Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately. It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

we can't have people like this among us, let alone armed and in possession of an ostensible license to kill

Incredibly funny

If this polling is representative then normie voters are *remarkably* unresponsive to actual political reality. Like to a greater degree than I realised, and I was broadly aware of this. This is just America of course, but I bet this generalises. charlesatpollsandvotes.substack.com/p/ice-renee-...

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

these people have a moral rot

At Davos, the tech oligarchs seem to have given up on people organically adopting their technology, and are instead asking what government can do to “make diffusion occur.” open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

Trove Of Emails About Pedophilia Reignites Nation’s Love Of Reading https://theonion.com/trove-of-emails-about-pedophilia-reignites-nations-love-of-reading/

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess

The entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

can’t not hear and see:

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

Regardless of which president appoints them, trial court judges have to do the very basic work of deciding cases according to facts. I don't know how anyone who ends up in a Trump judge's courtroom is supposed to trust a legal system controlled by people who are this unhinged.

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

what can you say but lol. lmao even

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns. ... Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us. Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols? A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us. R: Pulling out literal guns? A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

I think it's bad to be rich or to want to be rich. I think people who work in finance should feel bad about that. I think they should feel ashamed. I think if you were born rich, or if you get rich, you should feel ashamed. And if you take money from rich people, you should feel bad about that.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Jack Lew is teaching at Columbia, Samantha Power is teaching at Harvard, Sonali Korde is teaching at Rice, Jake Sullivan is teaching at Harvard...

We all love Chotiner making his clever little remarks but he has been on a run of feeling so (correctly) disdainful of his subjects that it’s bordering on him going Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya? Doug Warcrime: I guess so Chotiner: seems that way

“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.” www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.

the chief of staff at the DOJ and the US homeland security advisor publicly begging on twitter for lawyers to *DM them* about applying for AUSA jobs should tell you volumes about how staffing is going at the DOJ, even restaurant owners don’t do this

A relevant piece of context here re: Northwestern is they’ve had a vocal Holocaust denier on faculty for decades. Never did anything. But profs who showed solidarity with anti-genocide students are gone now. I recall students protesting Butz in the early 90s. Still listed as faculty.

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

Colleague at Red State public uni is awaiting approval to teach about segregation and redlining in their *housing policy* course, approval they may not get, and I’m begging you to advise students not to go to school in such places if possible/feasible. *they plan to teach material “offline”

Every Democrat who has attempted to stand in the way of Larry Krasner deserves to be de-platformed, primaried, and exiled from the Party.

honestly surprised it took this long for this type of Dem to get no peace at public events

this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

"When one fed attempted to blow off the crowd by visibly watching basketball highlights on his phone, a protester shouted “You’re watching ads, you broke bitch! Kill yourself!” The federal agent returned to his room shortly thereafter." crimethinc.com/2026/01/27/t...