U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas resisted growing calls Tuesday from fellow congressional Republicans to resign over a report of an alleged affair with a former staffer who later died after she set herself on fire.

I just realized his name in the show is Jesse (his real name is Ned) anyway this is him

Another victim of online sleuths who were certain they had cracked the case: “I feel like someone’s taken my name,” said Dominic Evans, an elementary-school teacher who was accused on social media of being the ski-masked man at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep.

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Fellow fat people who aren't trying to lose weight: in the last few years, have you noticed a change in how the people in your life engage with conversations about fatness & fat people? If so, how would you characterize that change? How does it show up?

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

Yup. Cows love Moosic

Christina Applegate tells Jimmy Kimmel, “It might be Covid, I’m just super duper sick and you’re gonna have it." #WTF 🤬 This is why we can't trust anyone. Mask 😷 up. Wear a respirator to avoid infections. Test everyone close to you.

They love mob justice for immigrants and Black people.

omg baby dragon

Breakfast

Kristi Noem told a story about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his ICE deportation flight, began to eat himself. . “That is completely made up,” the senior federal law enforcement official told The Intercept theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...

Look out, NYC, Portland has its own Brooklyn Bridge now! City council passed the naming resolution for what we used to call the Holgate railyard overpass. It's not a sexy bridge, but at least it has a name now. (Thanks @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social for getting funding for some signage)

I’m learning that it’s very common for men to take their partners on a hike then leaving them there. So common that it has a make. “Alpine divorce”

My therapist told me that she wants to watch Heated Rivalry, so that’s cool.

I'm intrigued by the phrasing. The swastika was "hand-drawn," but it merely "appeared," like some magical, non-human entity was attempting to frame a human for a repugnant hate crime. Was it an elf? A goblin? An antisemitic leprechaun? We'll await the results of the Coast Guard investigation!

The truth is out there!

A Kentucky man was arrested after he allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a dead deer.

Oregon health officials declare measles outbreak with five confirmed cases

Have you asked your elected leaders to dump their Toxic X yet? We need to put pressure on politicians to abandon the platform and deprive Elon of the influence their presence there gives him. Take action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This guy gets it.

Nor'easter breaks snowfall record set during Blizzard of '78 | Click on the image to read the full story

This is why I never cut my own hair.

Senate Democrats introduced legislation Monday requiring the Trump administration to refund up to $175 billion collected through tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were invalid. https://www.koin.com/news/politics/senate-democrats-unveil-trump-tariffs-refund-legislation/?cid=bluesky_ 

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

I listen to podcasts where the hosts still think they need to use twitter for their jobs and it's so depressing.

Here’s last night’s story about Twitter, how it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, and the real reason why John won’t be tweeting in the future. Hint: it has something to do with his amazing feet. youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI

get ready to slip buddy

Mandelson follows the former prince Andrew into the Epstein-linked arrest book.

You can do what you want. But the logic for staying on Twitter is insane, some form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: Everyone else's posts are obviously besotted in apartheid-forward engagement bots, but MY posts are clearly unaffected, because they're beautiful and perfect. Again, do you, but I'm all set.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

feel like they might want to rethink the name

And I can tell Siri to stop the timer from across the room! I fucking love my new phone.

Omg I just learned that my new phone can set multiple timers at the same time! This is a game changer.

Safety and alignment staff at Meta watched as AI speedrun deleted her inbox despite her repeated and emphatic instructions that it not do so. When it was done, the AI responded: “You're right to be upset… OK. That was wrong - it directly broke the rule you'd set. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.”

I spoke with my friend who told me about the fundraiser and this is the update that I received:

Figured I'd link to what Hannah said herself about it. This hurts and so many people don't understand how much it does. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Fuck your follower numbers at the Nazi bar! Stop legitimizing the Nazi bar as a legitimate business! You can leave!!

I think the fun thing about the latest John Oliver episode is that he’s mainstreaming what has been common discourse here for months, in that if you’re a government official/reporter/someone who considers themselves a non-Nazi then what the FUCK are you still doing on X?

Choose the bear

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

first date idea

reminder another reason to do alt text is that the same good alt text also helps people who don't know the same cultural references as you look stuff up. what show is that? who is that actor? what's happening in that scene? people are here from different generations, countries, interest circles etc!

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

2026 basically