Today we learned that the Washington Post lost $100 million last year. At that rate, Jeff Bezos can only support it for the next 2,243 years before his fortune would be exhausted! Clearly the only solution is more layoffs.

Seems like Greenland isn't the island Trump should be worried about.

This isn't my newsletter's usual beat, but I had to write something jessica.substack.com/p/mens-hocke...

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

👀”I have to tell you, we were experimented on like all get out,” Parikh said of his fellow Marines.”

Looking forward to the party that impeached Clinton saying this is no big deal.

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

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

Man, if these were Confederate statues, imagine their outrage.

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

This Shakespeare guy has some writing chops.

Oh, good, we're in the he's-no-angel stage of denial.

We're in the resistance song era of the movement now, and we know how that tends to go culturally for the oppressors. 💪

"Oh, so you're going by ACCENT now?!" No wonder ICE attacked Minnesota. Have you even listened to those people?

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

It’s notable that both of the killers were, with varying degrees of success, spraying irritants in bystanders’ eyes seconds before the shooting.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Each of those things were *also* un-American. Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights

"Stop calling ICE the Gestapo! ICE is nothing like the Gestapo. Now, let me innumerate all the many ways ICE is exactly like the Gestapo. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

To block modern gun laws, justices only need to invoke concerns loosely tied to the 19th century.To pass gun laws, legislators must rely on history, and be sure to set aside any history the Republican justices wish to forget. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-sup...

whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour

The problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.

If anyone out there has news about the situation in Guatemala, I would be grateful for personal reasons.

I mean, Japan tried that and we dropped a nuke on them.

We say that a lot in Texas.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

rare thing to read an obituary with a smile on your face, doubly rare for the smile to be because the person was so fuckin cool and not because [signal drops]

/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back. Stomp the cockroach.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

"Show us your papers!"

If you do not have this on an infinite loop in your head yet, it can only be because you have not heard it once.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

I don’t think this is going to go the way Hilton thinks it is.

If Hitler were on CNN he would sound exactly like this.

Third Amendment raises its head.

Good thing we have peace in the Middle East!

Putin just whispered in Trump's ear for HOURS. Do you think that Ukraine was the only topic covered in that programming session?

Send this to anyone in your life who pretends this is about defending Venezuelan democracy or whatever

That letter about not following illegal orders that we all thought was about bombing boats is coming a little bit more into focus.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

This guy who has already killed tens of thousands in his home continent alone.