just called a song 'jazzerseismic'

Every time you see an 'ordinary politics' story, your brain subconsciously updates its picture of the world toward the erroneous view that things are 'normal.' If that picture is sufficiently dominant—because of your social circle or media diet—then autocratic stories are dismissable as hyperbole.

One way of identifying democratic backsliding is that "ordinary politics" stories like this coexist with stories like this one (www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...) or this one (www.reuters.com/legal/govern...) or this one (cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...) which are each obviously, wildly autocratic

Well his name isn't Thomas Readerton

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

we would be better if the onion didn't exist

You: the European peasant, premodern and primitive with an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other Me: the civilized modern gigachad, with Claude open on my laptop and Grok on my phone

A quiet prediction I made at the start of this year that I really should have been open about so I can claim it is that antisemitism is far more mainstream than we’re ready to admit and it’s gonna become very obvious throughout 2026

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

accidentally liking a five-month-old skeet makes me feel a little icky inside

Unfortunately, “Hell yeah, chicken tenders mog” will be in my lexicon forever

Lil Wayne made a rock album???

lmfao

Gonzalez exposing JSN as a Kubiak merchant???

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

Tonight's Jammin' / A/T/O/S - A Taste Of Struggle / Dubstep/Alt-RnB Sublime and bassy, slithering and patient. Reminds me of the best parts of Heligoland but heavier a-t-o-s.bandcamp.com/album/a-tast...

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

The death of literacy also means the death of things like sarcasm, irony, hyperbole, etc. We can't have fun anymore cause these fuckers are functionally illiterate and actively want everyone else to be too

Dancing all over my hotel room dds-label.bandcamp.com/track/the-re...

😳😳😳

Sundaayyyy mornin youtu.be/3vnRUp9qVZ0?...

Who ever said redactions couldn't be funny

The year is 2029 A radical group of Quebecois insurgents have acquired the Trump/Epstein frazzledrip tape from Don Jr. which subsequently breaks millions of American brains, fracturing the Order of North American Nations Meanwhile Barron has exhumed Fred Trump to look for the tape in his skull

Nietzsche is rolling in his grave

From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀 go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)

I don’t normally promote my (and quite a few more dutiful others) Substack here, but this is a lovely collection of slowcore, and a spanking read too open.substack.com/pub/gatekeep...

hell yeah

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

"somehow, Palpatine returned" the most insightful work of civic commentary of the decade

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Numerous MAGA media figures are urging Trump to *escalate* his paramilitary warfare on American cities. Let's be clear: What they really want is race war, with their side backed by state violence and terror. Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

“The climactic finish is so rewarding that the start and the middle seem dull”

maybe 2% of this place is even aware any of this happened, in part because they've outsourced their senate knowledge to a former social media intern for Tina Smith who now lives in Australia

Tonight’s Jammin’ / The Jesus Lizard / Goat The riff from Here Comes Dudley has gotta be the best thing I’ve ever heard thejesuslizard.bandcamp.com/album/goat-r...

Add me to the list of people who don't know shit

The Onion is not helping anything atm.

Damn all this discourse and I’m stuck thinking about her smh

All in favor repoast this

Will Stancil has done more to fight fascism than Bernie Sanders has.

maybe the signal dm admin finally recruited sad trombone karl to minnesota for his superior opsec know-how and, like star QBs, you can't have two primadonnas on the same team

this is a mesmerizing user name and pfp combo

It appears that Kevin Warsh may be the next Fed Chair. You may not be familiar with his deeply unserious game. Allow me to offer you some collected receipts:

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Ah, the famously apolitical arts

Bovino still has one chance to go out with a blaze of glory

Hinge match informing me of things I was more innocent not knowing