Two points: *Neither getting on a plan, nor buying beer is a constitutional right *You don't need to prove citizenship to buy a beer or get on a plane - that is what the SAVE Act calls for, which will clearly disenfranchise lots of people

There are full-grown adults who comment on politics for a living that believe that Trump SOTU could (1) have unifying message to those people he has spent last 11 years promising to destroy (2) those people will be listening to his lies. Our Media & Political Elites live in a dangerous fantasy land.

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court three-judge panel DENIES republican motion for a preliminary injunction to block Utah's new congressional map from going in to effect. The new map will stand for the 2026 midterms. Democrats will likely gain 1 seat! www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-c...

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

🎵 You see, I’ve been through the desert on a

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Midwest Pope with championship levels of passive aggression. Love to see it.

the thing about chicago pope is he’s got bars

cats are so right because when there’s a loud noise it is in fact time to scatter

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

Subject: Your Niece Body: I totally agree with you and Bill Gates that we hate poor people and I have some ideas on how to get rid of them

This is like when Homer Simpson designed his own car

hello fellow kids

Trump acknowledges that Democrats would be better off packing the court. YES THEY WOULD. IF DEMS WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO ME ABOIT THIS, I HAVE EXTENSIVE NOTES

A “universal vaccine” for colds and flus looks a good leap forward with some interesting science behind it. Human trials still needed.

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

Did you know that because roly polies are terrestrial crustaceans and not actual bugs they breathe through adapted gills even though they live out of water.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

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I think they should film it in the creepy haunted diner that Steve Beshear delivered the 2017 response from

The customer paid more, the market got less efficient, and everyone lived happily ever after. 🤡

This story is creepy enough before you realize this dude is an anesthesiologist. Have we ever had such a degenerate administration before?

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

there should be a microsoft office setting to warn people when your level of irritation is already dangerously high that day

Substack announces a partnership with Polymarket. “Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.”

When I am president I will repurpose this dreck for a PSA about the importance of not skipping leg day

These people are so deep in their own bubble they don’t realize the rest of the world has passed them by, laughing. It’s like the death gasp of a stupider age.

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

See the banned Talarico interview here: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

“In 18 months, none of our customers will have jobs.” I mean, does that sound like something a business executive would really believe or work to accomplish?

Fortunately, JD Vance and Mike Waltz lectured Europeans about freedom of speech

I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

Yeah man, thats kinda the point

I hate this more than Ahab hated that damn whale.

A lot of 1990s photos of Oasis look like this to me.

It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.

the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862 wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

Asking for passports is dumb because immigrant communities of all economic status are much more likely to have passports! Much more likely than some Fox News watching good ol boy who has never left his hometown having one!

Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...