Jason Lee
@thejasonlee.bsky.social
US politics, energy security, data and information policies. Dual national.
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Interesting. Those in a position to bail are bailing rather than work under fash-curious/degenerate leadership at CBS/paramount. Sad. www.status.news/p/anderson-c...
Cooper’s Final Minutes
While Anderson Cooper cited the desire to spend more time with family as he announced his exit from “60 Minutes,” Status has learned that deeper issues at the Bari Weiss-led network played a role in h...
www.status.news
February 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Interesting. Those in a position to bail are bailing rather than work under fash-curious/degenerate leadership at CBS/paramount. Sad. www.status.news/p/anderson-c...
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Breaking:
Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump admin of a "cover-up" over its handling of the Epstein files.
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it."
On her upcoming deposition before the Oversight Committee: "We have nothing to hide … We think sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump admin of a "cover-up" over its handling of the Epstein files.
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it."
On her upcoming deposition before the Oversight Committee: "We have nothing to hide … We think sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up in BBC interview
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it," the former US secretary of state says. The White House says it has done "more for the victims than Democrats ever did".
www.bbc.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Breaking:
Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump admin of a "cover-up" over its handling of the Epstein files.
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it."
On her upcoming deposition before the Oversight Committee: "We have nothing to hide … We think sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump admin of a "cover-up" over its handling of the Epstein files.
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it."
On her upcoming deposition before the Oversight Committee: "We have nothing to hide … We think sunlight is the best disinfectant."
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Major Owens was a librarian who helped found the NY Social Responsibilities Round Table. He went on to become a NY State Senator and then a US Rep, following Shirley Chisolm. He shepherded the Americans with Disabilities Act through the House. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05...
www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05...
February 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Major Owens was a librarian who helped found the NY Social Responsibilities Round Table. He went on to become a NY State Senator and then a US Rep, following Shirley Chisolm. He shepherded the Americans with Disabilities Act through the House. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05...
www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05...
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For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ
How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
n.pr
February 16, 2026 at 11:02 AM
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ
You don't have to be a petroleum engineer to know this isn't right. People deserve clean drinking water. Jfc.
The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.
State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 AM
You don't have to be a petroleum engineer to know this isn't right. People deserve clean drinking water. Jfc.
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
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Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
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On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
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Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.
Thinking, on this Valentine's Day, of how lucky I am to know and get to live alongside my beautiful wife. I'm so thankful for her kindness, her love, her happiness and loyalty. I love how we are different from one another, and how she loves all dogs all the time. She's just a beauriful human. ❤️
February 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Thinking, on this Valentine's Day, of how lucky I am to know and get to live alongside my beautiful wife. I'm so thankful for her kindness, her love, her happiness and loyalty. I love how we are different from one another, and how she loves all dogs all the time. She's just a beauriful human. ❤️
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Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.
I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.
I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.
February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.
I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.
I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.
I do wonder where the 2A folks are on drone regulation. Surely a right to bear (small) arms becomes less effective if those rightsholders cannot also have meaningful air sovereignty.
I wrote about MAGA’s war against normal American drone users - and how they’re trying to take control of the skies for themselves.
The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users
New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
foreignpolicy.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I do wonder where the 2A folks are on drone regulation. Surely a right to bear (small) arms becomes less effective if those rightsholders cannot also have meaningful air sovereignty.
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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Bad Bunny with a love letter to immigrants, America, & Puerto Rico! Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens! Thank you Bad Bunny for using your platform to call out hate & saying ICE out at the Grammy Awards! Proud of our state CA hosting Super Bowl LX & Green Day which was formed in San Francisco East Bay!
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
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One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
Black America continues to reign supreme in thr quiltworkthat is American culture ❤️🇺🇸
My similarly aged mother calls him that “long legged fella” so this tracks.
My parents are 75yo and they even know who Bad Bunny is
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Black America continues to reign supreme in thr quiltworkthat is American culture ❤️🇺🇸
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Watching curling with the 8yo, who said: “I have no idea what’s going on but this is exciting!!”
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Watching curling with the 8yo, who said: “I have no idea what’s going on but this is exciting!!”
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if you take no other lesson from this article, it is to be very, very careful about joining a boys' club. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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This is exactly what the Harper’s Letter signers want
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
This is exactly what the Harper’s Letter signers want
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MAGAt culture collapse? From @emptywheel.bsky.social
"The economy right now is divergent, with the super rich experiencing almost all the benefits, and everyone else struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Trump is bragging about new Dow records, while claiming 'affordability' is a hoax."
"The economy right now is divergent, with the super rich experiencing almost all the benefits, and everyone else struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Trump is bragging about new Dow records, while claiming 'affordability' is a hoax."
If MAGAt Political Culture Collapsed in the Woods and No Traditional Media Were There To See It... - emptywheel
The surprising results of two special elections has set off a scramble to assess whether this is just an unusually strong backlash to an incumbent leavened by a response by Latinos to Trump's dragnet....
emptywheel.net
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
MAGAt culture collapse? From @emptywheel.bsky.social
"The economy right now is divergent, with the super rich experiencing almost all the benefits, and everyone else struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Trump is bragging about new Dow records, while claiming 'affordability' is a hoax."
"The economy right now is divergent, with the super rich experiencing almost all the benefits, and everyone else struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Trump is bragging about new Dow records, while claiming 'affordability' is a hoax."
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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:04 AM
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
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My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.