Jeff Spakowski

@michigandems.bsky.social

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪

Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

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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.

But we can't have shame, lest college kids try to shame people who support genocide and climate catastrophe and singlehandedly create even more fascism.

Hilton checkin desk with Epoch Times papers for all!

So in addition to hosting ICE, Hilton’s newspaper of choice…Epoch Times??!!! Jesus never thought I’d be nostalgic for USA Today

Graphic titled "the climate bois" featuring a spectrum: sad bois, mad bois, glad bois and bad bois, defined as: - sad bois (also known as doomers, climate denihilists) - For a minute there we thought Kate Aronoff had rid us of the doomers once and for all, but they seem to be making the rounds again. - mad bois - These guys are everywhere, mad that people are worried about climate change, mad that people aren't embracing the same solutions they want, really mad at the environmental movement, mad, mad mad! Recent examples include Bjorn Lomborg, Matthew Yglesias, and Michael Shellenberger. - glad bois: a close brother to the madboi, the gladboi just wants everyone to chill the fuck out and remember that well, actually technology solves everything and even though lots of dudes in power have made terrible decisions, they probably won't do it again. Key examples: The Breakthrough Institute, Ezra Klein, the abundance bros. - bad bois: The OG blimateboi, we used to call them "deniers" now they're badbois. It's tempting to think these guys are too clownishly villanous to hold any real power, but counterpoint: Have you seen the EPA lately? Examples include Steve Milloy, Marc Morano, and a certain president.

it was @katearonoff.bsky.social who first talked about Climate Sadbois, but me and @maryannaise.bsky.social broadened the spectrum of climate bois in the Hot Take newsletter. Graphic attached! In case you're wondering, yes absolutely abundance bros are gladbois.

As Europe Leaves Controversial Treaty, the Secretariat Courts Resource-Rich African Countries European countries are leaving the Energy Charter Treaty amid concerns that it blocks national climate action. Internal documents reveal that the Secretariat of the investor-friendly mechanism is now ...

The EU and several of its member states have figured out that the Energy Charter Treaty is just a way for fossil fuel companies to block climate action. Now the ECT is trying to woo resource-rich African countries to join @rishpardikar.bsky.social reports drilled.media/news/ect-afr...

It goes without saying, but someone should say it: they're all men.

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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A historic victory!!!

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

But will the Senators vote no to #AbolishICE or just to have them wear body cameras?

NASA chief: Artemis moon landing is litmus test for ‘American exceptionalism’

Artemis moon landing is litmus test for ‘American exceptionalism’? I'm not sure Isaacman understands what American exceptionalism is. It's not being at good at stuff. It's 19th century philosophy that the rules don't apply to the US.

It’s not every journalist there but I personally know that the New York Times has in recent years published lies without any fact checking

And I know this with complete confidence because the lies were about me and I know that no fact checkers contacted me

This is a huge problem

Punishing climate alarm didn’t just “appeal” to Pielke Jr and “analysts” at The Breakthrough Institute.

They *actively collaborated* to establish the narrative that we have already “avoided the worst case climate scenario.”

This propaganda was then amplified by the right-wing & centrist press.

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All time photo.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

What a Moroun.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why is this a thing? Because under the patriarchy, all women are stupid and only fit to be servants to men, so that men can thrive.That's your male privilege right there, and the cause of discrimination against 4 billion humans. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Thank goodness @schumer.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov are firmly holding the line at adding body cameras.
#ICEout
#VoteBlueIfTheyEarnIt

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

Surprise US military plans to use counter-drone laser triggered El Paso airspace closure, Sources say | CNN A Pentagon plan to use a high-energy, counter-drone laser without having coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration about potential risks to civilian flights prompted Wednesday’s unprecedent...

These people are morons

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

And some local government folks are bending over backwards to take in an ICE facility. Kudos for all resisting this and in some cases winning.

The difference between how the Star Tribune is reporting from the Twin Cities and how the LA Times is reporting from Los Angeles tells you a lot about how much media ownership politics has fucked Los Angeles

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

The rise of vice-signalling: how hatred poisoned politics Over the last 10 years, the terms of political debate have changed completely – and week by week they seem to get worse

"Every vice-signal, whether it’s Trump or Farage or Jenrick or Herbert Kickl, is telling you the rules are over. If you can’t believe them the first time, at least believe them the 100th." @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social

The Anti-Vice Popular Front is expanding

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

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

In today’s #404DeepDive, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social gets into Ring’s new feature Search Party which was advertised at the Super Bowl which essentially turns the entire neighborhood into a security dragnet.

Read more: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...