I still cannot get over this detail reported by the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/5fa6...

Duke delenda est.

when dook loses, we all win. Heels, baby

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Proudly flying the GSU Law flag at the 2026 ALPE conference.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

If anything on this is even remotely accurate, than all I can say is put me in the game coach. Scorch the earth.

This is who the GOP chooses to be.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Nice shot/chaser setup here from NYT

It turns out none of us knew actually

Same old trial balloon strategy we’ve seen again and again.

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

Packed house for the ALPE plenary session on What is LPE?

Every American needs to watch this:

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

Things are kicking off brilliantly at the ALPE conference, with @akapczynski.bsky.social discussing the goals of the new organization.

@milbrathdraws.bsky.social in solidarity with @anntelnaes.bsky.social celebrating the cartoon heard round the world

My BIL is a veteran who did two tours during Iraq & Afghanistan. He has PTSD. He is brown and lives in MSP. He gets telehealth therapy from the VA. And his job is allowing him to work from home so this two tour Navy vet with PTSD doesn't accidentally get shot by the Gestapo. Anyway.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

Yale once again showing itself as the shining beacon of the best humanity has to offer.

I encourage people to read through the transcript with this context in mind. A further thought. Even if (IF) she sincerely believed that she was resisting evil from within, the transcript makes clear why she was naive. The judge‘s responses to her efforts to blame the system are worth studying.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Sixty years of excellent work at the Washington Post; a beloved figure there. The Bezos team just laid him off. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wish I could interview the artist behind this

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

The Washington Post: Democracy Dies

🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

The little smirk he quickly hides after "for what?" tells you absolutely everything you need to know about everyone involved.

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

It's feeling even more gradually-and-then-suddenly out there today.

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

oh fuck yeah that's the good stuff right there

A key point about building concentration/detention camps: “If they build them, they will fill them." newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

Slow Horses, US reboot

The Washington Post laid off hundreds of the country's most dogged reporters today, who did indispensable work holding the powerful accountable at home & abroad. We are heartbroken. Please share with anyone who cares about the future of journalism: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

What's happened to the Post under Bezos's watch/"leadership" is unconscionable.

This organization literally won a Supreme Court case about its First Amendment right to control its own composition and message.

This guy needs to be AG when it's time. Also if you're new to Larry this is Unkillable Larry Krasner. Everyone has come for Larry. They tried to impeach Larry. Larry still stands and he is gonna relish this shit

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This made me weepy

How far are we from these thugs just putting totenkopf patches on their web gear?