I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Almost all people in power are writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions.

Wouldn’t be surprised if MPLS continues to be plagued by the same types of guys that have continued to cause a ruckus here in LA and the surrounding area—familiarize yourself with the Special Response Team patches and camo. They’re grade-A assholes, *in addition to* the local feds who stick around

This is merely just shuffling pieces on the chessboard. Let the press move on and pull the story out of the spotlight Just like in CA, the kidnappings have continued—in the streets, at the courts. Keep up the organizing even when the national cameras move elsewhere Solidarity w/MN, it all sucks

Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK https://goodlaw.social/2l1y

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Students from Lincoln Northeast High School walked nearly 6 miles to the Capitol to protest ICE. They met up with students from Lincoln High, which is about a half mile down the hill. From LJS's Livia Ziskey: journalstar.com/news/local/e...

Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is an incredible photo.

Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times. DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist. She went to court to get the body cam footage released. It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn. Saying “do something b*tch”. Ramming her car. Shooting her. It shows DHS lied.

don't try to sell me some shit like "my imagination is the limit" when you are actively participating in killing the human imagination

Please read this thread & send it around. Folks need to understand what CBP, DHS, and ICE are doing, under this regime’s guidance. These are torture camps. People are being sent into American concentration camps to sicken and die from spoiled food, neglect, and lack of medical care. Death camps.

#OtD 12 Feb 1978 in Aotearoa/NZ 250 Māori Tainui Awhiro people and allies occupied the Raglan golf course, on an old burial ground, in protest against its expansion. Eventually the government returned the land to the Māori people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8389...

Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych's appeal to the Olympic Committee shortly before they disqualified him for wearing a helmet honoring Ukrainian Olympians who were killed by the Russian fascists in the invasion of Ukraine.

This mummy was discovered in the early 21st century wearing a necklace made of ...fermented dairy. The exact type of dairy is still up for debate but it could be kefir or similar...Lets find the long history of fermented dairy in Central Asia here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

at some point the mainstream decided that actual irredeemable catastrophe was off the menu. niche horror eg revenge & torture horror never lost the taste for it but in the 70s popular movies could end like eg this youtu.be/fmo24irI7ww?...

Aww Jim, I'm certainly glad you don't drain public resources otherwise that'd make you a fucking hypocrite. Oh wait: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a pogrom

Chicago-area Proud Boys, Terry Newsome, showed up in Downers Grove yesterday to harass and intimidate high school students protesting DHS-activity. Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.

#OtD 12 Feb 1970 hundreds of women textile workers at the John Collier factory in Leeds walked out on wildcat strike for pay equality with men. The union denounced the strike, but it spread until the employers agreed pay rises for women and men. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8388...

One day soon, all the people who licked the boot and kissed the ring will try to pretend it didn’t happen the way you think. Never let them live it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

(For the record I support deploying the military against the AI industry for laughs, not because it is a necessity for survival.)

Capitalist progress!

SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO Oh she HATED his guts

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children

In 2023, NDN Holdings purchased the land and began working with the Native Conservancy to transfer ownership. NDN helped Native Conservancy incubate the ECLT formation so the land would stay with the Eyak people and be protected for many generations to come. #Landback #Oceanback #Alaska

BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein BALINT: Weak sauce BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution-- BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Everyone who praised Barnes’ opportunistic and bigoted book is a fool

Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

This story is infuriating, horrifying, and essential to understand the immediate human cost of the oil and gas companies.

1. it's not? 2. what's "true" in a very obvious sense is that they're going to try their best to MAKE it true and still replace every job they can with it despite it, again, not being true 3. it then follows that the way to "think seriously" about it is to be as skeptical & hostile to it as possible

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

TODAY IN COMICS STORES! Andrea Mutti and I present BARBARIAN BEHIND BARS #1 from @madcavestudios.com! A hero from another world lands on earth -- and gets thrown in the slammer! What's an overworked public defender to do? High fantasy meets b-movie pulp! Violence! madcavestudios.com/series/barba...

For decades, Texas let drillers spread staggering amounts of radioactive and PFAS-ridden waste on the fringes of the nation’s fourth largest metro area — while making it virtually impossible for the public to know where. Absolutely fucking insane story from @saulelbein.bsky.social today

normal behavior in this country to threaten to kill a teenager with his hands on the steering wheel for asking why he’s being pulled over youtube.com/shorts/eju7r...

The video is of course of Aurora IL PD cops beating the fuck out of minor kids exercising their constitutionally protected rights to assembly and speech to protest police state brutality against their friends and family

nothing will convince me shit like this isn't partly downstream from watching Bradley Cooper shoot an Iraqi kid with tears in his eyes

A new analysis found NLRB union elections dropped 30 percent in 2025 as the Trump administration hobbled the agency and shed staff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

Vance deleted this after two hours. Apparently, commemoration of the victims of the Armenian G* lasts only as long as it does not upset Turkish partners.

TIL after a whole lifetime of being told about how Europeans first explored Antarctica starting in 1820 that they've found the body of an indigenous Chilean on the continent who died sometime between 1819-1825 and now I need a recount

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

On the most recent episode of @trashfuture.bsky.social, Riley coins the term "Epsteinist" for the politics of profiting from managed decline and the promotion of that decline, and I think it should catch on.