"don't be clever, just be brave" is most of the rest of our lives, y'all

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

this is my belated contribution to "YELLOW DIAMONDS LOOK LIKE PEEPEE" discourse

tiny sapphire crowns in autumn, call it Diadem Los Smuerfos

the murders have occupied all the attention but the indiscriminate assaults justified by no conceivable law enforcement purpose are another thing

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

we appear to be entering the "who do I have to fire for you to stop yelling at me" stage of negotiations, and when he makes Kristi Noem the ambassador to Bali or whatever I hope noone of righteous heart is cynical or gullible enough to treat that like a concession worthy of reciprocity.

regret to inform that today's edition of malort mondays with tony doukoupil has been delayed because bari weiss has concerns that a planned debunk of rumors that kristi noem's favorite winter coat is lined with human scalps rather than seal fur has failed to adequately convey the coat's cuddliness.

the WaPo ed board really wants you to believe it's possible to 'rebuild trust' in the agency that's recruited 4chan mods to disappear your brown neighbors & execute the white ones who object. nice little preview of the turdsome ruling class's defensive trench: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Holy shit

“It will be -15 degrees in Minneapolis tomorrow. The people are going to shut down the city because they are sick of injustice. Let’s watch and admire them and walk beside them. If they can do it here, you can do it too. It’s warmer where you are.”

hey if you ever ask me for a 10 favorite albums list and my answer doesn't include each of Highway 61 and Black on Both Sides and Hell Hath No Fury, that means I'm being held against my will somewhere.

WMATA finally restoring yellow line service north of Mt Vernon two weeks before I move to Seattle is rude. like the sarcastic "keep in touch!" goodbye after sending a broken collarbone, a housefire and sundry lesser setbacks at me as signals I'm supposed to leave DC again.

anybody else started occasionally misreading conTENT (emotion) as CONtent (broken modern-internet everythingword)

every beat of this speech is perfect and I know right now a lot of folks won't have time to watch it but I hope it finds them when their spirits need lifting in the days or weeks to come.

man if the extremely right wing and bloodthirsty Daily Mail is finding egregious fault with who you're hiring here, that says a ton. the people who really want to support your brownshirts are saying you're fucking up the hiring of the brownshirts they crave. full piece here: archive.is/lX1bL

🥁🎺but her soul goes marching on

take 12 minutes and watch this start to finish. make everyone you know take 12 of their minutes and watch it start to finish. (I'll just add that the courage is there the entire time, from jump, in a variety of evolving forms.)

I’m shaken from this.

somewhere on earth there must surely be at least one person with the name Jane Ronson. I pray that her friends have nicknamed her "The Dwock."

The point isn’t that reading and literacy are individual problems, it’s that there’s a clear ideological project to end education and literacy in the US and it’s working. And part of that, intentional or otherwise, has been the hours people spend passively consuming content on the internet.

(lying to myself) ok this is it. this is the night I decide if I think the Geese album is Good or Boring. the first dozen ambivalent play-throughs have all led to this one, after which I'll have one settled opinion forever about this band.

good evening 😇

I shall now rewrite the lyrics of City High's "What Would You Do?" to be a prompt about the premise of Pluribus.

these two things feel conceptually connected. are we 'running out of good ideas,' or has 4 decades of unchecked private equity profiteering destroyed perfectly viable good-idea systems like news and health? how many data centers do we need to build to generate the Good Idea 'end private equity'?

I would fight seven hundred tigers for this man. www.theplayerstribune.com/gabriel-jesu...

if you work in television news, i hope you will use your voice to push your show to cover Amnesty International's report that the United States is torturing people accused of civil violations of immigration law: www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...

Tom Cruise deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Adam Scott in the documentary Succession on apple tv

the thing about Hakeem Jeffries is that he is both very stupid and doesn't believe in anything.

every time somebody sends a genuinely Good Post to the group chat, the replies are insane internecine chatter between reenactor-vibes people with calipers on their breath. sometimes this is literal and sometimes it's a metaphor, but always it's The Internet, the worst place that isn't.

My favourite video of upset Spuds so far...

🥰🥰🥰🥰KIERAN MY GOODNESS

Bitcoin now consuming as much energy as the entire country of Pakistan. That seems bad.

"time to drink exactly one (1) beer and Fix our nation's Divides with one perfect joke" -- how motherfuckers used to be tweeting in 2014 (it's me, im motherfuckers)

the world is too much with us, my good binch

The logistics of human dignity is how to win.

I thought I couldn't possibly hate ai more than i already did, but I was wrong (also somebody is buying resumes and coverletters from careers sites): youtu.be/4LfuTI96FqU?...

the band Geese are called that because the guy who sings their songs believes that rock music vocals should sound like a large number of geese honking

remember: when they pelosi, we pehighsi

applying for jobs again

you simply must visit the monster. i always just ask the monster.

chick deney, imo

I love baseball so much you guys

a few small rewatches

happy quarterly block-and-report-spam fundraising deadline text day to all who celebrate

STOP: being assholes to anyone who doesn't volunteer your magic words KEEP: being rough as hell on your class enemies START: learning the fucking difference between your class enemies and normal people who just don't agree with you yet

"here's a thought" is a rhetorical mechanism for stoned 26 year old TAs and annoying guys at the bar. I'd rather we had some third category of person in the job held by the guy who pays somebody to write these bad posts. smug money don't make money.

I don't expect to ever receive an award where they make you give a speech, but if that ever happens and I *don't* recite Eric Cantona's acceptance speech for the 2019 UEFA President's Award, know that I've been replaced with a lookalike youtu.be/INiT1cA_Eqk?...

to the extent this planet has a (human-habitable) future, Republican Party politicians have guaranteed it will be led by China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...