“We’re the most powerful country in the world and we have the most obese, fudgy people.” The fatness claim is incorrect. The national rankings differ, but the US is usually in the teens. We’re on the high end, but we’re not the fattest nation on earth. I’ll take fudgiest, though

Get this: it turns out Mike Tyson is ill informed about public health

People are so desperate for some leadership that someone will give a speech that doesn’t sound like a room of centrist, corporate consultants typed it up and everyone starts asking if the guy is the front runner for president. Demand. More. From. Politicians.

The pathological need to include the word "beautiful" when describing a woman's accomplishments is always a tell.

When the gale force winds in central Virginia mess up your sweet hairdo and try to separate you from your chow, but you're a motherfucking cardinal and even though you only weigh a couple ounces, it's winter and you're hungry and these humans have set out a damn smorgasbord.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Devastated to see what’s happening at a place that I loved because it was the writing home of so many people I loved. what a gutting week

wow too much for tim scott is saying something

Wisdom. Being upset that people remember your favorite writer/musician/artist as a creep is on the creepy artist, not on the people who note, through voluminous evidence and/or personal experience, that the artist was a creep.

When the editor of your novel about a notorious sex pest would tell you to dial it back a bit: "Epstein messaged Ross about funding an exhibition titled ‘statutory’." 1/3

Ugh, so gross, and then to double down on it in twenty fucking twenty six. 🤮

@scalzi.com is "in the files" through a 3rd or 4th hand reference to a piece he wrote. But this makes me wonder, is there anyone out there who knew they had a correspondence with Epstein who has gotten that info out publicly before the release? 1/2

sic semper tyrannis baby

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

"Our review found that these Section 287(g) Agreements, per the language of the agreements, improperly cede accountability and discretion over Virginia law enforcement to the federal government..." www.governor.virginia.gov/media/govern...

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.’”

Dear UPS, While I fully support your decision not to come down our still-icy road to leave my package on our porch, I would suggest that when you mark the delivery location as "other," the photo of the delivery location is more critical. The scavenger hunt was fun, tho!

It’s been a week since ICE murdered anybody. Can I go back to complaining about the woke kids?

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed. If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

Ah, I understand the racists are upset that one of the most beautiful women in the world was cast in a film as one of the most beautiful women in the world

I just can't bring myself to pay the extra fees even though I could afford it. We do Friday takeout, but always pick up. 1/ 🎁🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/dining/food-delivery-apps-doordash-uber.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.4IPh.Hu_ZwupbRPDb&smid=bs-share

That motherfucker

@kenwhite.bsky.social has outdone himself with this. Perfect!

It's just statutory rape, not real rape. It's just date rape, not real rape. Well she wouldn't have gotten raped if she wasn't out there by herself. She shouldn't have had so much to drink. What was she wearing? Why didn't she just say no? They're good guys, they'd never rape anyone.

/8 The impediments will be these: they will get dregs who will do a bad job. Federal prosecution is not rocket science but federal judges DO have notably higher standards than state judges and if you MAGA your way around federal court you WILL get your ass handed to you.

If you think stink bugs smell bad, let me tell you, they taste even worse. 0/5⭐, do not recommend. 1/

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

“Haven’t we all met terrible people” yeah sure but we haven’t associated with them for years after finding out how terrible they were and then lied about it until the DOJ releases a stack of PDFs.

6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."

Has anyone started a Harper's Letter / Epstein Files overlap list yet? 🤔

We got to see this legend at SF Sketchfest in 2023 for the 20th Anniversary screening of A Mighty Wind. Such an incredible, delightful talent and she will be so missed.

actually it's a commonwealth

Is this where I get to brag that I've never even watched an Aronofsky film?

All star pickup by The Atlantic. Brooks is exactly what they need to round out their writers’ room: a moderate who is skeptical of the excesses of both the right AND the left.

US history has conclusively proved that when the cops kill somebody, the immediate project becomes coming up with some crime to convict them with after the fact to frame the killing as deserved, to make them at fault for their own murder. It can be anything at all. Doesn’t even need to be a crime.

Damn. 🔥

Road report: Earlysville Rd (S of Rio Mills), Hydraulic, Georgetown, Barracks, Millmont, Arlington, Massie, Leonard Sandridge, bypass all good. Folks walking on roads around Arlington/Massie b/c sidewalks treacherous. NGRC parking lot solid ice or clear pavement depending on where. Pool perfect.😘

What is redemption, really? This is a great thread.

Stronger words than most of our domestic leaders. “'This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,' Sala told RTL Radio 102..."

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This feels like Yale, which has somehow avoided the administration's attacks thus far, is actively baiting them. 🤔

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There are few things more disturbing than witnessing the government gun down your fellow citizen on a city street. The more Democrats share video of this, the more they alienate reasonable centrists. by Editorial Board of the Free Press

“We’re going to have to live with our discomfort in making other people uncomfortable.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Good stuff here.

Let's reset the terms of the debate. theracket.news/p/when-will-...

The people who are going to demand that we give them a round of applause for figuring it out 10-15 years too late is already annoying and it’s about to escalate from a trickle to a torrent. Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.

It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.

Our country was founded on independence — aspirational and clumsily attempted as it was — and has been sullied by this sort of servile, vapid Dick Wolfish law enforcement worship.