I've long been sounding the alarm on Section 702 of FISA, and secret, legal loopholes the government uses to spy on Americans. The program is up for reauthorization in April and I'll be fighting like hell to make sure the current program doesn’t get rubber stamped.
Table of Contents for the entire work (PROOF OF DEVILRY, ~1,000 pages) and new Book 4 content added.
Book 5 is coming soon—and will tell the story of what happened in Minab in a way no one else is.
Also, a level of detail never before seen on how Epstein intersected with the 2016 Trump campaign.
The Pentagon can likely get away with using OpenAI’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans under the terms of their contract, legal experts told @matteowong.bsky.social.
Explore Financial Disclosures from President Trump and 1,500 of his appointees with this @propublica.org database. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside of government, their assets and their debts. Spot conflicts of interest? Contact: ProPublica.org/tips
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.
Medical experiments on prisoners?
Where have we seen this before?
You don't want to read this, but you should.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules for parents who objected on religious grounds to California restrictions on schools notifying parents about the transgender status of their children.
ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Education
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
“They just left him.”
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.
Many trans people in Kansas lost their driver’s licenses overnight and now can’t legally drive until they get a new one with a marker that doesn’t reflect their gender identity amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...
CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.
Børge Brende, president and chief executive of the World Economic Forum, said he would step down from his role after the organization conducted a review into his past connections with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4s9K2nn
If you’d have told me 15 years ago that RFK Jr. would be HHS Secretary, I would have laughed at your silly joke.
There are days when I feel a sort of mental numbness about what is happening to public health this country.
It is a self-defense mechanism, I think.
Incredulity and anger alternate.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
Great read, @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social! Too bad the @nytimes.com didn't include mention of your own book that just came out in your short bio at the bottom of the article. Not to be missed: www.brookings.edu/books/the-pr...
Vanessa Williamson speaks in a classroom
So thrilled to share this overview of a timely new book from @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social, as she talks with APEX about "The Price of Democracy" and how battles over taxes define who belongs in 'We the People' bit.ly/4aXIBSj @jacobhacker.bsky.social
"That a representative body should constrain the executive’s fiscal power dates to Magna Carta in 1215... the framers gave Congress alone the power 'to lay and collect taxes' [because] untrammeled executive power over public money opens the door to tyranny."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
The sudden arrest of the former Prince Andrew is the latest sign that the rest of the world is much more serious about Epstein-related crimes than the current US leader www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told all Polish citizens to leave Iran IMMEDIATELY.
“In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate.”
(🎥 Sky News)
“A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called President Donald Trump’s administration ‘cruel and oppressive’ and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity, in an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 18) statement.” religionnews.com/2026/02/18/4...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, has died aged 84.
Read more: www.lbc.co.uk/article/civi...
TL;DR
AI isn’t just a new load.
It’s a new grid participant.
• Training hits transmission
• Inference hits distribution
• Hybrid on-site power becomes standard
The future grid must be fast, flexible, local, and interactive — or it breaks.
Utilities have to change their culture.
This is an important thread re. AI’s grid use.
Wow.
Here’s more info from his comments made during the World Economic Forum: www.biospace.com/business/mod...
And yet so many would still rather be remembered for generations as supporters rather than admit they were wrong.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
