BoyGeeding turned 14 yesterday. I’m so grateful to have him in my life. So honored to be his father. And today is also Vietnamese New Year.
A US Olympic Alpine Skier Went Viral For Her ‘Back Abs’
@mikaelashiffrin Someone said this is going viral, so sharing it here too šā¦my physio informed me the other day that this is what my back muscles look likeš³š¤Ŗā¦is this normal?!
I wanted to read this CNN article when it first came out, but you have to be a paid subscriber. After all, I can totally relate to these folks.
However, I learned if you wait a few days, a lot of their articles for subscribers will appear on AOL.com: New careers, relocations and medical problems: How ex-federal workersā lives have been upended since DOGE
- Garley, who lost her job after the US froze all foreign aid in late January 2025, is struggling to find a full-time job with benefits more than a year later. To contribute to the bills, she has returned to a job she held in her teens and 20s: swim instructor.
- More than 350,000 workers have left the federal governmentās payroll since the president started his second term on January 20, 2025, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Trump said last month that he doesnāt feel bad about the downsizing, claiming without evidence that former federal workers are now making more money in the private sector.
Readers of that Wise County blogger would expect to see something like this on his blog. But I’m a really big fan of people being held accountable, which is why I’m posting it.
Something else you would probably see on his blog:
Judge Quotes George Orwellās 1984 in Order to Restore Slavery Exhibits – The Trump administration has suffered a blow in its attempts to whitewash U.S. history.
Ted Roosevelt IV is pretty sure that President Theodore Roosevelt, his great-grandfather, would have been āappalledā by an effort by House Republicans to allow mining near an expanse of wilderness in Minnesota. nyti.ms/4rEJMgB
ā The New York Times (@nytimes.com) February 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
ThisĀ 60 Minutes segment had me in tears, and one of them was even conceived in a concentration camp.
The part that really got me is the story of how one mother gave her sick baby to a U.S. medic who rushed the newborn to a doctor. The medic always wondered what happened to that tiny and sickly infant. It turns out that the little baby girl grew up, went to grad school inthe U.S., and tracked him down 61 years later.
Hana Berger-Moran: And I asked him if I can call him Daddy Pete.
Lesley Stahl: Daddy Pete?
Hana Berger-Moran: I didn’t have a father, you know? So he became my daddy.
Lesley Stahl: He adopted you.
Hana Berger-Moran: Well, he had no choice.
Lesley Stahl: You adopted him, let me put it that way.
Pete Petersohn died five years later. Hana spent a week with him during his final illness.
He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. David Duda and Hong Liang, a married couple, rely on A.I. translation and external battery packs. If their phones die, so does their ability to communicate.
ā The New York Times (@nytimes.com) February 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I love how over-dramatic this dog is.
ā New Years Revolution ✊ (@tekweenie.bsky.social) February 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Since so many of you responded to my thread about surveillance pricingāhere’s a full breakdown, with visuals, on how companies use your personal data to manipulate prices in real-time: pic.twitter.com/4gJDRNscso
ā Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) February 12, 2026
Heās helping.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/9OtulXphlk
ā Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) February 13, 2026
The work they do is amazing. I’d love to do something like this for a living.