making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

i wrote about the pup-opticon

i wrote about the pup-opticon

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

new from me: Trump's suggestion that the GOP "nationalize" elections in "15 areas" struck me for being a full-on Bizarro version of the Voting Rights Act — a system of federal oversight of election law but targeted -against- minorities

shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)

those commercials inspired one of the most prescient posts I’ve written imo www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

Let's read this as a referendum on the city of Boston.

“this is going to be a learning lesson tonight.” brutal.

According Lay’s research, 42% of consumers don’t know that potato chips are made from potatoes. Something to think about from an elections perspective. capitalpress.com/2025/10/29/l...

oh of course, comcast was the one thing missing from the metaphor about the hubris of man’s desire to conquer nature via science

i feel like I’m watching c-span with all of these punts on otherwise achievable goals

shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)

that Pokémon commercial was perfect Lady Gaga singing Jiggilypuff’s Lullaby is something I never knew I needed

zero percent mad at how much money EJAE is hopefully making from licensing “Golden” to the Olympics, great work all around

No Kings includes Draft Kings

idk but positioning your company as the “I’m not like other girls” of AI is darkly funny to me

the only logical conclusion is that we’re gonna see an ad for an app where you bet on who’s taking glp-1 shots before the game is over

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “Ironically enough, if the origins of the holiday were recreated today, the Trump administration would likely dub it ‘woke.’” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/colu...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Well, here it is: the EEOC is suing Nike over anti-white bias www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “The cash crunch is one that President Donald Trump could easily rectify by simply paying the money that the U.S. owes the U.N.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

have the tech bros complaining about how we all hate ai.... tried making something... idk.... good? just wondering

I saw someone post they’d been reading it for 13 hours straight and all I could think was that is hollowing out their skull as a public service

shoutout to everyone actually diving deep into the Epstein emails. I’ve taken so much secondhand psychic damage just from skimming Bsky, I can’t imagine how much they’re taking straight to the dome

This is why the right is fixated on celebrities' politics, censor libraries, fake NYT bestseller status for their books, and want to dictate school curricula. Cultural production is how values are instilled in large populations

"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something

man it took me a long time scrolling to realize catherine o'hara had died bc people were just posting pics and appreciation and like, why wouldn't you do that on a normal day

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been blocking a vote on the revised government funding deal, says he is lifting his blockade in exchange for a vote on his bill to end sanctuary cities.

i just filed 2600 words on a friday afternoon which means that i must now brace for some well-deserved editorial karmic backlash in the future

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Her license plate says "EW LIBS," she's marrying Dan Scavino this weekend, and she's in charge of all art in all US embassies and consulates. Who is this MAGA mean girl? My latest. puck.news/the-maga-bar...

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

much like watching the games they run, i was shocked at how 50 minutes seem to go by almost instantly listening to these two talk about how they do it

Scoop: AG Bondi gave St. Louis US Attorney Thomas Albus special appointment with nationwide authority to probe voter fraud. This explains why Albus, not the Atlanta US attorney, was on FBI's Fulton County search warrant yesterday. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"If an agency wants to cosplay as a military force, it deserves to be evaluated as one," WIRED asked an active military officer to evaluate ICE's actions. Their analysis is not good... www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

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/...

One problem of having people like Tom Homan and other non-lawyers in charge is that … they say things that are material to ongoing litigation. All the time. (Pam Bondi, a lawyer, is the exception: She too says things bearing on active litigation all the time.)

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

WATCH-- Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: "Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee's name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I'm dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us."

Speaking out is essential. Especially when so many institutional leaders are failing us. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

The constant drip of these kinds of stories out of France, plus the country’s general cultural rejection of Me Too, I dunno, seems bad www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

The Trump admin has pushed Bovino out of the Minneapolis operation, given how much he's made things worse. The person who killed Alex Pretti was a Border Patrol agent. Notably, the admin has NOT backed down from the operation in general. Large-scale arrests reportedly continue.

Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years

"Point of contact" is a deliberately lawyerly phrasing because Homan's current position is the made-up title of "Border Czar" within the Executive Office of the President, i.e. White House staff. He has no authority to directly run anything under DHS / ICE / CBP.