All Of Us Are Alex Pretti
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Chicagoan. Author of Alone on the Moon, et. al. Founder of Tortoise Books.
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
I didn't watch enough of Van Deer Beek's work. I should probably rectify that. But as a 48-year-old who RELUCTANTLY followed the advice of his doctor and got a colonoscopy, and then had the GI doctor say, "Tell your doctor he saved your life," all I can think is: GET YOUR DAMN COLONOSCOPIES, PEOPLE.
RIP James Van Der Beek. Varsity Blues and Dawson's Creek were legendary, and his Power Rangers short was incredible. He always seemed so cool because he was always in on the joke.
Both he and Chadwick Boseman dead in their 40s with colorectal cancer. So sad.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/a...
Both he and Chadwick Boseman dead in their 40s with colorectal cancer. So sad.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/a...
James Van Der Beek, Teenage Heartthrob of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ Dies at 48
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I didn't watch enough of Van Deer Beek's work. I should probably rectify that. But as a 48-year-old who RELUCTANTLY followed the advice of his doctor and got a colonoscopy, and then had the GI doctor say, "Tell your doctor he saved your life," all I can think is: GET YOUR DAMN COLONOSCOPIES, PEOPLE.
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People talk about what should be the first-in-the-nation primary, but honestly, hard to beat Michigan:
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
February 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
People talk about what should be the first-in-the-nation primary, but honestly, hard to beat Michigan:
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
For a little nostalgia trip, I'm listening to M83. M83. For nostalgia.
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
For a little nostalgia trip, I'm listening to M83. M83. For nostalgia.
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👏 BREAKING: Virginia Senate Committee advances SB541 (Stuart) as amended, to ditch Daylight Saving Time in coordination with surrounding states!
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
👏 BREAKING: Virginia Senate Committee advances SB541 (Stuart) as amended, to ditch Daylight Saving Time in coordination with surrounding states!
I had to go downtown yesterday but today I am back working from home, spending all my time in the arms of my lover.
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I had to go downtown yesterday but today I am back working from home, spending all my time in the arms of my lover.
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Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
They're not sending their best people.
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.
n.pr
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
They're not sending their best people.
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Minnesota still needs your attention
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Minnesota still needs your attention
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Remember, according to the statements made by the current administration, just today, money for rich people is more important that investigating child sex crimes.
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Remember, according to the statements made by the current administration, just today, money for rich people is more important that investigating child sex crimes.
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i do think there's a systematic problem with how Dems are approaching fundraising but Rs have the same problem way worse with small-dollar donors. my prior is that after nominees are set and matchups firm up there will be a ton of money, but maybe not
This is a huge deal. After years of leading in fundraising, Dem small donors are (rightly) pissed off at the spam texts and emails, as well as at congressional leadership. Meanwhile, GOP billionaire money is hitting record levels. Perfect storm.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
i do think there's a systematic problem with how Dems are approaching fundraising but Rs have the same problem way worse with small-dollar donors. my prior is that after nominees are set and matchups firm up there will be a ton of money, but maybe not
Someone said on Twitter a while back that it was an old KGB/Russian disinformation tactic to accuse your enemies of doing what you yourself are doing--that way when you say something like, "No, YOU did that," you sound batshit crazy. Anyway, I'm thinking of that today, for no particular reason.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Someone said on Twitter a while back that it was an old KGB/Russian disinformation tactic to accuse your enemies of doing what you yourself are doing--that way when you say something like, "No, YOU did that," you sound batshit crazy. Anyway, I'm thinking of that today, for no particular reason.
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The Epstein class: the stock market is more important than holding accountable child sex traffickers and rapists.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The Epstein class: the stock market is more important than holding accountable child sex traffickers and rapists.
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Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended
"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"
"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"
"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
February 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended
"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"
"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"
"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
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there is nothing more powerful sexually speaking than ordering a round of jalapeño poppers “for the table”
December 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
there is nothing more powerful sexually speaking than ordering a round of jalapeño poppers “for the table”
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Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
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This tea needs to calm the fuck down
February 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This tea needs to calm the fuck down
"What the government has taught us time and again is that they will lie" FTFY
What the government has taught us time and again is that they will lie about the details of immigration actions.
“While the FBI field office in Boise initially said in a statement that claims of children being zip-tied were ‘completely false,’ officials there later amended that assertion, telling reporters that no ‘young’ children were zip-tied.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...
www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"What the government has taught us time and again is that they will lie" FTFY
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The 80s and 90s sneered at the 70s so hard that we are STILL afraid to have color in our homes, so if the kids these days want to mock Harry Potter fans as cringey, it’s okay by me.
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The 80s and 90s sneered at the 70s so hard that we are STILL afraid to have color in our homes, so if the kids these days want to mock Harry Potter fans as cringey, it’s okay by me.
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i listened to a whole michael pollen interview about whether AI could achieve consciousness and it astounds me that a lot of people are quicker to assume AI has consciousness before they think plants or animals do
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
i listened to a whole michael pollen interview about whether AI could achieve consciousness and it astounds me that a lot of people are quicker to assume AI has consciousness before they think plants or animals do
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Indict for attempted murder
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Indict for attempted murder
Yup. We are also getting earlier diagnoses, and better outcomes. As our doctors told us when our son was diagnosed at two: "Twenty-five years ago he wouldn't have been diagnosed until he got to preschool and he still wasn't speaking...and he would have had a lot more bad habits to unlearn."
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
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![The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Yup. We are also getting earlier diagnoses, and better outcomes. As our doctors told us when our son was diagnosed at two: "Twenty-five years ago he wouldn't have been diagnosed until he got to preschool and he still wasn't speaking...and he would have had a lot more bad habits to unlearn."