*Marilyn Manson voice* We're all stars now in the Woke Bowl

As a prominent leftist I am playing in the woke bowl. It’s like a roast barrel but you have to say the wokest thing. I plan to hit them hard with feminism

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/XkwTPcY-ahI?...

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

tragic breaking news. progressive home insurance announces the "millennials becoming their parents" have shriveled up and died. the untested aging disease they were injected with has no known cure and rapidly accelerated in recent years, trapping their 40 year old minds in the body of a bog mummy

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

Big smackdown of the minibus on the Senate floor: It fails 45-55, w/ 8 GOP nos and all Dems opposed R nos Budd Johnson Lee Moody Paul Rick Scott Tuberville Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal

Today's Reliable Sources lead: Is the Washington Post cutting its way to irrelevance? cnn.it/4tpahb9

Big gap between the R reactions to this (we are fucked and won't win MN this year) and the reactions in my replies (Dems are trying to lose by nominating a gestapo enabler)

The popularity of brainrot Charlie Kirk/Jeffrey Epstein memes on TikTok etc have made me think hard about how much of the perceived shift right of young people was irony-poisoning. Not 100% of, but a lot of it. Dems were the Be Nice party, Trump was the Shitposts and Memes candidate.

Not a controversial take here but @radleybalko.bsky.social is a rock-solid, fearless reporter who has been covering these issues since George Bush was president. Great guest.

She’s running. youtu.be/SiV3xVkX-kg?...

Every time I think about what my university is doing (generally) with LLMs and “efficiency” and look at places like our subreddit or hear students in the halls I get so fucking angry at how they deserve better

If only...

For example the video yesterday of "ICE IS GASSING A DAY CARE RIGHT NOW!!" is the daycare right up the street from my house. I about shit my pants and raced out the door until I saw it was actually from Saturday. I already dealt with that daycare gassing, thank you. Please don't lie to me for likes

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

reviews of the new Charlie XCX mockumentary THE MOMENT are predictably polarized - ranging from "I don't care" to "I love it"

I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”

In "A House of Dynamite," the worst movie I saw in 2025, President Idris Elba starts talking about a podcast he listens to moments before a nuclear missile levels Chicago and everyone in the theater laughed.

ICYMI, I wrote about this very thing www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

Dan had the only truly necessary trait for a writer and that's curiosity.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

So this is the task they assigned to keep her busy while they were cooking up a coup in Venezuela. Good times.

AJC has the warrant that was executed in Atlanta today. Here’s the listing of items being sought.

I found this and thought you all needed to see it

"A new film" is a funny tagline, but so is "twenty days to history" - the dramatic countdown to her becoming First Lady. She was already First Lady before!

I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder

Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

btw I think this stinks. Most discourses rn are started by people reacting to screenshots of headlines or undated videos of people's comments being clipped. It would be better if they were reacting to more op-eds they disagree w! But NYT has dominated the Take Zone.

DSA more electorally successful now (Zohran), its ideological positioning less important (Zohran blowing off their resolutions when asked about them during campaign).

Sidebar: The changes at WaPo have made the NYT/WP opinion clout level even more lopsided. NYT Opinion can get a discourse cookin' every few days. WP doesn't; biggest impact I've seen recently was Brandon Johnson being asked to respond to their Chicago op-eds.

Related: One project of the Searchlight wing of the party is getting back to 2012 Obama positioning on immigration. Secure the border, pass a comprehensive bill. They feel (I don't disagree) that Boehner killing the House version of reform kept the issue for Trump while radicalizing imm groups.

Two Federal Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti Are Placed on Leave www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

It's once again time to trot out this research that shows Lexis and Westlaw still hallucinate case law 17% - 33% of the time. dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Bearish on the current AI-friendly leadership in DC doing anything about this, but there are surely ways to create penalties for this stuff, which can do reputational damage to real people. See also: Scammers spoofing celebrities w AI video to scam people.

Noticing thread in two RW reactions to MN events: the killing of Pretti, and Omar not flinching when she was sprayed by a crazy person. On Pretti, lotsa "well it wouldn't have happened to me bc I stay inside and obey law enforcement." On Omar, theorizing (inc by Trump) that she staged it.(1/2)

Bumpin' that youtu.be/neGKDx3C0z4?...

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

Right. Letterboxd allows reviews for stuff that has been screened at festivals but not widely released. (I saw "Magellan" early, reviewed, no prob.) AFAIK the only people who've seen "Melania" are the throne-sniffers at the WH screening, bc it's not screened for critics.

I support Letterboxd here. Review-bombing something you haven't seen is lame. Plenty of ways to make fun of a movie you hate that don't involve giving it a fake score on a site people like to use for their real movie takes.

This is such a MAGA-era conservative thing. I'm already in like 3 public databases just for doing legal work right wing idiots don't like.