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Update: the judge in the Stanford case has declared a mistrial, with jurors "hopelessly deadlocked" on both felony counts – a big embarrassment for the Santa Clara DA, who has already said he'll retry the case.
The most serious charges against pro-Palestine student protestors in the country have come from a Democratic DA in a blue state. In San Francisco & San Jose, prosecutors are using *felony conspiracy* charges to go after activists who aren't accused of any violence boltsmag.org/stanford-san...
In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns - Bolts
German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high... Read More
boltsmag.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Update: the judge in the Stanford case has declared a mistrial, with jurors "hopelessly deadlocked" on both felony counts – a big embarrassment for the Santa Clara DA, who has already said he'll retry the case.
Without a doubt I assumed Epstein killed himself but I don’t assume anything anymore
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Without a doubt I assumed Epstein killed himself but I don’t assume anything anymore
There was so many Mexican drones in the grocery store today. I hope you at least needed an ID to buy one
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
There was so many Mexican drones in the grocery store today. I hope you at least needed an ID to buy one
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Macron:
Like all the allies,we must be the only ones to negotiate new security architecture for Europe because our geography isn't going to change
We’ll live with Russia in the same place&the Europeans in the same place.I don't want this negotiation to be organized by anyone other than the Europeans
Like all the allies,we must be the only ones to negotiate new security architecture for Europe because our geography isn't going to change
We’ll live with Russia in the same place&the Europeans in the same place.I don't want this negotiation to be organized by anyone other than the Europeans
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Macron:
Like all the allies,we must be the only ones to negotiate new security architecture for Europe because our geography isn't going to change
We’ll live with Russia in the same place&the Europeans in the same place.I don't want this negotiation to be organized by anyone other than the Europeans
Like all the allies,we must be the only ones to negotiate new security architecture for Europe because our geography isn't going to change
We’ll live with Russia in the same place&the Europeans in the same place.I don't want this negotiation to be organized by anyone other than the Europeans
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As a policy person for abortion clinics I want you to know that county commissioners, city councils & zoning officers have enormous power to slow or stop building uses & are thin-skinned about taxpayers yelling at them. Godspeed in your efforts to stop concentration camps in your town w this info.
Another thing I’m seeing here in PA specifically are concerns regarding adequate sewer and water services, as these huge warehouses were not meant to accommodate 7500-10,000 people (vs. employees as originally built)
February 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
As a policy person for abortion clinics I want you to know that county commissioners, city councils & zoning officers have enormous power to slow or stop building uses & are thin-skinned about taxpayers yelling at them. Godspeed in your efforts to stop concentration camps in your town w this info.
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My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
Anatomy of Extremism: What ICE Is Revealing in Minnesota
The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 26, 2026 at 3:41 PM
My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
How does one fire a coast guard pilot? Isn’t joining the coast guard like joining the military?
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
How does one fire a coast guard pilot? Isn’t joining the coast guard like joining the military?
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These people are worse Valentines gifts than gas station flowers. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
These people are worse Valentines gifts than gas station flowers. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden
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Russell Vought is also an evangelical and a proponent of Christian nationalism, which tells you everything you need to know about this particular brand of Christianity 👿
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Russell Vought is also an evangelical and a proponent of Christian nationalism, which tells you everything you need to know about this particular brand of Christianity 👿
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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
- 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
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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
- 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
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incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition
My little blather is like those internet tests to see if you can read when letters and/or words are missing/added. Sorry. I swear I really am literate.
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 AM
My little blather is like those internet tests to see if you can read when letters and/or words are missing/added. Sorry. I swear I really am literate.
This art which purports to include Jasmine Crockett reminds me of the Disney Trump which coincidentally has HRC’s Bob.
February 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM
This art which purports to include Jasmine Crockett reminds me of the Disney Trump which coincidentally has HRC’s Bob.
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Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016:
“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016:
“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
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It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Commissioner Jessica Tisch making a public spectacle of Hannibal Lectering Luigi Mangione while letting her Epstein-network relative walk free to prey on young girls really sums up the state of things
‘New one for you’: Inside Steve Tisch’s transactional friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
In late 2011, a Russian model sent a pleading email to Jeffrey Epstein.
“We had sex, I did massage for u non-stop,” she wrote. “I took a bath with u and your girls even if I don’t like it..serve...
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Commissioner Jessica Tisch making a public spectacle of Hannibal Lectering Luigi Mangione while letting her Epstein-network relative walk free to prey on young girls really sums up the state of things
I hadn’t even read this garbage when I opined about Obama vs Hilary Clinton primaries. But so many Trump voters were former Obama voters so they can’t be racist <eyeroll> but at least the country didn’t elect a screeching woman who laughs sometimes s/
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I hadn’t even read this garbage when I opined about Obama vs Hilary Clinton primaries. But so many Trump voters were former Obama voters so they can’t be racist <eyeroll> but at least the country didn’t elect a screeching woman who laughs sometimes s/
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The Dow just dipped below 50k so could someone let Bondi know she should care about child traffickers and rapists now?
February 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The Dow just dipped below 50k so could someone let Bondi know she should care about child traffickers and rapists now?
Not a knock on Obama but his “surprise” win in the primaries really underestimates how difficult it was/is for a woman to be elected. Not that it’s easy for any non white people to be elected, yet woman who are >50% of the population IE have a much larger gap in Congress TODAY than Black men.
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Not a knock on Obama but his “surprise” win in the primaries really underestimates how difficult it was/is for a woman to be elected. Not that it’s easy for any non white people to be elected, yet woman who are >50% of the population IE have a much larger gap in Congress TODAY than Black men.
Hawley once again looking like a deranged weak sauced maniac in public.
Hawley ended up getting so aggressive toward Ellison, including calling for his arrest, that even Rand Paul asked him to tone it down
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Hawley once again looking like a deranged weak sauced maniac in public.
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This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 4:38 AM
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
I hope the democrats tack on to the list of demands that f**king Border patrol cannot have or use anti aircraft weaponry.
The USA is a joke now
The USA is a joke now
February 12, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I hope the democrats tack on to the list of demands that f**king Border patrol cannot have or use anti aircraft weaponry.
The USA is a joke now
The USA is a joke now
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He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
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Backstory here, via @nytimes.com
Hours before the threat, Treasury Sec'y Lutnick met with a member of the Moroun family
Morouns own (and collect tolls from) the other Detroit-Windsor bridge, spent many years fighting construction of a new one
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Hours before the threat, Treasury Sec'y Lutnick met with a member of the Moroun family
Morouns own (and collect tolls from) the other Detroit-Windsor bridge, spent many years fighting construction of a new one
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Backstory here, via @nytimes.com
Hours before the threat, Treasury Sec'y Lutnick met with a member of the Moroun family
Morouns own (and collect tolls from) the other Detroit-Windsor bridge, spent many years fighting construction of a new one
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Hours before the threat, Treasury Sec'y Lutnick met with a member of the Moroun family
Morouns own (and collect tolls from) the other Detroit-Windsor bridge, spent many years fighting construction of a new one
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...