Nobel Pee Prize

I would love to see a reconstruction of the prior reporting that said the trigger was a shooting down of a party balloon

I don't know how I managed this, but while filling out forms for my doctor things somehow got jumbled between drop-down menus and auto-fills such that the sentence "I identify as: my back hurts" was submitted. And I'm not even going to correct it. It's not wrong.

Heater says hi and that she is, indeed, everyone’s irl friend.

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

Every time I see a Cybertruck on the road while I am driving, this song plays in my head.

Creating a class of people that are un-people'd is the line. You draw that line because it is the right thing to do, not merely out of solidarity: once the category of "not-people" exists, it can be widened to throw absolutely anyone down its bloody maw. "First they came for..." is now.

@katmabu.bsky.social lands a well-timed "do you believe this shit?" camera take while biss and fine bicker about ad spends

Circled back and wasted six hours of my life watching Jupiter's Legacy this week, and I want to talk about how bad the pace and plotline was but I still just can't get over the bad aging makeup and terrible wigs/beards.

LIVE IN 10 MIN: 🔴 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEua... 🔴 fox32chicago.com/live

The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.

Gotta tip your cap to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social for scooping everyone on this.

This morning's update about a former Bonus Cat, Julius, enjoying home life now that he has been brought inside.

Tracking for "paying attention to when I am happy to be wrong" purposes, my hypothesis had been that someone in the White House would make sure there was an at least *token* racist Executive Order to add in every 100 for specific numbers.

We live in such a profound dystopia.

And we're done. One hour, forty-seven minutes. Thanks for joining me on this emotional and psychological whiplash, I gotta take out the Shitbeasts. Good night.

Smartest thing I did today was time things such that I would be on the subway with no reception and thus unable to see this fucking shit.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

"I have learned how the Director’s decisions related to DOJ or FBI-controlled aircraft have negatively impacted high-profile criminal investigations. For example, in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk..." www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Tonight I'll be watching the SOTU so you don't have to. Mute this thread if you don't want that utter nonsense in your timeline, I'll keep all of it packaged here for convenient disposal.

Part of the problem with Gavin Newsom is that he's a stupid asshole who listens to stupid asshole right-wing podcasts and invites those stupid asshole right-wingers on his podcast and all of this stupid asshole influence leads him to believe and say stupid asshole right-wing talking points.

41 days on the picket line. Through the coldest winter. NYP nurses faced the longest fight and they won. Their victory closes the book on the largest nurses strike in NYC history. Congratulations @nynurses.bsky.social!

I have a novel strategy for democrats: Consider appealing to democrats

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

oh the weather outside is FUCK THIS.

oh oh oh oh 🥹 cis friends this is the energy we need you to bring

Let's talk about Dolly the Sheep 🐑 & why she's named for Dolly PARTON. Dolly, importantly, is NOT the first animal to be cloned. That honor arguably goes to an un-named African clawed frog 🐸 (Xenopus laevis) in 1958. Dolly is the first ADULT MAMMAL to be cloned.

Or possibly he saw something but misinterpreted it as an 'artifact'. One wrong paper by a luminary in the field delayed progress in the study of peptic ulcer disease for 30 years. It took Barry Marshall's risky self-experimentation to overturn decades of consensus.

Someone was offended I was taking his picture as I was petting him. But he still wanted the petting.

This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

Yooooooo!! @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for Congress!! www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al... You know what to do: secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

If you want to learn how the House floor works, the best thing to do is walk through the congressional record a few times. Here's part I of my guided tour:

I'm sitting on a floor chair with my knees bent, covered in a blanket, when suddenly this sweet little face appears. This is her way of asking me to rearrange myself so she can curl up in my lap, which of course I did promptly after taking this photo.

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses. I could write a novel about this email. prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Will is... an imperfect messenger for this subject (most people are, economics is hard!) but he's not "wrong" about the facts of this: You can do GOOD and 'lose' because what matters is people need to FEEL IT and that's all about vague vibes, media narratives and "my friend's uncle said," not facts

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

Surely you're not saying that the government might go into a person's SSA account whose voting record shows they have consistently voted Democratic and change their name or DOB so that their voter registration gets flagged on election day? Surely our government wouldn't do THAT? Not THIS government!

I redirect everyone’s attention to JIM MACKAY, a book-banning, Great Replacement Theory-touting hard right-winger who *has changed his name* to J. GORDON MITCHELL to run as a Democrat in Texas’ 17th Congressional district

AOC speaking in Berlin on Bad Bunny's performance at the Halftime show: "Just putting those values on television, felt counter cultural rebellious resistant, and that I think speaks so much to the moment that we are in that it was defiant."

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Starting to think "somehow, Palpatine returned" should have been heeded as a fucking warning.

I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

Not quoting because they have enough dunks on them but this strawman has taken root among some people, so: no, actually, that particular position is not predominant. This framing conflates three distinct "anti-AI" views that sometimes overlap: financial bubble, overhyped, and societal harm. /1

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Some personal news

Taking this Commander deck apart, and thus I wanted to memorialize it in its final form. There will be notes, because I liked part of what it was doing and with a different focus it might be reclaimable.

I think I am winning him over.