AJB (dark mode)

Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.

The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.

Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

This is exactly what I thought when I saw this ad. We are just normalizing mass surveillance

U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
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Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump

“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

“Just try to get me out of here and do all you can, please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological & physical torture. It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”

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

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It’s almost like the Trump administration doesn’t care about protecting the rights of regular people?!?
🙄😡

Looks like an excellent project!

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.

@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.

We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.

Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

At 18 months, is the baby a US citizen that they tried to kill?

That’s a concentration camp. Republicans have been all freaked out about a Democratic administration doing this for years, but the Republicans were the ones planning it all along.

“culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them. That’s our paedophiliac culture too; misogyny of adult women is the opposite of sexual desire for girls, an inverted mirror.”

The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.

Family money-raking: "You’d have to add two digits to the sum of Biden abuses of power, foreign entanglements, & corruption alleged in the report to get near what Trump has raked in just from the UAE." Andrew McCarthy kicks off 5-part NRO series on Trump-&-sheiks sleaze, should be worth following

This is simply heartbreaking. Why, oh why, must this cruelty exist

Krusty Gnome (puppy killer) would be so proud of her protégés

3/Are we so numb to the fact that men kill women all the time, that it makes us more comfortable to watch it happen in front of our own eyes?

Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.

Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.

Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

For those keeping score at home:

#Trump gets into office... Ensuring loyalty to him, #Trump brings in everyone who's in the #EpsteinFiles to work for him in the our Government?

WTF????

#Epstein

“With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for ‘the positive affirmation of peace.’”

— The Nation

All of the Epstein bros named in the files belong behind bars

Help us out, we suck at math — which is more $125 million or $8 million?

So… not a democratic hoax, after all.👇

a childlike drawing of stick figures behind bars

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

100% - Let’s make fetch (er… “quartering” ) happen. Thanks, @kprofsblog.bsky.social