The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

The Dems should file articles of Impeachment today. Make every Republican go on record voting for this war. Otherwise, they’ve lost the right to keep saying, “but he can’t do this without Congress.”

The bombings will continue until the Peace Prize is awarded www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

AI is stealing my Dad's strategy for when we used to go on family holidays abroad: speak English, more loudly, but in a foreign accent

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’ll be RFK Jr and Dr. Oz bearing drums of beef tallow and horse dewormer.

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. 10/10. No notes.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Must be nice to live in an actual democracy.

Judge Rufe says govt has failed to comply with her 2/16 order to restore *forthwith* the slavery exhibits to the [George Washington] President's House in Philadelphia. Orders them restored by 5pm Friday. (Govt has appealed, but has not yet moved for a stay.)

The Trump administration is arguing that federal courts can't step in to stop unconstitutional immigration detention. If that were true, Mohsen could have been detained for ten months on a charge that the government couldn't even substantiate before an immigration judge.

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

the calculator came to me, with tears welling in its eyes, and it said BOOBS

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

I remember sitting in a Sociology class in 1998 and discussing vouchers. The professor asked everyone who would benefit the most from the program and after a dozen or so thoughtful answers shook her head and said, “families who already have their kids in private schools.” The rich always find a way.

And folks were worried about affordable housing bringing down their property values…

Tonight I had to tell my 17 year old we can’t afford her dream college. This is a kid who struggles in school for a number of reasons and has worked her ass off to get accepted. I know *looks around* it’s not the end of the world and she’ll end up somewhere, but shitty parenting moment all the same.

“Oh, what a crock-load of mierda—¿qué?—¿qué está pasando? ” said local 43-year-old Randy Hance

EXACTLY. As someone who's loved Kpop since 2018 and speaks not a word of Korean, it's all in the vibe.

You don't bring a knife to a gunfight, and you don't bring Kid Rock to a culture war.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

This is 20 min from my house. When I used to think of Burlington, it was for the mall. Now all I picture is a concentration camp in an office park and thinking of shopping and eating turns my stomach. The town needs to do much more to enforce its zoning and close this facility.

Trump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement. And right now media is ignoring.

Death Camp For Cutie over here

His lust for branding is pathological.

"The image of our neighbors shipped in a supply chain like patio furniture and disappeared into the bowels of a Big Lots warehouse should have all of us asking a fundamental question. "What are we doing here?"

“It will change the character of the community” for the win.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

I really hate rich people. Just one of those days I’m reminded they create little for the world at large, but consume so much of what’s good.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Ghouls. All of them.

No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Roughly 19,000 Haitians in Massachusetts will retain Temporary Protected Status after a federal judge's ruling. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-02-02/haitian-immigrants-can-retain-protected-status-for-now-federal-judge-rules

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“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?! This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple. Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Delighted to present this... you watching Tim Cook???

What people need to understand is that the fascist GOP is an extension of the moneyed class. Its policies of repression are an outgrowth of the way this group preys upon society. This is the reason it feels like every institution is “failing” rn, bc in fact they operate at our collective expense.

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

Chris Rufo at the Lutheran potluck

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.