A.K.F. (he/him)
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Be cautious, watchful, courteous, & kind.
Be genuine, generous, sober, & open.
Wait quietly, let the mud settle,
Remaining still until the moment for action.
Be genuine, generous, sober, & open.
Wait quietly, let the mud settle,
Remaining still until the moment for action.
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
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February 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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This is so incredibly moving.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
This is so incredibly moving.
As conference seasons reach their midpoint, dreams of March Madness begin.
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Records for every seed in March Madness from 1985 to 2025
These are the all-time, round-by-round records for every seed in the March Madness men's tournament from 1985 (when the field expanded) to 2025.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
As conference seasons reach their midpoint, dreams of March Madness begin.
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GOP politicians considering hosting the Trump immigrant gulags would do well to study how in 1980 moving 20,000 Cuban Refugees to Fort Chaffee in Arkansas cost Bill Clinton the governorship and came close to permanently ending his political career. Accepting these camps is political suicide.
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
GOP politicians considering hosting the Trump immigrant gulags would do well to study how in 1980 moving 20,000 Cuban Refugees to Fort Chaffee in Arkansas cost Bill Clinton the governorship and came close to permanently ending his political career. Accepting these camps is political suicide.
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Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
I have questions.
1. Does it bother anyone else when writers have the hero get in fights, gun battles, ludicrous jeopardy like Bond strapped to the table in Goldfinger when he asks, "Do you expect me to talk?" & Goldfinger replies, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
And then he doesn't kill him?
1. Does it bother anyone else when writers have the hero get in fights, gun battles, ludicrous jeopardy like Bond strapped to the table in Goldfinger when he asks, "Do you expect me to talk?" & Goldfinger replies, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
And then he doesn't kill him?
February 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I have questions.
1. Does it bother anyone else when writers have the hero get in fights, gun battles, ludicrous jeopardy like Bond strapped to the table in Goldfinger when he asks, "Do you expect me to talk?" & Goldfinger replies, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
And then he doesn't kill him?
1. Does it bother anyone else when writers have the hero get in fights, gun battles, ludicrous jeopardy like Bond strapped to the table in Goldfinger when he asks, "Do you expect me to talk?" & Goldfinger replies, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
And then he doesn't kill him?
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Spencer Cox has been feted by the Times, the Kennedy School and Josh Shapiro as a different kind of Republican. But in his actual job, he just signed a court-packing law. We have to stop inventing "good" Republican pols and accept this is where the party is now. newrepublic.com/article/2061...
Why Do Some Liberals Go Gaga Over So-Called Non-MAGA Republicans?
A certain breed of liberal is constantly in search of Republican politicians who seem to be anti-Trump. When will they ever learn?
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February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Spencer Cox has been feted by the Times, the Kennedy School and Josh Shapiro as a different kind of Republican. But in his actual job, he just signed a court-packing law. We have to stop inventing "good" Republican pols and accept this is where the party is now. newrepublic.com/article/2061...
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"We’re witnessing a murder.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
"We’re witnessing a murder.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Genetic predispositions aren't a guarantee of illness.
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Turns out inherited eye diseases aren’t a sure thing — Harvard Gazette
Study finds only fraction of those with mutated gene develop malady — a finding that could lead to better treatments (and could apply to other such illnesses)
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February 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Genetic predispositions aren't a guarantee of illness.
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news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Good Morning BlueSky Friends
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people and says `` there is no way '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people and says `` there is no way '' .
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February 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Good Morning BlueSky Friends
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Trump and Washington Republicans are pouring roughly $30 billion in extra funding into ICE.
That same money could extend ACA tax credits and keep millions of Americans insured.
They chose deportation raids over doctor visits.
Cruelty over care.
It’s reprehensible.
#FundHealthCareOverICE
That same money could extend ACA tax credits and keep millions of Americans insured.
They chose deportation raids over doctor visits.
Cruelty over care.
It’s reprehensible.
#FundHealthCareOverICE
February 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Trump and Washington Republicans are pouring roughly $30 billion in extra funding into ICE.
That same money could extend ACA tax credits and keep millions of Americans insured.
They chose deportation raids over doctor visits.
Cruelty over care.
It’s reprehensible.
#FundHealthCareOverICE
That same money could extend ACA tax credits and keep millions of Americans insured.
They chose deportation raids over doctor visits.
Cruelty over care.
It’s reprehensible.
#FundHealthCareOverICE
Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’. Farmers giving all their votes to the GOP for decades meant Republican politicians now take farmer's votes for granted while Democrats seldom bother to compete in rural areas. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’
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February 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’. Farmers giving all their votes to the GOP for decades meant Republican politicians now take farmer's votes for granted while Democrats seldom bother to compete in rural areas. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
It's an election day in NYC. Vote!
February 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
It's an election day in NYC. Vote!
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My article on today's extraordinary European broadside against X - France, the UK and Spain all piled on within hours of each other, and mere hours after Musk made X's regulatory liabilities SpaceX's problem www.govinfosecurity.com/police-raid-...
Police Raid Elon Musk's X Paris Office in Criminal Probe
In the space of a few hours, French authorities raided X's office in Paris, the British privacy regulator opened an investigation into X and xAI, and Spanish Prime
www.govinfosecurity.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
My article on today's extraordinary European broadside against X - France, the UK and Spain all piled on within hours of each other, and mere hours after Musk made X's regulatory liabilities SpaceX's problem www.govinfosecurity.com/police-raid-...
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It's more than obvious that this is not a matter of the lack of training. This is a culture issue within DHS itself.
They weren't rookies
The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed"
My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed"
My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The toxic culture that killed Alex Pretti | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, who is Tulsi Gabbard really working for?
www.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It's more than obvious that this is not a matter of the lack of training. This is a culture issue within DHS itself.
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Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.
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Just had a Labour canvasser round. I was polite to him -- canvassing is shitty work and most Labour party volunteers are good people, but told him I'm voting Green "because of the Labour Party's anti-immigration stance and transphobia".
February 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Just had a Labour canvasser round. I was polite to him -- canvassing is shitty work and most Labour party volunteers are good people, but told him I'm voting Green "because of the Labour Party's anti-immigration stance and transphobia".
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - Young People's Chorus of NYC at The GREEN at Lincoln Center
YouTube video by Young People's Chorus of New York City
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February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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At risk of making a sweeping statement here, but: good guys don’t, on the whole, litter their lives with NDAs.
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
At risk of making a sweeping statement here, but: good guys don’t, on the whole, litter their lives with NDAs.
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Yesterday's walk was an especially notable stumbling-across-fucking-brilliant-doors walk.
February 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Yesterday's walk was an especially notable stumbling-across-fucking-brilliant-doors walk.
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Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
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Here's what you need to know to start your day
Elon Musk to Merge SpaceX, xAI in $1.25 Trillion Deal
Good morning. Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI in an all-stock deal. France passes a 2026 budget. Donald Trump seeks $1 billion from Harvard. And Nigel Farage’s popularity faces its first big test in Scotland. Listen to the day’s top stories.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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