STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

Imagine being one of the richest men on earth & buying a storied news organization you could effortlessly fund to support robust journalism & instead dismantling it because, idk, it doesn't adequately sell the public on your 'tax breaks for megayachts' plan. What a pathetic choice. What a sad life.

Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...

I assume Bovino's "respective sector" is the subterranean lake at the end of the tunnels under the Misty Mountains near Goblin-town.

They pulled the corpse of noted corruption enthusiast Sepp Blatter out of its crypt and even it thinks what ICE is doing is fucked.

When even Sepp Blatter is like, "yo, that place is fucked up..."

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

On twitter, every fascist influencer with real or pretend military background is rolling out war terms to declare mutual aid an Iraq-style insurgency. I'm sure the Minnesota wine moms are working hard on their "dispatch nodes vectoring assets." The moron who posted this phrase got 80k likes.

Ah, yes, let's hasten a culture where people don't actually know things and just try to fix what the automated systems mess up after they mess them up.

Just as all of America had hoped, the New England Patriots will be returning to the Super Bowl this year.

The two of these I have read I absolutely love, so the others went immediately on my list.

Unironically yes

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

This country is in crisis because of its reckless and deranged leadership, something a majority of Americans are coming to understand. That is worth stating plainly and clearly in an editorial. It does not require both-sides-ism, false equivalence, blame-shifting, or rhetorical ass-covering. x

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

Take, for example, the Boston Massacre, an instigating incident of the Revolution. The king didn't like the opposition he was getting from MA politicians, so he sent "law enforcement" in. Locals came out to protest the occupation and a group of the occupiers killed and wounded several of them.

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

Mood in minneapolis right now

With alt-text

I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.

Good thing basically everyone already complied in advance. 😒

A small but powerful note from Minneapolis by resident @erikhane.bsky.social for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's indispensable Welcome to Hell World

Months into this, not one person in ICE or CBP or DHS or the White House has suffered a single visible consequence. Not fired, asked to resign, impeached, reprimanded, not even suspended, let alone arrested. Things will continue to deteriorate until that changes. That's it, that's the whole story.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Great thread, and what the students came up with sounds interestingly similar to the standard process for studio art classes. In studio art, especially past the intro level, everyone works on their own projects, with frequent crits, where everyone looks at each other's work and gives feedback.

If you make us feel like nobody with power or influence will help us for long enough, the people will seek other avenues of justice. This isn't a threat, a warning, or a promise. It's an instruction from history.

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

we can’t use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law because people will say we’re anti law enforcement

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

How did I end up with so many Spurs fans in my timeline? Where did I go wrong? 😒

And using humanitarian funds that were pulled from actual humanitarian efforts to pay for this. Sickening.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Tale as old as fucking time: "Manufacturers of smart glasses are "prioritising profit over women's safety and wellbeing"... says Rebecca Hitchen of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. This was of course foreseeable, and foreseen. First use case was always going to be abuse, mainly of women.

it's honestly insane how DOGE managed to make absolutely no impact on the spending trendline while also gutting a bunch of programs that were incredibly efficient at turning money into saved lives

They should say, "it's cold, so watch out for accumulations of degenerate fascists" or "be careful not to slip on the degenerate fascists"

Calling it now. "Thank you for your attention to this matter" is the dumb thing that's going to drive me right off the edge one of these days.

We are 22 days into 2026 and I have been listening to David Bowie's Modern Love on repeat all year. This is extreme even for me, but 🤷‍♀️. The heart wants what the heart wants (and the obsessive musical fixation will have what the obsessive musical fixation demands).

Minor League of Nations

Everything is a nightmare, but we have to take our joys where we can get them and I did invent a new sandwich that's really hitting the spot: multigrain bread with a homemade kalamata-feta spread, roasted sweet potato, apple slices, arugula, and pepperoncini.

"A group of grown men in tactical gear, working under the auspices of the federal government, bum-rushed a kid in a bunny hat with a Spider-Man backpack on his way home." defector.com/how-do-you-j...

In what poison-brain-ass way is it better to see how many people die from a disease without vaccines than to just not let anyone get the disease in the first fucking place? What besides just pure sadism could motivate this shit?

She apologized for ATTENDING THE GAME because ESPN put her on TV. What the fuck. No issue with how the viewers recognized her of course. No problem to be a man who watches porn but if you attend a college football game and some horny dicks recognize you then you must apologize.

This is breaking the contract between states and the federal government. It shouldn't be controversial at all to suggest soft secession over it. I feel like that's a pretty moderate position when the federal government rakes in tax revenue, but refuses to disburse it.

Nice thread on this. bsky.app/profile/mlob...

remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame

Not only should he win it for Sinners but he should've won it for Da 5 Bloods!