traditional software development is dead

I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.

All the people dooming about how WaPo and CBS are just being ruined are partly right, but also attention is fluid. Those readers and viewers who do flee are likely to pivot left!

And if you don’t think that unmasking ICE agents and ensuring they can be prosecuted by state and local governments isn’t going to change the behavior of ICE/CBP, I don’t think we live on the same planet

If your starting point is “they’re never going to obey the law anyway so why try?” you’re never actually going to be happy with any of the solutions that a opposition party in the legislature is going to be able to offer

Jessie Gender is a wrecker and trying to isolate the trans community online. Do not let these people demoralize you or stop you from voting and doing everything you can to remove Republicans from power.

Minneapolis, MN - US Rep. Ilhan Omar was just sprayed by an unknown substance during a town hall meeting in North Minneapolis. Despite some telling her she needed to change, she continued to speak to the crowd. (From a Reuters feed)

finally a good dating app

i’m always dubious about this stuff because shit changes when you are in the ballot box but eleven points under water with men is just a fucking dagger. like joe frazier left hook night night.

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

i wonder how the new Trump 2A stance is playing in Texas, where I am reliably informed that gettable voters care more about concealed carry than all other issues combined

If these people had any understanding of how deeply loathed they are, they'd announce to their neighbors and employers that they had *helped* ICE agents in their work terrorizing the community.

the appropriate response to this is for spanberger to pull an Ohio btw

Come the fuck on. Yes, rich cis white hetero men can say dumb shit (“women’s suffrage was bad”) more easily than someone who experiences marginalization. They also get away with drunk driving more easily. That is not a defense of drunk driving.

Voting rights for women is bad but leftistly

It’s wild how much this shows up in MAGA but also in just random wealthy dipshits in my life, in my partner’s life, and in my work.

Excellent by Adam Serwer. I’d add: How many pseudo-deep commentators, typically MAGA-excusing, go on about liberalism’s lack of community, character, and moral virtue? Then MN features a truly striking demonstration of just these qualities by modern liberals. Reaction: crickets.

Also, READ THE ARTICLE. There was no evidence this was “a hit” or “an assassination.” DHS was collecting the names of protesters, of which he was one. I really can’t overemphasize how irresponsible it is to spin up conspiracy theories around this.

The Shoah is the murder of six million Jews, the Holocaust is the murder of eleven million people.

The Holocaust Museum leaders want you to think that secret police and concentration camps are fine as long as the victims are not Jews. The moral perversity of these reprehensible attitudes is a stain on the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust which we mark this week.

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

the trump administration is currently arguing before the supreme court against a california law barring walking into a store with a loaded gun without express permission on the basis that it "nullifies licenses to carry arms in public"

Love how the foundation funded nonprofit moron they quoted in this piece flatly admits it’s not really a “mansion tax” and taxing housing construction was a feature not a bug. calmatters.org/housing/2026...

The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40

It sounds not-so-boffo

What did she think "Mass Deportations Now" meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Loser.

I think it would be one thing simply to note similarities, but it’s deeply offensive to claim that ICE learned this goon shit from the IDF.

Can... Can we not? Feels real shitty to see this shit taking off. At some point we're going to have to put our fucking foot down about this "what are we, a bunch of J- I MEAN ISRAELIS?" shit when Americans see American evils enacted Americanly. avaduvernay.substack.com/p/the-narrat...

Someone just saw some new polling from over the weekend lmao.

ICE is doing its thing in Susan Collins’s state and she can’t bring herself to actually take a stand against it. New depths of fecklessness being plumbed.

You can pry my whistle from my cold, dead hands…

Before ICE came to Maine, I made clear their provocative actions have no place here. Then, I demanded to meet with the President to tell him that to his face. Meanwhile, Susan Collins has spent the week pushing to give the agency more funding without any accountability.

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

huh

susan collins is one of the most two-faced, forked-tongue, dirty-dog lying people in the senate and cries about how bad things are and then votes with her fascist colleagues to make them worse. at least her other colleagues acknowledge what they are.

An insane amount of hit dogs hollering on this site today when being confronted with "yes voting does in fact matter" again, I see

going to immediately block anyone who wants to bicker about how any concession short of abolishing ICE is not significant

she's going to get successfully impeached in the House if she lasts that long, I think

Dude with 273 followers who lives in Nantucket (with a palm tree icon) out to score points off of Stancil for dropping a “guys.”

I am frankly quite disappointed in Derek Thompson for joining this. He has written a lot of good journalism in the past but has also had a bad habit of acting to legitimize spaces like vichy CBS and X. People should not do this.

there is a post from the US gov 'department of war' on here that includes video of them actually murdering people and threatening to murder more people & it's been up since november

The journalists who proclaimed six hours ago that Trump has changed his tone will never admit they said that

I assume he's wearing a single glove to cover up the massive bruise all over his left hand?

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

a) no you aren’t b) to the extent that you can, this rapidly becomes unmanageable and unusable

We are at a tipping point on ICE and immigration enforcement. The shootings are so unpopular that Trump appears to have lost his edge on both deportations and immigration more broadly. Abolishing ICE is net popular with independents. & Bovino is out! 2026≠2024 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

omg

not discounting race here at all but the fact that you saw their faces made this much, much more visceral. it's the same reason George Floyd broke through when Philando Castille didn't.

Dems do not have a majority and ICE has $75 billion outside of normal appropriations that it can spend even if DHS shuts down. Some of these asks would make actual, tangible difference (the warrant requirement being a huge one to correct an egregious illegality), but it wouldn't stop ICE in general.

The Catholic Church is calling for defunding ICE. The Episcopalian bishops are all out calling for people to put their bodies in the streets. Make of that what you will.