Texas, get out there and vote, today, tomorrow, or Friday. After that you will only have one more chance, which is next Tuesday.

Wife is almost annoyed that I discovered this album. 'How did you suddenly find some new band that perfectly fits your whole...thing?'

The veterans committee will induct Pixies in 2075

Important, unsettling point from @gregsargent.bsky.social I want to highlight: Private companies profit from mass deportations. The arms buildup and concentration camp-like warehouse system makes people money and creates jobs. They’ll lobby to keep it. Strong case for dismantling, not reforming.

A lot of the press seems extremely uninterested in having readers

Don't boo—

As Sotomayor explains in dissent, the majority today denies damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act to Americans who are denied mail service even on the basis of flagrant racial discrimination. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The ambitious fundraising goal we set last November to build our organizational capacity was one-twelfth of the amount that MAHA filmmaker ghouls reportedly want to spend on a retelling of the covid pandemic, which killed over a million Americans, as a comedy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

"By pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, Trump was fulfilling the only real mandate MAGA has given him: to spread some of his Teflon around." 💯 @quinnae.com www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...

'Sorry, but is not Bluesky that drives over 50% of our traffic. No, it's a combination of several other access points that does that. And furthermore it's not the same combination that others On Here have cited as key for their outlet.'

At the top of my "Mass Deportation: If You Do It" piece from July 2024 is the reason that nowhere in the piece does it say anything about people actually being deported:

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Showing my friend around downtown Austin: 'This is where we go to protest.'

Protests against tonight's opponent are appropriately melded with solidarity.

It's that time. Year 6/100. @McConaughey.x.com #VHLM #LISTOS

The most corrupt Eastern European oligarchs must be nodding with respect at the stuff Trump administration officials are coming up with. This is genius

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Facing down the prospect of awarding the Indiana Pacers a top-five draft pick for the first time in 38 years, the NBA has leapt into action, fining the Pacers $100K and proposing a raft of changes to the lottery rules. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Pronouncing it kuhm-PAKT from now on

Tim Conley and Morgan Kelly, on scholars who find ubiquitous 'deep roots' that supposedly explain our world: "If your pickaxe unearths a large gold nugget every time it sinks into the ground, you may eventually start to wonder about what sort of gold it is that you are finding in such abundance." 🤣

So I'm right there—and I'm the medical authority—and he looks right in the camera, to millions of people, and tells them to inject themselves with disinfectant! It's unreal, right? And I'm standing right there!

On a recent podcast appearance, Bhattacharya said the funniest experience he's had with Trump was standing next him while the President gave misleading medical advice to pregnant people.

Chat is it bad when your country's Nobel Prize winners are starting to make vertical videos in response to your government's targeting of scholars who produce research findings that contradict claims by government leaders

It turns out that the "cubic fit" Kevin Hassett warned us about was how his hat goes on his head. Heyooo

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

Any attack now on Iran lacks legal or military justification and without authorization from Congress is very clearly at odds with Constitutional authority of Congress to declare war.

"Rather than thinking the grandiose thought on Election Day that it is finally our moment to weigh in, we should instead merely put on our to-do list for that Tuesday that we gotta do the voting, and the yard work, and pick up the kids." www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Finally, one of Elon's posts on X has broken through to the Fox News audience.

The loneliness epidemic is everywhere except representative survey data, where it also is, but only in measurements such as how many people live alone and how much time people spend alone

"A libertarian who supported or sympathized with Trump wouldn’t raise an eyebrow within the movement. A libertarian who vociferously preferred just about any generic Democrat over Trump was often dealt with as an apostate." www.ms.now/opinion/libe...

Paxton will find that while many teachers masked to slow the spread of covid, they now refuse to do likewise for the woke virus.

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider. Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

I read this before leaving for work and was immediately roadmogged by truckmaxxers

Wow that is some goal by Alisson Santos for Napoli. Great first touch then just smokes it into the corner

Get in losers of a future nuclear war, we're bringing back the missile gap

The same Substack Note, by someone who I do not follow, has been the first thing in the feed the last 10 times I have opened the app

If bananas were shampoo there would be a bananas aisle, the lowest-priced bananas would be twice what bananas are now, and bananas as we know them would not be offered for sale

Now that I know how disastrous spilled milk inside a car can be, the practice of grocery baggers asking if you might not want a bag around your milk is extra mystifying.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

AI RESEARCHER: I find myself wondering if they have feelings

We should elect Gina Hinojosa to be the next governor of Texas.

The NBA, year after year, sends the best rookies to the worst teams. Yet this never seems to strike anyone as fundamentally crazy.

The constraints of print being a moderately effective filter on news of the day? strange.

Occasionally there are posts here where people say 'I cannot convince my normie friend/relative that we are in the worst constitutional crisis in our history.' It occurs to me that such people may wish to remember and make use of the page A1 headline from the January 9 issue of the New York Times.

They're saying it's the biggest haul of nonparticipation trophies in history

Pacers go into Madison Square Garden with no reason to win, and not only beat the Knicks but draw out the pain into an overtime and then a very extended final half-minute. This is basketball heritage

How Elon Musk sees himself vs. how we see Elon

Conservatives Tried to Warn You About Trump by Lindsey Graham

Politically better times to stop this were before ICE was given the money or before the warehouses were bought. The next best time to stop this is before the warehouses are up and running and a lot of people's wealth and income begins to depend upon them continuing to run and even to be filled up.