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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
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.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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I don’t think I’ve ever been angrier reading anything on the show. Something about seeing this really got to me, it’s shown how many people are misinformed and, worse still, how many more are willing to emphatically agree and endorse nonsensical misinformation. A moment of shame for all involved.
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Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a grifter, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.
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Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/13/2026 · Bonus · 7m
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February 13, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝘿𝘼 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆 𝙐𝙋
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Measles alert for multiple locations in NSW

​"NSW Health is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of 4 new cases across the state."

Source: www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...

Locations: www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/m...
NSW Health public health alert graphic with a warning icon. Large text reads: “Measles alert for multiple locations in NSW.” Dated 13 February 2026, with NSW Government logo at the bottom. Screenshot of an NSW Health article titled “Measles alert for multiple locations in NSW,” dated 13 February 2026. The article reports four new measles cases in NSW, outlines exposure sites across Sydney, Illawarra Shoalhaven, western NSW and the mid north coast, lists symptoms, advises monitoring for up to 18 days after exposure, and urges vaccination and testing. Table listing measles exposure sites in NSW with columns for location and address, date and time, and “monitor for symptoms until.” Locations include pharmacies, emergency departments, clinics, petrol stations, cafés, supermarkets, bakeries, veterinary clinics, and shopping centres across Sydney, Ryde, Heathcote, Albion Park, Calderwood, Robertson, Fitzroy Falls, Toormina, Gladesville, and Coffs Harbour. Exposure dates range from 8–13 February 2026, with symptom monitoring advised until late February or early March 2026, depending on site. Continuation of an NSW Health table listing measles exposure sites, with columns for location and address, date and time, and “monitor for symptoms until.” Locations include cafés, hospital emergency departments, pharmacies, supermarkets, a cathedral, a swim centre, airports, flights, and train lines across Bellingen, Westmead, Bathurst, Gregory Hills, Granville, Parramatta, Coffs Harbour, Sydney Airport, and Sydney rail lines. Exposure dates range from 26 January to 8 February 2026, with symptom monitoring advised until mid to late February 2026.
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
Do wages drive inflation, or does inflation drive wages? A new paper for Switzerland finds inflation strongly influences wage growth, but wages have only a weak effect on prices. Inflation is driven more by imports, expectations, and economic slack than by wage pressures.
February 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."

😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!

"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."

Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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krutikakuppalli.bsky.social
🦠 Measles needs >95% immunity to stop outbreaks
⚠️ Just ~20% vaccine hesitancy is enough to weaken that protection

📊 Our findings highlight the urgent need for targeted evidence-based communication to strengthen the social norm of childhood vaccination
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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krutikakuppalli.bsky.social
🚨🆕 Excited to share our new paper on #measles #vaccination attitudes in the 🇺🇸

As measles cases surge 📈 to highest levels since elimination in 2000, we wanted to understand if U.S. adults intention to vaccinate children against measles

Here’s what we found. 🧵👇
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Intention to vaccinate children against measles: findings from a national survey in the United States
The United States is currently experiencing the largest surge of measles cases since 2000, with over 2855 cases reported across the country since Janu…
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February 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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The @mprnews.org liveblog is a quick, easy way to catch up on Thursday's news around the surge of federal ICE agents in Minnesota.
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The latest on ICE in Minnesota
Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
But they *are* representing the country well, JD.

First amendment n’at.

“Vance shared his view that "the way to bring the country together is not to show up in a foreign country and attack the president of the United States, but it's to play your sport and represent the country well."
Vice President JD Vance issues warning to U.S. Olympians over politics
JD Vance would like American athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics to kindly stop speaking out against the Trump administration: 'You're not there to pop off about politics.'
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February 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Under Trump, the USDA *wildly* underestimated the amount of corn that was harvested by US farmers in 2025.

This has been attributed by experts to be a direct result of massive staffing cuts.

Now, nobody in agriculture trusts USDA estimates and this could have disastrous effects.
USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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edzitron.com
To write this newsletter, and to back up future reporting, I created my own model for data center costs, one I validated with multiple experts and analysts. AI data centers are awful businesses, and I'm very worried about what happens next.
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per chip GB200 Racks All in Capex $/Chip $41,667 All in Capex per W $/W $31 GPU Rental Rate $/W per Yr $12.50 Site Crit IT MW 880 PUE x 1.3 Total Power Draw MW 1144 BTM Redundancy % 0.05 Total BTM Power MW 1201.2 GPU Rental Rate $/W per Yr $12.50 GPU Biz Model Revenue $M/year $11,000 Crit IT Capex $M/year $26,889 Crit IT Depreciation Period Yrs 6 Crit IT Depreciation Cost $/Yr $4,481 Electricity Price $/kwh $0.0790 Electricity Hours Hr/Year 8760 Electricity Cost $/Yr $791.7 Other Opex (% of rev) $/Yr $1,320 Colo Price per Month $/Kw/Mth $95 Colo Cost $Mn per Year $1,003 Total Cost Per Year $Mn per Year $7,596 Annual Gross Profit $/Year $3,404 % Gross Margin % 30.9%
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Tomorrow's Premium: The Great Data Center Financial Crisis, where 20-40% margins are only possible after years of construction and billions in debt, and if we don't have $100bn in demand by 2028, everything's a wash.

