look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Somewhere, somehow, at a right-wing tabloid, the most deranged Meghan story of all time is being birthed

I think you have a lot of good answers to your question! Whatever problems the left has, not bring excited about technology and its potential is not one of them

Yes: clean energy like solar power, vaccinations, healthcare developments like PrEP, INSTI and cancer cures, agricultural tech like disease prevention and sustainable aeroponic farming, I could go on and on. The left loves science. We hate grifts.

Saved me from writing that, thanks!

Precisely so

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

going mad because anyone working with medical imaging and segmentation knows there are *specific* models to do this, not LLMs

Musk on Twitter 2/17/2026: You can just take a picture of your medical data or upload the file to get a second opinion from Grok

Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by Anonymous participant: " Just heard they are knocking Tescos down and turning it into temporary housing for illegal migrants is this true?"

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by AttractiveKale5631 - an anonymising Facebook handle: "I've been waiting all night for the 192 has something gone on? It's not safe waiting for the bus near Tescos an Asian man keeps harassing me it's a joke this place"

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by Anonymous participant: "Some man has just kicked my dog outside Levenshulme Bakery told me that dogs shouldn't be allowed in this area, what kind of third worlds mentality have we imported here"

Dispatches from the #GortonandDenton by-election: local community Facebook groups are being flooded with some really dodgy 💩.

One for my neighbours in Levy and for investigative journalists - not sure whom to talk to about it.

See a few screenshots here, and 🧵on why I think it's sus below.

J.I.B.C. is 19-years-old and has pending applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile status and asylum. (J.I.B.C. Decl. ¶ 1.) On January 13, 2026, he was leaving TMobile when another car struck his own. (Id. ¶¶ 3–4.) Agents surrounded him, opened the car doors, and wrenched him out. (Id. ¶ 4.) J.I.B.C. offered to show the agents his immigration documents, but the agents said they did not need to see them. (Id. ¶ 6.) When he pulled out his cell phone, the agents

threw him to the ground. (Id. ¶ 5.) The immigration documents were left inside his car. (Id. ¶ 6.) Several hours after arriving at Whipple, J.I.B.C. was allowed one phone call. (Id. ¶¶ 8, 12.) There was no privacy—it was a shared phone, located in a hallway between cells with agents nearby. (Id. ¶ 12.) J.I.B.C. told his girlfriend he had been detained; she said she would find a lawyer. (Id. ¶ 13.) Agents told J.I.B.C. to tell her that he was going to El Paso, Texas. (Id.) That day, J.I.B.C. was transferred to Texas. (Id. ¶ 15.) During his weeklong detention, he was allowed only two calls. (Id. ¶ 22.) Officers pressured people to sign voluntary self-deportation papers; many did. (Id. ¶ 23.) Agents told J.I.B.C. that he would be detained longer if he fought his case. (Id.)

ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

I’d note that there is quite an overlap between people warning about Trump’s authoritarianism and people warning that invading Iraq would be a terrible mistake and their critics in both instances

Good piece - the reference to Cassandra reminds me how long the tradition of ignoring women who are right about things goes back

No, they are named in the article

What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about

Ironically this post is winning me over to your pov on posting

Oh, okay. I'll bite.

The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.

The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

Yeah he said earlier he would vote against Newsom in a primary

The Republican party is attempting to build an effective dictatorship where voting will no longer matter.

Anyone who doesn’t want that, including and especially socialists, should vote strategically to help prevent it while it remains an option

We shouldn’t still be having this argument

Is this a misunderstanding? He means he ‘needs to win’ in order to be the Democratic nominee not in the sense that Stancil wants it to happen

bobsled is short for "Robert Sled"

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

Don't email a paedophile It's a slippery slope!

In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people.

www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

It is an ironic triumph of neoliberalism that a voter imagines themselves as a consumer selecting candidates rather than being in something of a struggle with 200 million other people with a need for friends and alliances

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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It is not even certain there will be a fair election in 2028. It is vital that the GOP is defeated so long as they threaten free elections & try to increase fossil fuel use.

Trump’s 24 win has already costs hundreds of thousands of additional lives compared to Harris. Natalie is extremely correct

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.

The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.

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