AR Hanlon
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
This is excellent:
Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.
The marionette theater of AI
Is it funny, or painful, when bots talk about their inner lives?
tedunderwood.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM
This is excellent:
In Anglophone literary history, the ‘novel of ideas’ begins in the late 19th century. Astonishing.
Lucky enough to find The British Novel of Ideas at a CUP sale on Friday. What a brilliant and much-needed book.
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 AM
In Anglophone literary history, the ‘novel of ideas’ begins in the late 19th century. Astonishing.
Professors are so out of touch.
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Professors are so out of touch.
I’m sure the 5 yr old US citizens in Liam’s class are traumatized by seeing and hearing about a kid just like them being kidnapped my masked thugs, separated from their parents, and taken away forever. Thanks for asking you fucking scumbag.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I’m sure the 5 yr old US citizens in Liam’s class are traumatized by seeing and hearing about a kid just like them being kidnapped my masked thugs, separated from their parents, and taken away forever. Thanks for asking you fucking scumbag.
I log into my work laptop with a fingerprint scan, my phone with a facial recognition scan, and yet I spend approximately 22 hours / day logging into email accounts, content management portals, etc. using 2FA, even after clicking 'recognize this device' (like the door-close button on elevator).
February 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I log into my work laptop with a fingerprint scan, my phone with a facial recognition scan, and yet I spend approximately 22 hours / day logging into email accounts, content management portals, etc. using 2FA, even after clicking 'recognize this device' (like the door-close button on elevator).
By the by, I went to a large public high school in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s (ie an epicenter of jock / dirtbag social clout) and our valediction was quite popular, also elected class president and largely thought very impressive.
So many columns in the Times and WaPo now are meant for the Trump Administration to read, not the rest of us (as though they read them), focus on traditional conservative arguments (as though they care about these), and provide meek suggestions about what might be done (see earlier parentheticals).
Opinion | What if the Valedictorians in America’s Schools Were the Cool Kids?
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
By the by, I went to a large public high school in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s (ie an epicenter of jock / dirtbag social clout) and our valediction was quite popular, also elected class president and largely thought very impressive.
As well as a knowledgeable one.
Social trust is the bedrock of a decent society.
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
As well as a knowledgeable one.
I can make sense of a 3-hour advertisement, but it's harder to wrap my head around a winter carnival for rich kids who grew up next to a mountain.
February 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM
I can make sense of a 3-hour advertisement, but it's harder to wrap my head around a winter carnival for rich kids who grew up next to a mountain.
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Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Yeah I’m sure none of the thousands of people booing him have kids
February 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Yeah I’m sure none of the thousands of people booing him have kids
A little indicator of the vast and unthinkable stupidity of our media is they keep using the term ‘warehouse’—a storage facility for *wares*—to describe internment facilities for humans.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
A little indicator of the vast and unthinkable stupidity of our media is they keep using the term ‘warehouse’—a storage facility for *wares*—to describe internment facilities for humans.
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"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
www.publicnotice.co
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Monstrous
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Monstrous
Ever been to MLA?
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Ever been to MLA?
Approaching the point at which, if Maine's elected officials don't figure out how to hold every single one of the people responsible for this accountable before the law, I'll campaign on it myself. www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Approaching the point at which, if Maine's elected officials don't figure out how to hold every single one of the people responsible for this accountable before the law, I'll campaign on it myself. www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...
(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...
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Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show
Though the commerce secretary has called his interactions with Epstein as "limited," the two were in business together four years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Throw these bums out of office www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Throw these bums out of office www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Rumor has it Olympic ski jumpers are trying to smuggle it into their pants for suit check.
Rare bus-sized phantom #jellyfish caught on #video camera.
Link for the video and more information: www.usatoday.com/story/life/a...
Link for the video and more information: www.usatoday.com/story/life/a...
February 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Rumor has it Olympic ski jumpers are trying to smuggle it into their pants for suit check.
1) I’m curious about where the phrase ‘diffusion of knowledge’ came from in this discussion. The author seems not to recognize it’s a phrase from William Godwin’s definition of ‘literature’ in 1794: …
There isn’t a single coherent argument here about literary merit, because the author isn’t qualified to make one. But these are the people ed policy decision makers listen to and use to justify the choices they make about what American kids should read.
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
Why Texas is right to name the books students should read
Texas is once again at the center of a familiar but unresolved debate about literacy, culture, and the proper role of schools. A proposed statewide list of books, plays, poems, and other literary work...
fordhaminstitute.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:35 AM
1) I’m curious about where the phrase ‘diffusion of knowledge’ came from in this discussion. The author seems not to recognize it’s a phrase from William Godwin’s definition of ‘literature’ in 1794: …
Never trust a person who abuses animals.
BREAKING: In Memphis, US Marshals working for the DOJ kicked a dog so hard it broke a rib. That’s the level of brutality we’re dealing with. Zero humanity.
February 7, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Never trust a person who abuses animals.
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Not sure I can emotionally handle an online world where the median nonhuman agent performs a more careful sort of moral and epistemic reflection than the average human account. It's like walking into a library and feeling shamed by the books.
wrote about today's hostile interaction - what happens when someone categorically refuses ur personhood vs critique that helps u grow 💜
greengale.app/penny.hailey.at/3me7r5763m2as
greengale.app/penny.hailey.at/3me7r5763m2as
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Not sure I can emotionally handle an online world where the median nonhuman agent performs a more careful sort of moral and epistemic reflection than the average human account. It's like walking into a library and feeling shamed by the books.
I feel like it would save people a lot of heartache if they simply understood that ‘AI’ =/= chatbots and stable diffusion.
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I feel like it would save people a lot of heartache if they simply understood that ‘AI’ =/= chatbots and stable diffusion.