Lizard_King

(guy who complains about any time there's military action in the middle east)

We should actually have a civil war

This is why it is an important political project to force lawyers, bankers and tech bros to work fewer hours. They *will* make a lot of money, and then use that money to influence politics, and influence it for the worse because, having never had the time to read a book, they are stupid and evil

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.

What's grim about this myopic "here for my career" approach is that they miss so much fun stuff--people's knitting, crafts, legos, art, photos, people posting fossils for fossil friday, writing haikus based on a shared hashtagged word. It's like X killed the original intent of *social* media.

I don't like Platner but this is way over the line describing him deriding the Epstein class, a sobriquet popularized by Jon Ossoff

what platner did (see video below) is use Epstein class” to describe a small number of billionaires.

Equating that to Gray and Brunet’s full-on vicious antisemitism is wrong

Americans say Epstein files lowered their trust in U.S. political and business leaders Majority also feel Epstein files show that powerful people in the U.S. are rarely held accountable for their actions

We need to hold the Epstein class accountable in America. This is a defining issue to restore trust in our democracy.

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You mean ... this Gaby Del Valle?

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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

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.
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This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on 'Work Trip' His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

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...

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Does Wired think this is a joke? Reading the article, it has a jokey vibe. But that's no excuse! A joke is how the "homintern" conspiracy started.

For Wired to run this as a cover story is bizarre at any time, in my view, and at this particular historical moment wildly irresponsible

X Really Is Pulling Users to the Right Elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.

“(ICE favorability is) almost break-even with people who get their news from Twitter. Compare that to other social media platforms like Reddit and TikTok, where over 70% of voters viewed the agency unfavorably.”

You are what you (choose to) eat

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

WeatherBell Analytics NBM 2.5 km model map showing forecast total snowfall (in inches), initialized 21z Feb. 21, 2026 and valid 00z Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026 (hour 75). The northeastern United States is displayed with a color scale from gray/light blue (under 1–6 inches) to bright pink and purple (15–35+ inches). A broad swath of heavy snow in pink stretches from the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore region across Delaware, southern New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, New York City, Long Island, and into southern New England, with widespread totals of 12–25 inches and localized amounts over 30 inches. Lighter blue shades (3–8 inches) extend inland across central Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and northern New England. The maximum value shown is 35.1 inches.

The entire coastal northeast is about to get absolutely hammered by a generational blizzard. This is the national blend of models and it's predicting 2 feet in NYC, Boston, and most of coastal New England. This will bind come with wind gusts approaching 70mph in some places.

Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...

Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."

“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America:

“‘Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.’”

Image showing Mayor Mamdani looking frustrated, with a text overlaid that reads “NYC Public Library Action Network” at the top, and in large bold letters text that reads “Mayor Mamdani did not honor his commitment to allocate 0.5% of the city expense budget to NYC public libraries in his preliminary budget” and then in smaller font below, there is text that reads “visit NYCPLAN.ORG for more information”

While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries.

Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.

This amount is well below the promised 0.5%

New York’s budget is a work in progress until it is passed. I applaud Mayor Mamdani for reducing the police budget but I also criticize him for reducing the library budget, and I support @nycplan.org & all New Yorkers in forcing Mayor Mamdani to live up to candidate Mamdani’s library promises

"In 2023, Suozzi bought between $1,001 and $15,000 in Palantir, and by the end of 2024, he valued his Palantir stock at between $15,001 and $50,000, according to a NOTUS review of congressional personal financial disclosures."

Of course...

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com
This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists.
Ethics matter, especially in science.
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A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Judge forced to slash SF jury pool over hate for Elon Musk One candidate said he thinks sending Elon Musk to prison would benefit humanity.

“In a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict, however, in a civil trial I could set those views aside,” adding, “I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race for Mr. Musk to be sent to prison.”

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has sent an invoice to Trump in the wake of the tariff decision — demanding the return of the $8.6 billion he "stole from Illinois families."