Ossoff has been cooking lately

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:

Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.

samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.

The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

UPDATE: Hegseth has included VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on a list of schools off limits for tuition assistance for military officers as part of his campaign against schools he describes as “biased” against the US military.🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Video: A.I. Can Fool Us Into Thinking It’s Human. Now What? And if A.I. tells us it is conscious, should we believe it? The writer Michael Pollan dug into those questions and more on “The Interview.”

A.I. Can Fool Us Into Thinking It’s Human. Now What? - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...

How Soon Will AI Take Your Job? Economists aren’t sure. And politicians don’t have a plan.

Artificial intelligence may be hurtling America toward a mass job-loss event—that is, if the country’s CEOs and business leaders are to be believed. Does anyone have a plan? Josh Tyrangiel reports:

Opinion | A New Jersey Primary Shows the Depth of Democratic Fury

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece is a must read on how angry the Democratic electorate is and how badly some moderates are still misreading it

(gift link)

The NBA should replace the East & West with North, South, East, and West divisions.

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

Opinion | It’s the A.I. Economy, Stupid The Democratic Party needs to prepare for the coming tech revolution.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The Democratic Party needs to be better prepared,” the political strategist Rob Flaherty writes. “The coming A.I. revolution threatens the urban professional class that constitutes a central pillar of its political coalition.”

So many men named in the Epstein files say "I was only emailing him for financial advice, something I now hugely regret of course" and then the email is "hi j-dawg, loved partying with you and the naughty little girls this weekend, same again soon, bestie?" and Epstein replying "me am sayy yse . !1"

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

George Carlin always nailed it.

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JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

Is that, is that a good sign?

This new building material pulls carbon out of the air A new building material developed by engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute could change how the world builds. Made using an enzyme that turns carbon dioxide into solid minerals, the material cu...

This new building material pulls carbon out of the air
A new enzyme-powered building material turns CO2 into strength—offering a cleaner, faster alternative to concrete
It’s strong, repairable, recyclable, and far cleaner than concrete.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a paraselene was observed overnight over Moscow and nearby regions, causing the illusion of multiple moons appearing in the sky. The effect occurs when light from the real Moon is refracted by flat ice crystals high in the atmosphere.

👇🏽 @gallego.senate.gov amplifying a witness who worked for Epstein swearing under oath Trump/Epstein threatened witnesses with death/disappearance if they revealed the child sex abuse she witnessed

What the hell was Qanon doing? There really was/is an international child sex trafficking ring and they got almost none of the leaders of it right. Just a whole group of world-class stupid motherfuckers, man

Oh thank god Jordan Shough, the wife of Saints starting QB Tyler Shough, is a progressive Queen and not like the whackjob in KC.

Derik Queen hits the Shammgod to get past Jock Landale

The New Library for Magdalene College Cambridge

The New Library for Magdalene College Cambridge

The New Library for Magdalene College Cambridge

The New Library for Magdalene College Cambridge

The New Library for Magdalene College
Cambridge
Architect: Níall McLaughlin Architects

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money.

And he was still threatening to kill someone.

The Sins on the River Road Cannot Be Erased How did a tiny industrial hub in Louisiana find itself at the center of America’s culture war? For St. John the Baptist Parish, the history is much deeper—and the costs of one age are stacked on the c...

I haven't seen a work of journalism like this in a long time. Powerful...As a Louisianain, thank you @tribecalledlex.bsky.social for telling this story. www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/f...

Imagine if all the congressional Dems got on a plane & flew to Minnesota to show up in solidarity. This is the only reasonable response. They are blowing it every single day. They haven’t used an iota of their power just as CITIZENS let alone ELECTED & PAID ones. They are more complicit by the day.