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Have we tried Simply Not Electing Jim Jones as President

It is a huge disruption.

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.

Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

I hope we find a way in 2028 to confiscate these cash piles and incarcerate their owners

I agree with both of these observations, and yet, they are not observations that imply zero risk here.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

If you don't mind the question, how does one block registration from subsets of people in a location without requiring full age verification of all users? Or is the point that everyone, yourself included, is now doing exactly what discord does? Please pardon my confusion

Is it breaking the DoJ, yes. Is he capable of firing every single person who says no until someone says yes, and them firing everyone else who says no, leaving those who say yes? He is. Whether it comes to that, no one knows.

Something effectively parallel to this outcome has basically already occurred in the DoJ and most of the Cabinet Agencies. I would keep that in mind.

Thanks for this response. I hope you're right.

How many polling places do they need to hit to create a credible claim that the elections were disrupted and need to be postoned, redone again, ballots invalidated, that they can try to squeeze an R state legislature and R state court into going along with?

Conventional poll worker recruitment just not enough. Physical confrontation of feds at polling places could, itself, trigger chaos leading non coup judges and legislatures to waver and postpone / redo. Need to confront before they get there, pre-empt. Show of force, far in advance.

We need a movement to fund a real dig / analysis into the top end manpower he might muster. Not just ICE, Whole-of-Gov. Need the top 1000 most vulnerable precincts. Need recruiting for pressure campaigns vs. those state legs, support for those El Officials. Need a proactive organized movement.

bsky.app/profile/jord.... David Nir blocked me for asking the following questions. I haven't heard any persuasive answers yet, from anyone. Maybe you'll be the one...

Strong agree with this but it leads me to do the opposite of pushing back on stolen election fears.

The downside risk of not being worried enough is failing to prepare, which is a disasterous outcome if you're wrong. The downside of being too worried is... some marginal additional participants being demotivated to defeatism I guess. One of these risks seems notably worse than the other

This is a popular opinion. I would suggest that behind it are many assumptions about the number of bodies that are both necessary and available, and it would be a good idea to question all of them with great and thorough care. That's how one prepares for bad surprises.

The Senate could very easily come down to a small number of close races. In red states, with red legislatures. Who cannot be counted on to do the right thing. And the Senate is very important to the next two years. It's very important to start building the pressure infrastructure there today.

Trump DOJ Files 9/11-Era Charges Against Leftists Across the Country Across the country, federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine...

The Trump admin has used 2339A—the “material support for terrorism” statute—against Black Lives Matter protesters in Alabama and anti-ICE demonstrators in Texas.

The ex-DOJ prosecutor who pioneered the use of 2339A says he's never seen anything like it.

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You're right, but not said: this wasn't enough. Not nearly fast or hard enough. The worst thing to do is to come at the king and miss. The reason it wasn't was because of the judicial system. Things need to get bad enough to give us the political control sufficient to deal with that system.

An underrated good the next Democratic administration could do with virtually zero actual political blowback from voters would be to come in with anti-trust laws like a wrecking ball and break up media and tech companies. It would fuck up The Other Side, too.

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

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. 🧵

The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”

The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

We’ve reinvented the MMMF pre 08

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

It sorta feels like rendering capital allocation as a dumb automatic process should be as consequential a transformation in political economy as the managerial revolution