Ed Stern

Woah.

Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.

If you don’t follow @proftalmadge.bsky.social then now is the time to change that.

Hey Don,
Bad news. Every major story about you actually does lead back to Russia, Russia, Russia. And everyone knows it.
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Disgusting racism.

"Last year, Purdue adopted a new policy restricting staff and faculty’s dealings with US-designated 'adversary nations', characterizing it as a response to state and federal laws. The policy says nothing about banning students from those countries."

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck.

Can’t stop thinking about it.

So excited for this!

I think it's important to remember that RFK clearly believes in eugenics and children and mothers who die because they're not strong enough without modern medicine is the goal, not the side effect.

La Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with Fan), 1913 #metzinger #cubism

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

personally I think the New York Times’ chief legal correspondent should know that the court was not a 6-3 conservative majority during Trump’s first term

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

As a rule US Attorney's have a 99 percent win rate.

Of the cases they've brought, so far (well over 100) in LA/Chicago/Minneapolis/DC, they are losing. Like, more than 99 percent *losses*.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

"Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing."

Even on the bench of Madame Guillotine this mf was thinking about engagement metrics

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?

Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.

And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

This fine piece has a submarine phrase that made me gasp aloud. You’ll know it when you read it, and instantly picture it in your mind. I am glowing with envy.

This, and also the games industry already saw a lot of over investment during the start of COVID, just around the time that the growth potential of games might have otherwise stalled. There are a lot of these compounding factors that make water seem like it's running uphill now as a consequence.

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

What’s your favorite song about Istanbul and its deadname

Holy shit.
That “assistant” would be so fired if it was made of meat instead of stolen intellectual property and presumption.

The Gen X urge to rule the world.

i love people

we just be doin shit sometimes, wonderful

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Brendan O'Neill The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor • 20 February 2026, 2:17pm

T he first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target of their flapping ire, they lay waste to their own decency. We see this in the digital hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Behold the ugly gloating over a man's downfall. Witness the peddling of false accusations. The shame, right now, belongs less to Andrew than to those who have made a bloodsport from his troubles. We don't even know if Andrew is guilty. He hasn't even been charged What do we want from Andrew? When will the mass stalking of him like a wounded deer finally be satiated? When his head is on a spike? When all memory of him is scrubbed from the public record? I get it - Andrew is far from a sympathetic character. He strikes me as boorish, pompous, and unlikely to

Michael Gove , who recently commissioned a piece from a man who had just finished serving his prison sentence for attempted rape , now feels it is best to demonise those who are against sexual abuse - it’s all normal just normal

You don’t hear it much, probably due to corporate capture of media, but this is what FDR did that got the ‘33 Act and the ‘34 Act passed. generational anger at corporations funneled into aggressive legislation that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier.

"This [smudge] a place of honor"