"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran."

Can't help but think that if the Humanities had been required in techbros' education we might have avoided them interpreting every dystopian cautionary tale as an instruction manual. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I reviewed the latest from The New Pornographers for @pastemagazine.bsky.social, and to say it is their bleakest record might be putting it mildly.

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

Ten headlines from today’s New York Times (H/t to @coreyrobin.bsky.social)

“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

Awww man, this makes me sad. He struggled very publicly with addiction - but Will is right, Xander Harris is a hell of a legacy. (Not to mention a terrific later-in-life role in the sci-fi indie COHERENCE). R.I.P. man, doing the Snoopy dance in heaven now.

I don’t remember who coined it first or how exactly it was said, but whoever said that transphobia is basically an early symptom of unfettered psychosis is completely correct

Could not co-sign this argument any harder if I had written it myself

Our closing message.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

I get that they always basically nominate the same films for every goddamn category regardless of reason or logic, but when I watched the inaugural Best Casting Oscar tonight, all I could think was Carmen Cuba deserved it for NIGHT ALWAYS COMES. By far the greatest, most surprisingly perfect cast.

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

In this Illinois house, we vote for real ones. Katforillinois.com

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

Have flags been ordered half staff for the fallen soldiers? No? I guess thats just something special for podcasters

If you’re still posting on X at this point you’re basically marching in a Klan rally (while putting money in the Grand Wizard’s pocket) so maybe you should fucking think long and hard about yourself

[Me in line to buy a rainbow sherbet ice cream cone at Baskin Robbins]: (whispering) Pete Hegseth should stand trial in The Hague as a war criminal, pass it on

The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother

How in the ever-loving hell did I never notice before that “Dream On” and “Don’t Speak” start in almost identical fashion

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

Hey @durbin.senate.gov I know you’re basically just coasting until you’re out of office, but maybe you could, you know, impeach this guy for crimes and misdemeanors, given it is now an open fact that he was doing exactly that

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Fucking criminals. Prosecute all of them. Laugh them out of restaurants. Point and jeer at them on the street. And GET A SUPREME COURT THAT UN-LEGALIZES CORRUPTION

NO GODS FOR DROWNING is one of the most compelling fantasy-horror books I’ve read in the past 10 years. Win your own copy below!

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

Every time Vance or some other nationalist chode starts crowing about “Western civilization,” I think about how utterly incapable they all are of defining it or knowing what it entails - and how Gandhi’s response is still the best one: “I think it would be a good idea.”

The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

get the fuck off substack!! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

In Minneapolis, people are literally singing resistance before marching to the hotels where ICE agents are staying—inviting them to defect and join us in solidarity. It’s an action rooted in compassion, courage, and collective humanity. Transforming fear into shared power.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

@ag.state.mn.us why haven’t you filed first degree murder charges against the two men who killed Alex Pretti? Coroner ruled it homicide.

if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences