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

"Financialization is a grift, a rarefied form of bookmaking, of no net value to workers and consumers, the economy, or society as a whole. Let’s treat it accordingly." Best big-picture fisking of the perversions of modern American capitalism that I've ever read. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

“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

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ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium. Even the commentators can’t hide it…

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The "staffer" will not be fired because a staffer didn't post it. Everyone knows this, especially political reporters, but that sure ain't gonna stop them from carrying his water in order to preserve access.

😭 and of course 😡 We really need an angry and crying emoji

The Stasi seemed a permanent and all-powerful agency of state terror in East Germany until they were completely abolished

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

The Trump administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the Washington region’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to be named after Trump in exchange for releasing the federal funds required to build a long-delayed tunnel between New York and New Jersey

I mean he’s really good at improv.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

"Screw the platforms. Ignore the stuff that you think sucks. Find books and art you love. Share them. Review them. Recommend them to friends. Make your own art. Share it. Hope it finds people who love it. What else can we do?" hell yeah @thelincoln.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

I am a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. I have a question. Why has Trump's year of negotiations been the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion? The number of deaths and injuries has increased by 31 percent compared to the previous year.

Set aside one's horror at the depravity evinced by the ICE officers here and consider coldly, logically, this question: would an agency that defies a court order so brazenly be restrained by any other regulation that Congress might pass?

The second book in my PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM series for 8-12 year olds comes out in paperback on Tuesday. Y'all should buy it, even if you aren't 8-12 years old. bookshop.org/a/722/978006...

This a must watch. Amazing and amazing that it's Shakespeare on network tv!

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

Nothing says prayer breakfast like concentration camps

He’s not built this way, but the happiness he’d find if he just started using his wealth to materially help people. His serotonin would spike. His days would be filled with joy and joyful people. But he’s incapable of even conceiving of this so we’re all dragged into the misery of lonely King Midas

Fire every agent who does this. Publicize their names and notify the neighbors every time they move into a new neighborhood.

Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown

Ultimately we've got to prosecute agents and officials who committed crimes, and we've got to dismantle DHS entirely and start over. But as a list of demands to reduce harm now? This is surprisingly good from Dem leadership. One big missing thing I don't see in this letter: funding levels?