Some cases make you say, "what the fuck?" Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/double-...

FWIW: Golden is retiring. The filing deadline has passed in NC; Davis is the only Dem running. The filing deadline has passed in TX; Gonzalez & Cuellar both have primary opponents. Gillen has several Dem opponents as well, as does Perez. If you want to primary Suozzi, you still have until 3/30.

From my friend Phil Eil: Rhode Island’s Lao community left reeling after deportations www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rhod...

A reminder that QBJ3 is a fully standalone free game. Also like 35+ hours long. For reference, vanilla Quake is like 7-8 hours. An all-you-can-eat buffet of concrete and rust. It is VERY good. Even the weakest parts are still on par with your average retail Quake map. The best parts are stunning.

people who aren't allowed to vote are people too

Now it has to win them.

Maybe I should make a thread of reasons I'm unable to experience excitement about AI that aren't even about ethics bc so often the boosters say we skeptics are just overly concerned about ethics--but it's more than that To be clear: I'm not trying to hate on AI here, I mostly feel meh about it--

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Cats: Oh, thank you for the new toy. Me: ??? New toy: squeaks of outrage Me: Oh no.

The people who insist the lesson of the last election was "maybe pander more to the racists, you didn't do enough of that" instead of "yo you actually need to put together your WHOLE COALITION, get it the fuck together" really don't want us to win.

What if... and I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out... What if we *actually funded public transit as the necessary service it is*?

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism. We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Predator: Badlands is really good and available to rent now. I happen to love the first AVP movie and this is similarly a buddy flick but with adorable sidekick creatures. Seriously. It’s exciting and thrilling but also cute as fuck.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

Filling RIPTA's budget gap for FY27 is a welcoming start. Prevents service cuts from happening this year, but not enough to reverse cuts from last year. Gov. McKee is also rolling back the gas tax increase, which is providing RIPTA with nearly $9M in annual funding. bsky.app/profile/govd...

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

remember, a college student who gets an F because she wrote "because Jesus says so" in an essay she didn't do any reading for is tyranny but a dean losing her new job because of her beliefs is freedom. what are you not getting about this.

I will start to take our leader’s resolve seriously when they start shouldering the burden of courage they are demanding of us.

You assholes put Rümeysa Öztürk in an unmarked van for writing a milquetoast op-ed

Velazquez: The American people are upset. They did not sign on for this. The most fundamental principle for the American people is fairness and humane policies, not beating the shit out of people, especially vulnerable women and children.

pretty sure the "bait" line stops at "they're gonna shoot you and film it and call you a fuckin' bitch for the pleasure of it"

Who’s ready for some “dry side” matches? www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/soun...

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights. I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.

3) Every child deserves an education, and because every child is deserving of an education, it is our responsibility to ensure that children have an environment in which education is accessible. That's true whether the child has a stable home life or caring parents or a disability.

Posting true facts without also acknowledging the fact that ICE responds violently to these 3 things is irresponsible. Will you co-sponsor Senator Markey & Representative Pressley's Qualified Immunity Abolition Act of 2026? That's all I want to hear from Congresspeople today.

Ridiculous. We do *not* need to further subsidize private internal-combustion automobile use.

Tuesday night mahjong night! 🀄️ It's pretty quiet this week, so we are on our second game of sanma after I busted in the first game on the first dealer's third repeat. 😅

Predator hand-clasping meme with "ps", "tar", and "two semi-incompatible sets of switches in a single command."

I think that one of the reasons I am offended by LLM code generation is that we have (human) generations now of working formal programming tools that prove things with human assistance to produce verifiably correct results but people couldn't be bothered to use. And instead... we get this.

This reaction feels weird to me: the Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise set is *6838 pieces*. That is pretty huge, and while the $650 price tag is a lot, 9.5¢ per piece is *low* for lego sets. Several smaller sets could have been nice, but this isn't "we're charging extra for the pokemans".

wow, I hadn't seen anything about the play before either, this is gonna be a hell of a ride

#Booksky Our birthday sale on our website ends 1/11 and buying direct from us is a big help to our bottom line! Please consider picking up a book or two. Use code BIRTHDAY at checkout to get a discount and get entered in the prize drawing. Help get us to Year 10! queenofswordspress.com

It finishes Macclesfield 2, Crystal Palace 1. It's the biggest upset in FA Cup history. 117 league places between the two teams is the biggest gap overcome. Macclesfield are a semi-pro National League North team (sixth-tier), Premier League Palace are the current holders. #FACup #footy-live

Save RIPTA before it becomes an unreliable network!! 🙏🏻🚌

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Slightly diminish a band. The Red Chili Peppers.

Yesterday's Word Count = 797 THE FLASHING BLADE During the 1960s and 70s there were a number of strange, dubbed children’s shows like this on British TV but none of them had an ear worm this well… ear-wormy. youtu.be/F5Sb9AoirSU?...

Here are the brands and sizes recalled 👇🏻 this is a serious recall. please check your fridge if you buy these brands.

ICE has detained 4 Oglala Lakota men in Minneapolis. Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.

The following is a statement from the WGAE in solidarity with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) as they fight for the compensation they deserve. #PayThePlayers!

The Save RIPTA Coalition releases its “Service Cuts Impact Report” These cuts make getting an education much harder for students like me,” said Chrys Santos, a sophomore at Blackstone Academy Charter School, “who now have to struggle to get to and from school..."

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

Today's theme song: youtu.be/H8AyaH3jDhY?... (Gacharic Spin, BakuBaku.)