@zbr13.bsky.social
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
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“By law we can create an independent US Prosecution Service to replace the POTUS controlled DOJ and abolish and replace ICE and USBP. Reform the pardon power by law and term-limit and expand the size of SCOTUS. Make DC and Puerto Rico states, enfranchising millions of Americans."
FDR’s Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights
The social welfare state, winning World War II, and building the liberal order after Trump.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 AM
“By law we can create an independent US Prosecution Service to replace the POTUS controlled DOJ and abolish and replace ICE and USBP. Reform the pardon power by law and term-limit and expand the size of SCOTUS. Make DC and Puerto Rico states, enfranchising millions of Americans."
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Good thing Fox doesn’t do this.
February 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Good thing Fox doesn’t do this.
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Listening to Trump Admin officials, you'd never guess that the US stock market underperformed the rest of the world in 2025.
February 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Listening to Trump Admin officials, you'd never guess that the US stock market underperformed the rest of the world in 2025.
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Some new Phillies stuff. Free to read:
2008philz.substack.com/p/could-this...
2008philz.substack.com/p/could-this...
Could this year's Phillies be better than last year's Phillies?
In one area, yes. Here's the math.
2008philz.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Some new Phillies stuff. Free to read:
2008philz.substack.com/p/could-this...
2008philz.substack.com/p/could-this...
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NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...
FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show
Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.
substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
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CHARLAMAGNE: “Trump went platinum in the Epstein files.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
CHARLAMAGNE: “Trump went platinum in the Epstein files.”
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Weekend Timeline Cleanse
Kiki Dee – Star (1981)
Kiki Dee – Star (1981)
February 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Weekend Timeline Cleanse
Kiki Dee – Star (1981)
Kiki Dee – Star (1981)
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Using drones, scientists safely fly through a whale’s misted exhale, capturing droplets that reveal hormones, disease markers, and DNA. These tiny samples hold enormous insight and allow us to help monitor their individual health in real time.
February 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Using drones, scientists safely fly through a whale’s misted exhale, capturing droplets that reveal hormones, disease markers, and DNA. These tiny samples hold enormous insight and allow us to help monitor their individual health in real time.
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Chemical engineer Paula Hammond creates super-thin nanoparticles (1,000X smaller than the width of a human hair) by stacking layers of materials--layers that can be programmed to deliver cancer drugs, improve energy storage in batteries & more.
Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM
Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Chemical engineer Paula Hammond creates super-thin nanoparticles (1,000X smaller than the width of a human hair) by stacking layers of materials--layers that can be programmed to deliver cancer drugs, improve energy storage in batteries & more.
Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM
Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM
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More:
+ Co-founded MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (2002) to develop protective materials for troops.
+ Elected to all three U.S. National Academies: Sciences (2019), Engineering (2017) & Medicine (2016)
+ Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2025
#WomenInSTEM #BHM
+ Co-founded MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (2002) to develop protective materials for troops.
+ Elected to all three U.S. National Academies: Sciences (2019), Engineering (2017) & Medicine (2016)
+ Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2025
#WomenInSTEM #BHM
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
More:
+ Co-founded MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (2002) to develop protective materials for troops.
+ Elected to all three U.S. National Academies: Sciences (2019), Engineering (2017) & Medicine (2016)
+ Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2025
#WomenInSTEM #BHM
+ Co-founded MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (2002) to develop protective materials for troops.
+ Elected to all three U.S. National Academies: Sciences (2019), Engineering (2017) & Medicine (2016)
+ Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2025
#WomenInSTEM #BHM
This is very enlightening in the ways of the "intellectual" Epstein Class.
An aside here, Edge or edging is also a sexual technique. So ewww.
An aside here, Edge or edging is also a sexual technique. So ewww.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 16, 2026 at 1:07 AM
This is very enlightening in the ways of the "intellectual" Epstein Class.
An aside here, Edge or edging is also a sexual technique. So ewww.
An aside here, Edge or edging is also a sexual technique. So ewww.
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“The bigger worry is what will be left to reclaim of the Justice Department once Bondi and Trump are done.” Corruption at MAGA DOJ is epidemic.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Pam Bondi’s Contempt for Congress
The Attorney General treats oversight like roller derby.
www.newyorker.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“The bigger worry is what will be left to reclaim of the Justice Department once Bondi and Trump are done.” Corruption at MAGA DOJ is epidemic.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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To put this in perspective, the federal government spends *a combined* $33 billion each year on Title I (for low income families) and IDEA (for special needs students).
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
To put this in perspective, the federal government spends *a combined* $33 billion each year on Title I (for low income families) and IDEA (for special needs students).
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wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
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 3:20 PM
wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
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Put most bluntly:
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Put most bluntly:
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
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My point—the singular theme of my campaign for Congress—is this:
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
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Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
"Some of the sharpest applause came when Conway warned that legislation alone would not constrain Trump. 'We can pass the ‘Everything is Better’ bill… And he’s going to ignore it... He is not going to obey the law, because he doesn’t. He’s a criminal, and we have to put an end to [his presidency]."
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
My point—the singular theme of my campaign for Congress—is this:
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
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This quote by Thomas Massie will stick: "This is the Epstein administration."
Massie on ABC just now: “Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration.”
February 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This quote by Thomas Massie will stick: "This is the Epstein administration."
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"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...