The vandals are sacking the imperium. There is no reason, there no thought or plan. There is only grifting and greed and cruelty, and destruction for mere spectacle.

If you're feeling remorse I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but regret ain't one.

Vibes are bad. Tell me your favorite thing from the 90s. Bonus points for anything from 1999.

As the ADL and other Jewish American groups fret about students wearing keffiyeh or whatever, this: bsky.app/profile/lets... and this: bsky.app/profile/joel...

Two can play at that game

Tennessee's crazy out-of-touch bigot senator Blackburn forced to admit ICE will not open a new concentration camp near Nashville. Keep pushing back people, the fascists are feeling it!

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Another murder to add to the long list of crimes of Trump / Miller / Noem et al.

Gosh I’m glad I live in the US, where corrupt leaders don’t appoint idiot family members to positions of power

I can’t even

Good news, although depressing that even 1% of Americans still approve of the criminal carnival barker.

Great work by NPR, true investigative journalism. They did the work. It's not NPR's fault that this expose is also crazymaking by reminding us that Biden+Merrick Garland wasted four years, and that countless others covered this up for decades.

"In addition, there are ways in which Kafka more than Orwell speaks to a key element of life in both the Mao era and what has followed: the ease with which one can be trapped in or simply confused by a complicated, irrational and hard to navigate bureaucracy."

The article does not note the appearance of new CBS chief Bari Weis's wife Nellie Bowles also appears in the Epstein files.

The AOC Munich story becoming a thing was obviously inorganic but the truth of the information environment behind it is even worse than I realized

Turns out penguins do have knees. They're just not where you think they ought to be. (Can you tell I'm trying to distract you from our collective sense of impending doom by putting out the most random content imaginable?!)

Always love it when Bloomberg sends me an email tilted "Where to invest a million right now"

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

In the latest update from Hǎi海 (a new thing we have in the works) @goldkorn.bsky.social has a laugh with comedian Jiaoying Summers

grandad fought Mosley in the East End in the 30s; dad fought him on Ridley Road in the 50s; i faced the National Front on Brick Lane in the 80s. I’m happy to fight Lowe in the 2020s. There’s a lot more than simply their vile tradition. They’ve always been here; we’ve aways kicked their arse

Another marker in the rise of 21st century global fascism. The fight against this is going to last the rest of our lives.

This whole 1991 interview is worth reading: afka.net/Articles/199...

Follow the money is the way to understand everything that the Trump administration does. If it's not Trump directly stealing money himself, there are always a few other cockroaches working the angles.

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

American exceptionalism

Not “hoax”. “The law must take its course.”

My interview with comedian Jiaoying Summers

Global China events and my video interview with Jiaoying Summers:

I just realized that today is Chinese New Year, the 1st day of Ramadan, AND Fat Tuesday. That means the Chinese new moon lined up with the Ramadan crescent and also fell exactly the right amount of time before the Easter full moon. An extremely rare lineup of 3 major moon-based traditions!

Procrastinating work, so some slogan ideas for No Kings marches, Dems: • The Trump family made about 10 billion on the last year. How are YOU doing? • Kristi Noem is flying around on a luxury jet with two bidets for her cruelty tour. How are YOU doing? +

The Wire China reporters Noah Berman, @eliotchen.bsky.social and @rachelcheung.bsky.social with the definitive story on Epstein’s ties to China’s princelings - the relatives of top Communist Party leaders. @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2026/02/13/e...

Celebrating the Year of the Horse: poster for @wufei.bsky.social's new year concert by lordymercy.com:

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

A big kung hei fat choi from Hong Kong: #cartoon from Harry Harrison rides in to the Year of the Horse

Oh man, you’d think the #HummingbirdBuddy feeder was the only one that still has gogo juice!! So sorry guys, I refilled the rest as quickly as I could 😬 Anna’s and Allen’s hummers sharing the 3 ports on the feeder. One minute of hungry hummers! San Diego county #birds

Quite a group photo that is.

Shirtless RFK Jr. and Kid Rock bond over while drinking whole milk together in a hot or cold tub in a pornography studio. Screengrab from RFK Jr's home video, originally on Twitter at x.com/SecKennedy/s...

We murdered 11 more people on boats last night

If you have a moment for some Alice Coltrane, driving noises, and Jeff Coffin's soothing voice, here is a video I short as Jeff drove me and @wufei.bsky.social's guzheng out of our snowed-in holler after the Nashville electricity cuts. We lost power for 10 days...

Amazing how many old China Twitter stalwarts are still very active there. Many who are paying for their blue checks.

I think this really has legs, because it is a succinct & at this point universally-recognized marker for an emergent - at least in terms of modern broad public awareness - socio-political entity that's virtually impossible to ignore.

Learn something new every day

I’m floored by Heather Moulder’s art design for my Lunar New Year concert in Nashville 2/15 Sunday Free admission & reserve tix to secure seats: blair.vanderbilt.edu/2026/02/10/m... Music in video by Wu Fei, Tan Dun & performed by Wu Fei. #guzheng #nashville #tennessee #lunarnewyear

Amazing how the people trying to destroy all the good bits of Western civilization keep on going on about saving it.

Perhaps Elon Musk's definition of "cool" is different. He is trying to make his grandfather's dreams into reality:

Big words from Merz in Munich The Msc motto, under destruction " probably means international order based on rights and rules is currently being destroyed. but I'm afraid we have to put it in even harsher terms. This order no longer exists"

The Sino-American convergence we can all get behind

Another attack on the press, via Apple News, based on the assertion that Apple’s news app does not feature articles from “right-leaning media outlet[s].”

… and then what??? What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?* Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone. *next skeet