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Elon Musk walks off and leaves his 4 year old son wandering off stage by himself. This clip legitimately disturbs—and saddens—me.

So this week I was in SF. Visited the Presidio and saw there was an exhibit on Japanese Exclusion at the Officers' Club, so we went in. My teen has been learning about Fred Korematsu in civics, and I want him to understand this history. The exhibit was powerful. But--

John is doing the Lord’s work here

It went at antiBlackness miles per hour.

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Orwell and his wife Eileen spent their honeymoon fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet secret police ransacked their hotel room in Barcelona. Orwell’s Spain journals are believed to be in Moscow to this day

Hey, local governments, pass laws in your states making it illegal to throw up a Nazi salute, like in Australia. Refuse to normalize the Nazi takeover of our federal government www.dw.com/en/australia...

Incredible tifo from LAFC's 3252 honoring all the firefighters who fought the Los Angeles fires. 🧑🏾‍🚒

“Marc Andreessen says half of his time goes to helping Trump at Mar-a-Lago” 12/11/24 1/ fortune.com/2024/12/11/m...

Fantastic piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social of the resegregation of America under Trump.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Remembering chingona Paquita la del Barrio www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...

Many in the US would like to see a supergrid connect the entire nation so excess solar power in California in the afternoon could run subways and light up bodegas in Manhattan in the evening. It’s a lovely dream that faces many challenges. cleantechnica.com/20...

Perceptions will begin shifting around March 29.

Russia wants a return on all the money they pumped into the Trumps over the years

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Covid is the number 1 cause of MECFS right now, an incurable disease affecting millions of people where expending any amount of energy can leave u permanently bed bound or dead. Watch this video

need to invent a worse word for nazi bc ppl are not ashamed enough of being a nazi

Following Trump’s new Executive Order re: the S.F. Presidio, here’s a shareable link to an unrolled version of my highly sourced thread about the Tech Bros’ plan to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. The MSM has yet to connect these dots, & it’s driving me crazy! skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

inshallah

Same with Trump never getting over Obama at the WHCD

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @nancypelosi.bsky.social

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

If you de-zoot the toots here, he’s saying he spent $44b on twitter as part of his right wing political project—which is both obvious and something you can’t say in the newspaper.

“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

The Moscow Institute of Computer Science has "caught fire", I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Just got shared this video from an insider at the DNC detailing their planned response to Trump and the DOGE

And there we have it - the first American DeepSeek reasoning model, proof that A) this can be done and B) that everybody is gonna be able to do it. Why pay through the nose for o1?

Amy Chua

Democrats can’t sustain this kind of rhetoric without action. At the federal level they need to hold a 24-7 vigil at the Capitol until the coup ends. At the state level they could seize federal assets until court orders are being followed. We’re already outside the regular constitutional order.

This map of the "Japanese American Confinement Sites in the United States During #WW2" includes the #LACounty locations where Japanese Americans were forcibly held until sent to concentration camps. #EO9066 #History Map from @jamuseum.bsky.social's Education Resources: www.janm.org/education/re...

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the US military to forcibly remove over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry and launched their mass incarceration into concentration camps during World War II.

Rick Caruso's nonprofit announces a partnership with the modular home startup Samara. The deal comes with a $15 million donation from its co-founder Joe Gebbia, also the co-founder of Airbnb, who is — you guessed it! — about to take a major role in the Trump/Musk administration

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

Well 12 days later and they’ve walked it back.

I want to highlight just how closely the Wurman-Barnett arguments in 2025 parallel those made by the United States against Wong Kim Ark’s citizenship in 1898. And rejected. I do not think this can be coincidence. Here’s a summary of the US’s arguments, via @jnovkov.bsky.social

If you have a spiritual practice these days, or faith in a higher power, or rituals that ground you, or an Ancestral veneration practice, or simply the ability to see the Divine in all things, I hope you know how rich you are. To have any of these things right now is profound medicine.

Does the Constitution still matter? Yes. We have enough judges and federal prosecutors who will uphold it. Will Musk/Trump purge them all? Doing so would mean the Constitution is dead, all states are independent, fed tax money turned off. Not enough MAGA loyalists in security forces to control us.