Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Who could have possibly predicted this

Never forget what this is all about

Dial D for dysfunction San Francisco’s 911 dispatchers are being asked to work with antiquated equipment, crazy hours, poor mental health, and alongside new trainees who aren’t prepared

Some of the city's most experienced 911 dispatchers tell Gazetteer that the dispatch office is in dire straits due to poor management, broken equipment, flawed training, and low morale.

The dispatchers fear it could get somebody killed.

Exclusive: subtxt.to/2N6EaRr

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Someone on Polymarket has just placed a $100k bet that the US will strike Iran today. $4m payout if true.

More money than sense or insider information, you decide.

"Technology that exploits our need for relationships can lead not only to painful consequences in the lives of individuals, but also to damage in the social, cultural and political fabric of society." Pope Leo's message on AI is worth reading in full: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Incredible chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com about the speed of the US's democratic and civil erosion, "the most rapid episode...in the recent history of the developed world": www.ft.com/content/b474...

Oh I agree completely! Just wild to see outlets (ahem, WSJ) that are openly and aggressively capitalist as part of their mission to rally this way

This is in the FT!

TFW the Christmas Adventurers Club turns out to be nonfiction

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

This is not a news outlet.

Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting.

Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:

newrepublic.com/article/2052...

More of this message please

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:

46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE

This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

This ends in higher inflation. Middle class households better buckle up

I certainly hope she has a primary challenger if this is the best she can do

Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon.

The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Minneapolis mayor says ICE officer’s killing of motorist was ‘reckless’ and wasn’t self-defense An ICE officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist, which federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but the city’s mayor said was “reckless.”

The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. It’s at least the fifth person killed in a handful of states since 2024.

Your framing of this is an embarrassment to journalism

Photograph showing seditious insurrectionists pressing a metal gate against the US Capitol police on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to surge forward during their violent attack.

1/ In 2022, one year after Trump incited the seditious attack on the US Capitol, I posted a long thread of images on Twitter, because revisionist attempts to create a false narrative about that day were already well underway.

Today, in 2025, I’m re-creating/re-posting that same thread here.👇

The moral failure of our opposition’s leadership is easily simulated by simply imagining the response if the government was engaging in the mass dispossession of white people’s property with the intent of redistribution to its political base

Whistles, Signal and school patrols: how ordinary Americans are fighting back against ICE As Trump carries out his mass deportation operation, residents are banding together to block raids and distribute groceries

I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts

If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer:

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...