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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Narrator: "He lost the popular vote in 2016 by about 2.9 million votes."

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.

From @us.theconversation.com:

The change in wording coincided with OpenAI’s transformation from a nonprofit organization into a business increasingly focused on profits.

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

Re-upping this thread in light of today’s news

“The best thing you can do with crime scene footage is leave it alone. Send it to the FBI. Send it to local law enforcement. Send it to journalists. Don’t ‘enhance’ it. Don’t ask Grok to show you what’s under a mask, because Grok doesn’t know. Nobody knows. That’s the whole point of wearing a mask.”

“When you ask Grok to unmask a suspect, you’re not pulling hidden data out of the image. You’re asking the AI to imagine a person… The result is a portrait of someone who doesn’t exist, attached to a real crime, spreading… where millions of people will see it and some of them will believe it.”

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Trump repeals EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution | CNN The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate cha...

The endangerment finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act. It’s considered the federal government’s most powerful tool to tackle climate pollution and the country’s contribution to the global crisis.

Judge says Pete Hegseth is unlawfully retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics A federal judge on Thursday shut down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempts to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders, ruling that the Pen...

“Together, the grand jury declination and ruling from senior US District Judge Richard Leon represent major impediments to efforts by aides of President Donald Trump to use the levers of government to punish Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, over his participation in the video.”

‘We still have a sports section for a few days, and readers need me to tell a story.’ Les Carpenter, an Olympics reporter, was one of hundreds of Washington Post journalists laid off last week. He still feels responsible to the audience of what he calls

After laying him off, the Washington Post gave Les Carpenter the option to come back to the US.

He decided to stay and cover the Games, and he expects to stay in Milan until the Olympics end, on February 22.

"I don’t know anything past February 23."

DOJ’s anti-trust chief has been fired, sources say | CNN Politics Gail Slater, who ran the antitrust division for the Justice Department for nearly a year, was fired by the administration this week, two people familiar with the matter confirm to CNN.

“The friction between Slater and President Donald Trump’s White House had been clear for months. In December, Trump issued a ‘full and unconditional pardon’ for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by his own Justice Department — in a case led by Slater — earlier in 2025.”

Bad Bunny’s dancers, Kalshi, and the insider trading problem Prediction markets, including Kalshi and Polymarket, are exploding in popularity.

This piece by @juddlegum.bsky.social at @popular.info indicates the "prediction markets" potentially combine the flaws of gambling AND the stock market. Neat.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is convicted of child molestation Andrew Johnson tried to bribe a child victim with the promise of a Jan. 6-related payout, prosecutors say. Trump has discussed the possibility of compensating rioters, but no one has received any payments.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump has been convicted of child molestation and other crimes after he tried to use an anticipated payout from the Trump administration to silence one victim, according to a Florida prosecutor's office.

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times.

DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

She went to court to get the body cam footage released.

It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.

Saying “do something b*tch”.

Ramming her car.

Shooting her.

It shows DHS lied.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

#ICYMI, I talked with @vinny.vinesauce.com about Red Vox's new album, out today.

#music #MusicSky

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof (RNS) — ‘I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America,’ the Chic...

NEW via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Blase Cupich, who runs the Archdiocese of Chicago, says that DHS has stopped priests under his purview and demanded proof of citizenship “because of their color.” religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

"Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool."

Lyons after giving a bullshit answer

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons tells Rep. Troy Carter of Louisiana that ICE doesn't arrest U.S. citizens — then adds that Americans have been detained.

Federal Funding for Libraries Prevails | American Libraries Magazine Thanks to the work of advocates, FY2026 appropriations bills signed by President Trump increased federal library funding.

Good news, ICYMI: despite an executive order that threatened to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only source of federal funding dedicated to libraries, Congress passed an increase for library programs run by IMLS, and funding for a school library–focused program.

Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna charged that powerful men are being protected by redactions to the Epstein files after viewing the documents in full. https://cnn.it/4rHWbQl

I really hope someone can help me with this.

I want to ditch my Substack login, but I still want to receive the emails with the great writing I subscribe to there, until the writers (I hope) move to other platforms.

(I'd tag some of them for added visibility, but that feels like snitch-tagging.)

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.