Too much “I will not vote for X candidate” and not enough “I will begrudgingly vote for X candidate but won’t volunteer, donate or talk positively about them to my friends and family.” Latter may actually be more important than the former for winning elections given the numbers involved.

Yea, aren't we past the niceties at this point? Very disappointing response.

Fuckin sick weirdos.

"Don't worry. The CEO of our company, which makes money on kid parties, recently took a new job at an un-named company, but he did NOT leave because we recently found out he was hanging out with pedophiles." Honestly. Take the W. Next we'll hear their revenues crashed and they can't figure out why.

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

It’s not my academic domain but given all these men who suddenly have opinions about birth rates, if I were a sociologist in the US I would study women’s basketball as a case for the impact of childcare on mothers remaining in or leaving the work force. Anecdotally, we can see a huge differences.

This.

At Q&As after screenings of THE LIBRARIANS, I always tell audiences to make themselves known to the school & public librarians in their communities so we know who to ask for help when book banners come. Now artist Maia Kobabe has made the stationery. Start writing! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Hey, #publishing Bluesky! I'm helping a buddy who's pitching a nonfiction book about classic tech magazines. Sort of "Paperback Crush" for geeks. Does anyone out there know what sort of licensing arrangements might be necessary to reproduce covers and/or interiors? Please signal boost! Thanks!

This is so good. Algorithms are killing serendipity and curiosity for generations of people. They see what they see and they know what they know and they may not know that there is a whole lot more to know and discover.

‘We control one of the handful of commodities keeping the entire cable television industry alive so our plan is to do everything possible to destroy its value.’

this sentence is supposedly just about hockey “instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating” www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers represented the federal government’s overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died, her family announced on Saturday.

Delighted to have contributed to the Detroit Public Library’s African American Booklist this year, which features a terrific profile of @authormsbev.bsky.social and a history of Black romance by my friend Dr. Nicole Jackson! d2qp1eesgvzzix.cloudfront.net/uploads/imag...

Same.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Happy Valentine's Day! Let's go Hogs!! And, go cocks even though I'm not watching.

Welcome to the Plutocracy

Goggle Lish! #nolosers #gococks

Gamecock on Gamecock violence. I can't watch. #unrivaled #gococks

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Sounds like a @sabrchicago.bsky.social outing to me. www.wbez.org/arts/2026/02...

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

Talk about domestic terror: www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Book mail! @uscpress.bsky.social Meanwhile, I'm holding steady at 49 unread books in my house. I need to stop buying new books!!

“If [the US] does manage to save itself, it will be because people like these librarians say enough is enough. We the people have a right to read what we want, & no billionaire or self-appointed prophet will take that right from us.” - @contrariannews.org contrarian.substack.com/p/the-librar...

This Freedom to Read Week, we’re screening The Librarians. 📽️ The documentary explores book banning, censorship, and the librarians working to protect access to ideas. 📅 February 23, 6:30-8:45pm 📍Wolf Performance Hall 🍿 Popcorn courtesy of Downtown London

"Dress up as your culture" day is tricky because my kids' school is very international. You can't claim Italian when you're 4th generation and there are kids in your class born in Italy. My solution: Mets gear. Your culture is "Mets fan," kids, in more ways than you yet understand, and I'm sorry.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Nice to see the CNBC guy push back on this guy.

Gallup has measured Presidential approval ratings for 88 years. Their last report on Trump had him with the lowest rating for any President record in history. Today they announced they won’t measure approval ratings anymore. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

These dudes think this is so clever. Beyond the difference in harms that accompanies the age limits for booze and voting, there were 26,000+ arrests of minors for liquor law violations in 2019. It’s a relatively common crime. There are functionally no arrests each year for in-person voter fraud.

Is this the same boy who was cowering in his apartment near Chicago when someone found out where he lived and people started showing up at his building?

Progress? For the record, I was opposed to the lights. (I know. I know.)

I guess South Carolina has banned all the books, so now they're moving on to their next super important issue. I watched for a couple minutes, but when the speaker quoted a Reddit forum, I was out.

2+2=5

The Dems should invent a board game where voters get their donor lists and a list of predators from the Epstein files and see how many matches they can make. Voters can play it on the kitchen table so it's a "kitchen-table issue".

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Can’t wait til Stephen A Smith calls her “Ghetto”

Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

Minor league hockey All Star game! Since I'm missing Unrivaled, I still get to see some 3v3 games tonight. Let's go Central division!

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

NEW — The NFL's newest star, Caleb Williams, is participating in the Celebrity Three-Point Contest at the NBA All-Star Weekend this Friday, a Chicago Bears rep confirmed to The TRiiBE. This news gives Chicago Bears fans a reason to tune into the hallmark NBA event. thetriibe.com/2026/02/chic...

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.

I now am left genuinely wondering who would come out looking worse in a scenario in which a Democratic Member of Congress, rather than posing a question to Pam Bondi, just says, "I have no questions for you. Go fuck yourself, dumbass."

Timeline cleanse. Think spring.