I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

what we're doing is wrong

In addition to their concerns about the conditions in which ICE detainees would be held, local leaders warned that an ICE warehouse in their town of about 30,000 residents could place a heavy burden on emergency services and tarnish the community’s public image while reducing property tax revenues.

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built:

(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

"Patreon post header by Matthew Cortland, dated 02/12/2026, titled 'Oz Is Turning Medicaid Into a Surveillance Tool for ICE.' Includes a screenshot of a tweet from Ashish K. Jha (@ashishkjha) on February 9, 2026, which reads: 'People get mad at me for saying this but I think @DrOz has done a very good job overseeing CMS. Not just because he's advocating for vaccines. But because he's running a complex bureaucracy efficiently, promoting smart policy choices, etc. I am thankful for his leadership.' Jha's tweet is a quote tweet of Frank Luntz sharing an ABC News article quoting Oz saying 'Take the vaccine, please' as measles cases rise."

Oz's CMS is handing Medicaid data to the regime's child abducting, nurse murdering gestapo. In 28 states, ICE can see your diagnoses, your prescriptions, and where you receive care. No court restrictions at all. I wrote about how this works and what it means.

www.patreon.com/posts/150622...

hey thanks for the kind words about this. had no idea if it would connect with folks or not, so glad to see that people dig it! looking forward to getting the next one out there

We all knew he was lying, shouldn't have voted him in, hope this helps

If you are sincerely interested in understanding the needs and experiences of being autistic & non-speaking, avoid The Telepathy Tapes. Instead, follow organizations like @communicationfirst.bsky.social First that advocate for people who “cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood.” 19/

Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day

Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta internal memo says they plan to launch facial recognition for their Ray Ban snoop glasses and it should be fine because groups like the ACLU are busy fighting fascism so won't have time to fight back. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

Not joking or exaggerating at all. A couple things about this: First, Meta is a trash company led by bad people. Second, when fascists run the government, literally everything becomes shittier. Case in point.

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

border czar tom homan said DHS is ending its surge in minnesota. but minnesotans i spoke to (literally yesterday!) said ICE had ramped up its presence in st. cloud and surrounding small towns

www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

Chart showing percentages of professors by race and gender who are represented in different ranks of academia. People of color and women of color are underrepresented in proportion to their numbers in the US population across the board. At the rank of Full Professor: white men (48.5%), white women (27.2%), Asian men (8.6%), Asian women (4.5%), URM men (5%), URM women (4%), other men (2%), other women (1%).

Even though I know these patterns, the percentages continue to shock me. Full article: www.tiaa.org/content/dam/...

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things doesn’t belong.

I’m also wondering why the white Nazi is even included

were y'all afraid to put a non-white person front and center? bc it looks like that.

Why the hell dude-with-the-Nazi-tattoo is front and center? Or there at all?

not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

a sprig of acacia with tiny magical honey-scented poofs & dusty green fern shaped foliage

it’s #fleursday & it is acacia blossom season, which lasts for approximately 15 minutes & is DIVINE. #fleursdujour #flowerreport #flowersformorale

What we know now is a fraction of all human knowledge ever.

What is known to literate societies is a fraction of what we know now.

What is written is a fraction of what literate societies know.

What is digitized is a fraction of what is written.

What is online is a fraction of what is digitized.

I was legit just sitting down to do the proportionate math

Like if donald trump has killed 14 million+ people (some who don’t know it yet), based on the population of the earth, is he at Hitler or Stalin

I stopped doing the math but it’s a real question. And 14 is pretty lowball

Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.

the problem with AI “journalism” is that, as I discussed in this piece, LLMs eventually come up against the constraint that they know only what is legible to the digital. vast swaths of global happenings aren’t digitally legible and will remain so. only human reporters can describe those events.

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job

it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians

never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

all the years of "the internet is the repository of all human knowledge" takes have given people a vastly inflated idea of how much human knowledge is actually on the internet

Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this