Age verification? My first computer screen was green.

“Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation: A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Born in Virginia, son of two Uzbek skaters, with 10 and 7 national championships.

the entirety of Scott Caan’s personal life section

I’ve now only watched one curling match but I might have to get CURL HARD as a tattoo

Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections

I try not to be judgmental about this stuff, but if you’re still on X, maybe think about the trade off.

“As funding is available.” ICE’s 2025 budget was about $25 billion.

Watch this, it's astonishing.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Turns out if your name is in the Epstein files almost 1800 times there might be consequences

i love the "public toilets in bratislava" article because it was written by one anonymous guy who took it upon himself to photograph every public toilet in bratislava

Judge slams Trump over 5-year-old: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is accurate. Trump has not changed course. He is trying to contain political damage. That's it. There is not pivot. There is no shift at this point. Past experience shows the "new tone," if you can call it that, will be temporary. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Bari Weiss is presenting her plans to the CBS staff today. Weiss quite famously live tweeted a contentious internal meeting at the Times in 2020. I wonder if she thinks her employees are entitled to do the same thing now?

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

With remote schooling back for a day in NYC, I can pull out my only truly viral tweet (which, my account being deactivated for years, is in fake-tweet form)

Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"

My mother had polio as a child in the 1920s-30s. She had a crooked back and trouble getting air into her lungs forever because of it. She had us first in line to get that sugar cube at school and I’ll be forever grateful.

In 1952, there were over 57,000 cases and over 3,000 deaths from polio in the U.S. The vaccine was introduced in 1955. By 1960, the numbers were down to 3,000 and 230. No deaths since 1980.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

I’m doing it anyway, substituting “The Testament of Ann Lee” for Tony Dokoupil

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Most people don't realize how vast our great nation is. Truly amazing

The Trump administration cut a $26 million contract with the Trevor Project last year. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

The thing about pretext is that it requires someone to make it text-text, which Powell does here. An astonishing moment and a grim one.

Here are the 20 US urban areas that had the highest per-capita transit ridership in 2024. New York, unsurprisingly, dominated. Among the big urban areas, the other leaders were SF, DC & Boston. A lot of small towns—like Ames, IA or Champaign, IL—did well, too. That's because they're college towns!

I had an idea for a story the other day about a guy who sees a car passing him driven by mannequins. How weird that would be!

These would make the 10th and 11th shootings since September

I feel like we’ll be hearing a lot about those no votes during the midterms

Heading into Friday like…

Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet

I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute

You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing. This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

The flu is at its highest level in 25 years www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

If you haven’t seen it, I cannot recommend more highly this NYT visual investigation of the Capitol riots. Six months and many journalists were involved. An incredibly comprehensive view of what happened.

I'm sure Bill Cassidy et al will be very concerned to hear this

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All the numbers are good

kinda miss the times when people asked me why the study of colonialism / imperialism was relevant tbh

MTA Admits To Fabricating Large Parts Of Subway Map https://theonion.com/mta-admits-to-fabricating-large-parts-of-subway-map/