The defining characteristic of MAGA is that they are dumb and have the knowledge of an 8yo.

Now THIS is how you do Paris. youtu.be/4q8wZ15ALz4?...

To use their own term, Why aren't they GRATEFUL...? Because they think, as "real Americans, it's not welfare, they deserve it.

Great piece on this freak Clavicular. Makes me realize that the subject of most trend pieces are just the latest freak, not an actual trendsetter. Nice to have a heuristic by which to judge future freaks. The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

@aresluna.org Thanks for the scroll lock essay. Now I understand why I hate the increasingly worse Netflix interface. (I will not scream about how choosing a show in the main menu screen starts the first episode instead of taking you to a show description with buttons for the episodes.)

Anyone else think that international support for Trump's murder of Iran's leader is less of the NATO type and more of the "Sure, stick those bottle rockets in your ass and light them. Great idea. We're all behind you."

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

Fantastic video about taking on phone scammers. youtu.be/xsLJZyih3Ac?...

Fight for old @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social. Never give in!

@lyz.bsky.social Great newsletter today, especially the line "You are letting bad things happen while thinking you are good."

The red bud behind my house at 2am, no flash needed.

Wow.

Guess how she gets out of traffic tickets?

Best #SuperBowl in 40 years.

Chris Collingsworth is from the James van Pragh school of commentary. Keep predicting something that might lead to a victory and inevitably you'll be right. #SuperBowl

jesus christ flip the fkg coin already. is there going to be a presentation and guests for everything?

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

This is how Shakespeare is meant to be performed: not declaimed as poetry with each line reduced to a dead pronouncement, but as if spoken by a person, patiently, to someone who is listening and responding and, who, in this case needs convincing.

Are they saying that America can solve the problem of white male slop, which has been inbreeding mediocrity for centuries, in one fell swoop?

I went to the nearest Barnes & Noble and awkwardly explained to someone at the help desk that I had a new book out and asked where it might be (it's genre fluid) and it was faced out (!) Then she took some pictures, had me sign their books, and said they'd already sold a copy. A win/win/win.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social In case you didn't know, the text note on p183 of THE TOWER AND THE RUIN by Michael DC Drout.

Great piece.

The one good thing about Tuberville is everyday he wakes up and justifies our low opinion of Alabamans.

Trump's death squad goons are the new lanternflies--and I couldn't wait to report lanternflies.

BREAKING: New Jersey Governor Sherrill is creating an online portal for New Jersey residents to report encounters with ICE agents. She wants you to record as much as you can!

This is what a wife beater tells the cops after a neighbor calls 911.

I would not have expected in there to be a full-throated takedown of America's financial capitalism, plus ways it could be corrected, in Simon Sinek's THE INFINITE GAME. Good for him. Also, it lets you see why Trump's Holocaust will fail. ICE is about quotas. The resistance is about America.

Rock's not dead yet, and by that I mean rock that gets you marching in the streets.

These chuds don't yet get that they'll be exposed by their friends, families and neighbors as well by simply comparing their half-masked faces to Jan 6, Charlottesville and Proud Boy photos. They are already pariahs. Their lives are already over. They will envy the treatment afforded sex offenders.

And I thought they smelled bad...on the outside.

Stay for the killer last line.

Take my LinkedIn poll, please: Would you hire a former ICE agent? www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...

Maybe if the priests preached this when I was a kid, I'd still be a Catholic.

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

🚨"I'm seeing icicles form on people's eyelashes out here, on mustaches, on eyebrows, from just the condensation from their own breath freezing against their own face," - @jtcestkowski.bsky.social from Minneapolis ICE protests in MINUS 20 DEGREES (-38 wind chill). LIVE NOW ⬇️

If you work for ICE, you will be unhirable in California.

@rianjohnson.bsky.social Why did you use the UK version of the Carr book THE HOLLOW MAN instead of the US version, which is titled THE THREE COFFINS? Because the former title was more recognizable?

Holy crap! What tools for learning!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Why I subscribe.

How ICE is like the Brown Shirts: robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice...

Telling use of the word "appease."

[email protected] This is a good idea: "Large projects may be required to maintain a certain amount of greenery for the volume and area they displace." What would a stepback formula but for greenery look like? Could stark NYC plazas be greenspaced? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...

Great book.

The signs won't last a day. Those that do will be thoroughly defaced.

History repeats...

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

They think they are immune and unaccountable. They are going to find out otherwise. They are unhireable. Neighborhoods will want to be warned if one of them lives there. If they can find someone to marry, it will not go well. And most of their children, like those of the Nazis, will renounce them.

As unsettling and violent as the govt goons are in ONE BATTLE, they are models of professionalism compared to Trump's death squads.