Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

This is why I was incredibly skeptical when Cottagecore popped up. No, I would not like to flee society and live on some culty compound in the middle of nowhere and churn butter in a milkmaid dress all day.

“I am literally the bad guy from Left Behind, kneel before me, piggies.”

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

this dipshit administration has gotten rid of all kinds of things we've had for much longer that were more useful and much more missed than ICE, even beloved. fuck all y'all for acting like this is hard. it's easy and you roll over when *they* want to do it.

The admin is creating incentives to not hire POC unless they clearly, explicitly have objectively superior CVs. Otherwise, you have to create an extensive record justifying the hire. Meanwhile, if you reject POC, you are confident the administration won't pursue a lawsuit.

I'm sorry but it's not polarization. It's right-wing radicalization.

TIL the CIA killed off its invaluable World Factbook...with a press release dated today?? WTF, is this yet more Trump fuckery? www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Americans have been so poisoned by TV copaganda slop that it largely doesn't register to them that police officers are not supposed to point guns at people guns are in principle not a tool of law enforcement, they are a tool of self-defense that we allow law enforcement officers to have

From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent: March 3, 2006 To: [Redacted] Subject: RE: new televisions nicee seeing u at islannd last wkend . hope u will think abut my idea for “ motion smoothing “ on tvs . make sure its enabled by default . let s make world a smoother place , my frend .

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015 Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

1984 REAGAN MAP BUT WOKE SUMMONING CIRCLE (Idaho for the lone red state?)

10/10 ICE protest sign

Time to reassemble for the pro-billionaire rallies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion...

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Spotted in another search www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It was always strange that some of the very first incidents of people doing this on camera after it was proposed as a funny meme to troll the left were in the highest halls of power.

This whole country has influencer-brain. It's the modern get-rich-quick-ism.

The man couldn't type a coherent sentence or use a backspace key and was ragging on other people's test scores

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

As cynical as I am, it’s still been pretty unmooring to realize the degree to which their social reality does actually determine our material reality.

it's funny how we went from Japan->China->Dubai as models of growth

Fine, I guess I’ll go back to grad school for IR

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

What “government should be run as a business” thinking has wrought

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

An underrated reason that higher ed should not structured as leveraged individual investments in marketable skills. It's pro-cyclical and on a lag!

His goal is to not let us have a single night of rest until he dies.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Perhaps most significantly, assertive New Women, highly visible on their bicycles and in their forthright business attire, seemed determined to elide gender differences, thereby making it more difficult for men to define themselves relative to women.

Men who were uncertain of their political authority—because they had been slurred as unmanly or dishonorable-found it advantageous to declare that the real threat to male politics was women.

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

The illiberalism is okay, but he draws the line at "managerial." And by "managerial" he means "what my lizard brain associates with HR ladies."

I don’t fed post and I even refrain from fed post liking out of an abundance of caution. But I do allow myself to fed post screenshot. Hopefully the tech bro surveillance regime doesn’t take that joy away from us too.

okay hear me out

I will never forget the chill I felt the first time I read "About Face" by @natepowell.bsky.social I didn't want to accept what it said about the future that is now staring us in the face I encourage everyone to read it now that we no longer have a choice popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

"No statute of limitations on murder" should be one of the key messages from state-level Dems for the next 12 months.

the good timeline

I look forward to hearing about the large literature that shows the Fourth Amendment wasn't actually designed to protect homes from warrantless entries.

It is past time for news outlets to cut out the word "crackdown" Because it implies legitimate use of authority

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

rapist foreign policy from a government full of rapists

Remember when he had a whole wing of the White House torn down over several days while we all watched and nothing was done about it and we’ve all seemingly just moved on to the next several insane things?