Pete Hegseth says Iran’s leaders are “desperate and hiding.” So… who’s this walking around Tehran? Sign up for more unfiltered journalism: zeteo.com/subscribe!

BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes. The bill passed 89-10.

Trans queer comedian Hayden Johnson is on the show this week and helped us answer a caller's question from a trans person struggling to find empathy for cis people. Hayden reminds us that we all suffer at the hands of misogyny in different ways. On this week's Savage.Love/Lovecast! Out tomorrow!

Audiobooks with overly dramatic, excessive pauses with breathy voices... the "female Shatner" is the only term I can think up.

This guy gets it.

We cannot adopt the language of MAGA extremists who in the last year are actively seeking to roll back the rights of women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and marginalized communities on the basis of what they assert is ‘culturally normal.’ LGBTQ Caucus statement: lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/node/218

I’ve been obsessed with this band for over a week now. They’re a Quebecois duo that’s skyrocketing into viral fame following this virtuosic KEXP performance which released on February 5. They’re a great reminder that artistic weirdness can be magic.

The Supreme Court:

The enshittification continues: CVS pharmacy has a stupid AI doing refills now. No longer simply type RX#, now I have to get their machine to listen to my voice. I'm screaming "REFILL REFILL REFILL". CVS clearly hates people.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

youtu.be/DRURdXNW3A4?... Stop them

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

If we don’t get out of this, the tragedy won’t be that evil people managed to end the America experiment. It will be that such unimaginably stupid evil people managed to end the American experiment.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country. Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them. Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

Dreams and Mycelium: Mapping the Endless Network of Existence thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dreams-and-m... #Ancestry #Dreams #Ecology #Freud #Fungus #Humans #Mushrooms #Network #Psychoanalysis via @mitpress.bsky.social

So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this. And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either. We're all agree on that, right?

National Guard Shooting Suspect’s Secret CIA Past Revealed www.thedailybeast.com/national-gua... via @thedailybeast

Reposting this. I'm just so disgusted by what used to be sports media. More interested in betting lines than player suicides. That's not a hot-take opinion. We have the data here. It's a fact. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Fun new enshittification: Just got a citation from a private parking lot company -- the $25 fee I definitely paid, plus a $50 fine. The problem: It was a QR code system where they remember your info when you scan. Except we got new plates. They still had the old plates on file. Too bad, human!

My Dinner With Inconceivable

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Even the propaganda is just re-boots.

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19. It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over. Community members are devastated. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people. It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people. Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

youtu.be/P9F4YnZS_qQ?... Fishbone!

Wow — REPUBLICAN repthomasmassie drops a mic on @MarshaBlackburn 👀 🔥 (Reminder: Per Jack Smith, Both Marsha & senatorhagerty’s phone records were involved in this because Trump allegedly called them for help in stealing the election)

I don't believe I need to listen carefully. I don't really believe the menu options have recently changed.

The film will need to retain audiences to make a profit after reportedly costing as much as $130 million to produce.

Embarrassing for @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

What a fun case to get to defend too. Should the felony count stand given that legally the officer wasn't hit with "bread," but with "confectionary"?: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...