The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”

Ukrainians have known Chomsky is a hypocritical creep for a long time. Bringing back this banger of a meme

Apparently, if we change our National flag design, we will also be able to win cross country ski races. If only we can get these darn happy feet in xc boots.

Sir, yes sir. Budget-Chicken-2425. He’s the antifa number 2. Real mastermind

Jesus Christ.

Not sure if the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode is for you? Here’s some advice on who it’s for and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Man Feels Like Whole Life Just Endless Cycle Of Work, Eat, Sleep, Get Abducted By Aliens https://theonion.com/man-feels-like-whole-life-just-endless-cycle-of-work-eat-sleep-get-abducted-by-aliens/

They pixelated the Nazi guy in this picture so they wouldn't be accused of doxxing probably

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe 📹 Bilimtüel

Millions of Republicans now see Canada and the EU as enemies. The rapid recent rise in negative sentiment recalls the big rise in Republicans’ opinion of Vladimir Putin in 2016. No consistency, no principle, no sense of national interest. Deeply cultish, ready to abandon anything on leader’s whim.

If your landlord fails to meet these standards, report it immediately to 311, or online at portal.311.nyc.gov. More on these rules and how HPD responds to complains: www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/ser... (2/2)

Feucht is OTG in MN. He posted a video at the memorial site of Renee Good- saying they are there to “talk to people” and lift the darkness over the place. Not sure if he plans to stay in MN longer than today. But heads up

The right said trans athletes had an unfair advantage. The data tells a different story. Data reporter Melissa Lewis looked into the swim times of Meghan Cortez-Fields, one of the last openly transgender swimmers to compete as a woman in the NCAA. We spoke to Meghan for an episode of Reveal:

Interesting www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

DEI and LGBTQ programs are being gutted at public universities across the state. Now, progressive Christian student ministries are ensuring those programs live on. religionnews.com/2026/02/05/a...

If you're a foreign professor in Sweden, the gov't will expel your children when they turn 18, even if you have permanent residency: sulf.se/nyhet/utvisn... via @sulf-union.bsky.social

when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing

HOW IS HE SHOWING UP. IN EVERYTHING. ALL THE TIME.

Nobody actually disagrees about the fact that Israel is an apartheid state, we're just arguing about whether that's good or not.

I’m a bad chart reader but Census seems to tell less ‘provocative’ tale?

Rent to own, but for rent

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I'm no legal expert, but it seems like a slam dunk to me given that the president is on tape telling the student McCoul was not going to be fired, only for her to dismissed later as a sop to the political forces in the state. Every ex post facto rationale is transparently B.S.

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“Yes, he talked about deporting everybody. But come on, how could I know what he really meant??”

that's from alex timbers, who directed the new special.

"Dungeons and Dragons is a a Satanic cult" is a moral panic "We have hard evidence that a man and his associates physically abused and raped children" is not a moral panic; it's a description of a criminal conspiracy.

woke up, looked over, and my wife had been replaced by a large orange cat. a bit of a shock. she’s a good cat though.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Man, this story* is getting tired. *(and by ‘this story’, I mean the part/theme that just keeps being repeated over and over and over in every situation)

imo every narrative about neoliberalism or globalization is post-hoc rationalization for the fact that we turned the entire country into a factory to fight the biggest war in human history and then turned it off once we didn't need it anymore

My family was imprisoned behind barbed wire and armed guards by our own government. Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp. My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.

Not that actual biological science will matter to people who say biology should determine who gets to compete in womens sports But here is a major piece of research for those who do care about the science of gender www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If you want to learn more about rent-seeking by consulting companies but don't want to read a Nazi being paid by a white supremacist, may I suggest. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

There are 12 solid tips here to help you turn your next pitch into a story, straight from the editors themselves. 🧪

Here in GA the GOP state leg is trying to make librarians criminally liable for obscene material aimed at <18 year olds. The problem? Georgia's definition of obscenity includes "homosexuality." They want to be able to put librarians in jail if a library's teen section has LGBTQ reading material.

...horrifying message without context, thank you