Well done, 60 Minutes.

F MAGA to the ends of the Earth.

www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

We're sorry to the leaders of the world, who instead of being met by level-headed, measured, intelligent dialogue, are now greeted with the incoherent rantings of a perpetually-furious man-child.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

The Project 2025 Tracker is an agency-by-agency list of how far Project 2025 has succeeded in its goals. It's an amazing bit of work by people trying to keep tabs on everything - not just the stuff making headlines. Check it out: www.project2025.observer

ESRI is updating their basemaps automatically to incorporate The Gulf of America starting tomorrow 2/20.
Unrelatedly, here's a workflow that you can use to manually edit your vector basemap labels: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

Just in case you weren't up to date on the last week's activities by Musk & Co. One of my personal most dispiriting quotes "...breaking the law is okay, as long as Trump thinks it’s okay. And since Trump is effectively Musk’s puppet, Musk has carte blanche."
www.theverge.com/elon-musk/60...

This, from the president of Wesleyan U, is excellent.

“Authoritarians have long known that total control will elude them if they don’t eradicate the autonomous support engendered within civil society by cultural, religious, commercial, and educational institutions.”

slate.com/life/2025/02...

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

I recently reposted a former congressional staffer who said that when an issue got 20-30 calls it would get representatives freaked out and ready to do something. It takes less than you’d think, because so few people actually take that kind of action