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i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
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Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage?
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage?
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage?
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage?
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US had almost *no* job growth in 2025.
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
US had almost *no* job growth in 2025.
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Agreed
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Agreed
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This bit about the Mellon Foundation happening at the same time as the Epstein files is a coincidence but they are connected in that they are both about how under capitalism intellectual work is dependent on the largesse of robber baron tax shells and when one does something useful, they’re policed
February 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This bit about the Mellon Foundation happening at the same time as the Epstein files is a coincidence but they are connected in that they are both about how under capitalism intellectual work is dependent on the largesse of robber baron tax shells and when one does something useful, they’re policed
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Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
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Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
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TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
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![Some escaped to freedom, including Oney Judge. The President’s House displays recognized
Oney Judge and focused on how her struggle for freedom represented this country’s progress
away from the horrors of slavery and into an era where the founding ideals of “Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness”
165 could be embodied for every American.
And yet, in its argument, the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter,
remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments
within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984, where:
The largest section of the [government’s] Records Department . . . consisted simply
of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books,
newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for
destruction. A number of the Times [a newspaper] which might, because of changes
in political alignment, or mistaken prophesies uttered by Big Brother, have been
rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other
copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and
again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had
been made. Even the written instructions [for workers in the Records Department]
. . . never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed; always the
reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to
put right in the interests of accuracy.166
The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of
the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean,
hidden, or overwritten. And why? Solely because, as Defendants state, it has the power. At oral
argument, Defendants insisted:
Although many people feel strongly about this one way, other people may disagree
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![. . . [T]he message that the Government chooses to convey is for the Government
to choose. I don't get to choose what that message is. And it's our position that the
City doesn't either.167
An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot
arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership,
regardless of the evidence before it. Accordingly, the City is likely to prevail on its claims that
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February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Minnesota needs impartial investigations into the shootings of American citizens on our streets. Trump’s left hand cannot investigate his right hand. The families of the deceased deserve better.
www.keyc.com/2026/02/16/f...
www.keyc.com/2026/02/16/f...
FBI denies BCA access to evidence in Minnesota ICE-involved shooting investigations
Despite the FBI's refusal to cooperate, the BCA has reaffirmed its commitment to conducting thorough, independent, and transparent investigations into all three incidents.
www.keyc.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Minnesota needs impartial investigations into the shootings of American citizens on our streets. Trump’s left hand cannot investigate his right hand. The families of the deceased deserve better.
www.keyc.com/2026/02/16/f...
www.keyc.com/2026/02/16/f...
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The cover up of the Trump administration’s murders is well underway.
Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
FBI will not provide the BCA access to evidence gathered from Pretti shooting, BCA says
Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
www.mprnews.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The cover up of the Trump administration’s murders is well underway.
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New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
www.publicnotice.co
February 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
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Cases of measles cropped up in two centers for unauthorized immigrants in Arizona and Texas last month. They are almost 1,000 miles apart, yet the centers have one thing in common: They are operated by CoreCivic, a publicly traded detention company with a checkered track record.
Sick Detainees Describe Poor Care at Facilities Run by ICE Contractor
Problems at detention centers operated by CoreCivic extend far beyond recent measles outbreaks.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Cases of measles cropped up in two centers for unauthorized immigrants in Arizona and Texas last month. They are almost 1,000 miles apart, yet the centers have one thing in common: They are operated by CoreCivic, a publicly traded detention company with a checkered track record.
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it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
prospect.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act
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People really reaching to make the Epstein story about anything other than gender.
February 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
People really reaching to make the Epstein story about anything other than gender.
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All my lazy teenage boasts
Are now high-precision ghosts
Are now high-precision ghosts
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
All my lazy teenage boasts
Are now high-precision ghosts
Are now high-precision ghosts
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When faced with my demons
I clothe them and feed them
I clothe them and feed them
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
When faced with my demons
I clothe them and feed them
I clothe them and feed them
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"Ms. Bondi’s refusal to look the survivors in the eye was symbolic of a broader failure. The [DOJ] had an opportunity to finally prioritize the women who were preyed upon by Mr. Epstein and his circle. Instead, through a combination of malice and incompetence, it has done the opposite."
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"Ms. Bondi’s refusal to look the survivors in the eye was symbolic of a broader failure. The [DOJ] had an opportunity to finally prioritize the women who were preyed upon by Mr. Epstein and his circle. Instead, through a combination of malice and incompetence, it has done the opposite."
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Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
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Opinion | Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims
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February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
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Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.
Laws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality rates
Rising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...
www.healio.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.
Exactly. This is a good point
They thought he would cut taxes and gut regulations and they would get rich. They thought he would get rid of immigrants but not the immigrants they were paying substandard wages to, because they voted R and gave money to the party. They were supposed to be protected from loss.
“.. They’re builders, contractors, lumber companies ..
“.. They started off with, ‘hey, we were all Trump supporters, and we thought he was going to secure the border .. we just never thought that they were going to be coming after our folks ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“.. They started off with, ‘hey, we were all Trump supporters, and we thought he was going to secure the border .. we just never thought that they were going to be coming after our folks ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Exactly. This is a good point
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 PM
How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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4) Open our borders. Acknowledge a presumptive freedom to live and work in the US, defeasible for extraordinary situations. Create a clear and easy path to citizenship for all who want it, which involves some minimum residency requirement, oaths, and the like.
February 10, 2026 at 6:35 PM
4) Open our borders. Acknowledge a presumptive freedom to live and work in the US, defeasible for extraordinary situations. Create a clear and easy path to citizenship for all who want it, which involves some minimum residency requirement, oaths, and the like.
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1) Abolish ICE & DHS. Prosecute. Shift immigration enforcement to pre-2003 arrangements.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
“Abolish ICE” needs to be rhetorically linked to an actual policy program of the sort folks On Here have proposed: return to essentially the 2001 status quo ex ante, shift immigration judges to article iii status, transfer criminal alien removal to grown-up law enforcement, etc.
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
1) Abolish ICE & DHS. Prosecute. Shift immigration enforcement to pre-2003 arrangements.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
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The numbers speak for themselves
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
The numbers speak for themselves
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“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com