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Watcher.Guru on Twitter writes: JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says "prices and inflation are way down, stock market and your 401ks are way up." Just below it on the timeline, Kalshi on Twitter writes: JUST IN: US housing market reaches most "unaffordable" level in history

thank you, algorithm

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

2026 has no subtlety

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.

We've joked for years about how posting isn't activism but now that the government is a gang of social media-obsessed fascists it actually is

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court 1. Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.soc... 1d Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people inde... www.reuters.com 11:53 PM Feb 14, 2026 Everybody can reply

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

imagine being a beautiful cow and ending up as a boxy, three-button USA flag sport coat with a collar gap and the bottom-most button fastened

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

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imagine getting owned like this by your AI boyfriend

Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

This is wild.

41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.

He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
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Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.

Trans people are the only UK citizens that are considered 'guilty, until proven innocent'

... and even when proved innocent, are still paraded in the media as a monster.

Musk advocates white monoculturalism

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Screenshot of a BBC News article on a mobile webpage. The text says the vast majority of people in the middle of the debate were silent, while “people at the extremes” and media rhetoric had been “frightening for young people,” according to a clinician. It adds that some trans rights activists had been “so strident” it made life more difficult for trans people trying to “live under the radar,” and that people who believed no one should ever transition had “similarly made it difficult.” The BBC logo and menu icons appear at the top.

On one side, you have trans people asking to be left alone and maintain our access to health care. On the other, a bunch of people who believe we shouldn't exist. But Cass believes both sides are the same.

This whole interview is atrocious.

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It was never about "trans athletes should just compete in their assigned sex at birth."

It was always about invalidation of the athlete's gender identity.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

During a diversity roundtable last month at the National Press Club, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, gave shocking news on the state of the Black press on the eve of its bicentennial. "We all have felt the damp hands of oppression and suppression over the last 12 months," said Chavis, whose trade association represents more than 200 African American-owned community newspapers. "I'm going to be very honest: We've lost advertising revenue 80% over the last 12 months."

Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.