I also use the “e for example” cue. But for ie I use “i for ‘in other words’” Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

"To allege that interpreting the Clean Air Act in an open-ended way is some sort of violation of law is ridiculous. I don’t think anybody involved here is confused about the legal merits. Everybody on the right knows that they’re playing Calvinball here and that this is all bullshit." — @volts.wtf

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

fuck ice, fuck collagen-lipped nazis, come put me in a camp you dim toddlers

"When Musk and Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during WW2."

And make no mistake - this matters bsky.app/profile/timb...

if you handed 6 million files over to a small group of screen and comic book writers, we would have been able to redact the victim's names inside of 48 hours as long as you gave us half the fee up front and promised the other half on completion.😐

I know you could stop after the first three words and say "Well, yes, that says everything that needs to be said," but this is worth reading in full.

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

Do not try to find the context here. Just enjoy.

0 This planet produces an amazing variety of food.

To be fair, the guy is a walking specimen of undiluted white supremacy.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

It's always the post with the typo that goes viral.

Who among us has not ... Wait. I can honestly say that despite being having worked in the entertainment industry in Hollywood in the 1970s, I never snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. JFC this guy.

The last time there was a bombshell whistleblower report like this it was over Trump's "perfect call" asking Ukraine pres Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden. He got impeached over that one. That whistleblower, Alex Vindman, is running for the Senate as a Democrat in Florida.

Welcome to the resistance, ignorant assholes! 🫡

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner. I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.

Oh. Oh no. No no no, AI. Bad AI caption generating machine!

Epstein is the central player in our current political nightmare. Rosetta Stone for understanding lack of accountability, garbage science to smart-wash white supremacy and patriarchy, Trump, even the AI bubble is in there somewhere, I think.

Let's be honest, we should have simply stopped measuring star sizes after we found VY Canis Majoris, it was never getting better than having a biggest star in the universe called Big Dawg

Now get ICE out of all our cities.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Top public health official in the country

You are huffing glue if you think we will see a moon base built in our lifetimes. Everything Elon says is a lie. Even the moon dust is toxic and causes everything to be destroyed. www.nasa.gov/humans-in-sp...

Some people have never been punched in the face and it shows.

Tim Cook has ensured that his legacy will forever be defined by a picture of him handing a gold idol to Donald Trump, with nothing to show for it.

Yes I am committed to nonviolence AND this headline writer deserves natural consequences

Heckuva deal here from FT. But is 40% of undefined really undefined?

Aethelred's inner dialogue

Every so often Rand Paul does something good. Not that often and it doesn't make up for the bad stuff but still.

I hope that everyone who thought it was Liam also sees the story that Liam is still in hiding, clearly has PTSD, and his family is at risk of being deported. Abolish DHS.

Holy shit.

Extremely Online summary of recent events.

Re: Minnesota I think it's important to both recognize they're lying about a full retreat and recognize it as a victory that they're cognizant enough of the PR disaster to feel the need to lie.

My "we are a legitimate law enforcement agency" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

read this whole thread. Read till the end

Please don't think anything is back to normal in Minnesota. Nothing is normal. I know we’re strong. Don’t know if it’s enough. If you don't live here, your Minnesota friends may tell you that it's going to be okay but I think a lot of that is them being nice so you won't worry. It's bad here.

I did not have " @weratedogs.com takes on the surveillance state" in my 2026 bingo card, but I'm hecking here for it. After all, they're good dogs Brent...

“The Pentagon has told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. military prepares for a potential attack on Iran, according to three U.S. officials.” Trump really wants that Nobel Peace Prize.

Pam Bondi sure is acting like Donald Trump is the only person in the world who can keep her out of jail.

simply one of the greatest calls of all time

I'm old enough to remember when the DOJ brought evidence to a grand jury and they were able to get indictments based on that evidence. See United States v. Trump (DC and Florida)

“‘For the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand,’ @jayapal.house.gov urged. ‘And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with the DOJ.’ All of the victims present raised their hands.”

“We are at a point where everyone’s news river looks different.” Thanks, I hate it.

Non-lawyers: I cannot express just how abnormal it is for the DOJ to get no-billed repeatedly on these cases. Like tripping on a single blade of grass.