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1:01 NEW YORKER THE POLITICAL SCENE PODCAST WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MEGALOMANIAC BEGINS TO FAIL The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Donald Trump and "autocratic backfire." February 13, 2026 THE NEW YORKER THE POLITICAL SCENE FROM WASHINGTON Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos - here to listen.

#podcast #convo on #Trump —

𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 “𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘨𝘰” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘦𝘯-𝘎𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘵…

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The people who have to insure our homes and cars know that climate change is real, because it affects their bottom line. It's not that regulating emissions is bad for business; it's just bad for a small number of industries that happen to be very powerful.

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
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Heat map form CDC data with PMC estimates of 1 in 71 actively infectious, nearly 700,000 new daily infections.

PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.)

14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.

Minnesota may be at an all-time high.

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For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

Western US states fail to negotiate crucial Colorado River deal: ‘Mother nature isn’t going to bail us out’ Negotiators disbanded on Friday without a plan for the basin supplying water to 40m people, thrusting the region into uncertainty

“There needs to be unbelievably harsh, unprecedented cuts” that will affect water users in major ways.....Mother Nature is not going to bail us out.”

Ultimately, on a hotter planet, this entire region of the US has no future

Better get used to it 😳
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Trump: ‘There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!’ "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," wrote Trump, who is not a lawyer.

Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.

Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Nothing to see here…just more criminals buying their way out prison.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

I clicked on Like because your post is insightful, but as a Giants fan I don't like my team's chances of competing against these guys

Yes, also good use of selective focus (survivors are in focus while Bondi is not)

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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ICE is at my friend's grandkids' GRADE school in the Catskill Mountains. They're not letting the kids on the bus - parents have to pick them up and show their birth certificates.

This is WRONG! Convicted Felon Donald Trump & Botox Barbie Noem lied about only arresting criminals.

#FuckICE

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

No, the Dodgers should absolutely not go to the White House A recording from Molly Knight and Mike Madrid's live video

Free for all readers: the Dodgers say they will visit Trump in the White House to celebrate their World Series championship. This is a cowardly decision that is wrong on every level, and a stab in the back to the city of Los Angeles. Essay under video:
mollyknight.substack.com/p/no-the-dod...

FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines

NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Best Source of ICE Detention Data Just Got Better: "Detention Reports" Now Includes Map, New Graph, & Facility Contracts DetentionReports.com now features an interactive national map of all 237 ICE detention facilities, comparative scatter plots showing facility populations and length of stay, and a contracts archive.

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Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be Author Max Chafkin argues that Thiel may be the most powerful person in Silicon Valley—and perhaps the world.

Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be.
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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.

It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Sadly, this actually sounds totally possible.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great

(They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

It's Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College As AI appears to do much of the work of entry-level job seekers, the entire premise of a college education seems to be collapsing.

Headline in Futurism, a science and technology news website: “It’s Starting to Look Like #AI Has Killed the Entire Model of #College.” futurism.com/future-socie...