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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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ooooooof :,( washingtonian.com/2026/02/18/h...
Hemphill Artworks Has Closed Its DC Gallery - Washingtonian
Hemphill Artworks, the longtime modern and contemporary art gallery and a stalwart of the DC scene, has closed its location in Mount Vernon Square, a sign of the challenges facing art dealers across t...
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February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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a funny pattern i've noticed from wikipedia editing: an artist, often a famous and respected one, will make the decision that their biography must not inform their art. dozens of museum shows, monographs, millions spent investing in recording this artist's output, all focused on ~the work~
February 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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back in ny next month to see art n friends, time for my thrice yearly tradition of opening 250+ tabs to figure out what shows to hit up. and still inevitably missing something very cool.
February 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 3d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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kinda shocked the martin puryear fountain in bethesda is actually running rn. also they’re redeveloping this whole spot so who knows how long all these puryear details will last, they got rid of the elyn zimmerman fountains a few blocks away when another block was redone :,(
A horizontal waterfall fountain, spanned by a concrete or granite footbridge leading to a curved bench in the same material. Snow is visible at the bottom of the fountain. Slatted wood and metal awnings outside the entrance of a building in Bethesda. A large bronze knot sculpture on the top of a conical roof. Metal trellises leading through a plaza, with a slatted fan metal roof. Hibernating trees and vines are winding throughout the trellis, and piles of snow are visible at left.
February 15, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
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Tyler Austin Harper “l've spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.” Scoop: DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify approx 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants the Al tool deemed as related to DEl, which were then terminated in April of last year, according to a new court filing released today. Among the terminated grants were a film analyzing how baseball helped heal frictions between the U.S. and Japan caused by World War I; a documentary titled "The Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust;" a film focused on the Colfax massacre of 1873, where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of Confederate soldiers and KKK members; and a film about the first female pilots to fly for the U.S. military during World War II.
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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peark.es
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 5d
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP's misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink. In total, according to CBP's own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 - the last year numbers are available - at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective: • The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation's fourth largest police department - equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
February 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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markhisted.org
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health.

CW for basically everything
She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her.
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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lettersofnote.com
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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so uhhhhh what the fuck does this timing dispute mean and is there actually a chance it works? or is Mendelson just bluffing/trying to score a point

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Just before the vote, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) posted a notice on the city’s legislative website, declaring that the bill that Congress sought to reject, the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act, had become law. The notice said Congress’s 30-day legislative review period that it has to disapprove D.C. laws under the Home Rule Act had expired Wednesday. Congress and the D.C. Council have tended to count the 30 days differently, a timing disagreement that has not been litigated before.
February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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adriandaub.bsky.social
Just a quick note that if you did the ol' seal clap when the police roughed up student protesters on campuses across the US, you don't get to now be horrified by the entirely predictable downstream outcome. archive.ph/MZJVG
Woman in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure After Falling Leqaa Kordia, 33, of New Jersey, was hospitalized after hitting her head at a Texas detention center, her lawyer said. She was initially arrested during a 2024 protest at Columbia University.
February 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
This is all due to the incredible resistance of the people of Minnesota.

Their resilience - and their determination - helped enforce the Constitution in a way that political elites in Congress and the courts did not or could not.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 6d
!!! BREAKING: Border czar Tom Homan announces ICE's surge in Minnesota will conclude.
February 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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has anyone written a more recent look back piece on the impacts of bridgeman v corel? I've only ever seen journal articles from like the 00s and early 10s.
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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arguably four of the most important healthcare providers currently operating in the US! say what you want about whitman-walker, but they gave blood sweat and tears to make american medicine give a damn about HIV/AIDS and treat queer/trans people like we're humans. i keep running out words.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d
The Trump administration is going directly after LGBTQ healthcare providers and targeting them with threats of losing access to Medicaid/Medicare payments.

This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by "HHS General Counsel Mike Stuart" (@HHSGCMikeStuart), dated February 11, 2026. The post states that healthcare systems are "stopping sex-rejecting procedures and gender mutilation of our children." It claims that the ASPS and AMA have made statements against these procedures and that over 40 hospital systems have recently stopped providing them. The post further announces that referrals for investigation have been made to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at HHS for several Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), including: Whitman-Walker Health (Washington D.C.) Community Health Project, Inc./Callen-Lorde (New York) Los Angeles LGBT Center (California) The Institute for Family Health (New York) The text concludes by stating that HHS, Secretary Kennedy, and the Office of General Counsel will continue to take actions to "protect our children from life-altering, damaging and fake healthcare treatments."
February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Comic drawing: Person talking to a computer: say "i am alive" Computer: I AM ALIVE Person: oh my god.
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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no it's actually totally cool that you neglected to shovel your vacant home's sidewalk for two weeks and then started doing 8am construction on the other side of my wall. and it's totally fine that you dumped all the ripped-out radiators from your home onto said unshovelled sidewalk.
February 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."
Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
www.cbsnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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“ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.” https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/
February 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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important thread about the kids.

separately, I'll just say, I grew up online, I don't remember a time before the internet, I know that the majority of my information is prob out there in someone's hands already. but i'll be damned if I ever upload my ID/scan my face to access social media lmao.
jmiers230.bsky.social Jess Miers 🦝🦞 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 8d
The Discord age verification discourse focuses on adults losing access to communities they have a right to access. That's important.

I'm also worried, though, about the kids. They seem to be an afterthought in these conversations. They have much to lose too. 🧵 www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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pixlshft.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure people knew gambling was bad around when Plato was rapping on street corners to hotties, when Hatsheput was gender bending in 1480 BC, she knew about gambling.

The only thing new is very naughty men decided we didn't need regulations on gambling and that kids were the best marks.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint

www.wsj.com/business/med...
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots. “What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
February 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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"magazine" publisher complaining on IG about how the art world "worships proximity" and doesn't actually value risk or authenticity.

meanwhile he doesn't pay his writers lol. like fuck you dude.
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM