There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

tomorrow the fruit of an absolutely insane amount of research about sloppy joes drops. i read a play and novel and also did so much archive trawling for this. i started sweating manwich sauce. so many questions arose. so few answers. get it in your inbox here buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich

i really struggle to understand how anyone could behave this way. i mean, intellectually, i get it. i research monsters for a living. i know they’re real. but imagine slamming the cage door in a crying child’s face, having just confiscated her crayons. and then going home to your own family???

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

It's the best. They know we need supervision 🐈

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

I read Casey Means' book last year and wrote about her "salvation through orthorexia" ideology so you don't have to. This woman being Surgeon General will entail enormous amounts of harm buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I don't know if she's more or less dangerous than RFK Jr, but the difference is too small to tell without an electron microscope

🧵 Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as apes. He deleted it. A handful of Republicans objected. Most said nothing. Nothing changed. My most recent column isn’t about shock. It’s about consequences.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 25th 2026 (Medium), in 05:33 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

If you're not watching this right now, you're doing it wrong. Really, I cannot stress how much better you'd be doing if you were listening to @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social teach you about subtypes of Real Birds (e.g. AHawkorSomeShit) instead of listening to that man say words on TV. Join us.

so much better than SOTU!

@erinbiba.bsky.social you nailed it! bravo!

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social oh my god. this is hilarious cunty pigeon. oh my god poster's madness

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

America, 2026

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate ⛰️⛰️ 🌲🌲 🦉

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

“These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.”

Excellent tree thread 🌳🌲🌴

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

Hey, Democrats, go ahead and attend the State of the Union, but only if you react in real time with this silhouette as your spirit guide.

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

We got you.

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I resent the pivot to video so much. I do not want to become an "on air personality." I do not want to boil everything down into little pithy viral slogans. I don't want to worry about my f'ing hair. I hate it all. Hate it.

there are too many discourses right now put some back

Look, if not for Bluesky, you'd have no idea who Jeremy is. I think that settles any question of its relevance.

Oh god. So yeah, Tourette's is a very real neurological disease, and people who have specific kinds of verbal tics are not saying what's in their heart or soul or anything of the sort. Their brain tics to the worst thing they are aware of in the world that can be said. Not a choice.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.

As I have watched measles cases in my home state of SC skyrocket to almost 1,000, I wondered why I hardly ever heard anything about the severity of complications. Here’s what I found.

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

We know that a lot of people avoid Instagram for valid reasons, but if you happen to maintain an account there would you consider following us? Exposure there is unfortunately vital to non-profits like us. www.instagram.com/merrymacfarm...

And yet if you watch Comcast-owned NBC10 Philadephia, you'd just think a bunch of rowdy students assaulted cops. They have social media video -- but don't show the police chief trying to strangle a kid. youtu.be/2MS8kegc9io?...

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

I keep this image on my desktop now because of how often I have to use it.