I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

43 years ago, on the 28th of February 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired. Its runtime was around 2 hours. With 110 million viewers it remains the most watched single episode of a TV-series in U.S. history. #otd #history 🗃️

Sama just posted that OpenAI got the contract:

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters. Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

I want Anthropic to survive long enough to be destroyed by paying out billions to the artists and writers it stole from.

LMFAO I LITERALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED AND I CAN CONFIRM TO YOU IT'S ENTIRELY 100% ON THE PART OF WHOMEVER PROGRAMMED THEIR PHONE SYSTEM THIS WAY 👇🏽🧵

Blind squirrel finds nut. AI is still unregulated evil, but at least Anthropic is like no, we don't want our product running your armed drones thanks

[endless laughter] www.theverge.com/policy/88602...

entirely unimprovable execution by the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social social team

A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three creative services employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes.

A Tennessee woman who sought to undergo sterilization surgery last week was abruptly blocked from receiving the procedure, with hospital staff informing her they decided they had a “duty to protect her sacred fertility.”

NYT susses out the real reason Trump wants to attack Iran: It would make him feel good. “Several administration officials said it would allow Mr. Trump to claim a military victory against an old foe.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

Remember, most Americans don't even have a form of ID beyond this. As this report outlines, document control is a favorite way of authoritarians to strip people of their humanity. freedomhouse.org/report/trans...

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

She’ll do fucking what?

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

This was a big thing in Western NY when I grew up. I mentioned it to a younger colleague who also grew up in Buffalo and she thought I was insane. It was a thing, honest! is it still a thing?

Not looking forward to a future where no one knows anything. www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

A bunch of billionaires and corporations pooling their money to try to keep a popularly elected mayor's agenda in check are not exactly making the case that the city and state shouldn't tax the hell out them.

"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The state of Orion is Illinois.

I was reliably told that the only winning move is not to play.

Gaslight is a great movie, glad TCM had it on tonight.

So Trump is gonna announce tax cuts. With a 40 trillion dollar deficit, of which we now spend more on interest than on defense

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.

This really sums it up.

The funniest take I've seen is a woman absolutely dragging Team USA Men's hockey over a century to clinch their third Olympic gold medal while noting that Women's hockey has only been an Olympic sport since 1998 and the Team USA Women's Hockey has already landed 3 gold medals.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Email from media: Breaking News, Louvre Director Resigns Me: Another Epstein File guy!!!! ...oh no wait it's that heist

Buffalo, esp West Side - ICE dropped off a blind refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin, who does not speak English at the Tim Hortons on Niagara on Thursday. He is missing. Keep an eye out, and call the numbers on the flyer if you find him. Just boosting, deets at link. www.facebook.com/share/p/18bH...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Broke: guacamole Bespoke:

I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

This guy gets it.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Unrestrained terror directed at high school students: “It's been reported to us that the adult seen holding a student in a chokehold was our chief of police”

do cocaine like an adult

I was quoted in this 2019 article about the risks of troves of biometric data collected by CBP from travelers. Six short years later and our data is being used against us, just like pretty much everyone warned it would be.

he’s so close to getting it

Here's how I read that Greenland thing: Greenland: Oh, hey! We had to rescue an American from that submarine you've got lurking 7 nautical miles offshore, who faced an urgent medical crisis. Trump, caught patrolling an ally: EMergency! I'll send a sick boat that's in the sick bay.

Remember when poli sci consensus was that spending money in politics didn’t really do anything

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

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Greenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Do not come to the US. For any but the most dire reason. Do not come.

I am going to hunt down Punxsutawney Phil. I will find him and then I will grind his bones to make my bread.