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Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”

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the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare

11.02.2026 02:37 — 👍 2327    🔁 570    💬 36    📌 22
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

11.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 307    🔁 141    💬 8    📌 20
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 7475    🔁 2378    💬 45    📌 211

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now.

Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

10.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 873    🔁 540    💬 67    📌 59
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

10.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 10576    🔁 5754    💬 313    📌 726

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

10.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 2642    🔁 810    💬 33    📌 17

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

10.02.2026 21:11 — 👍 5477    🔁 2577    💬 42    📌 48

New York Magazine’s coverage from 2007 treated her as a joke & backgrounded Epstein raping her. (“rococo law filings filed by William J Unroch, Esq, on behalf of his client and maybe-girlfriend, Maximilia ‘Ava’ Cordero, a self-described model who claimed that at 16 she was molested by…Epstein”)

10.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 1245    🔁 351    💬 13    📌 3
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Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

10.02.2026 21:22 — 👍 2159    🔁 1054    💬 53    📌 87

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

10.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 5018    🔁 1500    💬 48    📌 10

“Those pepper sprays have a mind of their own, though, you know how it is!”

10.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“There’s been no effort to protect Trump,” was the quote, I think

10.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What an incredible lucky steak to have over 96% of those mentions inadvertently redacted for the public version

10.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Rep. Lieu: “Howard Lutnick must resign… The Epstein Files new release shows that not only did Howard Lutnick lie to the American people, he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, he visited Epstein Island, and Howard Lutnick did this knowing how evil Epstein was.”

10.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 8005    🔁 2493    💬 257    📌 101

Circle back to this one. It’s still a crime for an agency head to lie to Congress, last I checked.

10.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 335    🔁 63    💬 4    📌 0

In America today we have people who support the masked armed kidnappers putting kids in jails, and we have people who object to this.

10.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

As a reminder, because McIver had the temerity to attempt oversight of ICE in her own district, the regime is actively prosecuting her and threatening her with a long prison sentence. But she's not backing down.

10.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 878    🔁 242    💬 8    📌 1

Well then play it. Play it again and again until there’s an answer. Make them answer for sending Nazi death troops to wage a war of terror against the U.S. civilian population.

10.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 1177    🔁 313    💬 13    📌 1

Worth remembering that anyone who knows the jobs number a day ahead can open some options contracts or open a new account at a prediction market and cash in. Easy money and there’s no evidence that anyone at DoJ / SEC is interested in protecting the markets from these shenanigans.

10.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
10.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 6696    🔁 2265    💬 11    📌 28
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Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.

Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

09.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 554    🔁 270    💬 18    📌 68

Why do Trump and MAGA think it's good to spend billions on huge prison camps and divert massive law enforcement resources away from child and drug trafficking to arrest and detain non-criminals who would otherwise be contributing vitally to our economy?

10.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 478    🔁 107    💬 31    📌 13
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

10.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 5246    🔁 1670    💬 90    📌 284

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

10.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 4258    🔁 1867    💬 60    📌 39

“Good job catching and firing that queer-friendly adjunct! Here’s an extra 2% bump in appropriations for you next year!” (said no state legislator, ever)

10.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why the hell would anyone do this

Where is the faculty-recording incident that worked out well for the school in question, in any way?

10.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

you can be excited and inspired about the future if you don’t drive away everyone who once cared about you and replace them with weird fanboys. musk fundamentally needs longshot projects because his own choices have made his personal life a barren wasteland

10.02.2026 04:33 — 👍 679    🔁 94    💬 8    📌 6
AOC on Cuba: This is what we've seen with Gaza—a new era of depravity. There used to be stated protections for innocent civilians, and now it's almost acceptable for the Western world to look the other way as people are starved or deprived—simply because political actors or regimes in that country are found objectionable.
What we're seeing is the possible precipice of hospitals running out of fuel. Innocent children and women could be put in harm's way. It's incumbent upon all of us to defend human rights no matter where...

AOC on Cuba: This is what we've seen with Gaza—a new era of depravity. There used to be stated protections for innocent civilians, and now it's almost acceptable for the Western world to look the other way as people are starved or deprived—simply because political actors or regimes in that country are found objectionable. What we're seeing is the possible precipice of hospitals running out of fuel. Innocent children and women could be put in harm's way. It's incumbent upon all of us to defend human rights no matter where...

Interesting rhetoric from AOC here

10.02.2026 03:22 — 👍 1367    🔁 238    💬 12    📌 10

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

10.02.2026 03:56 — 👍 9176    🔁 2812    💬 335    📌 1
​A screenshot of a post from the account Acyn featuring a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The text of the post quotes AOC speaking about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, drawing parallels to Gaza.
​She describes a "new era of depravity" where innocent civilians are starved or deprived because their political regimes are found "objectionable." She emphasizes the need to defend human rights, mentioning the risk of hospitals running out of fuel and children being put in harm's way. The video thumbnail shows AOC walking through a hallway while being interviewed by a reporter holding a microphone.
​Would you like me to help you draft more QRTs based on these specific images or provide a deeper summary of the AOC video?

​A screenshot of a post from the account Acyn featuring a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The text of the post quotes AOC speaking about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, drawing parallels to Gaza. ​She describes a "new era of depravity" where innocent civilians are starved or deprived because their political regimes are found "objectionable." She emphasizes the need to defend human rights, mentioning the risk of hospitals running out of fuel and children being put in harm's way. The video thumbnail shows AOC walking through a hallway while being interviewed by a reporter holding a microphone. ​Would you like me to help you draft more QRTs based on these specific images or provide a deeper summary of the AOC video?

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.

The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.

10.02.2026 03:59 — 👍 2735    🔁 1127    💬 39    📌 46

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