The aesthetic is shit

“I get him confused with Carrot Top,” my wife seeing Shaun White on the Olympics.

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

🚨In December 2016, Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and informed him that “new administration people” were visiting. This was sent exactly one month before Trump was inaugurated for his first term.

This is just unconscionable man

Yup, we're working on a new Castlevania game. Thanks to KONAMI, & with Motion Twin's friendly advice, the franchise will be going back to its roots with what we hope to be the best whip traversal & combat ever seen in a 2D action-adventure game! Noooo pressure... www.konami.com/games/castle...

I am so excited too!! Noami Klein is my hero. I will be fangirling hard.

Bitcoin is this incredible invention that turns your money into someone else’s money

The Hubble adds 40 billion pounds

We need Jesus.

There's a NPR story about a 7 year old dying in CBP custody going around on here tonight. Absolutely horrific and a sign of systemic rot. But the article is also from December 2018. It's not new. Please dont share it like it's new. Check the dates on articles.

Um, what?

Michael Kinsley describing Robert Novak: "Underneath the asshole is a really nice guy. But underneath that nice guy is another asshole." A pleasurable lol moment in this excellent character study of the odious Tucker Carlson. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808029...

Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV reut.rs/3NBzBtS

Weird that the US press isn’t interested in reporting on Israel fucking vaporizing thousands of unarmed civilians w/ 6,332 degree Fahrenheit weapons. It’s almost like it’s completely acceptable to dehumanize Palestinians to the point where the murder of 2,842+ feral dogs would yield 20x the coverage

Reminder: The national guard occupation in DC has cost over $330 million in taxpayer money so far and they're set to remain here for the rest of the year.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.

Now Bukele is counting on Trump to bail him out just like he did Milei. Some of us told the IMF, Treasury, and State Dept that this was going to happen if you gave El Salvador a $1.4 billion loan. Like a whole bunch of times.

The self-described “world’s coolest dictator” bet the country on Bitcoin. Lookout for the angry mobs and their pitchforks.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

One of the lawyers who tried and failed to indict six sitting Democrats over a social media video is a former "House Select Committee on Benghazi" staffer who's worked under Darrell Issa, Trey Gowdy, Doug Collins, Jim Jordan, and James Comer.

Moving here, and it hasn’t quite set in yet.

Kids need to understand how the world melted down over the possibility of Bill Clinton trying weed once.

The GOP midterm message is taking an odd shape.

If you're not persuaded the Trump team is turning the 250th anniversary of US independence into a partisan clown show, note that Freedom 250, the dark money group that's taken over the party planning, is apparently partnering with Glenn Beck and Moms for Liberty. momsforliberty.org/news/moms-fo...

Can’t speak ill of the cash cows. Imagine what they’re throttling on their news site. That so much of the information system is still SEO reliant really blows.

These are tiny fractions for a movement of this historic size and geographic dispersion. This discipline is part of why clear instances of lawless brutality by govt authorities tend to backfire—a dynamic that @owasow.bsky.social recently described in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

A helpful thing to remember about any ICE/CBP drawdown is that your city didn’t start this with zero ICE/CBP presence. It’s always been there. The useful metrics will be: 1. What was there before? 2. What was there at the peak? 3. What did they leave behind?

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

Is that good?

Jesus, Venmo. Not now. I’ve got other people’s rents to pay.

So we’re really at the end of the AI economy, eh?

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

X did not respond to our requests for comment about Elon Musk allegedly violating US sanctions on Iran. But within hours of us contacting them, they began removing blue checkmarks from the accounts we flagged. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Hmmm. Louder then.

Justice Dept. antitrust chief says she's leaving, effective today www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

Finding no large-scale enforcement action by ICE agents on the street, TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, cited reports from “actual Springfield locals” that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid. 🤪

Steve Jobs had the most treatable form of pancreatic cancer around and he refused conventional treatments which he admitted at the time of his death cost him is life. I'm BEGGING you not to use celebrities who only reveal tiny bits of their medical diagnosis to make a larger point about society

Olympic athletes retiring at 28 while a slippery shower is a direct threat to 1/3 of the U.S. legislative body.

The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

Surprising precisely no one: Of course it was CBP doing reckless shooting at the border, using a weapon that didn’t belong to them, that caused this (deserved) freakout by the FAA.

That Harold and Maude is the namesake for Maude Apatow seems like a frivolous fact to include in Bud Cort’s obit.

as someone who reported on drone and counter-drone technology for a decade, and who has only ever fired a laser (never a kinetic weapon), I feel I am uniquely qualified to say: lol, LMAO, these doofuses. Abolish CBP *and take away their lasers* x.com/JenGriffinFN...

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