David Monroe

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom We have seen this song and dance before.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

ICE agents shot three people in MN last month. We now know that in all three shootings, DHS lied about what happened.

They’re hiding evidence, stifling investigations, and fabricating information. They’re lying right to your face.

We won’t let them get away with it - Minnesotans deserve justice.

Just good friends.

When Pam Bondi says revealing everything will collapse everything 🤷🏻🖖🏻

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

Quick question: Is being mentioned in the Epstein Files over a million times a lot? Asking for all of us (most of us, anyway)

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The work World Central Kitchen does in Gaza is incredible and heroic

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are".

-W. Somerset Maugham

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

I don't mind being misunderstood, I just wish people would misunderstand me for the right reasons.

is this how i die

Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds - Inside Climate News Analysis of federal data by a nonprofit watchdog group found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.

Under the Trump EPA - enforcement action against polluters has plummeted... via @insideclimatenews.org by Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

Sometimes actors in Star Trek become load bearing. Critically important for its future. Leonard Nimoy became this – a person who understood its core message and helped lead, write, and produce. Tawny Newsome is quickly becoming this and we fans and the franchise are going to be better off for it.

Richard Dawkins in the Epstein Files. Some things in life really come as a shock, and this is not one of them.

The first known use of 'paranoid' was in 1901.

Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.

Illustration styled like an old engraving shows a well-dressed figure standing over a glass-fronted machine, while inside the machine a man operates mechanical parts, creating the illusion of automation. Large yellow text reads “Artificial intelligence” at the top and “Lowly-paid human labor” near the worker inside the machine.

Blink 1488

My Morning Jackboot

What? Trump did a racism? Oh no, if only there were a decades long list of documented racist actions, and comments going back to the 1970s that could have predicted this totally explicable turn of events.

it's obvious but needs to be said: there is no bottom to any of this because we are seeing inside their minds what acts and words occur before the guard rails come off and while some semblance of rule of law still exists.

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...

Corporatist fascism, plain and simple.

DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics.

This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

how much unchecked influence over society & government do they have to have before we quit saying billionaires and start saying oligarchs

An incredible last WaPo story from one of the finest tech journalists out there, @nitasha.bsky.social, whose work I always read and (most importantly) always trust.