Oh, fossils and relics we are!

neurosciencenews.com/culture-envi... This is how we evolved to learn. This is how children still learn. They suck up what they see, they try it out, and keep what is effective for their desires and needs. But what is it that we show them, nowadays?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Fine. I cancelled my WaPo subscription. We are not playing that game.

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

www.axios.com/2026/02/15/a... Thank you, Axios, for your honesty and willingness to warn us all. Enormous change is coming.

shumer.dev/something-bi... And a companion piece to my earlier post. Is he right? We'll know far sooner than is comfortable.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... A very entertaining article that really needs to be read as widely as possible. A tremendous irony if the AI we build to do our work, does it, eliminates income for the masses, and thus crashes the economy. No buyers, no profit. What say ye, capitalists?

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

"News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend [independent journalists Don] Lemon’s and [Georgia] Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.” Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves Most Of The Blame......

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating — theonion.com/archaeologis...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating — theonion.com/archaeologis... The mystery of why it was constructed has finally been solved!

Americans Are Afraid of Authority But a government that works is one that lets people use their judgment. By Philip K. Howard - the Atlantic I like the Atlantic. But publishing Federalist Society approved authors? And how do we feel about Trump's use of authority right now? I'm scared. Rightly so.

ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik... - Americans might want to read this.

Did Trump also kidnap the Epstein Files? Whatever happened with the DOJ’s requirement to release the files, explain the redactions, and catalog everything they had?

Could somebody take The Magic Flute and rewrite the entire libretto to something a touch less misogynistic for today's audiences? The music is so beautiful and the "story" so awful. #opera

In a daring overnight raid, an elite Delta Force team seizes the remaining undisclosed Epstein Files.

How much do you wanna bet Putin is gonna use Trump's fuckups to justify his inevitable invasion of Alaska?

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

letterboxd.com/journal/lett... is brilliant. Of course, well have to wait and see what is actually available here in Germany, and if they have original English.

Source: ScienceAlert search.app/uU2N9. So, destroying ourselves with nuclear war, we cause a great die-off, followed by evolution and expansion of organisms that live from the new environmental conditions. Like when chlorophyll poisoned the atmosphere and oceans with oxygen. Almost comforting.

I think Hank is absolutely right here, and hit it on the nose: you can't hold fame and not be held accountable.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I have no idea why this is doing numbers but I posted because I just got this book. I am interested in colored pencils but all online tutorials are fixated on waxy, wrist-killing photorealism and I like pencils to look pencily. This book is perfect for me.

The three people I listen to, read and respect for their deep thought are 1. Ezra Klein 2. Derek Thompson 3. Matt Yglesias. and I stand by this so far, sadly purely male cadre. Where oh where are the women podcasters, media writers of equal caliber? Please, someone, help me!

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

this is very satisfying to watch.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

This is what a top US military officer objecting to illegal orders looks like. Adm. Alvin Holey is the head of Southern Command, which covers the Caribbean, where Trump has ordered 5 deadly strikes on civilian boats (and counting). Has integrity, plus he’s Black, so Hegseth presumably welcomed it.

youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8 Farmers are grownups, right? Let them have the dignity of their choice. Just too bad Trump doesn't need you anymore.

"Officials briefed on the strike said that the video does not tell the entire story. It does not show the boat turning after the people aboard were apparently spooked by an aircraft above them, nor does it show the military making repeated strikes on the vessel even after disabling it."