Because none of that stuff -- other than voting -- is a right guaranteed to all citizens in the United States Constitution. You useless, hollow shitheel hack of a lying politician.

Honest to God network of concentration camps being built with firsthand accounts describing utter squalor inside and the best schumer can do is "Oh you no good Republicans better agree to our nothing reform proposals or you're gonna look really silly!"

I strongly agree. There’s nothing extreme about trying not to get a virus when your livelihood and goals depend on your mental physical performance. Do better, @pbsnews.org .

i’m unable to reply to this person‘s post, but I want to say N95s do protect against measles if they fit. They’re not perfect, but they work much better than baggy blue medical masks. Which by the way, don’t do a whole lot against Covid either, and that’s maybe what the article was referring to.

This failure of imagination and vision severely afflicts criminal justice policy as well. Believe it or not; we can have both safety AND justice.

We should really refuse to use the sanitized term “detention camps.” These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.

Did a newsletter today about books I think everyone should read if they are serious about understanding how 2024 happened and why. "Perhaps the most influential text for me in understanding the American political moment was Vaughn Rasberry’s Race and the Totalitarian Century" #BookSky

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

so much of my writing & research is combating the idea that only the known/celebrated is worthy is being known it's why i advocate so hard for folks to research their own families/communities to amplify stories and regional (often overlooked) culture

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

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Read Morgan Gold, a Vermont farmer and political cartoonist who refuses to "stick to farming." morgangold.substack.com/p/because-th...

Thrilled to stand alongside New York’s Cutest to announce our new request for information for 2-K and 3-K providers. This is the first step toward universal childcare, so I brought in the experts.

Yes. I went to one game in my undergrad in Michigan, but my heart literally lurched each time someone took a hit. I could never sit through the games on tv, even.

This is the thing the cultural commodity spectacle of Super Bowl Sunday requires we bracket: the sport is predicated on human sacrifice. The players you watch today are being killed in front you, slowly, whether it looks like it or not. And the NFL can only get away with it because *we* watch.

if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

If a concentration camp is being built near you, fight it with every NIMBY tool in the shed. For starters.

While they’re at it, I hope they contribute to their local independent news outlet. There are still print newspapers out there, fighting the good fight, waiting to be rediscovered like vinyl records.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

Awkward for everyone on Substack... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

the worst human art is still better than any AI art

ICE mobile app scans protester's face, revokes her TSA PreCheck status www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

@nytimes Would it kill you to say, accurately, “Her Spouse” or “Her Wife”? Othering this couple in a headline is not the move. One Month After Renee Good’s Killing, Her Partner Makes First Public Appearance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Here's what the boys who "would have" perfectly controlled COVID have delivered us now that they have power and the opportunity to prove their competence in the real-world. abcnews.go.com/Health/us-se...

Every American needs to watch this:

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

I haven't stopped thinking about this SNL sketch. Not only hilarious, but so relevant. I hope it's happening across America.

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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

there didn't need to be much of a conspiracy with epstein because as a culture we mostly don't care about the safety of children. 1

I can't stop listening to Ben Palmer troll racists who want to get people deported: a kindergartener's family, a neighbor, a Publix employee. The sick motivated reasoning and affronted outrage oozing from the white women on these calls...This is what the 53% sounds like.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

I'm just a shitlib but i think there's a lot of evidence at this point that this level of concentrated wealth is incompatible with democracy

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

There was (and remains) a real journalistic opening for a super-robust news operation that isn't doing false equivalence. That's what's needed in the Trump era. That could have been the Post. Except its owner doesn't want that. newrepublic.com/article/2061...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

Other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇩🇪🇸🇪