So sick of stupid f*cking people who refuse to grasp the fact that the Constitution doesn't apply exclusively to American citizens, but to every person within the U.S. And they bask in the arrogance of ignorance. Is it any wonder that it's hard not to hate them.

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

I was inspired this year to write the following haiku after the storm sharing narrow shoveled sidewalks with neighbors

The fascist wants you to feel “how can it be possible for such a clown to have the powers of a monster-god” and it is your duty, privilege, and joy to instead feel “this fuckin’ clown thinks he’s a monster-god.”

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

from Columbus to Calhoun

I think it's likely that LLMs consolidate more jobs than it replaces in tech. like, I know AI will not be able to fully replace my role as a data analyst, because it requires trust. see below, woof. building that trust is extra cost to adoption

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com

neat

what do we gotta do to get embed to work always. who needs to get in a room and hash it out? there's gotta be a protocol or something that solves this bc I can't keep coming to the group chat with my bare links out. it's embarrassing

it is so genuinely refreshing to read quality journalism on a worthwhile subject

i'm slaying this week

It will very much be worth your time to read this.

Two related but different things; Yimby is an activist movement that has a lot of hooks in elite discourse but was buttressed by on the ground action. Abundance was an effort to use the success of YIMBY to translate into a larger elite persuasion project.

Oh CBP has lasers now

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began. However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

we are going to win

The Cambridge City Council unanimously voted in support of a policy order that could bar any sworn federal immigration agent from being employed by the Cambridge Police Department. Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

to the white hispanics: you will never be white to them. look, they dismiss you into the same invader group as muslims. this, the perverse legacy of the confederacy, is the America who you've lain with

"There is an old saying... that whoso the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. The Slave Oligarchy is mad, and their overflowing madness runs through every agent and tool... I rejoice to believe that there is unmistakable evidence of that madness which precedes a fall."

we take those

Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.

“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

The vibe of the Halftime Show

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

in winter, snow will accompany you in spring, crocuses bloom in summer, a refreshing breeze in autumn, a harvest moon if useless things do not hang in your mind any season is a good season for you

coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road

Massachusetts is not defenseless. Know your rights. Memorize them. Share them.   A message from my office, @markey.senate.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, @mayorwu.boston.gov, @pressley.house.gov, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @repmcgovern.bsky.social, and @trahan.house.gov.

this is where i'm at, the Senate caucus is inching to the left but it needs bigger shakeups and she'd definitely be one of them she can, of course, do both of these things, and run for president in 2036

this gerrymandering is completely unfair and antidemocratic and I'm so goddam glad we're finally doing it. *and also* I yearn for the day we can actually mutually disarm it

This is such a good read, @aaronrosspowell.com !

Remarkable performance.

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

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no bread nor circuses

The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Seen in SF Bay area:

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

RIP to everyone driven mad by the stancilnomicon but I’m fine. Better than fine even. I can read more. Can’t stop reading. Can’t stop reading or the stars will go out keep reading

i guess, fundamentally, i am just anti-crank. if your position is that normal, everyday people getting out into the streets to protest in the tens of thousands are doing it wrong, you’re a crank, and i assume you believe a lot of other crank shit i don’t care about.