lmfao some weird anarchist leftists are accusing NYC DSA of being a white nationalist organization because DSA *checks notes* supports Zohran’s plans to build more affordable housing

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

There is so much hand-wringing about how left-wing anti-Zionism has made Zionism a toxic word in the US, and so little for how the "Jerusalem Post" is apparently labeling the Reform Jewish movement "anti-Zionists" for asking for an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel.

notably *at the time* it was treated as a big deal, and then the media decided it couldn't be because that would mean doing work.

we're just normal beavers, just innocent beavers.

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

Carlson doesn't even condemn genocide. He condemns Netanyahu for being Jewish and lacking roots, not for being a mass murdering corrupt monster.

Huckabee and Carlson are both white supremacists who endorse massive violence against non white people. They have tactical differences about who should get killed first. you do not need to cosign either of them. you do not need to pretend Carlson is "right". He's not right.

Looks like this was announced at ComicsPro. Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith is getting a full colour omnibus this December and I had the honour of bringing Steve's GORGEOUS black and white pages to colour for it!

lies, it's from the ship of theseus (pirithous)

there is a ton of expert evidence at this point that being on x is not only not helpful but actively harmful fwiw (starbird is one of the experts)

great, we're going to send a guy who is at best a lying edgelord troll to the senate, and then everyone is going to be 'how could we have seen this coming?' when the guy with the Nazi tattoo betrays them.

this is a classic case of a bad headline, not a bad piece. he's arguing that the corruption and incompetence of the Justice Department meant they couldn't be trusted to handle the kind of redaction and selection that a big case like this should involve.

restaurants were deliberately driven out of the street and into malls, at least in Beijing

Nothing like having your dragnet for "transgender" catch transphobes constantly posting pictures of young trans boys having just gotten top surgery to remind you that the anti-trans movement's connection to paedophiles isn't just that they take their money and marching orders

extremely cool. 1100 was the breakdown point for me. obligatory link to one of my other favorite puzzlers, The Water Margin rendered in Scots. www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?do...

cant.stop.laughing

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Feeling very disturbed by how the Epstein Files have unleashed a kind of Pizzagate among progressives. What Epstein did was awful enough: He trafficked girls and women, raped and assaulted them, and did so in full view of many powerful men. He doesn't need to be a pedophile cannibal for you to care.

my friend outside NY asked me the other day why she hasn't heard about zohran much since he became mayor and my honest answer was that it's because i think he's just doing his job which is actually inherently pretty boring?

I hear John Yoo's opinions are torture to read.

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

Mark Kelly: I'm going to make a powerful statement about democracy and perhaps even fluster him Trump (spotting him in the crowd): Howie Mandel. Stand up man (pointing) He hasn't said nice things about me on his show but that's ok. America's Got Talent. When I saw it I said maybe not so much

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

this is total nonsense? presidents quite famously struggled to maintain control over the federal bureaucracy going back to before the civil war and congress has always interfered a great deal into the executive branch. congressional deference is the abnormality!

fear of AI in the context of overestimation of its capabilities is cooking the brains of an ever broader swath of society, I'm starting to feel like the one person left with eyes in his head

this essay has been going around and lemme just say it's an amazing piece of hard science fiction -- like, it almost redefines the genre into something that includes financial projection -- but that's all it is we are in an era when AI panic porn is widespread and less than helpful

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

yes, the likely result of this may well be to make everything more inconvenient for everybody, and especially for people who depend upon digital services. The vision of an internet entirely ruined and uninhabitable by humanity comes depressingly closer.

in fairness to the not-watching-the-show-lady there were a lot of things her partner didn't like about THE PITT, like the way it focused on this one doctor with a limp played by an English guy doing a U.S. accent and his buddy, a pediatric oncologist.

there are a lot of things i hate about the trump family and one of them is the way that every single one of them, up and down the line, is attached to the federal government like a fucking parasite, bleeding off everything they can before trump expires

all the points about the difference between a constitutional right and a consumer purchase are correct, but, also, why is the president’s daughter-in-law interviewing the vice president

I think this article (from a black man and a father to a child with similar disabilities) is a good take on the incident. variety.com/2026/film/aw...

Oh wow, what, the conservative intelligentsia making excuses for the whiniest little freaks imaginable and threatening to tear down the nation if they're not coddled and cosseted like precious little babies? Incredible, send in the podcasts and notify the press, this only happens fifty times a day.

I think you can make a reasonable case that the translation of Smith's work into Japanese was a factor in the development of the anime catgirl. (References to his work crop up in Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain, so he was an influence on at least some folks in the field.)

this idea is free to a good home!

but it's modeled on his real lips!

you know I hadn't thought about this but it completely makes sense. was planning a retrospective piece on him for the 60th anniversary of his death in August anyway.

same for lychees, except they're so unusual in America people have mostly never even tasted the mediocre ones.

the reason Gaby Del Valle is getting dragged for talking about the Rothschilds is that X is a place where professional racists like Chris Brunet just, you know, talk about the Rothschilds a lot, and if you're hanging out at that party you're going to wind up talking some about the Rothschilds too

I enjoyed this @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social piece because it's a rejoinder to both American Cuba hawks and American tankies about Cuba. also our copyeditor pointed out that he has a great name for a vampire *and* his very good recent book is called LOST BOYS. sus. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/23/c...

I don't think the Chinese *ever* taught about the 'Soviet Volunteer Group,' partially because of bitterness about the Soviets removing them after the pact with the Nazis. In contrast the Flying Tigers were part of public memory even when relations with US were bad.

Sort of a critical moment for written public comments as a thing. Indiscriminate clicktivism was bad enough, but slop is going to kill them off once and for all.

Obviously this is from someone unfamiliar with what Lovecraft was writing. Putting "cosmic horror" in quotation marks implies that it's either a concept and/or phrase already in circulation. I'm sure someone's tracked the etymology of "cosmic horror." I think I should do it anyhow.

I have to admit that I didn't expect to encounter the phrase "cosmic horror" in an article from American Friend (22 May 1930, p 413) by Agnes L. Tierney (Quaker activist & educator) about reconciling religion and science. I most especially didn't expect to see "cosmic horror" in quotation marks.

POV you're a Roblox executive about to do an interview:

the bravest people in WW2 were those who hid others. there's a verse in Cohen's "The Partisan" that goes "An old woman gave us shelter Kept us hidden in the garret Then the soldiers came She died without a whisper"