“The husband & wife before this court are charged w/civil violations of our country's immigration laws. Civil. Not criminal. That distinction is not a technicality or a formality. It’s the line the law draws betwn regulation & punishment. Yet these working parents appear in unmistakable prison garb.

I often think it's a tragedy that I don't have a Fortuny gown, and this one would be perfect. #gimme

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

But you do pay to go to church! It's called a tithe or the passing of the plate. Everything costs money to operate and if you're not paying you need to know where the money is coming from before you trust it.

Don't Trust The B is my favorite comfort rewatch. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend.

sigh

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

DANG IT

A member of Muses was on our flight, and she got welcomed home in style. bsky.app/profile/jayb...

Colonised. Hm. What a fascinating word choice.

Of the 52 million jobs created in America since 1989, 51 million, 97%, have been created under Dem Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/

Rare disclosure alert. My partner saw me arguing with men and sent me this to refocus my attention. Truly, not marrying an idiot is absolutely a huge improvement on my past behavior. Huge. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/04...

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

This is a great article about how AI effects small independent media outlets. It’s also way more informative about how the US issues social security numbers than you would expect any article about AI to be.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

You can tell how the world has been going, because I stepped off the plane in New Orleans, heard a brass band, and started to cry. Joyful catharsis, God yes please.

New Orleans I am in you!

Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens

Boarding for NOLA! Marfie Gras is nigh!

Fun fact, eating buckthorn can turn wild bunny pee blue, so now the kids and I don't go on exercise walks we go on the hunt for blue piss

hi folks! @sesmith.lol, @andreagrimes.com, @theflytrapmedia.com, @louisathelast.bsky.social, @tekla.bsky.social and I are hashing out plans for a FUN AS HELL mutual aid fundraiser event to stream during the State of the Union (to save you watching it). we are in search of a few intrepid volunteers!

Feeling stressed? Badly draw a horse and then watch your badly drawn horse run with other badly drawn horses 💜

It's time to start socially shaming everyone who places bets on Kalshi and Polymarket. Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

How am I supposed to explain 'from New Jersey' to the children?

I have yelled HAIR DRYER four times, but I have not packed my hair dryer.

what if we kissed while singing little tunes from the 15th century heart shaped book of french love songs ?

An (increasingly rare) makeup/skincare skeet: my old foundation was disco’ed and I made the switch to About Face and boy howdy: if you’re a fair olive complexion they are the brand to beat for shade matches, 12/10

Braver than all of dhs combined

With the new movie about to come out, I wrote about whether Wuthering Heights is a) a romance or b) romantic for @aunz.theconversation.com .

Who needs a "lil guy" to help the mood? I love this lil guy!

There's a Berber band in Oakland that slaaaaaaaaaps. They would kill at the Super Bowl.

time for the periodic Gav values-alignment —don’t get carried away

they found the seal that calls people gay

All I want is a pairs skate with the man dressed in drag as Louisa from Encanto and the woman dressed as one of the donkeys during “Under Pressure”

‘The Talking Cloth’ by Frances Featherstone is a masterclass in painting textiles and fabric! I’m just obsessed with how wonderfully cozy this looks! #art #beautifulbizarre #francesfeatherstone #realism #contemporaryart #figurativeart

This piece is so wonderful, but this part made me cry a little bit not gonna lie

I understand why we keep emphasizing that Bezos had the money to keep the Washington Post a real newspaper -- it is indeed obscene how easily he could float it in addition to other expendatures -- but I sort of worry that people are missing the actual horror of what happened here

A word of warning to us all as he floats buying Condé Nast.

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

SF teachers strike, day 2:

Simple, really. To create good art you need to have empathy for other people.

I thought this Tyrannosaurus would be the best Saint Paul curler I’d see today, but I was wrong.

this post has a ton of quote tweets claiming american pop culture was actually never influential. bluesky moment.

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

My family is all in Tennessee, and my mama has made it abundantly clear she just wants 10 minutes alone with Andy Ogles. To...discuss their differences of opinion.

Let's just stop with the "I deeply regrets" when you're caught in the Epstein files. You only regret that you got caught. We're not stupid, you perverts.

This is a threat delivered by King David! He’s saying he’ll slaughter every “wall pisser” among Naval’s house! Translating it “male” removes all the profanity & aggression! Yet the King James Bible is the only one I’ve found that translates this literally! My edition of Koren puts it in a footnote.

Guys. Guys. In 1 Sam 25:22, there’s a term that gets translated as “male,” But the Hebrew literally says משתּין בּקיר, (mashtin b’kir) which literally means “one who urinates on the wall.” #Hebrew #Torah #Jewish #Bible