“Whenever you lose, lose graciously. If you can manage it, lose magnificently, like King Arthur. Whenever he met someone who could lay him out cold, the minute he woke up he invited them to move into his house. People still talk about him all the time.”— @dannymlavery.bsky.social

“The Bolsheviks did not win the revolution by first creating the Red Guards. They were able to create the Red Guards because they had already won the war of ideas.” “So don't buy a gun… Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is.”— @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

“I do hope that, at least in the world of book publishing, we can start to have a conversation about what it looks like to protect victims and make work environments safe.”

when a man’s paycheck depends on not understanding something

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

"Manufactured (Age Of) Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Dinesh D'Souza

You think, as the ad starts, you might be able to guess what Parker is hinting at about where it’s headed. I guarantee you will not guess.

The two best whiskey distillers in the country secretly pine for each other. Peated Rivalry.

I had a dream last night where I ran into @scalzi.com at a bookstore the day after a science fiction convention & after he bought what he was looking for we went out to the parking lot looking for his car, but my heels had popped out of my sneakers as we walked & they were about to fall off my feet.

Notably, Barry Josephson pivots to “how do we get rid of poor people” immediately after assuring Epstein that he’ll try to get a 16-year-old girl a part in his friend’s movie as a favor to Epstein.

And it’s not an accident that these are all the “center right” opinion havers Centrism is the same shady moral ground that makes child rape socially excusable

I’d probably drop The Long Riders so I could fit in the original 3:10 to Yuma, substitute Winchester ‘73 for The Naked Spur, and limit myself to one Peckinpah (which some days might even be Ride the High Country) so I could fit in a Sergio Leone flick. But it’s a solid list, no question.

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Goddammit, @schumer.senate.gov, stop being such a coward. What we want is no ICE. If you can’t deliver that, you can at least fight for no masks.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Lord knows, when a newspaper is committed to “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives,” the first and smartest move is to gut the one section focused daily on the most passionate interests of many of their readers and switch to “big picture” stories once every few weeks.

“Fucking Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean,” by Thou

“If you’re moved to ask around,” Lorin Stein tells Michael Wolff, who he’s just asked to recommend a lawyer for Stephen Elliott to sue Moira Donegan, “I’d ask that you please leave my name out of it.” And that’s BEFORE Wolff gets the bright idea to see if Epstein might bankroll such a project.

They ought never have given Oedipus that official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle he asked for for Christmas; just look how THAT turned out.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

The mission statement on this guy’s church’s website begins “Our theological vision is rooted deeply in the heritage of Christendom.” Christendom, not Christ. Tells you everything you need to know about him. (“This guy” being the racist in the screenshot, NOT Bonhoeffer’s Child. He’s cool.)

I mean, if you’re going to pretend to have been moved by a book I wrote*, you could at LEAST make the effort not to send me the “[insert personal anecdote]” draft. *I didn’t even write the whole thing! Just one short essay!

"Don't record video at the protest where we're burning dumpsters" is at the most an equally strong claim to "don't burn dumpsters at the protest where we're recording video," and in reality a much weaker claim because recording ICE is useful and burning a dumpster is dumb shit.

I’m seeing far too many people trying to somehow blame Jews and/or Israel as being the masterminds behind Jeffrey Epstein and his trafficking network. And, like, seriously, fuck off.

Whistles are highly effective for both community defense and alerting people to the fact that there's an existential risk in their communities. If you are not centering the people who are fearing for their lives. families, and communities, I am not interested in whatever you have to say.

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

“What good is it if someone claims to have faith but does not have works?” Nothing against thoughts and prayers, but God wants more from us than just our love & attention; God also wants us to love our neighbors as ourselves—and expects us to put some backbone into it. quaker.org/2026/02/02/t...

Instead of going "qanon was right, but about the wrong people" or "the conspiracies were correct except for who was doing it" or such, actually look up the definition of DARVO. Those letters, they actually mean something. Think: DARVO with the budget of a nation state en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

So I decided to go looking for this recording, because you can find anything online these days, and it turns out I’ve spent 40 years thinking I’d heard a Richard Burton monologue about Oedipus on the radio and it was really a guy named Michael Wagner in Leonard Bernstein’s production of Stravinsky.

I just came up with a great idea for a new production of OEDIPUS where we beef up Tiresias’s role so he’s in it all the way through and he knows Oedipus is the killer so he Columbos him into recognizing it himself.

“It is not surprising that the men who profit off diet culture are friends with men who view the bodies of women and girls as objects to dominate and control. The only surprise would be if Peter Attia is the only one.”

Looks like TACO Tuesday came early this week.

Hats off to Larry.

Gans: what would you say is the thing that people really like about the silent hill movies Keiichiro Toyama: probably the dark psychological symbolism Gans: Toyama: and also the way the radio makes noise when a monster shows up Gans: yes! Gans: yes, my thoughts exactly!

Reminder: All modern political ideologies/parties are built on the same two questions: 1) How much control does the government have over me. 2) How much responsibility do I have for my fellow man. The first only political science can address. The second Christ already answered.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Let’s not bury the most fun angle on this: In much the same way that Andrew Cuomo set out to steal Curtis Sliwa’s voting base, he’s now aiming to win over the audience Sliwa left behind when he quit WABC after John Catsimatidis tried to get him to abandon running for mayor.

Yeah, I’m increasingly drawn to the conclusion that the only way “class” fits into this dynamic is that it determines who’s able to escape accountability and punishment for preying on women and children outside their family. Which is probably just reframing what Jude lays out in this 🧵.

One of these men is an eight-year veteran of the Border Patrol, the other has served with CBP for a dozen years. This is not down to inadequate training. This is not the output of a system that can be “reformed.” This is a malevolent system that needs to be shut down and dismantled.

“Laments help us acknowledge and honor our sadness and anger. They help us learn how to stand in solidarity with one another in the different ways injustice impacts us. And they might help us imagine, together, the kind of world we want to see.”

“Pedocon theory does not involve secret networks of underground tunnels where adrenochrome is harvested for reptilian overlords. Pedocon theory is not hiding beneath twelve layers of misdirection. Pedocon theory is rooted in the basic politics of the reactionary right.”

In all fairness, the sequence here is more like “Epstein’s friend Peggy Siegal emails the production company behind Cursed Child begging for a pair of tickets for a friend.” Granted, they DO give him the tickets even after she coughs up the name, but it’s marginally possible they were oblivious.

To anyone who feels bad about this one, because they really admired Noam Chomsky, consider that he was always terrible, you were just ignoring it.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen with WOMEN lead singers: Siouxsie and the Banshees Cocteau Twins Belly Chelsea Wolfe Emma Ruth Rundle

Something about HOME ALONE 2 that has aged very well: everyone who works for Trump is evil and stupid.

Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of. All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting

He makes a good case. 🧵

I’m pretty sure this escaped from a @scalzi.com novel.

Audre Lorde and Batman, twin heroes of the resistance.