Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain. But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

Similarly, JD Vance claiming Scots-Irish heritage seems to have missed the point that the Scots-Irish as a group were largely despised in Ireland as usurpers of traditional Irish landowners serving the crown. Their traditions of discrimination against Catholics fueled the Troubles.

Musk is such a fucking idiot he probably does not understand that Scotts-Irish (sic) is a category of Presbyterian Scottish planters sent to Ireland to exclude the traditional Irish.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Morons Morons are in charge www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

If you’re wondering what effect this will have on how the states run their elections, the bottom line is they’ll wipe their ass with it.

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

100,000,000% The girls weren’t the point. They were the (exploited) means of getting powerful people to act in the interests of foreign dictators & oligarchs & mafiosi.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that: 1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president. 2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner. 3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

This is such a great idea everyone! Please talk it up, pass it along, let’s make it an Election Day thing all over the country.

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century. People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

I will continue to beat this drum: this is not about what happens on Election Day, but afterwards. The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Of so many things to be infuriated about, this is perhaps my biggest gripe. Pancreatic cancer patients, who face a future without hope, are being denied a potential game-changing therapy www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

Aleksei Navalny was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, five European countries said Saturday, making the most concrete Western accusation yet that Russia’s leading opposition figure was murdered by his government in a prison two years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

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Post a tree you photographed.

🚨Kristi comes out and signals in clear terms what their plans are …

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Nope

Not sure how many words this post is, but he could have just typed, "I'm a pathetic loser" and the message would've been the same.

This 100% merits impeachment

I am a doctrinaire universalist. We are all sinners before an angry God, and we are all saved by the wonderful love of God. But man, if I were Musk or Vought would I be scared to meet my Maker.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

"Jeff Landry’s Dog Whistle Politics," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

Police don’t wear masks. State troopers don’t wear masks. The National Guard doesn’t wear masks. But you know who does? White supremacists, militia groups, insurrectionists, and ICE.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Repeat after me: An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law. Also: Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

More evidence of an emerging police state in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

Why is Pam Bondi covering up for Dr. Oz?

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein. Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

i'm against barriers to the fanchise but it would be extremely funny if the republicans enact barriers to voting and nuke their voter base

You didn’t think all those concentration camps they want to build are only for immigrants, did you? (Gift article)

greatest election cheater in history has thoughts

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

Prince Andrew allegedly used the code phrase “Mrs Windsor will arrive shortly” to bring young women into Buckingham Palace unchecked. Staff say it was routine. Now there are calls for a police probe. Who’s accountable? Who knew? #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A-FGN8f9kSyC...

The previous president was forced to drop out of running for re-election because of concerns over cognitive decline, all while sounding far more coherent than this.