I love the hater pope

Stop saying Trump wants to "nationalize elections." What he said was: "We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many—15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” "Take over the voting" and "nationalizing voting" is very different from the more sanitized language.

i will be playing #HouseMusic on Twitch at 10 PM ET (02/21/2026) www.twitch.tv/djserqet

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

It is pretty rich that there are teams exclusively built through lottery luck/multi year tanks that now get to pull the ladder up behind them. The Spurs wouldn't have castle or harper under the proposed changes, instead they're set to be the primary force

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Adopting that rhetorical frames of the authoritarians basically concedes the culture before you’ve even said a word. The “jokey” -maxxing shit gives them power, and the same was true with -pilled and all the rest over the last decade. You don’t have to believe me; the Nazis are memeing their crimes.

The fascist right will *literally kill people* over the idea of voluntarily using more thoughtful and inclusive language, and yet folks on the left are constantly tripping over themselves to adopt the latest garbage terms coined by the worst rape apologists in the world, I will never understand it

Realizing Americans paid $175 billion in illegal tariffs and it’s being refunded to companies instead of back to us

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

The leagues are going to need to grapple with selling their souls to the devil when their players start needing round-the-clock security because people lost their shirts on Kalshi, Polymarket, DraftKings, or DoofusBet & loansharks tell bettors it's a bullet to the head of the player or their kid.

The Supreme Court:

Please read @davekarpf.bsky.social on why he's leaving Substack – and follow his great newsletter wherever he'll go. I wrote about why I left Substack a few months ago: I simply couldn’t justify lending legitimacy to that platform anymore. A difficult transition – but, I believe, a necessary one.

How does Coco do it? 😅

Your #BanjoAunti is here with a special guest: Ed Helms! While filming “Ode to Mary Jo” Ed and I got to have some banjo time behind the scenes. Today we’re demonstrating the difference between clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjo.

“If you’ve ever wondered why some intrusive AI feature that you never asked for is jumping in front of your cursor when you’re just trying to do a normal task, it’s because someone’s KPI was measuring whether you were going to click on that AI button” anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

extremely funny that the Supreme Court says absolutely nothing about how the tariffs are supposed to be reimbursed ahead of the endless flood of lawsuits that are coming the administration is already running out of lawyers! have fun with that

Don't talk to me about Tom Brady. Rapinoe was a leader on a US Women's national team that didn't lose a single game *for 3 years*. That team had an unbeaten streak at home that was 104 games long. If you saw magenta hair? You were about to get that work. Chalk up the L now. Not the same.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump exceeded his authority in imposing a swath of tariffs that upended global trade, blocking a key tool the president has wielded to impose his economic agenda. 📸 Brendan Smialowski

Your feedback in the survey is how we make decisions. One band, one sound.

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Finna go play the lottery.

“We have all been here before We have all been here before”

Looks like a ship’s hold

discrete = separate discreet = unobtrusive The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

This really is a great picture:

Catching up on Gauff vs Eala. Coco’s backhand is serious business!

Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on "Grey's Anatomy" and "Euphoria" and who later in life became an advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53. n.pr/4qX3vqE

The cynic in me is thinking some of his buddies in universities told him this would actually not be a great move for protecting right wing power & interests long term. That line about how “the pendulum is always moving” has big “I realized this could soon backfire on conservative academics” energy.

You know I love Mamdani. But this is a Schumer post. Please announce some kind of sanction against NYU Langone and/or some specific help for trans kids. Concern is not enough.

Four detainees today, the smallest count I’ve observed. Checking in with my network: observers are getting harassed by ICE, kids are returning to school, detainments are down, demand for food/rent remains high, donations are down. We’re not done, but we’re in a new phase. If you can, please help:

I have some questions about proof of use in commerce...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

"Everyone must be in high-viz all the time" is a great way to victim blame and shift the focus from dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure. Unfortunately it doesn't actually make anyone safer. This is a fantastic analysis of a truly ridiculous proposal.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Once again, I am obligated to mention that Obama wasn’t included in polling for the 2008 presidential primary until fall 2006.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

This interview does a heroic job wading through the legal morass that is third-country removals, multiple legal challenges, and the proliferation of habeas petitions, all of which is basically invisible to anyone not paying a lot of attention.

One side of the coin is that a lawmaker is saying that educating himself made him change his mind on an issue. (Which, good!) The other side of the coin is that he's admitting that he authored, sponsored, filed a bill while having evidently spent no time doing reading or research about the topic.

Trump has ordered the Treasury to send him $10 billion in cash & $10 billion for a slush fund (on top of the $200 million in cash stolen from Venezuela for another slush fund), on top of $10+ billion gotten from foreign governments in exchange for favors, but do go on about not taking a salary ...

Americans can’t get the results other countries have until A) we admit all Americans matter and work towards that ….. B ) we define who matters openly and just admit some people are never included

Remembering all those “Has #MeToo Gone Too Far?” thinkpieces.

Would be nice if people stopped restating the false claim that Waymos have live humans driving them. That was based on a misleading Futurism headline that was debunked in its own article. There is way too much hype about AI tech but it does no good to misrepresent the state of things the other way.

This is a candidate for a state seat talking about his experience being boxed in by ice vehicles and threatened. Nothing has changed on the ground here if anything it’s expanded into the entire state now at an accelerating rate.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...