A friend is stressing over performance reviews and it reminded me for about 10 years we had simple pass/fail annual reviews (because of a lawsuit) instead of 4-dimensional strategy-mapping goals & objectives exceeds-or-meets hell on earth. A weird thing happened. Nobody's performance got worse.

WHAT WERE THOSE “NOTES”? I’m tired of new euphemisms for “racist rantings of a racist” dropping all the time. “Familiar notes.” My god.

What a pathetic attempt to appear “balanced” about an epic fail. The two NYT opinion “writers” who liked Trump’s speech have collectively written one NYT opinion piece in the last year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

ah good thing we dont have LLMs in charge of anything important like, say, health insurance claims

The best Twitter riposte of the day is a community note.

congrats to the mens hockey team for letting a demented 80 year old sex criminal steal your shine and make himself the center of your accomplishment

No dig at the author of this piece, but any article titled "Women might actually have a harder time than men" should come with an obligatory eye-roll whiplash warning. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

New research: Paleolithic artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language. www.science.org/content/arti...

Curiously, there was a memorial service held at the Capitol for ... Charlie Kirk.

Once again, these are not problems that can be solved by new laws & more court orders. This president & his senior staff do not follow laws or court orders.

congratulations to everyone who didn't write this

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

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the women's team locked and barricaded the door

So the men's hockey team partied with Kash Patel and made a bunch of misogynistic jokes about the women's hockey team and yukked it up with Trump and tbh this is why I have a hard time caring about the Olympics because I need to see who you voted for before I expend any energy rooting for you.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

Mike Lee: ICE are just like cartel hitmen. Another example of fierce agreement bsky.app/profile/sahi...

Nice to know our tax dollars are going to ensure make-a-wish child Kash Patel gets to live out his dreams and go to every sporting event anywhere.

I was inclined to root for Canada bc we're such a shit country now esp. to Canada, but then I was like nah, don't take it out on the players, that's not fair, but I couldn't bring myself to root for us against Canada either, so I just sat it out, but upon further consideration GO CANADA.

1,2,3,4 Denmark declares meme war.

Amber Glenn 🇺🇲⛸️ is my whole attitude for 2026. 🔥

the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks.

I'VE HAD TO KEEP THIS QUIET FOR SO LONG BUT NOW THE CAT CAN FINALLY ESCAPE THE BAG I wrote another book!! and it's coming out this November! it's a little like a birdwatching guide, except it's a word watching guide! i poured my heart into it!! you can even pre-order it now!! link in biooo ahhh

The best line in this story comes from the billionaires' leaked strategy memo: “Messaging is everything. Billionaires CANNOT be the focus or face of an opposition campaign.”

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he is sundowning live

standing room only in the white house briefing room to watch the president crash out live

Political journalism suffers mightily from the unwillingness to break from the mold of: "If the President speaks about a topic it must be news and we must use the administration's preferred framing."

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

the median american’s eyes glaze over because “the secretary of labor took her employees to a strip club on the federal tab while her husband was sexually assaulting employees at the department” is an entirely true statement that sounds like something you would read in paint on the side of a car

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

trying to think of a more unsettling thing a dog owner could say than "oh, that's my CZECHOSLOVAKIAN WOLFDOG, named NAZGUL"

Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Why are our taxpayer dollars funding our own torture? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sun is rising. Manatees are fed. And the coffee is hot and black. Good Morning, America! They better think… #RadioFreeAmerica youtu.be/1Co963GXmyA?...

What if there were an insinkerator device for toilets...so what if it wakes the neighbours.. and here is a gratuitous plug for insinkerator showing a wife feeding her well-intentioned husband into one.

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner. You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.

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Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

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I watched local news for the first time in aaaages while visiting my mom in rural PA recently and it was enlightening about the info diet a lot of folks are on even when it ISN’T self-conscious right-wing propaganda.

it's deeply funny that the author of this piece spends at least half of it taking shots at "power brokers" and people like james carville only to pivot to the pod save america bros as if those guys aren't wannabe power brokers who will *be* james carville in 20 years