A supurb daily TFN to get up entirely up to date + high-end chuckles! via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thefucki....

Better late than never: Last night (after a 17-year run), I finally deleted the X/Twitter app, for good This column explains why and questions the sanity of a world where Elon Musk can egg on a race riot on Tuesday, then become a trillionaire on Friday www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...

Wouldn’t Conway do less of this essential work if he were in Congress?

Awesome example of how you can create pro-social norms in crowds!

Some big media outlets are blocking the Internet Archive from making backups of their sites. That's a serious problem. You can learn more—and sign a petition—here:

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today. Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.

Interesting facts about opossums.

Trump’s Freedom 250 Trucks Falsely Claim Muhammad Ali Disavowed Islam open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

Patti Smith @michaelstipe.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net & friends at the @democracynow.org 30th Anniv Special🤘❤️‍🔥 +Hurray for the Riff Raff! The power to dream to rule to wrestle the world from fools… it’s decreed the people rule people have the power… we have the power youtu.be/71TCH5keclE?...

These are fighters rehearsing walkouts for tomorrow (UFC) They’re exiting Blue Room — space to receive foreign leaders since Madison admin. They exit to South Portico balcony that hosted FDR’s 1945 WWII Address, Carter's 1979 solar panel energy dedication, speeches for Pope Benedict XVI & Francis.

Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

This is horrific. Ramsey County Sheriff should resign. White folks you gotta allow Black children to exist in public. This is a sickness. This was Columbia Heights graduation ceremony held in Maplewood Earl this week.

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks announced last week that Lilly is a “proud participant” in Trump’s Freedom 250 hijack of America’s birthday celebration. I have asked Lilly to provide details of its participation agreement with Trump’s Freedom 250.

even from a purely realist perspective, ambitious politicians should be trying to outdo each other on prosecuting ICE and the like. life pitching this one at you underhand

It's been 55 years since Milton Friedman - cursed be his name - published his *NYT* editorial, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits," inventing "shareholder supremacy" out of whole cloth, declaring it a universal, inarguable truth: www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/a... 1/

“Read me!” It’s right, read it! via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...

it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

"Protect our women" is absolutely meaningless when the people saying it align with those who mug 80 year olds; run women down in the street and drive away; and punch their girlfriends unconscious Meet the Southampton "patriots" open.substack.com/pub/anothera...

Remember when mosquitos were everywhere, especially in the summer evenings? Bugs and birds and critters everywhere. My granddaughters are freaked out by everything living thing that's small, tiny, it flies. They think it's weird to see them. All their friends are too

My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 10/

OMG

Was wearing my “war on cars” shirt earlier today, so what if we go for the _really_ unpopular opinion — people who don’t want to share a road with bikers… no longer get to share a road with bikers. We can give you exactly what you’re asking for. How about no “bike” lanes at all, just “lanes”.

In fact, the anti-Dem propaganda has been so relentless & ubiquitous that it has *convinced many Democrats*. This is the bizarre thing you see in DC circles: Democrats encouraging one another to stop being what right-wing media falsely says they are! They've convinced Dems to hate themselves!

Watch my sobering discussion with @gillianbrockell.com about 'ICE Air,' and the companies that profit from shuttling shackled immigrant detainees across the country, and/or participate in deporting them to dangerous third countries liks South Sudan.

This is how stupid they are.

This thread is amazing; over the course of a half-hour this price has reduced pretty steadily by roughly one percent every four minutes, meaning it should be opening at $0 by close of business.

The Homeland (sic) Security is bragging about cracking down on something that's not a crime and is actually a constitutional right he swore to uphold. Seems impeachable.

Yesterday, Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman posted a video on LinkedIn saying: “Nasdaq is a proud participant in Freedom 250." I have reached out to Nasdaq asking for details, including any financial agreements, surrounding the the company's participation in Trump's Freedom 250. #$NDAQ

Imagine posting an explanation of how you were not good at your job.

Trump has managed to get Iran and Israel to agree on something.

So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...

Election-Riggers Slip Past Trump to Capture Los Angeles open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...? r=dworw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Election-Riggers Slip Past Trump to Capture Los Angeles open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... "FBI Director Kash Patel, who failed to stop unidentified thieves from stealing off with Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday the way he failed to stop the theft of Savannah Guthrie’s mom." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Trump's 250th-anniversary museum trucks, built with PragerU & Hillsdale, are rolling into schools with a display claiming Muhammad Ali 'disavowed' Islam. He didn't. He was a devout Muslim until the day he died. Jonathan Larsen broke this. No one else is talking about it. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

1. Reminder: For the election fraud conspiracy theories being spread about Los Angeles to be true, there would have to be a vast and complex scheme involving hundreds of people in some cases and many thousands of people in others.

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

The Post corrected this quickly, but it makes you wonder what their inputs were. Raman didn't concede. Her full speech was on C-Span, 12 minutes, easy fact check. The "she cried bc she lost" stuff was entirely RW X/YouTube chatter.

They're calling it an IPO because they're not legally allowed to put up a banner reading HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD A BAG, YOU BIG FUCKING IDIOT

It's not enough to condemn the mistreatment of migrants or violence against them. Democrats in the US and Labour in the UK need to embrace immigration as welcome and necessary. Change the narrative.

I was in my first year of college in 1989 and we were all crowded around a teeny black and white TV this one dude owned, watching Germans hack apart the Wall, and remembering their joy and glee is the one reason I sometimes think, fuck it, let him build, we can have our own Mauer demolition.

New: The Shapiro administration confirmed that some of its conversations with Amazon about data centers have been covered by a non-disclosure agreement, after radio program Allegheny Front followed up on my reporting. Listen to our full conversation about the Shapiro admin and Amazon.

Musk fomenting violent race riots in Northern Ireland should have everyone to the left of Reagan fleeing the platform he owns and directly controls but they've already excused so much more, they've abdicated their capacity for moral indignation and disgust

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

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