Left crazy: "I think billionaires should pay taxes." Right crazy: "Time-traveling jews are masquerading as anti-anti-trans assassins!" Centrist: "It's the same picture." slate.com/news-and-pol...

The current moment in Texas carries echoes of Argentina’s years under dictatorship. Argentina’s leaders were sensitive to the global optics of their crimes. So they changed from large, traditional camp-style detention to smaller and less visible sites. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/mothers-an...

The current moment in Texas carries echoes of Argentina’s years under dictatorship. Argentina’s leaders were sensitive to the global optics of their crimes. So they changed from large, traditional camp-style detention to smaller and less visible sites. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/mothers-an...

Bay of Pigs part II: the bay of Quiet, Piggy Something something those who fail to learn from history something something www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-...

This article quietly, devastatingly confirms what we all know: your algorithm isn’t “news,” it’s just a “feed” chosen by YOU, that “serves” you “content” to keep you “engaged” because then you can be “monetized” and/or placated, such that you’re unlikely to revolt against this capitalist hellscape.

This, here, represents the most heinous of all of the ethical failures of the fourth estate. It is morally indefensible and completely psychopathic to insinuate that state-sanctioned violence and death, could be “symbolic.” Is it “symbolic” for the families that lose a father or daughter or spouse?

It should carry more weight, and be more central each and every time this story is reported: she committed suicide by self-immolation. She asked if she was hired just because of her looks. He said "no," then immediately continued to sext her. She was a victim trying to be seen. We need to see her.

Here’s a nice piece of art. Artist: Félix González-Torres

Thomas’ opinion about whether the post office can be sued if its workers intentionally withhold mail is now the law. It could not have arrived at a worse time: this fall, millions of Americans will submit their ballots through the mail, and some states will conduct their elections entirely by mail.

POV me watching the state of the union

“The fleeting preservation of delusion is now the only practical purpose of the State of the Union.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

A brilliant piece of writing, here: www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

“What is life if it’s not merely a statistical model of data connected to a mechanism for producing more data that resembles the data in the model?” -Sam Altman, probably techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/s...

Here’s a nice piece of art. Artist: Félix González-Torres

I feel like we're not just in late-stage capitalism at this point, we're in late-stage America.

Leopard eats maha's face. Well, literally nobody could have seen that coming. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived to produce you.”

This is me

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Trump: "I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country. I'm allowed to impose a foreign destroying embargo, I can embargo, I can do anything I want, but I can't charge $1." This is fine.

Meanwhile, the point of the armed buildup around Iran—the largest assembly of US warships in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq—is unclear. The US has mobilized 18 warships (two of which are aircraft carriers) and many fighter jets, bombers, antimissile systems, and electronic jammers.

She’s making it happen, y’all. @jasmineforus.bsky.social is activating non-voters just like she said she would. “55% of the people that showed up on day one don’t normally vote in a primary. In fact, 20% of those voters were first-time voters.” 💥

$1,751.00 per family. Gavin Newsom tells the pedophile president to pay the fuck up for stealing money from working class Californians. Governors across America are pissed over Trump's tariff scam. How much money in gifts did Trump accept as bribes? Trump belongs in prison. 😳👇

The term "Orwellian" is often trotted out, but it suits: Trump’s two big actions today: 1.) holding the first meeting of his “Board of Peace” 2.) finishing the mobilization of a massive military force on the flanks of Iran, ready to attack the Islamic Republic as soon as this weekend.

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

"There’s no ambiguity in the law in question. Trump assumed an unconstitutional power. It is, among other things, an example of the central tenet of current conservative jurisprudence: to determine what law or constitution would require if words had no meaning." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

In case the conservative justices have any faith that they will be "protected" from the whims of a deranged kleptofascist president, this should disabuse them of that notion. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

WA mail-in voting has near-zero levels of voter fraud and is one of the most effective in the nation, and allows people to vote regardless of whether they can take time off work, or how able-bodied they may be. But then of course WA is the most blue state in the nation too.

“President Trump announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.” — New York Times www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

“Even when you look at 1940 to 1941, World War II had started, Germany was putting a lot more people into camps, yet we have more people in immigrant detention today than Nazi Germany did seven years into the Third Reich, which is just astounding when you think about it.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Tech is funding Trump and his sycophants politically, propping up the economy with the AI scam: A comprehensive study of 6,000 corporate executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia revealed a surprising lack of results despite the widespread adoption of AI tools.

1/3 There are a lot of Americans who have become very fatalistic about things. Like some huge conflict is inevitable, or the erosion of our institutions, or some massive economic collapse, or whatever. Part of it may be the nationalistic nature of our Christianity. But it sucks.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems. They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.

So let me get this straight: the King Of England thinks that it’s appropriate that *his own family* be subject to the laws of the land. Here in the USA, purportedly a nation of laws where government is based on “public service,” our President & billionaires can act lawlessly with impunity. Got it.

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

"See you on the inside"

The English Royalty arrest family members for breaking the law. The South Koreans prosecute and jail a leader who led an insurrection. The USA covers up the Epstein crimes to protect the wealthy and the leader who fomented an armed insurrection *here* has captured the Department of Justice.

The British arrested a Royal, and we can’t even investigate a reality TV show host. Our system is so busted.

So, uh…when do we take to the streets?

Talarico’s interview has now been viewed over 6 million times—more than twice the size of the Late Show’s nightly broadcast audience. slate.com/culture/2026...

"His wrists in handcuffs, Mo begged the federal agents to let him bring the baby formula home to his son." Under U.S. law, he has permission to remain in the country while his asylum application is processed, said his attorney Hannah Hough, who works at the civil rights organization CAIR-WA.