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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
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I am very much alive and intend to stay that way
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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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恭喜发财!
happy year of the horse!! 🧧🐎🍊🎨
February 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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“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-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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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
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...
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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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
How far away can I stand from urinal before it gets weird
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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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💖
February 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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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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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.
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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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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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
en.wikipedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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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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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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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.
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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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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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

HAS

JOB

AT

HARVARD
February 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!! RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!!!
February 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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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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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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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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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...
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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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
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
always comes back to the drake equation with these guys smh
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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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
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM