This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

well this is wild www.reddit.com/r/PeterExpla...

Trying to experience the wonders of Claude code but like 5 lines into this stata file it put: display "=" * 80 Which is not valid Stata syntax :(

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

We're gonna do a pathway to citizenship. Such a big, beautiful pathway. If you came here, worked hard, didn't hurt people. Pay a fine, like Pres. Reagan said: $185. Then you're right with the law. Red carpet path leads up to the WH East Wing. Welcoming people from all over to the American dream.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

Huh.

1/ At a recent webinar hosted by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and @groundwork.bsky.social, ESP’s @mtkonczal.bsky.social laid out the mounting economic risks ahead, including the impact of healthcare cuts, weakening job growth, and the uncertain effects of AI on workers. ⬇️

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Had to look mine up bc I wasn't aware of any and found out Taylor Swift's mom is a graduate of the Singapore American School! But Tammy Duckworth is probably the most notable. And I guess Michael Fay is the most famous.

I've been using Gemini to help me do DIY in my 140 year old home and Gemini now frames every question I ask it in those terms. If I ask it a JavaScript question it will say something like "This seems like a great way to visualize improvements on your 1880s Baltimore brownstone!"

There's this guy, he's the most famous clown in the world, called the Great Pagliacci, right? So: the Great Pagliacci goes to the doctor one day. indignity.net/the-clown-joke/?ref=indignity-newsletter&attribution_id=698a3cd4653fe5000118210c&attribution_type=post

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

small crab eating a grape (important)

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

wasn't there some kind of elite centrist consensus about living in information bubbles? I forget, was it good or bad?

For those in southwest Ohio worried about a possible ICE surge next week, you can sign up to connect with community here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DUDE REMEMBER THIS LMAO. This is literally everything wrong with journalism wrapped neatly in one post. Nuzzi, Bowles, Weiss, and the fucking NYT sucking em all off. Pedos, pedo lovers, and pedo defenders.

Remember when the entire GOP base believed that pedophiles used secret codewords like "pizza" to refer to their nefarious crimes? And no it's just like "hey you got any kids I can fuck?"

From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀 go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)

The eventual big Hollywood Trump biopic is just going to roast the shit out of him and I’m excited about that.

Pedocon theory: still undefeated!

I like neither Ezra Klein nor shouting down speakers. I think Ezra Klein profits, metaphorically and literally, by being shouted down by Sarah Lawrence students, and that doing it to him was more or less like trying to discourage a dog by throwing bacon at it. /1

they surrounded him lol. Surrounded by 2 people!

Baltimore!

NYT has now pushed the arrest of journalists even further down the page to make way for new Epstein files release.

Journalists being arrested in America is a below the fold thing for NYT?

If you are seeking a way to financially support Georgia Fort right now, this is the best, and most direct, way to do so (info from a family friend): www.georgiafort.com/support?utm_... Free Georgia Fort now!!

You know things are going poorly when Hassett doesn't look like he just took Joker Venom

I wrote this last week. It's newly relevant today with the arrests of Don Lemon and another journalist who covered a Minnesota protest.

you let me circulate you you let me ventilate you you let me radiate you you let me refrigerate you

Republicans being +2 or w/e on the budget deficit is an indictment of the media.

Since everyone is talking about Aronofsky, re-upping my most correct opinion: Requiem for a Dream is a stupid movie UNLESS you interpret it, contra Aronofsky, as being about failures of the state and society.

AI is amazing for generating short clips of old guys looking pensive.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

grok is elon musk correctly noting that chatbots were a new and poorly understood ideological battleground, the same way social media was at its inception, and attempting to seize the field for nazism, as he has also done with twitter

I know attention is on the US/Greenland, and it’s hard to get proper news from Iran, but this from @christinalamb.bsky.social estimates at least 16,000 people have been killed and over 300,000 injured. Many (most?) victims are thought to be under the age of 30 www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

"Now knowing of [Warhol's] fame, I thought of the Eno quote, and something didn’t sound right about it. Surely, with Warhol’s involvement, the band would have been better known — and would they not then have sold more than 30,000 records?" How Popular Was the Banana Album?:

This cooks.

Morgan Gold - when a country turns the gun on itself

Megan McArdle is the standard bearer for libertarians who crave a boot on their neck.

Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Good and Pretti. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

If a President works with the law to modestly to forestall catastrophic climate change CEOs loudly invoke the Boston Tea Party. If a President violates the constitution and personal freedom they shower him with cash and privately snitch in the Wall Street Journal. Profiles in courage.

I used to think of Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out as kind of a throwaway Replacements songs but honestly these are great lyrics