characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Nicknames don't bother me but "I would never go there - too dangerous" will get you a LECTURE from me.

I am mostly joking when I say that there should be criminal consequences for, in 2026, casually asserting that the Supreme Court's "larger project" is "reining in the power of the presidency and making the president more politically accountable" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

yeah the world is a tire fire, but look at this dog

This is why it is an important political project to force lawyers, bankers and tech bros to work fewer hours. They *will* make a lot of money, and then use that money to influence politics, and influence it for the worse because, having never had the time to read a book, they are stupid and evil

The tariffs decision shows that the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence remains flexible enough to stop Trump’s financial fuckery, or anything else that enough conservatives don’t like ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

[“I’ve always had at least one cat. At the moment I have seven. I love them dearly, but I sometimes feel they're largely an irritation, and I seem to spend most of my time screaming at them not to do things, not that it does any good.” —Edward Gorey, born on this day 101 years ago]

This one hits hard.

Counterpoint - I'm grown and I'll do what I want with my money

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One reason I’ve shrugged off all the GaViN nEwSoMe Is tHe FrOnTrUnNeR takes is that Pritzker just so obviously outclasses him. I’m not saying it’ll definitely be Pritzker, but I think I’ll say that there’s no chance GAVIN manages to outmaneuver him.

Imagine thinking that the systematic abuse and exploitation of many girls and young women is "boring." Imagine being that dead inside.

Don’t look away. The conditions people are being held in - sometimes for months, often with no due process, overwhelmingly with no criminal convictions - in the U.S. are horrific. These are, by definition, concentration camps. Torturous conditions against all legal & moral standards. Appalling.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration. even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

got a piece on the IL Senate race coming tomorrow; sign up and it'll be in your inbox in the morning, whoosh. open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

Laura Fine is a state senator. People on Bsky may disagree with their specific positions, fine, but they are known to voters. People can see their actual records because they've lived and served here for years. So it's not - "born and raised" that I hear, it's "lived and served" in the area. 2/2

::deep sigh:: IL-9 resident here weighing in on this cursed discourse. The perception here is about Kat *compared to other well-qualified and known candidates.* Kat isn't running against Chuck Schumer 2.0 or a complete unknown. For example, Daniel Biss is the mayor of Evanston. 1/2

Resistance infrastructure.

Eleanor and Chidi.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

James Van Der Beek, who has been battling cancer, has died. He was 48. Per TMZ.

"But we still have time to work them out to avoid the two outcomes I fear most: a technology that manipulates the people who use it at no cost, and one that exclusively benefits the few who can afford to use it." - former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

This is my kind of motivational speaker

Was this study done exclusively on my dad and his friends?

MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

Concentration camps

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

this Super Bowl is conducting a mass psychological test: what does it take to make NFL fans feel even an inkling of empathy for the Patriots

I’m new to football, is only one of the teams allowed to score?

Whoa! Longtime conservative columnist, professional Dem hater, and spittle-flecked Obama/Biden critic Andrew McCarthy has a new piece in National Review ... absolutely taking Trump to task for corruption. Openly acknowledging it's far worse than anything Biden was even accused of.

who called it the Puppy Bowl and not the World Pup

One of my unshakeable opinions is that the national anthem should be “America the Beautiful.”

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Yet another example of the massive failure of elite accountability in our current era. Owning up to your role in upending the lives of hundreds of people is quite literally the least he could do, and he won't even do that. Pathetic.

The Trump effect.