These aren't people. They are barely creatures. There is no suffering that would surpass what they deserve.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

"See you on the inside"

all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...

the thing about our system is that it's just republicans defending trump at all costs—literally!—and the rest flows from there, had clinton been president when the epstein files released he would have been impeached and removed before breakfast

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

I always wondered what made my grandfather and the men of his generation and many women sign up en masse to kill Nazis and potentially be killed and let me tell you I now 100% understand

I just can’t stop thinking abt federal agents raiding the cells of incarcerated children to confiscate their drawings & letters. This is Nazi shit.

Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)

So they’re just recruiting for sociopaths, right?

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

Michael Tracey has been publicly smearing and attacking Epstein victims Tara Palmeri asks him: “Are you being paid by someone powerful to attack sex-crime victims?” He then fakes audio issues and claims he can’t hear her question

Pastor Doug Wilson wants to ban women from voting and end First Amendment protections for minority faiths he doesn’t like. Hegseth invited this fringe Christian nationalist to the Pentagon yesterday to lead an official prayer event. How is this not a scandal? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Well which is it? Are you for birthright citizenship or against?

"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

the solar+battery revolution is here, Trump can only slow it down landartgenerator.org/blagi/archiv...

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

After years of tidying up Trump's incoherent ramblings, the Prestige Press is making a big deal of the normally well-spoken AOC's brief phumphering at an event. Y'all know why, right?

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Any excuse for this...

pchooooo

There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.

I think anyone would be excited about innovative tech that's useful or solves a problem. Want your dishes clean with less labor? Dishwasher. Want to make calls when you're not home? Mobile phone. But why would you want an invasive computer program that lies to you and kisses your ass?

Ultimately, the Left won't embrace AI because rather than salesmen and financiers, the left is composed of professionals, lawyers and educators who read the way AI misrepresents our expertise and conclude all its answers are equally fraught with error. When you don't know anything, AI feels smart.

"...the catty response to Cooper’s departure... mistakes [Bari] Weiss' mission. She wasn’t hired to make CBS News more rightwing. She was hired to destroy it." edroso.substack.com/p/the-wrecki...

Truly innovative tech is not very exciting and it doesn’t have to try so hard and so humiliatingly to sell itself to you. Sewers were life changing. Nobody had to spend a billion dollars on ads like “Did you ever wonder if sewers could…” or “Let us help you imagine how to use sewers.”

Goldman: "Republicans have created distrust of our electoral system -- not based on evidence -- and then they're gonna say, 'Oh, we have to solve this mistrust we've created.' No. That's not how it works."

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

Stable liberal social democracy is good for business, more and more people are saying it.

I mean at least there’s a study to wave about for the thing we all already knew

This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

We are the laughing stock of the world.

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

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

I think kids growing up in the Trump era should be told clearly that they are being raised under a regime that espouses white supremacy as if it is a legitimate politics, the same as any other.

time to pass out a bunch of “fell for it again” awards bsky.app/profile/sbag...

total mystery how this could have happened

When it looked like SCOTUS would overturn Roe and red states started turning their eyes to birth control, I wondered aloud if Big Pharma would fight at all against the decimation of their revenue streams and the answer, apparently, is no. Not even a little. We’re dying for the dumbest reason.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”