I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

From the Dumb Runner Comics Vault:

The year is 2137. Earth's three remaining creatures fight over a scrap of ragweed in what was, before The Event, a Best Buy parking lot. Realizing the he will lose, Creature 3 turns to his diary. "The Atlantic: President Trump, softer tone?" he writes. These are the last word's written on Earth 1.

Hey, NYT! I fixed your headline. Do better next time.

“Oh you like that sentence? Well, replace all the words with different words. Doesn’t seems like such a great sentence now, does it?”

Put the next No Kings protest on your calendar today. It's March 28. Bring your family and friends. It's a way to express our disgust with Trump, and it's also a rehearsal for the even more massive protest ahead if Republicans dare try to cancel or steal the midterms. People power > fascism.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Frog and Toad Together

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

Jim's writing is always the gold standard for State of the Union address analysis! Read his tips on what to listen for Tuesday night @jfallows.bsky.social

“Trump doesn’t like reading from scripts and prompters, and is comically bad at it. “When sticking to a script, he will offer commentary — ‘You know, that’s so true’ — after reading a line he is obviously seeing for the first time.”

The whole "leftist ideals are naive" branch of argument is so funny to me cos pretty much all the things leftists vocally call for are things being done in other countries, and actually work. M4A, gun control, education over military/police, so on.

The quickness with which she pulled the mic back after he kept going after private equity

Paint isn't protection! "Even worse, most Americans see these terrible lanes and think, "I'd be crazy to ride a bike" — and the cycle continues." usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/23/s...

Beware of a political party that is more focused on keeping people from voting than winning their vote.

From the Dumb Runner Comics Vault:

Please shoot me.

Yeah so the last thing I needed on a cold and blustery bike commute in this morning was a literal monster truck parked in the bike lane on Church. Stop the cosplay bro, you’re getting a croissant at Paris Baguette in downtown Nashville not working on a cattle ranch 🤡

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

YES!

Wow says here the success of the left hinges on a random person’s post.

I resent the pivot to video so much. I do not want to become an "on air personality." I do not want to boil everything down into little pithy viral slogans. I don't want to worry about my f'ing hair. I hate it all. Hate it.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

Another Dumb Runner EXCLUSIVE:

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

20+ years ago, I did a long article based on a simulated Pentagon "war game." Topic: how things might go if US decided: Hey, we've already invaded Iraq, why not Iran too? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Some of the details have changed. Not the main point: WHAT THE HELL, ARE YOU CRAZY??

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

From the Dumb Runner Comics Vault:

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Please stop telling me how these guys are geniuses when every interview with them sounds like a 12-year-old who was held back a grade.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

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Great.

Bluesky has the juice

Toad was lying in bed. He had pulled all the covers over his head.