Repeat after me: Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching

I also have another

Conservative Defends Child Molesters In Case He Becomes Child Molester Someday https://theonion.com/conservative-defends-child-molesters-in-case-he-becomes-child-molester-someday/

This took days of research and a team effort to get out. It’s a very important story about women, corporate espionage, possible human trafficking, a multimillion dollar investment in Coinbase, and how billionaires attack people reporting on them. Oh, and crypto, Brock Pierce, and Jeffrey Epstein.

Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.

Every single person who supports Trump is supporting someone who wants to end democracy, the constitution, and the republic

The question is what precautions here look like. To me, it seems clear there needs to be an effort to track DHS goons close to the election and to be prepared to put (lawful!) crowds outside of (the legal limit of) polling places in key districts to discourage any ICE shenanigans or intimidation.

something that's really important to keep in mind about this administration is that they have exactly one move, and it is escalation it does not mean that the escalation is going to work, or that they're actually winning

Embracing urban exploration to enhance civic pride. I approve.

Or someone else’s fiancée, by phone

Moltbook is essentially Reddit for Robots — and they're using it to plot our demise! ... Or, wait, maybe not? reason.com/2026/02/02/n...

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

OK so nominate someone better than him

On the subject of Sparta: I'm surprised (not really, but) anyone wants to claim the Spartans for their ethnicity. Sparta & Spartans were just the *worst*. Claiming them is doing nothing but damage to your ethnicity's rep.

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed

It's always wild to me that Republicans will straight up tell you they want to murder you in the street and someone will insist that they can be reasoned with

I'm a firm believer in Show, Don't Tell. That's why my writing presents worldbuilding exposition exclusively via time travel.

New England is feeling pretty cold right now. Do I know any librarians in Southern California who might want to book a Map Guy to run a program so I can call the trip a business expense?

Not all heroes wear capes. But if this one does, he'll be very well-dressed.

Tom Hanks once sent me fan mail. Typed on his personal letterhead and sent to my house. It was delightfully surreal. I can verify it was from him because we had lunch the next time I was in LA. He is, as you might expect, absolutely lovely.

How sweet, someone left an early Valentine's Day note for one of our foresters 😍

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

i'm afraid i'm going to exhaust my allotment of gift articles pretty soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Fun from Latin class last week learning indirect statement - we were doing some composition exercises (English -> Latin) on the board. And watching the dawning horror as I roll out, "Marcus said that he thought he heard Lucius denying that there was a rumor." Four nested indirect statements.

Sorry I'm not prepared for our meeting. I was trying to identify the hawk I just saw.

in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.

Punxsutawney Phil? The New York financier?

For context, organizers in Springfield have asked for support via donations and that no one travel there even to act as observers, and that anyone who lives/works in town should attend a training on how to protect neighbors and interact with ICE. See the post about DIFA if you're in Dayton.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breathes* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

Give a man an alarm clock and he’ll wake up in the morning for free. Teach his AI to alarm clock and he can pay five cents a minute to ask “Is it time to get up yet?” over and over forver.

"someone" For fuck's sake

While being told every step of the way that Texas should be abandoned and it was their own fault, by people who should damn well know better.

/2 There‘s been an unusually high level of AUSA resignations. There are reports of threats of more at least in MN. I’ve personally seen a very unusually high level of AUSA resumes coming in looking for jobs. www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...

this is who runs this account

A bystander took a heart-wrenching picture of Liam Ramos in his hat and Spiderman backpack, and there was pressure, and he and his father are free. We must not forget all the prisoners still in the camps whose names and faces are known only to their loved ones. We must make miracles for them, too.

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

This, but for wargaming terrain/basing supplies. What's the point of holding onto those sheets of blue XPS foam, styrene tubes, and fancy grass tufts? Use them.

This is, uh, kind of a big deal!

This is racist of course, but also if you’ve worked with orthodox Jewish lawyers, which I have for years, you know the Shabbat situation has never stopped them from doing their work.

I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

The Mamdani campaign operated squarely inside a Democratic primary while rejecting the assumption that party politics must be donor-driven, consultant-managed, or ideologically thin.

Using the past to help shed light on the present is all fine and good, but the fact that the most popular references/comparisons are to Nazi Germany and the Confederacy points to our lack of imagination in thinking more inclusively and carefully about our history.