Fantasy/reality

Great thread.

What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

A lot of ICE deaths will look like this, without the obvious video evidence of a murder on cameras. But it is still Trump’s ICE killing people

You see these psychopathic bills proposed in red statehouses regularly. It's important to remember that while they're mainly stunts to appease the base, their authors wouldn't mind if they passed. You know -- like the SAVE Act. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

THEY GOT IT FROM THEIR MAMA!

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I learnt recently that one of the main ways we learn about hurricanes and cyclones and typhoons is various navies and coast guards employ these absolute maniacs who fly planes into them where the weather is worst and record data and then fly back out and where is the Hollywood movie on these people

the comments are incredibly gross - there's more in the article - which unfortunately makes the "apology" hilarious

They've been doing this for YEARS.

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

The nerve! And they said not one word about the Al Pacino Dunkaccino commercial www.wonkette.com/p/dunkin-don...

incredible write up of our latest young folk hero

the algo delivered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66yH...

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

If anyone else were in charge there would have been some normal, magnanimous post from the President about how Americans are so excited because hockey is the only time we'd ever fight Canada.

Watch racemaking at work: “In a country founded out of a patchwork of European, African and Native American cultures, overlaid with immigration from around the globe, ‘Scots-Irish’ has long served as a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas… These days, to its proponents, it basically just means white.”

The problem with being state media in a splintered environment is that this kind of boring propaganda only works if there's one channel and the only alternative is turning the TV off.

Thy literally put it in the Louvre www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

JOKE’S ON THE OLYMPICS; I WAS ALREADY PLANNING ON SOBBING UNCONTROLLABLY TODAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

There's a small, extremely MAGA-coded men's health clinic advertising during the gold medal hockey game and I feel pretty confident they didn't license the Enter Sandman clip playing under it.

In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin

(Hockey mom voice/yell) HELP YOUR GOALIE

This is quite literally a Free Press column being laundered into the mainstream months later

Public Works departments could be fucking with these guys so much more than they are.

#CADEM day 2

Corinne Bailey Rae has an excellent discography, but also, this song in particular has aged like fine wine as cultural politics have finally caught up with it.

Really putting the party in Green Party…I will see myself out.

Persona is the same verification service that X requires you to use to report impersonation accounts. Sex workers are some of the biggest targets for impersonation and scam accounts. So we have to hand our biometric and legal data over to Musk and Thiel in order to protect our IP. This so so unsafe.

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

Put her in a choke hold and the other kids jumped in to beat his ass. The kids are alright.

Way Off Topic: One of the last names sounded familiar so I went to look up the origin and the Pope's grandmother looks exactly like my great grandmother--which is hilarious. We are in no way related. abc7ny.com/post/chicago...

Pope Leo's grandparents were listed as "Colored" in New Orleans and had the last names Martinez and Baquié. Vance is a white nationalist. What did he think was going to happen?

The conclusions about student cognition aren’t the interesting part for me so much as the money being spent on youth surveillance that isn’t leading to better learning outcomes. Teachers are being laid off, schools & libraries are closing, books are being banned.

source: me, among many others

WIRED has been doing some good work covering this administration, so it's particularly awful that this graphic, the one on its home page, and the opening paragraph are all demeaning as hell. Homophobia on our side is still homophobia. You failed, @wired.com.

The organ makes MSG sound like a double A ballpark.

The establishment legal press corps’s willingness to accept Sarah Isgur’s desperate rebrand as a Thoughtful Legal Pundit media personality remains mystifying and embarrassing

One thing I find interesting about this story is the response from tech solutionists (to wit: "what if we implemented a new archiving app using tech stack xyz"), when none of the problems at play here are technical ones but social organizatinal ones.

My cat climbed on my dresser and picked up a bottle of nail polish??

I'm very old and just learned there's no n in restaurateur. btr.michaelkwan.com/2017/08/09/g...

No. You don’t get the skater with facial piercings and weird hair. You get country singers named Bunt Gruntley and Mormon wife influencers with poorly done extensions and that’s what you get. Sorry

Full credit to @allisonhantschel.com and @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online, I've started watching Shorsey and I'm enjoying the heck out of it.

Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

“…the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...