Ugh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... A great example of high-quality journalism, by Shaun Walker. A must-read for anyone interested in the topic.

Maybe all articles will just be bulleted lists in the future. Axios will be pissed

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I'm rewatching The Sopranos for the first time since it aired. I'm watching an ep. where Tony is repeatedly asking Melfie to go out with him. The cringe is so astronomically high that I've had to pause it enough times that it took 2 hours to finish it.

Larry David

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.

Are frogs really popular on Blueskye or does my feed just show a bunch of cool frogs for some reason?

The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...

Me, a feminist: searching Joanne Freeman hot pics Google:..Therapists in your area

This is what gives me hope in these terrifying times. This is solidarity

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

A reminder that Democrats put an 82-year-old in charge of determining whether they should continue funding ICE

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

Matthew Rhys is such a great actor I will refrain from making any further jokes about Wales.

The greatest metaphor in print this year, courtesy of @edzitron.com

I read that many languages don't have a separate word for toes and instead call them foot fingers. I laughed so hard my eyes shot out of their foreskin

Purdy is balling out tonight. Unreal playmaking

These assholes will be clerks for Neil Gorsuch in a few years, most likely.

Hey @cnn.com @kasie.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @nytimes.com @mkraju.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com Are you going to now sane wash this madness? Go ahead Read it out loud, verbatim, live on TV I fucking dare you...

Mr. Rodgers immediately comes to mind but I have to admit that there aren't many that I would feel comfortable suggesting. I've had so many of my childhood role models turn out to be scumbags or at least problematic. Garrison Keillor letting me down broke my heart

Still stuck on the fact that, after all that, they told him to walk home in the snow. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I've always wanted to hear Malcolm McDowell read the Bible

In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

Any Democratic senator not calling for Schumer to be removed as minority leader is complicit in this fiasco. Disgusting actions.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

It can't be overstated what an abject failure @schumer.senate.gov has been in confronting the crisis of fascism in America. All the people fighting, organizing, everything - all thrown out the window by this coward. Can't the @democrats.senate.gov for once have a fighter in leadership?

Y I K E S. For obvious reasons, this is a TERRIBLE idea. Facial recognition has high false positive rates for immigrants in particular!

I try not to repost news from Meidas because, and this is important, they click bait and rage bait and honestly I don't think any of us need that shit.

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

I'm not a Gavin Newsom fan, but I like that he's demonstrating how to show some fight. I don't want to see him become the candidate because of it, but I hope more people start fighting because they see him fighting

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith: ➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners ➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday ➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

For those that don't know. Via Wikipedia

I keep coming back to this M Gessen piece from February, it really lays bare the nature of this predicament. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...