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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
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rbreich.bsky.social
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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tujiux.bsky.social
恭喜发财!
happy year of the horse!! 🧧🐎🍊🎨
Astra and her unicorn taking a stroll by some mandarin trees
February 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“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-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
They don't have the manpower to get this done. And with the margins we're seeing in special elections, they'd need to swing places by 20 points and that isn't happening.

Imo what people should expect is random ICEholes "accidentally" dropping tear gas near long ballot lines and that kind of shit
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5h
One of my biggest fears about the midterms is that ICE could flood the polls with agents who perform Kavanaugh Stops on every non-white person before they get a chance to cast a ballot, then detain them until voting is over. Which is not far-fetched at this point. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-po...
Thanks to a crucial Supreme Court decision on its shadow docket that authorized immigration officers to racially profile people they thought might be undocumented, Operation Metro Surge saw officers target anyone — citizen or not — who wasn’t white for questioning, detention or, in many cases, brutal treatment. ICE began going door-to-door in predominantly minority neighborhoods to ask where residents were born, sometimes dragging them out of their homes at gunpoint. Officers indiscriminately fired pepper spray and tear gas at residents, including into the car of a family, hospitalizing a baby. “What that did was have an incredibly chilling effect on how people move about our communities,” said Richard Carlbom, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. “There are U.S. citizens who are Black, brown or Asian who won’t leave their house and we have to deliver food to them on a weekly basis because they’re afraid of being detained.”
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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tyleraking.com
This is from a 2016 interview about a party in the ‘90s when someone is once again making the explicit claim that trump was pimping out underage girls and pageant contestants to visitors of his properties.
February 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
radobrien.myatproto.social
How far away can I stand from urinal before it gets weird
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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willowwrestles.bsky.social
I saw that today marks the start of Ramadan, Mardi Gras, and Lunar New Year. That means like HALF of the world is celebrating

Things have generally been feeling progressively bleaker and heavier, so hopefully we can all grab some good vibes today while they’re free flowing💖
Willow Nightingale taking a mirror selfie in a hotel room with sunglasses pushing hair back on top of her head and in a white dress
February 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
One thing that's important to realize now is that, even in a scenario where Dems sweep to a crushing trifecta in 2028, Republicans will use their control of the courts to attempt to continue, as much as they can, to run executive agencies in exile, with DHS/ICE under Biden as the model
February 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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niedermeyer.online
One of these companies is Toka, which offers products that hack into specific vehicles to harvest real time location data, as well as onboard camera and even microphone feeds.

Toka was co-founded by Epstein confidant/partner and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.
avischarf.bsky.social Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 1d
Your car is spying on you – and these three Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race.

From hands-free systems to tire-pressure data, CARINT turns vehicles into powerful intelligence tools.
@omerbenj has the details
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race
From Hands-free Systems to Tire-pressure Data, a New Field Known as CARINT Turns Vehicles Into Powerful Intelligence Tools
www.haaretz.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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filmgirl.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing: I’ve never been so sick that I used tools forbidden by my job to do my job and then expected to keep my job.
February 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
This movie was 60% looney tunes slapstick and 40% heartwarming tearjerker, and throughout it was 100% gorgeous with some of the best animation, writing, and voice acting I've seen in ages. Everyone needs to see Nobody
Nobody (2025 film) - Wikipedia
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February 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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anniestegg.bsky.social
I’m so incredibly grateful that "The Miremaiden" has been selected for inclusion in IBA Volume 14. It’s truly an honor to have this piece considered alongside so much beautiful work.

Here’s a little video of me adding color to the underpainting 🌿

#oilpaintingprocess #paintingprocess
February 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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jonchristian.net
NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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charlesmartinshields.com
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
gbrockell.bsky.social Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d
Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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nbcnews.com
BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
nbcnews.to
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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space-ghost.com
This Harvard professor who kept a PRIVATE OFFICE for Epstein ON CAMPUS — which Epstein used over 40 times, probably to prey on college girls —

STILL

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JOB

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HARVARD
Nowak maintained a close personal and financial relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. 35. In response to the revelations of Epstein's support of Nowak and his lab (the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics), Nowak was suspended from supervising undergraduate research for two years, and the institute was permanently closed. 36][37! Harvard's review, leading to the suspension, uncovered that Epstein had maintained access to a personal office in Nowak's lab for 9 years, even after his conviction for sex crimes, and used the office over 40 times, "typically accompanied by young women serving as his assistants". 38! In 2023, Harvard lifted the sanctions against Nowak, and he remains on the faculty, jointly appointed in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
February 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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cait.bsky.social
RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!! RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!!!
February 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
We really need to come up with a polite way to say "I understand and agree with the cautionary message in the Instagram Reel you sent me, mom, but that is so clearly AI that it undercuts your point"
February 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
February 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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nerdjpg.com
You can try to convince me it would be easier to resist things under a liberal but none of you helped with Gaza and we couldn’t even convince the dems to stop a genocide when they were running against Trump. Do you hear yourselves
February 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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emma.best
Kim Dotcom (who is hardly reliable) is claiming on Xchan that Palantir was hacked. I'm not seeing this from any reliable sources, but if anyone knows anything reach out.

xcancel.com/KimDotcom/st...
Breaking Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found: Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale. They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk. They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material. Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they are one year away. They plan to achieve this by keeping Russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations. Palantir is responsible of the majority of Palestinian deaths in Gaza. They have developed the AI targeting for Israel. Palantir is an arm of the CIA and all data from international clients is copied into a CIA spy cloud. Palantir has become the most dangerous company in the world. If you work there you have the right to know that this is what Palentir AI is used for, without your knowledge. The Palentir data the hackers allegedly gathered will be given to Russia and/or China. I was chosen as a trusted partner for this publication. I’m not involved in the Palentir hack and I don’t know the hackers. But I do know that the hack happened.
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job

Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
radobrien.myatproto.social
We really need to come up with a polite way to say "I understand and agree with the cautionary message in the Instagram Reel you sent me, mom, but that is so clearly AI that it undercuts your point"
February 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM
radobrien.myatproto.social
always comes back to the drake equation with these guys smh
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
February 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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amandacarpenter.bsky.social
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM