Connected Chaos
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M.D. turned neuroscientist turned corporate stooge turned unemployed. Mostly here to learn and amplify things others should see. 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Starlink white listing + Telegram block is a severe blow to the communication infrastructure of the Russian army. There is a high probability that this will translate into real loss of combat power in the time to come.
1/ Telegram is deeply embedded into Russian military units' internal communications, providing functionality that MAX, the Russian government's authorised app, doesn't have. A commentary highlights the vast gap that is being opened up by the government's blocking of Telegram. ⬇️
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Starlink white listing + Telegram block is a severe blow to the communication infrastructure of the Russian army. There is a high probability that this will translate into real loss of combat power in the time to come.
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“Data from three states that specifically track cases involving prescriptions show that thousands of new mothers were referred to law enforcement based solely on medications their doctors gave them.”
Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/b...
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/b...
Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“Data from three states that specifically track cases involving prescriptions show that thousands of new mothers were referred to law enforcement based solely on medications their doctors gave them.”
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(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.
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The name Kurt Olsen is probably unfamiliar to most Americans, but he’s:
- Trump’s former campaign lawyer
- pushed discredited voter fraud claims
- gained access to highly classified intelligence as part of a crusade against the 2020 results
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
- Trump’s former campaign lawyer
- pushed discredited voter fraud claims
- gained access to highly classified intelligence as part of a crusade against the 2020 results
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Why Trump’s former campaign lawyer is reportedly gaining access to foreign intelligence
It’s tough to defend having a conspiratorial election lawyer, known for pushing debunked theories, gaining access to classified secrets.
www.ms.now
February 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The name Kurt Olsen is probably unfamiliar to most Americans, but he’s:
- Trump’s former campaign lawyer
- pushed discredited voter fraud claims
- gained access to highly classified intelligence as part of a crusade against the 2020 results
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
- Trump’s former campaign lawyer
- pushed discredited voter fraud claims
- gained access to highly classified intelligence as part of a crusade against the 2020 results
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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
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February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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You get what you vote for
"an agency in disarray"
"an agency in disarray"
USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
You get what you vote for
"an agency in disarray"
"an agency in disarray"
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The California state fire marshal was legally obliged to release the single-stair report on January 1. A month later, it's nowhere in sight, and I'm hearing the draft recommends doing the bare minumum. State legislators should just pass the code update themselves.
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Housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report
California’s fire safety regulators are more than a month late with a study on mid-rise apartments and staircases.
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February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The California state fire marshal was legally obliged to release the single-stair report on January 1. A month later, it's nowhere in sight, and I'm hearing the draft recommends doing the bare minumum. State legislators should just pass the code update themselves.
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
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"construction jobs are way up" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
February 10, 2026 at 9:44 PM
"construction jobs are way up" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
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Cuba also announced that it is out of aviation fuel after today. Many essential medicines and supplies arrive by plane. The water system in Havana is so dilapidated that most of it leaks into the ground. Water is delivered by trucks for many residents. When that ends, people could start dying.
Mexico Confirms It Won't Ship Any More Oil to Fuel-Starved Cuba
Mexico has halted its oil shipments to Cuba given Donald Trump’s tariff threat, its president acknowledged while pledging to continue sending humanitarian aid to th…
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February 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Cuba also announced that it is out of aviation fuel after today. Many essential medicines and supplies arrive by plane. The water system in Havana is so dilapidated that most of it leaks into the ground. Water is delivered by trucks for many residents. When that ends, people could start dying.
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well credit where credit’s due: it’s 2035 and i’m driving to work in elon musk’s moon city—or rather my optimus robot chauffeur is, heh. i’m just kicking back and enjoying the view. what kind of a name for a moon bridge is owl creek
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
well credit where credit’s due: it’s 2035 and i’m driving to work in elon musk’s moon city—or rather my optimus robot chauffeur is, heh. i’m just kicking back and enjoying the view. what kind of a name for a moon bridge is owl creek
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As @postguild.bsky.social assesses the damage from last week’s layoffs, it turns out between 44% and 47.5% of the newsroom has been axed. It “may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...
Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastat...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
As @postguild.bsky.social assesses the damage from last week’s layoffs, it turns out between 44% and 47.5% of the newsroom has been axed. It “may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...
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Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM
So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
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if anything, in light of later developments, we were too nice
"Kreis, along with professors @evanbernick.bsky.social and @gowder.io, anticipated [historically unfounded claims] in a Cornell Law Review piece. Their assessment of academics who suddenly discovered anti-birthright citizenship arguments is appropriately brutal." abovethelaw.com/2026/01/tort...
Torts Professor Who Botched COVID Prediction Suddenly Expert On Birthright Citizenship - Above the Law
The law professor who predicted only 500 Americans would die of COVID is back with another expertise-free take.
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January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
if anything, in light of later developments, we were too nice
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Beyond defying common sense in this instance, the “clearly established” standard sets up a Catch-22: If you’re the first to sue to establish something is a rights violation, it isn’t “clearly established” yet. So you incur huge costs & stress suing, but a win only helps the NEXT victim.
11th Cir., 2-1, holds that it was not clearly established that it would violate a person's right to bodily integrity for sheriff's deputy to drive drunk at night without lights, hit the person's car, and then flee leaving person to die.
QI for deputy.
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QI for deputy.
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![Though these situations may be factually distinct, we cannot cast them aside in our “obvious clarity” analysis. Where precedent injects such uncertainty, it does not follow logically that the complained of offense “so obviously violates th[e] [C]onstitution.” Mercado v. City of Orlando, 407 F.3d 1152, 1159 (11th Cir. 2005). Indeed, when caselaw indicates that a certain type of conduct does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation, officials cannot possibly be on notice that the conduct is a constitutional violation—and certainly not with obvious clarity. See Hope, 536 U.S. at 741; al-Kidd, 563 U.S. at 741. The existence of this caselaw casting doubt on the “obvious clarity” of Moss’s claimed right—and, indeed, disclaiming such a right altogether—necessarily means that the right was not clearly established at the time of the violation. To be sure, similar out-of-circuit cases have reached the opposite conclusion. For example, as the district court noted in its order, in Browder v. City of Albuquerque, the Tenth Circuit concluded that a police officer’s misuse of a squad car resulting in a fatal collision could give rise to a claim under the Fourteenth Amendment. 787 F.3d 1076, 1083 (10th Cir. 2015).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreidebqwemly2zfgozo4wrt56vrpcdotmda42nxhtve6vdvv256uso4@jpeg)
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Beyond defying common sense in this instance, the “clearly established” standard sets up a Catch-22: If you’re the first to sue to establish something is a rights violation, it isn’t “clearly established” yet. So you incur huge costs & stress suing, but a win only helps the NEXT victim.
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2/3 of American households own their homes and homeowners vote more than renters. He’s just saying the quiet part of the bipartisan consensus out loud.
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 8:15 PM
2/3 of American households own their homes and homeowners vote more than renters. He’s just saying the quiet part of the bipartisan consensus out loud.
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One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.
*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES
January 20, 2026 at 2:26 PM
One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Guarantee you we spent more than $14,000 on ICE and CBP overtime at MSP airport today to seize … $14,135.
January 20, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Guarantee you we spent more than $14,000 on ICE and CBP overtime at MSP airport today to seize … $14,135.
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US FDA approves first drug to delay heart failure in dogs
Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved its chewable tablet, as the first drug to delay congestive heart failure in dogs with a type of early-stage heart disease.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:50 AM
US FDA approves first drug to delay heart failure in dogs reut.rs/3NAteHa
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“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." www.404media.co/project-mata...
Texans Are Fighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter
"They're being told that this is inevitable," a member of the 806 Data Center Resistance told 404 Media. "But Texas is this other beast."
www.404media.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." www.404media.co/project-mata...