Steve Bergin 🌎

We need stats on outlet assist leaders with pass going at least 50 feet. Style points in separate column.

Where is EU and others who should be doing something to support people in Iran and force regime out? Staying on sidelines and doing nothing leaves it for Trump to make a mess. And if Trump does nothing? then what?

Have you written on the proposals to tax the loans billionaires take out to fund their spending and thus avoid paying taxes on their wealth? Seems potentially more practical but how to know revenue that would be generated directly or from increased capital gains...

been an influencer.

At least she did something that can be appealed to the 11th circuit: Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of the Jack Smith second volume on the Trump prosecutions.

"The Cyclops," painted by Odilon Redon, 1914. Via Wikipedia

The origin of our eyes over half a billion years ago is looking more and more weird--from a cyclops to four eyes to two. Here's my story (gift link): nyti.ms/4rzisQP

Opinion | Blue Cities and States Are in Trouble. Democrats Need to Change How They Run Them.

'They will have to push back against a core constituency within the Democratic Party that often makes government deliver less and cost more: unions representing teachers, police officers and transit workers.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

🚨 Guardian job alert 🚨 we're looking for an assistant editor, environment (12 month contract, London)

workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions.

www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded? Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?

Open review until 11 March

essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

What's happening in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta? Explosions, roadblocks and gunfire have been reported throughout the state, after law enforcement actions on Sunday morning.

Unrest happening this morning not just in Puerto Vallarta but all throughout the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacán.
mexiconewsdaily.com/el-bajio/wha...

No tsunami threat after earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes Borneo A magnitude 7 earthquake struck just off the north coast of the island of Borneo in the early hours of Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

No tsunami threat after earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes Borneo reut.rs/4kZ3bGj

Our Mission at the Environmental Protection Agency Is Simple: Destroy the Environment “President Trump announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal...

"With the president’s approval, we have officially terminated Obama-era policies that regulated pollution from motor vehicles and factories. These regulations came with disastrous consequences, such as preventing premature deaths and asthma attacks in children."

YouTube video by LatinHype Willie Colon - Idilio

RIP El Gran Willie Colon: youtu.be/tUOQl42yoHU?...

'It’s the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of identities — political, religious, racial, ethnic. And almost always it is done to expand or entrench political power.'

Harry - how many of these people can sue?

Five authors I've read at least five books by:

Vladimir Nabokov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Virginia Woolf
William Faulkner
T.C. Boyle

Blizzard warning in effect as nor’easter threatens NYC and NJ with 1.5 feet of snow https://gothamist.com/news/blizzard-conditions-expected-for-nyc-and-nj-noreaster-that-could-bury-region-under-15-feet-of-snow

A government can be harsh in denying asylum, cruel even in canceling green cards, in deporting every foreigner who is without permission. There is no justification though, ever, for throwing people in jail. Close the camps before they open.

Margaret Sullivan on how Trump coverage still falls short "A different, more skeptical approach is absolutely necessary."

New in PN: A conversation with @sulliview.bsky.social on the state of political coverage in 2026

"This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful."

High-Impact Blizzard To Impact Major U.S. Cities Major blizzard to affect the I-95 corridor Sunday and Monday. Here's the latest information.

If you live in DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York or Boston. Heads up.

My details on late weekend Blizzard

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Who's going to step up and Khan Academy for this? (and general Civics while they're at it)

Exactly. This is why I advocate for all journalists having to trip balls. Only those having positive experience get their 'Hunter S. Thompson license' to practice journalism.

Impeach Thomas and Alito? Expand the court? how do we fix this?

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

"A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty. Masks obscure government action and deprive the public of its 4th Amendment protections."

Where's your plan Pete? Let's get going. This is one of most fundamental fixes we should be pushing but it needs an actual plan or we will waste the opportunity with people arguing over angels on head of a pin.

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Even odds for all! (Finalists draft last, Quarter-finalists exluded from Top 10)

Cut the number of agents! They have plans for the camps but they have many more bad intentions they can carry out with a paramilitary force that answers to Trump. How many did Bush have?