Here's $10 off annual.
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If Non-OpenAI/Anthropic AI Compute Isn’t A $100 Billion A Year Business By 2028, 75%+ Of AI Data Centers Will Go Under I realize this sounds dramatic, but hear me out. If we assume a comparable amount of US-based data center deals happen in 2026, that means that we’re going to need at least $80 billion in annual compute business to make any of it make sense. I realize that somebody could say that Anthropic, OpenAI and hyperscalers are spending $X on compute, but remember: hyperscalers are spending nearly $700 billion in the next year, and while some of that $178.5 billion in debt may be considered theirs, the vast majority of it is likely from independent developers hoping to scoop up some of the revenue from the “insatiable demand for AI compute.” What’s truly insatiable is AI’s appetite for debt. AI is so expensive to build for that it necessitates massive amounts of upfront capital, and because most AI data centers are being built by either brand new entities or cryptocurrency miners attempting to move onto their next grift, the debt is often high-interest, and gosh darn do these motherfuckers need a lot of it. There are also blatantly obvious signs that the demand doesn’t exist, the most glaring being that NVIDIA has pledged $26 billion of its own money to pay its customers to rent back its GPUs per its last earnings: Multi-year cloud service agreement commitments as of October 26, 2025, were $26 billion for which $1 billion, $6 billion, $6 billion, $5 billion, $4 billion, and $4 billion will be paid in fiscal years 2026 (fourth quarter), 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031 & thereafter, respectively. Some cloud service capacity may be reduced, terminated or sold to others by the CSPs, in which case our commitments will be reduced. We expect cloud service agreements to be used to support our research and development efforts and DGX Cloud offerings. NVIDIA is also planning to lease 200MW of data center capacity funded entirely by junk bonds, for some reason. … Why AI Data Centers Are So Uniquely Unstable So, why hasn’t this been a problem in the past? Scale: in the past, data centers were way, way smaller. It was a big deal back in 2023 when Applied Digital vowed to build a 5MW data center that would have 300 GPUs, and likely a lot cheaper to build. Up-Front Cost For Critical IT: building an AI data center is a fucking nightmare for your balance sheet, as you need thousands of GPUs that each cost $50,000 or more and require massive server racks, networking and all sorts of other crap to make them run, and when they finally turn on, revenues have to fill a massive hole. Up-Front Cost For Construction, Power and Cooling: All of that specialized GPU compute requires a bunch of specialized cooling and infrastructure, as well as way, way more power. They Take Years To Build: Depending on the data center, construction can take anywhere from a year to three years. Stargate Abilene started construction in 2024, and won’t be finished until 2027 at the earliest. All of these factors create massive, impossible-to-avoid charges up front, which requires massive debt to fund them, followed by onerous construction timelines, at which point these data centers better have a fucking customer, or they’re absolutely quad-fucked. The Money Does Not Exist To Make AI Data Centers Make Sense So, one clapback against this piece is to suggest that OpenAI and Anthropic will combine to spend over $550 billion by 2030, and my answer there is “how?” You see, neither company can actually afford to pay that much, and thus rely on a near-constant flume of venture capital to the point that new rounds require a fucking We Are The World telethon to get done. Anthropic’s $30 billion round had thirty seven different investors, which heavily suggests we’re hitting the limits of what venture capital, private equity and even hyperscalers can afford to fund these companies. And to be clear, even with an IPO, neither of these companies can afford to pay their current commitments, and both of these companies are the only entities using large amounts of compute. Anthropic needed that money less than five months after it raised $13 billion! OpenAI is already trying to raise another $100 billion despite receiving $22.5 billion from SoftBank less than two months ago! And really, where’s the rest of the demand? Because unless the AI compute industry is going to 10x in the next 12 months, the demand does not exist! If the argument is that AI startups will want to rent these GPUs directly, then I simply must ask where that money is coming from, because they’re all unprofitable too? Tell me: what happens when the majority of this data center debt goes tits up? That’s the scenario we’re setting up for. How The Chain Of Pain Breaks The Back Of The Data Center Boom There are really two scenarios here: either there’s a massive, unbelievable surge of AI demand that floods AI data centers with tens of billions of dollars of revenue in the next year, or the majority of data center debt deals are left unpaid. Regardless, the raw economics of the AI data center boom are horrendous. Even in the best-case scenario, with guaranteed tenancy for years, these data centers are so debt-dependent and drenched in depreciation, opex and maintenance that even the most meager margins are hard to attain. Even if you believe that every data center occupant will be timely with its payments, my model shows that even the slightest push or delay can send costs spiralling out of control, and any failure by OpenAI or CoreWeave will likely create a cascade effect, choking off any potential new data center deals and breeding anxiety in the hearts of those who have already issued them. CoreWeave is likely the first domino to fall, and when it does so, it’ll rip a hole in Applied Digital’s balance sheet, and potentially kill Core Scientific, a company with a negative 46.7% operating margin who counts CoreWeave as its largest customer. AI data centers cost too much to build and by extension require too much debt. Their margins stink, their customers are all either compute-curious hedge funds or unprofitable startups, and - I don’t say this lightly - rely on a near-distant future where $50 billion to $100 billion of AI compute spend pops up effectively overnight. And then there’s Oracle, who has tied itself to a billion-dollar failson in OpenAI. Even if it can get the lousy 30.9% margins I believe it’s making on Stargate Abilene, the costs associated with building, maintaining and running it are likely to swallow either Oracle or Crusoe whole far before the completion of the data center. Oracle can try and cover the losses by selling more shares and raising more debt, but at some point it…
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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"The evolving science of Long COVID and its far-reaching economic and social impacts."

