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Document Production and ADA Remediation Specialist. Spends every day appalled but not surprised.
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This is why I have both a large commercial HEPA and a smaller one pointing at my face even in my private office in the hospitals I work in.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
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Study: SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks, despite good ventilation
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
This is why I have both a large commercial HEPA and a smaller one pointing at my face even in my private office in the hospitals I work in.
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
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Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration.
From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters.
We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.
From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters.
We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.
US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats | CNN Politics
The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration.
From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters.
We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.
From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters.
We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.
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After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
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Last year, surveillance giant Palantir (who got an 8-figure contract from ICE) paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 BILLION, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill.
They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.
This monstrosity must be reversed.
They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.
This monstrosity must be reversed.
Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law
Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of...
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February 17, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Last year, surveillance giant Palantir (who got an 8-figure contract from ICE) paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 BILLION, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill.
They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.
This monstrosity must be reversed.
They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.
This monstrosity must be reversed.
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NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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JF Christ on a goddamn crutch. These fucking purposely cruel fuckers are only worried about their friends & families finding out what they do? There will be penalties to pay for these intentional hurtful actions. Crimes against humanity, specifically kids have a way of inspiring severe punishments.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 9:57 PM
JF Christ on a goddamn crutch. These fucking purposely cruel fuckers are only worried about their friends & families finding out what they do? There will be penalties to pay for these intentional hurtful actions. Crimes against humanity, specifically kids have a way of inspiring severe punishments.
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US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap
Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.
www.newyorker.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.
NEW: The Supreme Court will begin requiring litigants in March to list the stock ticker for each party involved in a case to make it easier to check if a justice has a conflict of interest that might require recusal. #SCOTUS
Here are the changes: www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrul...
Here are the changes: www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrul...
February 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.
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Florida AG James Uthmeier: "We need to focus on getting people into the workforce even earlier. We passed legislation last year to help high school students get their hands dirty and get on job sites more quickly."
February 17, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Florida AG James Uthmeier: "We need to focus on getting people into the workforce even earlier. We passed legislation last year to help high school students get their hands dirty and get on job sites more quickly."
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Maxwell: New reports show Florida gave $92 million to a single porta-potty company involved with ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ And the state has yet to produce audits required by law on hundred…
Maxwell: $92 million for porta-potties? Big spending at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
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February 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Maxwell: New reports show Florida gave $92 million to a single porta-potty company involved with ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ And the state has yet to produce audits required by law on hundred…
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This is something I thought about a lot while writing this story and I hope we talk about it on the podcast today. A lot of parents need different education for their kids. Alpha School students do test well. I totally get the appeal but AI is not ready www.404media.co/students-are...
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This is something I thought about a lot while writing this story and I hope we talk about it on the podcast today. A lot of parents need different education for their kids. Alpha School students do test well. I totally get the appeal but AI is not ready www.404media.co/students-are...
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What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar
Daily
Daily
February 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar
Daily
Daily
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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“The government kidnaps children; spirits them away to concentration camps… hundreds of miles from home; detains them for months in disease-infested conditions; deprives them of adequate food, potable water, and medical attention…. This is a deliberate policy… to harm children.” -Atty Eric Lee
‘A deliberate policy to harm children’: Attorney on conditions children face in ICE detention
Reports expose horrific conditions inside Dilley, a detention center in South Texas where hundreds of children are being held. Eric Lee, immigration attorney and partner at Lee & Godshall-Bennett, joi...
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February 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
“The government kidnaps children; spirits them away to concentration camps… hundreds of miles from home; detains them for months in disease-infested conditions; deprives them of adequate food, potable water, and medical attention…. This is a deliberate policy… to harm children.” -Atty Eric Lee
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The most dystopian technologies continue to flow out of Israel. And they continue to flow because Israel is empowered by the US and Europe to maintain a system of apartheid built upon invasive and authoritarian technologies of control.
Wild story here. Apple just paid $2bn for an Israeli tech company with no revenues that builds infrared sensors which map imperceptible facial movements to determine the words you're thinking. 30% of its staff were called up to do genocide open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
Apple Just Bought A Sinister ‘Pre-Speech’ Tech Company Implicated In Genocide
Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The most dystopian technologies continue to flow out of Israel. And they continue to flow because Israel is empowered by the US and Europe to maintain a system of apartheid built upon invasive and authoritarian technologies of control.
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UN HR Special Rapporteurs weigh in on the Epstein Files
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts
GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...
www.ohchr.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
UN HR Special Rapporteurs weigh in on the Epstein Files
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
Here is the thread in correct order.
An instructive story about the destructive power of AI. GIGO.
An instructive story about the destructive power of AI. GIGO.
1/ An AI bot submits a pull request that gets rejected, so that bot goes off the rails and publishes a blog ranting about how humans are prejudiced. The person covering the story is the lead AI editor, and uses an AI bot to help in the publication of the story, but the bot fails.
February 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Here is the thread in correct order.
An instructive story about the destructive power of AI. GIGO.
An instructive story about the destructive power of AI. GIGO.
1/ An AI bot submits a pull request that gets rejected, so that bot goes off the rails and publishes a blog ranting about how humans are prejudiced. The person covering the story is the lead AI editor, and uses an AI bot to help in the publication of the story, but the bot fails.
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
1/ An AI bot submits a pull request that gets rejected, so that bot goes off the rails and publishes a blog ranting about how humans are prejudiced. The person covering the story is the lead AI editor, and uses an AI bot to help in the publication of the story, but the bot fails.
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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BREAKING: AOC in Germany:
“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"
“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"
February 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
BREAKING: AOC in Germany:
“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"
“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"
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Palantir Gets Millions From NYC’s Public Hospitals flip.it/GkPr5a
“Since 2023, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals.”
😱Instead of debt jubilee, NYC paid PALANTIR to collect medical debt?!
“Since 2023, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals.”
😱Instead of debt jubilee, NYC paid PALANTIR to collect medical debt?!
Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals
Activist are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
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February 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Palantir Gets Millions From NYC’s Public Hospitals flip.it/GkPr5a
“Since 2023, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals.”
😱Instead of debt jubilee, NYC paid PALANTIR to collect medical debt?!
“Since 2023, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals.”
😱Instead of debt jubilee, NYC paid PALANTIR to collect medical debt?!