IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

All kitted out with mags because?

punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter

A camera trap picked up a mountain lion waking up and falling asleep next to it

People are being killed in the streets of Minnesota standing up for the social justice that’s at the heart of the Catholic faith. But Minnesota“Bishop” Robert Barron, who doesn’t stand up for social justice is instead down in FL at the estate of a guy who started a circus. Very typical for Barron.

omg it was a candlemas story

since it's Groundhog Day i must share what might be the greatest Toronto Sun front page of all time, featuring one of the current Wiarton Willie's ancestors

Not many people know this, but LBJ exists in the same Bergentrückung state as King Arthur and Charlemagne: he and Blexas will return in our hour of need.

Although the article unequivocally shows the Illini Republicans are bigoted edgelords, it also demonstrates they are weak cowards, unwilling to support their words and scuttling like cockroaches when light is shone on them.

Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace; Because my eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples: A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

Every time I see someone like Abbott choose self-inflicted decline, I think of this quote from Pedro Sanchez: "Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

I don’t claim to have invented this, though I don’t think I got it from anywhere, but I’m seeing a lot more people calling the “Trump regime” now and I feel massively vindicated in doing so from day one. Try this one on for size too: “Acting President Trump.”

He is not the president because he cannot legally hold the office of president. Antipresident (by analogy to antipope) would work as well.

Thinking about my supposed coreligionists who have nothing but the most idiotic sneering with which to answer Protestant theology–a theology which I believe to be wrong, which is why I am Catholic and not Protestant–but suddenly are nothing but ecumenists when it's the racism conventicle

here's a picture i took at work nine years ago, during the airport protests after the muslim ban. anyone who showed up to an event like this at google today would be fired.

to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

lol Chris Rufo walking himself into the right’s own memes “tradition of industrial-frontier progressivism” yeah man that’s hardcore, that’s why I live here

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being." https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC

Amazing outpouring of working-class solidarity tonight as thousands turned out for vigils organized by @nationalnurses.bsky.social in memory of union member Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE. Mass rallies, protests, and student walkouts are called tomorrow as demonstrations show no signs of stopping.

The current Democratic coalition is every single person who has any idea how society works, any interest in maintaining it, or any scraps of empathy for their fellow human beings, and that's about 47% of the country, tops.

She knows she’s the DNI right? Hegseth mostly does push ups. Miller runs DHS and Latin America policy. Bessent rambles incessantly about NATO article 5. Patel posts on Twitter and jets around to his gf’s concerts. Does anyone in this administration actually do their statutorily defined job?

There have been a lot of these the past ten years, but between forcing a war on a Latin American country and promoting a flopped movie about his wife, this January has had the most Citizen Kane vibes.

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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

That’s a wrap on Room-B. Thank you everyone for watching!

The bargain of being hegemon was that you would shoulder the enormous cost of the enforcing international order at the much larger benefit of defining that order With elite gatekeepers disempowered by the internet, the people who understand this don’t have the power to keep it alive.

This outrageous act — seizing ballots — follows Bondi’s demand that to stop public executions in Minneapolis, Minnesota needed to turn over its voter roll. They’re determined to steal the midterms since they know they can’t win under an actual democracy.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely. They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.

GO THERE, PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS

I think it’s genius that while Absolute WW, Batman, and Superman still feel like the core of the Absolute Line, it’s Absolute Martian Manhunter who’s on the *frontlines* of the struggle against the evil at the heart of it all.

To the Battle Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen the sorrow of the stranger at the gate, Of children torn from mothers by the grinding wheels of state, But the Lord of Hosts is marching where the chains of fear abate His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the desert where the weary seek their bread, In the camps of exile crying where the hope of home lies dead, He has heard the prayers of refugees the nation counts as dread His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat, He is sifting out the falsehood from the laws that curse all the meek, And the measure ye have dealt shall be the measure ye shall meet His truth is marching on.

Not with guns nor walls of iron shall the kingdom yet be won, But with mercy rolling onward like a never-ceasing sun, Till the stranger finds a welcome and the exile’s work is done, His truth is marching on.

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

LA doesn’t miss 🔥 Freeway overpass just now (405)

If this is true (and that’s not a small if), it is reasonable to posit that Bezos is trying to offload the Post. Or kill it altogether. Sports is a top driver of traffic and subscriptions for most news sites. And we’ve seen how Bezos and Lewis have mangled the Opinion section.

It is Bad for my soul to imagine what needs to be done to these people

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

the senate democrats MUST shut down the government at the end of this month

my voting criteria in any democratic primary is do they support: ▪️ending ice ▪️supreme court reform, ideally packing ▪️adding states ▪️prosecutions for rights violations & corruption ▪️trans rights & have they personally put their bodies between ice thugs & their victims

Utterly bizarre that the authorities keep responding to ICE murders by acting like protesters are smashing windows and burning police stations. They seem to be responding to the 2020 protests, not what's happening now

It's all up to us.

Usually when an officer corp is an independent political actor, it’s not because they’re like “let’s preserve liberalism”

if elected officials cannot put a stop to this then our system of government has fundamentally broken down. checks and balances exist in theory, in high school classrooms, but not in practice. community is what remains to stand in their way and by god it will

It is only a matter of time before these animals shoot a child.