literally DOZENS of jobs!

Funny how the use of AI in newsrooms is completely aligned with The One Eternal Rule of Legacy Media Innovations, which is this: whatever the latest innovation is, it always involves the employment of fewer journalists.

If we’ve concluded that electric deregulation did not in fact unleash the mighty power of the market and lead us to a capitalist utopia then maybe we could just go back to a fully regulated market with transparency and accountability.

@effinbirds.com coming through big on a Friday when I really needed it.

What a time to be alive in Columbus, Ohio.

The overnight news brings fresh evidence that America is exceptional among developed nations in its inability and unwillingness to hold the powerful to account even in the most egregious cases. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

My theory is that we're here specifically because of this. That we have not lived through dictatorship and have no living memory of war within our territory, so we take our liberties for granted, and wrongly believe we'll get to keep them even if we vote criminals into office.

Oh look. There are countries where there is accountability, not impunity, for high-level misconduct. What a novel idea.

What are Elon and the rest leaving for us and our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids? Where are the libraries, literal or figurative, that will still be here 125 years from now?

It’s time we consider the possibility that our tech overlords do not have society’s best interests in mind and are instead a bunch of rapacious goobers.

“We are surrounded today by fictions about the past, contrary to common sense and to an elementary perception of good and evil.” -Czesław Miłosz

“[A]bout half of all 43 million federal student loan borrowers are ‘at risk.’" Translation: the system of paying for higher education in America is completely FUBAR and must be rebuilt from the ground up. College shouldn’t turn you into a debtor for life.

If you’re looking for the story of Trump’s America in a rancid nutshell, the Ballad of Don Colossus is a pretty good place to start.

Behold the culmination of the conservative legal movement: Pam Bondi, the result of decades of effort not to uncover and enforce the one, true Constitution but to produce an army of dead-eyed shitposters.

Erebor Bank, to be headquartered in Columbus, is the first bank to receive a national bank charter in Trump II. So for all of you pining for a Hobbit-themed, crypto-inspired bank backed by the degenerate billionaire class, your prayers have been answered.

What is Gov. DeWine going to do to protect Springfield’s Haitian community? Probably nothing. I’d love it if he proved me wrong.

How about instead of fiddling with Amazon’s robotaxis we tax Amazon and Jeff Bezos out of existence and let humans drive us around.

Populist Republicans once again delivering what real, God-fearing Americans in The Heartland most want: for Tesla, Amazon, Meta and Google to pay no income tax.

“In the long run . . . the working class remains the most reliable enemy of Fascism, simply because the working class stands to gain most by a decent reconstruction of society. Unlike other classes or categories, it can't be permanently bribed.” -George Orwell

“Fill up your mind with all it can know Don't forget that your body will let it all go Fill up your mind with all it can know What would we be without wishful thinking?” Wishful Thinking by Wilco

Thanks to Craig for providing a rundown of groups helping the Haitian community in Springfield.

If we want to dig out of this hole we've dug for ourselves, there needs to be a lot less impunity for rich white dudes acting despicably and a lot more frog-marching of those same dudes.

So, Ohio gets $70 per rural resident for health care, and Trump gets $10 billion for suffering no harm at all. The campaign ads write themselves.

We are free range now, we humans, or at least we Americans, out here in the universe, floating dimly, luxuriating in our stupidity as if we're the first people to exist.

If you’re in Columbus, consider making a stop at Shrum Mound. It’s a nice reminder, right there next to McKinley Avenue, that societies can and do collapse. Just a little something to put a spring in your step.

February is the Tuesday of months.

We killed the humanities and newspapers and surrendered ourselves to the algorithms and fever dreams of dipshit billionaire techbros and yet it’s still somehow surprising how dumb we’ve gotten.

How did we get so dumb? Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.

We’re going to see RFK Jr with anthropomorphized measles aren’t we

Now would be a great time for anyone left in the Ohio Republican Party with a moral core to push back against these disgusting lies about Springfield and the Haitians who moved there when no one else would.

I read some quotes recently from Gov DeWine trying to reassure citizens look we will do our best to protect everyone if Trump’s ICE ramps up in Springfield next month and it’s like buddy you’re the Republican governor

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said officials are preparing for a potential surge in immigration enforcement when thousands of Haitians in Springfield lose their legal status overnight. by Haley BeMiller www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Has anyone considered that all of the people who didn't buy Elon's dumb pickup truck are also not going to buy his dumb robots?

Flew on Southwest on its first day of seat assignments and can confirm air travel still sucks.

Time is running out to pick up a Trump/Northwestern backpack cooler. Donate today and STAND UP for a university that WON’T STAND UP FOR ITSELF.

The only way out now is through, and the only way through is on the side of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

It seems the Vanguard analysts pushing their 2026 forecast don’t want us to think about the chaos and costs of Trump II because thinking about those things would require us to conclude that a lot of things that we think about our economy and our country and ourselves are not actually true.

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If you can’t see that resisting this murderous regime is a moral necessity separate and distinct from politics as usual, then your politics are clouding your morality and preventing you from thinking and acting morally.

Impeding a LAWLESS INVASION isn’t a crime, and most certainly not a crime punishable by summary execution.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

mr president sir, im a lifelong conservative and im just wondering which deeply held belief of mine today you would like me to dump in the trash no questions asked to defend your dementia-fueled insanity sir? preferably something ive been incredibly vocal about my entire life

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

Vance marvels at how much more “chaotic” operations have been here compared to even LA and Chicago, “It is unique to this city. What is it about Minneapolis that it has become so chaotic?” Sir, maybe it is that you shot a woman in the face.”

What we’re doing is creating a world in which it’s much more likely that our kids and grandkids get shipped off to the types of wars that we spent the last 80 years trying to prevent from ever happening again.

The entire apparatus of our daily living is devoted to not acknowledging what we’re experiencing.

The world is shit but listening to some old Yo La Tengo makes it better. "Out of darkness you will come around, I know you will I know you will And I'll find you And I'll find you there"

It’s really quite simple. You step up to the microphone and you say: War with Europe is bad. Bonus points if you threaten consequences. You’ll be a hero and praised for your courage until the end of time.