"If you’re old enough, you’ll remember how much influence Christian fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority organization as well as the televangelist Pat Robertson had in U.S. politics in the early 1980s. Here are some cartoons about the subject from my archives." -- Ann Telnaes

Still up on the regime's website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202... So why is Trump about to attack them again? h/t @michellegoldberg.bsky.social's latest column www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

May be of some use to you or someone you know over the next several weeks

News That Will Not Shock You "Persona Identity, Inc. is a Peter Thiel-backed venture ..." I don't know why @moderation.bsky.app insists on labeling @davidleavitt.bsky.social as spam, but he's not. This is the link he posted that I am re-posting: www.therage.co/persona-age-...

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: John Camp John D. MacDonald John McPhee @johnsandford.bsky.social John @scalzi.com

Cry harder. "Jensen Huang, chief executive of the chip maker Nvidia, is worried. The tech industry hype may seem omnipresent, but Mr. Huang feels 'the battle of narratives' is being won by the critics. 'It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,' Mr. Huang said ..." cc @joshuaholland.bsky.social @ass.golf

Swiped from @jefftiedrich.bsky.social's "This Week in Stupid" www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-...

Timeline cleanse!

This is great news for Thomas Hendrix

Shots fired.

Sam is so math-phobic he won't even accept MONOTONIC. Grrr.

We need a name for the phenomenon where one's feed reaches the point of being more filled with posts complaining about the thing that's filling people's feeds than posts about the thing itself. Bonus: when those posts are dominated by people telling other people to STOP talking about the thing.

Am I ... back in the target demographic???

I've thought this many a time, but never so succinctly.

No cheating: your last saved pic of a celebrity is a therapist. Same.

Outstanding short thread. h/t Paul Campos/LGM via @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

Please stop saying "lean into".

PR team says "user error." Everyone else says the direct cause was something an agentic AI did. There arguments like "a human launched the AI", or "a human should have checked up on the AI" (before it broke everything), but let's be honest about how these tools are being sold in the first place.

Yeah, see, it's because that yuuuge boat sank that no one can get here. Who ya gonna trust, the Failing Radical Left NY Times, or one of Dear Leader's handpicked J6 Nazis?

How is it that he is still saying this? How has no one on his staff worked up the nerve to tell him?

Footnote of the Day (link in comments)

I see that this post has been deleted. Great! Thank you for listening, @baddestmamajama.bsky.social.

Weird, cause I think leaving up false posts smearing other people after you have been repeatedly informed is pretty damn unneighborly, @baddestmamajama.bsky.social.

"Well, what I would do, tell them to pay me but I'll give 100% of the money to charity," Trump said. Yeah. And if you believe that ... He is an amoral money-grubbing slob. That's all he is. That's all he's ever been. That's all he'll ever be. He's not going to stop until we stand up to him.

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What has even happened to the English language? Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is top trending, and no one on this site has said "assisting police in their inquiries" for more than two months.

Man, give it a rest. No you didn't. No you aren't. For others, see Wkp and @masnick.com's post: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_A... bsky.app/profile/masn... h/t @merovingians.bsky.social

This is amazing.

Good answer. I have long been of the mind that it's silly to argue against "platforming" these people. They already have big followings. Exposing them to the normies is a good thing: much more likely to be a counterweight than a boost.

"[Nick] Fuentes is someone I’ve been following for a long time because I’ve heard rumblings that young staffers in the administration are paying attention to him." From @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/the-intervie... Trigger warning: Clavicular is mentioned (mostly dismissively).

One more bit from the PK post: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...

Here's a hint: I'm so old, I once bought the argument that "money = free speech." I just thought all contributions should be public knowledge. Actual individuals' names. Not PAC and SuperPac bs.

And now for an exciting game of What Is This Chart Showing? Answer in ALT text and comments.

Don't anyone show this to anyone in the regime

Share an iconic album cover.

The stupid side of Bluesky You have probably heard me sneer at people who eagerly block people they've never engaged with, based solely on the say-so of someone else they don't know. Let's go further!

Reply of the day bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Man. This would be like, in this country, if, say, someone let all the J6ers out of pri--- Good news for Syria! Fresh recruits for the secret police now available at low starting salaries!

Whoa. Not just slaves, huh, but SUBSERVIENT slaves! (I wonder who he plagiarized that from?) www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso... h/t @wonkettemedia.bsky.social today's Tabs

In case you didn't actually want to watch the video, but had a morbid curiosity stimulated by some comment or other on this site, @evanhurst.substack.com is here with your summary!

Forget that high school MAGAt on Twitter. Let's kick it with the OG Spuds.

From the article: • 1% of the US population now controls just under a third of the wealth • The bottom HALF of the population? We, all of us, all together, control 2.5%. Not to go all quarter-pounder on you, but 1/3 >> 1/40. And 1/100 << 1/2.

"The risk is that the U.S. economy becomes increasingly dependent on a narrow group of very rich households, whose spending is tied to the performance of the stock market. This could mean the entire economy pays a steep price in the next market correction." Obvs, just one of many problems.

:D :D :D

I often talk about how the right is far better at long-range thinking. We hate their goals, obvs, but I insist that we have to respect their commitment. A banger from Roy @edroso.bsky.social on one aspect of this: the media.

This would be hilarious if it weren't so awful. But it's still pretty hilarious.

Smart thread. h/t @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

"All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited."