Christ, is The Pitt psychic, or was this just really inevitable and the timing is freaky?

Guys. The people raping the kids created and disseminated QAnon because they knew it would come out and they were trying to control the story. Very common PR tactic. It was Bannon and his creepy crew doing a/b testing on 4chan and 8chan

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

Now his excuse for taking the shady $100K adjunct gig for 2hrs/week is that his $140K salary was putting his family in poverty. And you know what? Fine. Cool. So I assume that means the FL GOP’s official position is raising the minimum wage to $240K/yr, right? www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/20/j...

Bessent: I got a feeling the American people won't see the $175 billion in tariff revenue we collected

Weapons of War writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach has listened to this week's episode and provided a lot of notes and reactions, both to the production and our response to it. For instance:

This panel from the new X-Men #25 is ...... I just can't. 😂🤣

"...a conspiracy so vast and so terrifying that the President of the United States, comma, a serial rapist of children, comma, is threatening to go to war with Iran to prevent the disclosure of his crimes." Great article!

My first comment upon hearing. Inevitable.

I agree with all the slave ship & forced labor camp comparisons, but also, on a practical level, this is not how you build a detention center where you expect either violent inmates or long-term prisoners. The very floorplans betray the obvious lie; they are meant to warehouse harmless folks.

US paid ~$160M toward nearly $4B in outstanding dues to the UN, per UN spox. Last month, UNSG Guterres warned UN faced “imminent financial collapse” without overdue payments — ~95% of the regular budget arrears are owed by the US Trump said Washington will “make sure the United Nations is viable.”

“I could be starring in adult videos that I never agreed to and never consented to.” Nevada brothel workers are unionizing to protect their digital rights.

HELL no. Your own hometown newspaper (which in better times for the paper I used to write for) gets your identity wrong with a racist photoswap in a post about the biggest night of your life? A paper serving a majority Asian American metro population? Apology, retraction, sackcloth and ashes.

Always remember: The Roberts Court is ALWAYS outcome oriented and only INCIDENTALLY “rule of law” when being so is convenient. It's never "doing the right thing." (From March 2025) www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

NEW: A federal jury on Thursday ordered the city of Chicago to pay $750,000 to a man who was wrongfully convicted of a 1989 murder and spent 17 years in prison. @wttw.bsky.social

Sidenote lost to history on Tiananmen. Chinese students from Beijing attending Stanford could see where the tanks were rolling from the CNN feed and used fax machines to communicate locations with protest organizers back home.

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Why are we keep bringing back vintage diseases.

The Roberts Court loves corporations. Corporations are their benefactor more so than Trump. Corporations were not happy with the tariffs. SCOTUS rules against Trump when it's Corporations v. Trump. End of. Don't let this fool you into thinking this court as any goddamn legitimacy. It does not.

If you can’t draw the line at genocide, then how can voters trust you to draw the line anywhere?

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

So, if I understand it correctly, according to the US supreme court, the president can murder people at will and face no consequences, but playing with tariffs is a bridge too far

Actually the refunds will go to a bunch of Wall Street firms including the one now run by Lutnick's son who have been buying up the refund rights. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

Lol. The most toxic part of our oligarchy would collapse, and the oligarchs would have you believe that means you, too. But it very much does not.

“I LIKE BEER!!!” - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

NEW: Some election officials believe voters should prove their citizenship and show ID before casting a ballot — but even those in support of such initiatives think the SAVE America Act takes it too far. It’s “effectively creating a poll tax on people,” said one county clerk. “It’s a huge barrier.”

OPINION: "Since 2020, educator housing has been proposed or developed in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and South Carolina," Jeff Kruth and Tammy Schultz write.

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

THAT'S MY FUCKIN STATE

yes thank you please have a loud public fight within the Republican Party about how the tariffs everyone hates so much the Supreme Court reversed them are actually awesome and you should all vote for them ahead of midterms

The current Court majority is a classic captured court. The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.

All charges against photojournalist Alexa Wilkinson DROPPED. Wilkinson’s home was raided, her gear seized, and she was charged felony hate crimes for documenting the aftermath of a vandalism protest of the NYT & herself criticizing Editor Joe Kahn & the outlet’s genocide laundering.

Tesla has to pay historical $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

I've know Alexis for about 15 years so if you want a Brett Banditelli Congress she's your choice.

Look past the f bomb to see that Trump is big mad because SCOTUS has taken away the most effective tool he has in extorting rich people and the corporations they own.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

The Trump admin is pushing to terminate rules that mandate basic rights & sanitary conditions for detained children. Already, CBP is detaining kids in tents, airports & prison-like settings, according to lawyers By @sandywestreporter.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NEW: Judge Rufe denies DOJ request for a stay of Monday's ruling in the case over the Trump admin's effort to erase slave-related information from the President's House in Philadelphia pending an appeal to the Third Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Interestingly tho, Roberts's section on the so-called major questions doctrine is only joined by Gorsuch and Barrett The liberal justices are like, yeah we agree these tariffs are obviously illegal, but your made-up major questions nonsense is still nonsense fyi www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA. Just complete groin kicking. They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one. It didn't. It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

LOVE THIS 💗

HOMAN: We're gonna be dealing with Biden's open borders for decades FOX & FRIENDS: This happened in 2018

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

I don't know who needs to hear this but please, RAMADAN IS NOT A "HOLIDAY". It's the holy month in the Islamic lunar calendar which is obviously different from the Gregorian calendar that most of you know.

The “Board of Peace” in one paragraph, from @economist.com

is it good that everyone i know being made to find a use for AI at work is just having to manage the politics of the fact that they're expected to use it whilst fixing all of its mistakes? it seems to have the same impact on the workplace as a bad intern who's only there cause hes the CEOs son

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.