But of course...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

"While authoritarians promise that strict hierarchies giving those at the top total control are necessary to keep people safe, the opposite is true. "Male dominance leads to women being raped and beaten. "White supremacy leads to racial violence." www.salon.com/2026/02/18/k...

This is good and worth reading.

This is almost impossible believe, but it now seems undeniably true: That a serving president of the United States DOES NOT UNDERSTAND what a tariff is. It's like a football player running toward the wrong end zone. You can't believe it's happening, but it is.

ETTD. Roberts has done more to protect and empower Trump than anyone else, and Trump would kick him into the gutter without any hesitation.

Why we had to wait so long for the fucking tariffs opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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.

To recap in light of breaking news out of the UK: The French found a way to prosecute former presidents. The South Koreans did the same. Our British cousins now literally are prosecuting members of the Royal Family. But U.S. presidents remain above the law.

MAGA explained by coffee choices. www.facebook.com/share/v/1bPx...

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway. New: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

You won't protect your principles by abandoning your principles. You won't protect one group of threatened people by abandoning another. All you'll do is bounce around the fascist frame, and so you'll never threaten the fascist project, because even if you "win" you're still inside their picture.

Kakistocracy in action.

Audacity.

It is time to restore America's strong sense of heterosexual masculinity by emulating ancient Sparta. by Pete Hegseth

REMINDER: Donald Trump is already interfering in the 2026 elections, says Ari Berman, who has been covering voting rights since before Donald Trump started birthing. Nothing hypothetical about this.

I’m working to suppress my gag reflex.

Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.

As @adamserwer.bsky.social so aptly pointed out, the cruelty is the point. It’s not negligence; it’s deliberate.

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

To be clear: "A.i." is not going to live up to the "hype" of actually replacing good human work. Its purpose is to destroy our expectations of quality and value and accept ever-increasing enshittification, immiseration, and death in order to increase the wealth of billionaires.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Post a banger that is not in English. Hermann Prey, one of the greatest baritones of the 20th century, sings Schubert’s Erlkönig. You’ll recognize it from cartoons. Listen to how he does the four distinct character voices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD8...

Duane Berry faces no criminal charges but has been detained for a decade. The Fourth Circuit interprets a federal law as permitting perpetual confinement on grounds of incompetency, yet the Constitution prescribes no such general federal power [Mike Fox & Matthew Cavedon on @cato.org cert amicus]

Curling is that incredible sport that's actually more fun to watch if you don't know any of the rules and have no idea what the hell theyre doing

Jeffries on Trump asking Schumer to rename Dulles & Penn Station after him in exchange for unfreezing funds: "It's another example of Trump trying to force presidential graffiti down the throats of the people... this guy's priorities are completely & totally unhinged. But this is the GOP right now."

"Come on, just give the baby his bottle" is a terrific attitude for rank and file Republicans to have about the leader of their party.

Agree.

Not only do Trump and his staff always lie, but they can’t even lie convincingly or consistently.

“You’re better at this than we are” is not the flex Cruz thinks it is. I’m always amazed at just how whiny GOP leaders are. They all like to think they’re the second coming of John Wayne, buy then act like petulant toddlers all day.

Trump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement. And right now media is ignoring.

Another impeachable offense.

No, you just need a Congress that takes its oath to the Constitution seriously

Biggest Revelations From The Epstein Files — theonion.com/biggest-reve...

Wait, wow?

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

By @tomtomorrow.bsky.social:

this is the same principle through which Supreme Court forbid Democrats from requiring states to adopt the ACA Medicaid expansion, except the lever is “lawless paramilitary violence” instead of “financial penalties”

A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Powell ducked politics in today’s presser, including questions about himself. He was exactly who he’s meant to be: direct, clear, apolitical, and focused on the economy. His bet: the best reply to critics is to keep doing the job Congress gave him.

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Weird.

The only constant in Trump's politics is that he doesn't have any beliefs in the way that most of us conceptualize what "a belief" is. What he claims to believe at any moment is just what he thinks is necessary to say right then and there to gain advantage for himself.

The order is a short read and worth the time.

Good for her. It isn’t every day you get the chance to tell a SCOTUS justice that he’s full of shit.

A short thread well worth reading.

I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies. mn.gov/doc/about/ne...

yeah this i agree with. bsky.app/profile/knan...