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Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

NEW: Elon Musk said he was “selling almost all physical possessions” when he moved to Texas. Nope. Instead, he has secretly amassed land and penthouses and planes and mansions. We just had to spend months digging through private company records to find it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

A billionaire just went on one of the biggest podcasts in the world and said America is heading for civil war.

Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line

As I said a bunch on book tour for The Sirens Call: We’ve reinvented the village rumor at global scale.

Gotta tip your cap to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social for scooping everyone on this.

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

I do suspect that Papert would hate Python though :-)

Computational Making & Learning Workshop for Educators - Melbourne - 27 February Playful and practical experiences will help any educator shape the learning environment to support computational making and help students learn and do in ways unimaginable before.

Whipping up super cool new resources for tomorrow's workshop in Melbourne, Australia! I would love to bring these learning adventures to your school, conference, or PD center. reggio.constructingmodernknowledge.com/melbourne

Nice. I just did some preliminary work with Claude to determine if a high school kid could create something capable of being good trouble.

A defense motion in the “Broadview 6” case today says body cam footage from the scene shows Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh move away from the agents’s vehicle she was allegedly impeding, grab a megaphone and tell the crowd “that’s private property back there- come back.”

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I can't say how much I hope Jasmine Crockett defeats James talirico in the election. I think she is the real deal, a very genuine defender of democracy. People like her offer the greatest hope that the US will not slide further into fascism.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@alejandroturnbull.bsky.social

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan […]

This one hits hard.

She is awesome to read

"He won California too - by a lot!" - Donald J. Trump

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc.

with @matinastevis.bsky.social

Health Rounds: Moderna combo flu/COVID vaccine succeeds in mid-stage trial A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna that targets seasonal influenza and COVID-19 produced robust and durable immune responses without safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial, the company...

More good news on vaccines

A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna targets seasonal influenza & COVID-19. It produced robust and durable immune responses w/o safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial.

mRNA is the future. We can’t afford to lose it.

🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Cambodian national dies in ICE custody in Indiana A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death ...

A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year.

A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure.

www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

If you are somehow finding the occasion to get barred from the premises of your wife’s work on the other side of the country for sexual misconduct, what must be going on in your own anesthesiology offices?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

I wondered this myself; also wondering why he was even at his wife's workplace enough to be getting into trouble.

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

In Defense of Sanctuary Cities Refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities is constitutionally protected and morally just.

My new @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
article, "In Defense of Sanctuary Cities": thedispatch.com/debates/sanc...

Update 2/19/2026: After this piece was published, I heard from two different people who received The Atlantic’s original press push email for the piece around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. At that time, when they clicked through, there was not an editor’s note/disclaimer on the piece at all. Both of those readers, who are professional journalists, responded to the press email with confusion and asked if the story was real. An Atlantic publicist emailed one of these readers back and said, “This is based on a mother’s real account. Thanks for checking.” Sometime after that, the disclaimer was added and it was there when I read the story around 7 p.m. on Thursday night. An Atlantic spokesperson told me yesterday, “The note was added almost immediately after publication.” This information is significant to me because it suggests that within The Atlantic there was confusion about whether the piece was fictional.

That Atlantic measles story was so poorly/deceptively edited that even the site's own flack thought it portrayed the actual account of a suffering, soon-to-die little boy.

Via @laurahazardowen.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Now, I need a GoFundMe campaign!