I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage. We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

Scientists: "Food gives you energy" Me after eating:

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There is far too much pressure to live your best life these days. Leave me alone and let me live my most middling life in peace, with the colourful miscellany of highs and lows that naturally entails.

Need to read Persepolis again

I know prominent pundits don’t like to talk about it, but the Christian nationalist angle on this new war with Iran is not getting the attention it should 🤔

Regime change from the air has a record unbroken by success.

This is such great marketing for Anthropic.

Stumbled across this yesterday and it dawned on me that the parties and movements on the right — the ones in western democracies right now, at least — have zero interest in this:

corporate elites, the people who own newspapers, run the labour party so struggle to get what electorates are grasping intuitively: it's death camps, deportations,& deranged pseudo-science or a friendly, inclusive, multi-racial society with lots of public transit

> @heathmayo.bsky.social

"U.S. experienced net negative migration—an estimated loss of some 150,000 people—in 2025" "backlog...asking to renounce their citizenship" "expats describe[]...a tangle of economic incentives, lifestyle preferences and disenchantment with the trajectory of America" www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

This is a very very very obvious point to make but shops and movie rental places and record stores are all more fun than buying things online

[trump farts and burps at the same time in the final minute of his state of the union address] NYT: this is as presidential as we've seen trump

Back in the 1940s outlets like Life weren’t afraid to tackle the tough stuff

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

The latest polling shows Trump falling consistently below 40 percent approval in high-quality surveys. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."

Happy Saturday 🤍 xx

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

I know we all have other things to think about right now but apparently William Shatner has gotten super into metal

This (obviously) won't be news to anyone on Bluesky, but it's worth taking a moment to realize just how shocking what all the people in Trump 2.0 truly, honestly believed about the era they thought they were ushering in.

It’s the real Liberation Day. 🇺🇸

In sum: Trump pushed and Congress approved a revenue bill that sawed Lincoln Tunnel-sized holes in the income tax with no replacement because of <<magic>> (tariffs they never approved), the imposition of which combined with a general belligerence nuked our relationships with our closet allies.

Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, 2008 election night. History watching history made.

I don't want to say, "Well, I told you so," but bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic. The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.

I can't believe I'm saying this but LinkedIn has fully replaced what I used to use X for (work)... While Bluesky has become something completely different which I haven't experienced online in over a decade: a fun space for connecting with people in ways only peripheral to work

A thing that annoys me about the Axios newsletter is that the tone is consistently “I am one of the top experts on this thing I learned about five minutes ago.” Also that they have 280 sources in the White House but their only source on the left is Rep. Capitulate Middle (D).

Since it’s Valentine’s Day I have no choice but to repost my BFT blog on James Baldwin’s correct assessment that love will never be popular, and that we must accept this if we are to change anything. badfaithtimes.com/love-is-neve...

Rockwell took a lot of heat for his civil rights paintings. They were extremely controversial at the time.

This is so spot on

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

My 7-year old son told me definitively tonight “6-7 is over.”

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Nothing destroys religion better than a state church, and nothing protects it better than secular government. Counterintuitive but true

Look folks, if you want to grow the economy you can either increase productivity or increase the size of the population. The Trump Administration is trying to shrink the population via a campaign of terror against immigrants and killing productivity gains via defunding science and unis.

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I saw someone post re: Bad Bunny, “You MFs understood the Macarena in 1996 just fine.”

ever since we invented farming the main driving motivation for basically every human who's ever lived is "how can i do as little farming as possible"