"Here are 5 promising studies that could help reduce Long COVID’s socioeconomic burden through better diagnosis and treatment."

Source: archive.md/r1nFN
Screenshot of an Open Access Government article titled “The evolving science of Long COVID and its far-reaching economic and social impacts”, dated February 12, 2026. Below the headline is a photo of a woman sitting on a sofa wrapped in a blanket, resting her head on her hand, appearing fatigued or unwell in a softly lit living room. Image credit: Daisy-Daisy / iStock.
February 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
RFK Jr. says we should check with AI about what to eat and then AI totally dunked on his stupid dietary guidance.

Also @bethmariem.bsky.social is doing some downright incredible work, and this article is another tour de force of very professional shade.
RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr.
Grok generated a meal plan to fit RFK Jr.'s food pyramid, then explained why it's bad.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I thought this might be another post about ICE for a second…
Minnesota health officials warn of sexually transmitted fungal infection outbreak
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February 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
It’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!

This time we take on RFK Jr.’s attacks on mifepristone.

Grateful as always for the team that puts these together!

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr’s Bogus Attacks on Mifepristone Threaten Abortion Access | Defend Public Health
Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly challenged the safety of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most abortions. Hundreds of studies using decades of data have conclusively shown that mifepristone is ...
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February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Found a nuanced way to explain the rickety finances of data center development
I’m the CEO of Colocation Corporation (CoCorp), and we’re building a 118MW data center. For the sake of this example (and simplicity), it costs around $1.4 billion to do so, of which I’ve financed $840 million at an interest rate of 6%, with a term of 6 years. Construction takes a year, which means that I’ve been paying $4.2 million a month - or $50.4 million a year - of interest payments to stop the loan from ballooning. Once payments start again - a year later - I’m suddenly paying $16.239 million a month in interest and principal payments (or $194.87 million annually), with principal payments ballooning thanks to the loan now having an effective 5 year term. I’m about to find out exactly how rickety the world of data center leasing really is. Finally, my big, beautiful data center - which features 100MW of critical IT load on a 118MW building - is finally ready, and my new client, GPUCorp, moves into the building and starts paying a colocation fee of $130 per kilowatt a month, or $156 million a year. Pretty good, right? Using a simplified version of depreciation - where we depreciate over 15 years - CoCorp would have about $93 million a year in depreciation costs, which leaves us with big, sexy, honking profits of $63 million a year. That’s 59.6% gross margins! We’re printing money! I’m going to be rich! Wait, fuck! Shit! Ass! I just did the minus of $156 million and $194.87 million! That’s…that’s $38.87 million a year! And that’s when I’m getting paid! I have negative 24.9% operating margins! This sucks ass! Though everybody I know says my gross margins ROCK, gross margins are only on paper! Reality sucks! What am I going to do? As I pace around my office with my hands in my pockets, I get an email from the CEO of GPUCorp (His name is “Glent Fudge”) with a subject heading that says “uh oh.” Turns out that GPUCorp can’t afford to pay its own loans, which means it can’t afford to pay me for my big, beautiful data center. I email back a simple request: “PAY ME … I go to Guns Dot Com and I purchase a rifle. It’s time to kill Glent Fudge. I get a phone call. It’s the bank. “Hey Ed, how are you?” my banker (Shelton Crelton) says. “I just read on CNBC that Glent Fudge ran out of money, and your contract explicitly states that we loaned you this money based on you having a tenant for that 118MW data center.” I begin to sweat. “Do you have another to replace them? If not, you’re in default of your loans.” I do not have another tenant. I try to buy another gun, but guns dot com declines my credit card. I am in default on my loans to the bank, and Shelton Crelton can seize my data center.
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Lol. Moon economy.
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The people of Minnesota who documented ICE at every turn are why ICE is leaving.

My admiration for these everyday people who defended their communities knows no bounds.
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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nickturse.bsky.social
Your the Secretary of Health and Human Services, America!
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 19h
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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He was observing after Alex Pretti's killing. He says feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
He was observing after Alex Pretti's killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Another blow to public health and science.
barackobama.bsky.social Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19h
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM