforcement encounter is per se evidence of a person’s intent to “inflict maximum harm,” doesn’t it then follow that law enforcement can’t constitutionally bring firearms themselves, per multiple Amendments?
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
