Nobody who is remotely acquainted with the federal budget would say something this ridiculous. It’s the free-lunch fantasy that you can balance the books by targeting “waste & fraud” rather than making hard choices that will be politically unpopular.

it is incredible to see folks complain that good people don't run for office, that lawmaking is a hobby for the rich, that our state legislators are run by car dealership freaks, and then insist that we shouldn't pay lawmakers any more than we do.

Tennessee Republicans have spent their entire time in power working to further disenfranchise and claw back every piece of political power and representation Black Tennesseans have gained. This is the current pinnacle but know that they will keep going until they have reinstated Jim Crow in full.

The Republican Party is a party of Confederate traitors and should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Cartoonist Ellie Black finds Pokopia's take on gender refreshing, and maybe even healing, in the site's first ever illustrated essay: www.mothership.blog/pokopia-is-m...

Oh I would recognize that vinh long stew ANYWHERE

Once more, with feeling www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

Thinking, as I often do, about this missileer's dilemma as drawn by Emil Friis Ernst thenib.com/how-we-nuke/

Getting John Hodgman and Justin Long back together for an "I'm Ozempic"/"I'm other GLP-1s" commercial is a great example of how there are no highly esteemed deeds commemorated here, nothing valued is here, and what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us

Phil has the videos Kid Rock posted. Why did two military helicopters buzz the No Kings protest in Nashville today, then pay tribute to Kid Rick at his home?

ngl I like this pope

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

i was a full adult when tsa started and watched people get numb/accustomed to having them there in real time … we cannot let this happen with ice. all kinds of sky cops are bad and also this is a definite escalation

This is incomplete because they are IAH, George Bush Houston Airport, as well

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike. Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes. ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Happy 'entering the town of Twin Peaks' day to those that celebrate 🥳

"Popularism is a politics for people who have given up on persuasion, argument, and intersubjectivity" Yes yes yes!!!

The GWB swing explains so much about the millennial political experience

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

@tnimmigrant.bsky.social sharing the call for a remote candlelit vigil.

Tonight, shine a light for Minnesota.

okay definitely never expected my alma mater to be college football champs literally ever

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

Make no mistake, 2001-2005 was awful, but yes, this moment is so much worse.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

we in this country (and, I'd argue, the world, but I'm not here to argue tonight) are challenged to make of our present situation something better. it's a tall order

you have done it before, squared the smooth circle, navigated the hard corner, slipped through and lived to see another day

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

We’re gonna win.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...