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TIM DILLON: “That’s right— so what if we snatched your kids and took them to an island? The DOW is up! So what we worship Baal? The Dow is up!”

A portion of the Strøget pedestrian street in Copenhagen that widens into a grand people-place.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return.

Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On Valentine’s Day, 1990, at the request of Carl Sagan, NASA turned Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look. From 3.7 billion miles away, it captured this: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Here is how Carl Sagan beautifully described it: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

"The Pale Blue Dot"

The Earth as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1 on #ValentinesDay in 1990:
📸NASA

Trump being unpresidential.

He's just pathetic at this point. Beyond reprehensible and utterly pathetic. Embarrassing little weasel of a man.

Trump’s Magically Disappearing Stimulus Checks I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom.

Absent any real action to address affordability, Trump and his allies usually turn to his preferred backup plan: culture wars and racism. ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4aP9yIE

Want To Be an Olympian and Can't Make the U.S. Team? Move to Israel. On Saturday morning, Illinois-native Jillian Schwartz and Los Angelino Donald Sanford will put on their uniforms and take the Olympic stage in London where they will compete in the qualifying rounds f...

Funny that the BBC can find no outrage on X about the many Americans who compete at the Olympics for Israel despite having no parents who are citizens, only their religion www.tabletmag.com/sections/spo...

This is how antivaxxers operate: using the same provocateur actions as far-right groups to stir up outrage. All publicity is good publicity for them. Del Bigtree should be denied a visa - a significant threat to public health in Australia

Trump is clowning his evangelical base He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.

"The closest Trump ever comes to genuine religious conviction is his insistence, despite all contrary evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him."
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Technically that’s accurate if you read it the right way…

The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....

I will continue to beat this drum: this is not about what happens on Election Day, but afterwards.

The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.

No amount of love or money will ever be enough.

How dangerous is Donald Trump’s “endangerment” decision? It removes a cornerstone of climate regulation

By denying the threat that greenhouse gases pose to human health, Donald Trump has made the requirement to regulate them disappear. The consequences will be catastrophic for future generations of Americans. www.economist.com/united-state...

Hell to the no. Video deleted, both guards (one of them a janitor) went to sleep for 3 hours? With the highest profile inmate in the U.S.?

I just learned the prison guards refused to answer questions to investigators. 2 pled the 5th.

Let them fight!

Two cases and the grease that breaks democracy The obvious lesson many are drawing is that ordinary citizens are more reliable protectors of democracy than judges in black robes.

The problem for democracy is that it will not survive three more years of such a system. We cannot hold free and fair elections if judges blindly accept the word of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel’s minions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Fortescue launches its first electric locomotives - with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs Fortescue has launched the first of its massive battery trains, which it says the hardest part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030.

Fortescue launched 14.5 MWh battery-electric locomotives in the Pilbara — that’s ~200+ Tesla packs worth of storage rolling through iron ore country. Heavy haul rail. No diesel. Massive regen on the downhill runs. This is industrial #Bettrification ⚡🚆

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

A major use of crypto: human trafficking. The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

On the contrary, DEMAND a democratic election. Do not cede anything in advance.

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats.

We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

Study finds no link between COVID-19 vaccines and autism

Study finds no link between COVID-19 vaccines and autism www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

Other countries can do it, why can’t we?

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The “I just need you to find me 11,780 votes” guy is very concerned about election security.