A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Graph showcasing the latest poll by Evanston Roundtable, with a photo of Kat covering her mouth so excited about what she sees. Copy reads: WE HAVE THE JUICE! Daniel Biss: 24% (no change) Kat Abughazaleh: 20% (+3 since last poll) Laura Fine: 14% (-2 since last poll) All others: 10% or less Undecided: 17% (-5 since last poll) March 9-10, 2026 survey of 741 likely Democratic primary voters using text-to-web and IVR phone, commissioned by the Evanston RoundTable.

This is a two way race.

Maybe Trump is the exit dose this whole fucked-up system needed? It’s like chemotherapy — the poison ALMOST kills the system but out of that chaos comes the death of the cancer? If this tears apart MAGA *and* neoliberalism then go man go.

I’ve been saying this so much of late. Empathy and imagination are joined when we are immersed, and allow us to be another age or color or gender; feel a different desire. Bad art makes it harder, but lack of imagination or empathy in a reader is worse.

a hard reign’s gonna fall

a perversion is under way. grotesque series of lies by a traitor and convicted felon masquerading as 🇺🇸 leader on live tv. add to that child-sex trafficking predator, rapist, murderer and that begins to describe the macabre twilight zone spectacle. #SOTU

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating."
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A real "Let them eat soy" moment

I think it’s morbidly funny how ill equipped the democrats are to face this moment. Just a bunch of huge nerds offering to do the bully’s homework for him if he stops hitting them

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

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’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre.

Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

Agreed. But if we can forge a Faustian deal that is bigger than AI, corporate greed might swallow the poison pill.
"We let you do AI, but win or lose, these are the stakes. No one goes hungry. No one goes bankrupt for health care. Decarbonization now."
I'd take all the slop for that.

Or, screw it, AI for everything as long as the social safety net becomes solidly foundational. UBI, medical coverage for all, etc. The oligarchs want AI but the only way to pay for the benefits the lower & middle class need is by taxing the rich and huge corps. I’ll take slop if work is optional

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

"American prisons have never been much for the First Amendment, and now, the Trump administration is exporting prison-style censorship to the general population."

cropped : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Original 35 mm Slide cover art

Here is a larger scanned version for those interested in Neuromancer.

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Humans ARE different -better and worse- from other life but usually only by degree. Where’s my Copernican revolution for de-centering humans so they’re just another animal. Gifted and flawed and unique, but just animals.

Honestly sick of science journalism implying human minds have talents no other species does. Ofc other animals have _some_ interiority and imagination.

Stop perpetuating the myth that humans have biological differences which support our “dominion” over the earth and animals.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

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Everyone hates political junk mail, which is why we tried to make our mail unique…

By making it into a comic book!

If you live in IL-09, you might receive this five part series about me and the campaign right in your mailbox:

Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of #Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.

Case in point: the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” a defunct web curiosity now surviving only on the #WaybackMachine. 🙀📬

Read more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/d...

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Ron Wyden has long form of doing what he can to flag when classified stuff is happening he doesn’t like but can’t talk about.

Releasing this letter feels like an *extremely* strong hint of…something.

It’s hard to focus on one thing to be appalled about, but these stories out of Minnesota are awful. (And, of course, on the other hand, very encouraging.) I cannot believe you can wrongly grab somebody, transport them, and then leave them where YOU took them.

The Trump Kennedy Center lasted less than two months

Learn to ode.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino said he saw nothing racist in photo depicting him as a Confederate general

Records show Bovino was emailed the photo of slave-owning Gen. William Mahone in 2018, with the heading "Chief Bovino." He told the agent who sent it to delete the email but didn't report it to superiors. Then, he promoted the agent to a supervisory position in New Orleans.