Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US

There's case after case now where you get quick charges, almost certainly demanded from political appointees. Discovery producers evidence that rules out guilt. Prosecutors usually aren't willing to hide that evidence. Charges dismissed.

As a German, I'll never fully understand the Third Reich worship of the American far right. They do understand that the Third Reich *lost*, right? That the tough, belligerent, ethnically pure master race got thoroughly defeated and its country conquered by a diverse multi-ethnic coalition?

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

One of several incredible quotes in this @markleibovich.bsky.social story on the state of the Democratic party. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

You can’t offload emotional labor. Believe me, I’ve tried

US military aid to Ukraine was the single most effective military spending we’ve had since aiding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We reduced Russia’s military by like half for circa five percent of the annual Pentagon budget. That’s a goddamn bargain. And Trump has spoiled it.

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

Well this whole thread is upsetting. The internet is drowning in scams. Careful authors!

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.

... while the National Cancer Institute is now looking into whether ivermectin can cure cancer. Personalist politics is going to kill more and more people. Our entire public health structure is run by a worm-addled madman whose sole goal is to sate the ego of a decompensating Trump. Madness.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

Reminder that this is a *friendly* question from a GOP Senator — and Lutnick still fumbles it all! I will never get over how the Trump admin is almost universally the least curious people you could appoint to public life.

Yeah, man, definitely keep attacking Bad Bunny, that'll shore up the GOP's cratering numbers with young Hispanic voters.

You are allowed to say, "this performance was not to my personal taste, a thing that sometimes happens in a free society," and move on with your life.

I wrote about why I'm skeptical of that AI author earning six figures pumping out 200 books a year story, but also about how authors might need to surf above the waves of slop countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...

My latest novel for 8-12 year olds is out in paperback today! If you thought the Frog Prince story needed a punk princess, action, adventure, love, parents, community, feminism, a multiverse, unicorn frat bros, and a nihilistic void, check it out: bookshop.org/a/722/978006...

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer: 1) boasts about the poor place he’s from; 2) boosts the value of agriculture; 3) celebrates small town life; 4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and 5) promotes marriage. And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.

We’re living in the fascist police state Alex Jones told everyone liberals would build and he’s deepthroating the boot while the sheeple he criticized risk everything The fascists called us snowflakes and they’re wetting themselves over a halftime show and regular people are studying street warfare

Park Service employees are being bombarded with guidance telling them to promote Freedom 250, the Trump-run org, in place of America250, the statutorily-bipartisan congressional commission. They were even urged to add the Freedom 250 logo to email signatures. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Good. Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

“Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.” 💯 no notes

I do feel like this article is extra depressing in the context of the Washington Post book section being cut. We're losing the avenues for discovery of real books at the same time that the slop flood hits

An Administration of, by and for rapists.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

“She’s rolling out her proprietary A.I. writing program, which can generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.” Everything in America is grift.

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Zach Witkoff worked as a project manager for his father’s property firm, the Witkoff Group, and then co-led his family’s investment firm, Witkoff Capital. “I started at the bottom,” Witkoff said in a 2024 speech introducing his father. “He showed me that success came from hard work, not handouts.”

I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

The simulation is glitching…

The US is run by traitors.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich