Cats may hold clues for human cancer treatment. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN says siege at el-Fasher shows evidence of genocide

The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.

yeah I’m starting to think that the political strategy of “make every single person who hates your fucking guts join the increasingly robust and deeply connected networks of organizing that sprawl not just entire metros but now span across the entire country” might not have been the smartest move

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Sister Ray by the Velvet Underground and send everyone deranged.

It never really made sense for many of you to so readily and reflexively view Liz Cheney’s endorsement of Harris as “Harris moving right” as opposed to “Cheney moving left” and taking a moment to question why the influencers you follow framed it that way for you would benefit your mental health.

Not to detract from the point here but a writer in residence named Francine Prose? The production team are really running out of ideas

Yes.

The art is to have a couple of meetings with people to justify this nonsense.

What had big jaws and hooves? Let me tell you about Andrewsarchus. 🧪

Forbes 30 Under 30 remains undefeated

we need to launch a new republic movement that isnt run by rich old white conservative men, we're never getting a republic at this rate

doug burgum ordering interior staff to bake him cookies and make sure they’re warm when they bring them to him almost seems quaint compared to ten months later. it will also get worse.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

Laughing at this because it literally says at the bottom that it’s not from the Black Panthers, it’s from the New American movement, one of the ancestors of the DSA. It’s not wrong, but I think some people think the Black Panthers are just anything they agree with.

20 February 1883 | Jewish man, Max Löbl, was born in Gerkau (then Germany, today part of Sobótka in Poland). In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941 No. 24263 He perished in the camp on 17 December 1941. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

It was only a matter of time before poor budgeting choices and corruption while systematically denying the realities of the economy caused the ruling party of [insert country/state/province here] to place the blame on foreigners.

The blogosphere + Google Reader was Good, Actually

The reason you run a candidate that dems like is to stimulate demand for pro-dem propaganda that breaks out of dem spaces. It's the Obama model. It's the Trump model. It works

@actualnames.bsky.social? A very twisted one.

the republican party and it’s compulsive vice worship and rejection of virtue is primed and well tuned to turn out wesley dinguses

there is a whole ton of low-hanging fruit for prison reform in the United States - like, literally just getting rid of policies that exist for no other reason than cruelty - and we should get those done first.

the thing about the Olympics is that they combine one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and also pure joy.

This really is a great picture:

it's still incredibly funny to me that Vladimir Putin went on stage and said he was being cancelled like JK Rowling during the start of the war

It'd be interesting to see the training materials. A significant part of the permanent exhibition at the SJM is the harm that Australia did during the Nazi period by turning away refugees, which seems like a thing that immigration officers would benefit from knowing

It is always fascinating how the American founding mythos blames the King for Parliament's actions

to paraphrase DeGaulle, india is a big country inhabited by many indians

Erubescency [er-uh-BESS-uhn-see] (n.) - A blushing for shame; an uneasiness of mind for fear of loss of reputation. Used in a sentence: “His boast, so confident a moment before, dissolved into erubescency beneath the cool, surgical gaze of the assembled ladies.”

From me: The architect of the Robodebt scheme, who was told it was unlawful even as he delivered it for the government, is still employed in the public service, now at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. And in a senior governance and risk role. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...

Also, note how easy it is to correctly report the role of Renée Leon 'whom the royal commission found misled the Commonwealth Ombudsman and oversaw an “excessive” delay in securing legal advice from the Solicitor-General'.

Using the Office of Naval Intelligence to carry out proto-Watergate is... something.

"US and Japan had less contact with each other and knew less about each other than any other combatant in history" i am going to turn into the japanese history joker

many very smart people have proposed the running out of goons theory

the real hot take is that democrats are the actual party of capitalism (complimentary) but neither capital nor democrats want to acknowledge that for reasons that have nothing to do with economics in either case

I am surprised Janan Ganesh would write this. If you spend much time reading about 1930s fascism it quickly becomes very clear that those movements were in this sense equally “unserious” and “regarded politics as just a smashing indoor sport”.

We asked the party leaders for their reaction to Andrew’s arrest Keir Starmer: Morgan, how should I respond? Wait, shit, he’s not here anymore Sanae Takaichi: Why the fuck am I still here? Kemi Badenoch: My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive

Unrelated, but Infantino was the source of a massive political scandal in Lebanon when the Lebanese government tried to give him Lebanese citizenship to celebrate his visit, something that Lebanese mothers cannot even give to their own kids due to archaic laws.

Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.

Yes. As a capitalism-sympathetic social democrat, I believe we have a duty to markets to ensure money can act as a disciplinary measure. We have literally reached the fail state of money. Elon can lose 90% of his wealth and functionally lose no practical value. We broke the invisible hand.

i jokingly referred to popularism as "the organizational structure of Leninist democratic centralism as adopted for centrism" but it's becoming more and more true: a lot of these people have views that there is a top-down centrist political settlement that must be enforced on all candidates

All you need to do is stop making higher education cost more than the downpayment for a 3 bedroom house and thus stop turning sporting ability by children into their one shot to get a college education because like 5% of ppl can even afford one and this will mostly self correct I suspect

President Milei tweets a slogan that he meant to be a play on words meaning "Milei doesnt support the [General] Strike" But written in a way that literally means; "Milei cannot get an erection" Help. I cant breathe 😅

The Hungarian government, cited as direct ideological inspiration by the Trump admin, allowed neo-Nazis to march in SS uniforms last weekend - but banned a Holocaust survivor from giving a speech warning about fascism in response. www.errc.org/news/budapes...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02....

i think about this chart all the time today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.