Me to my Korean friends as I watch their democracy succeeding at punishing an insurrection while our own failed miserably to do so:

If we were a serious country we’d have been having a national conversation about this impending war for nearly 2 months now.

Most corrupt admin in my lifetime.

One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.

Most Corrupt Court in at least a century.

This is an administration where when they complain about "the deep state" they usually mean someone who said "uh, this seems pretty illegal"

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

he has rediscovered its true purpose

Ziblatt (2017)

I heard about this shooting a few blocks away but had no idea she was 18(!).

Russia's war effort is unsustainable. That's an overarching, sometimes underrated, fact of the war. Economy strained beyond capacity, and signs of growing problems. Doesn't mean it's about to collapse. Doesn't mean we know when it'll break. But enough time failing to conquer Ukraine, and it will.

Again, "politics as consumerism" brain is a disease. This is such a narcissistic way of thinking about what voting is and it comes directly from treating the whole process as no different than deciding whether or not youre gonna shop at Target

37 of 40. All kinds of things folks wanted for years. Biden did them, tried to do them, did the 80% of them he could get past the Senate or SCOTUS, etc. And neither he nor The Democrats got any credit for it. The same “they’re just a center-right party” nonsense people said in 1995, 2005, 2015, etc.

we live in this weird trifecta: - at no time before has it been easier to research and validate a claim, rumor, etc - at no time before has it been easier to spin up a fake claim, rumor, etc (and people know this) - most people still believe the fake claim or rumor without attempting to validate

“Stop, or I’ll yell stop another 4,400 times again” is not (only) a legal/judicial/Article III problem. It’s the total failure of Article I. The constitutional order is completely non-functional right now.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

@realjakebroe.bsky.social looks like confirmation they are not making 6 flamingo’s per day. bsky.app/profile/anto...

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Coudln’t just wait for GTA 6 to come out huh?

NEW: Minnesota United CSO Khaled El-Ahmad on adding James Rodriguez to “evolve the culture,” a late-winter surprise in a “mentally tough” moment amidst Metro Surge. “This is the right place for him because of the community, how we stand up for each other.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It is literally zero surprise that they knew their hand-picked climate deniers weren’t putting out real science. Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.

NZ shorebird and seabird thread. I'm going to go ahead and post some shots before carefully editing and sorting; I'm already falling hopelessly behind. Let's start with a variable oystercatcher chick and parent. 🪶

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Like it or not, America is a load-bearing pillar of the global economy and handing power over to a bunch of people who value online grifters over scientists has dire consequences. They should be trying Vinay Prasad and RFK Jr. at The Hague.

"I have a WW1 trench knife embedded in my bedroom wall just in case. 1917 edition. More useful than a gun in close quarters."

The Green Revolution is unstoppable now. Tons of hard work ahead but IMO the winds are now at our back.

The media has moved on but the assault on the state of Minnesota continues. Small towns, medium, and in both of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul—where this incident happened.

Are we sure this is not satire? Like birds aren’t real or something?

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

Once when I was young I wondered why we had some silly old laws like “illegal to conceal 6ft long gun”. Now I understand why some weird hyper specific laws exist.

In the past, a president intervening in a foreign‑funded infrastructure project to protect a politically connected private monopoly would likely trigger sustained investigations, congressional hearings, and front‑page coverage as a potential abuse of power. www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/342...

This is fucking WILD!

It's really not that bad. Drink your fake gatorade and you are out cold during the procedure. Cancer has taken a surprising number of my friends and tried to get my BIL just this year (he just got the all clear a week ago). Seeing the doctor is nothing compared to dying. Do it.

It's a travesty we are betraying Ukraine and implicitly other allies such as Taiwan. We should be providing at least 50B+ in military and humanitarian aid.

High-speed car chase involving federal agent ended with multi-car crash at Nina’s in St. Paul.

More details emerged of the terrible Russian strike on Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region. A whole family gone, pregnant mom in hospital with multiple injuries. The family was trapped under the rubble after the Russian strike. Dad, two toddler boys and a little girl killed by Russian terrorism.

‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up I'm gifting this article.

I'm not saying the back-to-back government shutdowns are impacting me financially, I'm just saying I haven't eaten mac & cheese for dinner this many times in a single week since I was an undergrad.

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

#IranProtests: After Deadly Repression, Regime Arrests Leading Activists #Iran eaworldview.com/2026/02/iran...

Just totally gone from the news. Like every other presidency-ending thing since 2017. Incredible object impermanence, only for him, the One Special Boy.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:

In the last two or so days I’ve gotten about two dozen scam “give money to people in Gaza” follows. Getting way out of control.

Playing politics with disaster relief funding is a new low, even for the Trump Administration. Let’s call it for what it really is: a politically motivated decision that punishes thousands of Illinois families in a critical moment of need.

RFK Jr. has been pushing anti-vax conspiracies for decades, so it's ABSURD to see his colleagues try to pretend that he's actually been pro-vaccines. And this measles outbreak isn't just on RFK Jr.—it's on everyone who enables his dangerous grift.

Rammstein - Sonne

“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...