I wrote about MAGA’s war against normal American drone users - and how they’re trying to take control of the skies for themselves.

An essential part of the term “blood libel” is that it was an accusation made against Jews with no proof or evidence. Those accusing the state of Israel of committing genocide have marshaled extensive evidence. It demeans the term “blood libel” to compare them.

Insane, redditors find videos & audio hiding in plain sight in the DOJ’s online Epstein files due to .pdf files - congressional reps should check for the same ASAP before the DOJ scrubs them @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

I don't see anything

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

She’s running

I don’t love using the term “blood libel” for anything other than the historical phenomenon, but if anything in modern politics resembles it, it is JD Vance lying that Haitian migrants eat pets. A totally baseless claim about the supposedly inhuman habits of a hated out-group, justifying violence.

14 million deaths by 2030 should be a major story. Hitler's concentration camps claimed 6 million. Vance: "Trump might be America's Hitler. Maybe worse. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This debut feature goes hard. Love this in the credits

The Spanish Fly epidemic hit Japan hard in the 1920s, everyone was dtf. That’s Spanish FLU of course. Released in 2020 so before AI began being used for subtitling. Also released on Arrow which uses native speakers (like @dylancheung.bsky.social for HK films) and does not use AI for subtitling

Now watching

Mid-period Suzuki is wild (though tbf so is early Suzuki, at least after Youth of the Beast)

From the Insta account catsbeingweirdlittleguys

BOUT DAMN TIME:

"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.

the modern right is pathologically obsessed with gender in a way that has absolutely no analogue on our side

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

In my occasional series titled Things You Didn't Know about Sikhs, pretty much all the parmesan you get from Italy is made by Sikhs...

Now watching Seijun Suzuki’s Zigeunerweisen

one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down

i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets

TIL that Polymarket sponsors Matt Yglesias’s Substack.

'Dresden Burning - Death March, Winter 1945' Edith Birkin 1990 acrylic on board www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

The Epstein files contain a big clue regarding the whereabouts of Cambodia’s stolen masterpieces.

Trump's tariffs are the single largest tax hike in the postwar and it was done unilaterally without consent of Congress. Its actually outrageous when you think about it, and conservatives and Republicans just like accept it because yadda yadda daddy Trump. Unreal.

Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

of course the point here isn't to try and make a logical argument, it's to simultaneously gloat over the deaths and deny them.

denialism ends up with the same tropes no matter what end of the political spectrum it comes from; this was literally a popular line among Holocaust deniers after the war, "if the Jews were killed why are there so many of them in London?"

This is also a good point - this ad makes no sense unless you’re steeped in the same bad information environment that it exists in. It’s like watching Fox News during the Biden administration where you had to have watched eight hours a day for years for it to be legible.

The story of our current political moment will be written in retrospect as one of elites creating alternative information environments for themselves and then freaking out because of them. It’s like telling exaggerated ghost stories at a sleepover and then everyone not sleeping.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

hold on i gotta take this

“Russia’s South Caucasus.” Something has gone seriously wrong at the Washington Post

especially after the recent HHS budget fights where they stripped out every anti-trans rider

Your reminder that Jon Bel Edwards, a legit conservative and the last Dem governor of Louisiana, was pro trans rights while being anti choice. "Dems don't support queer people" is like the most easily disproven lie. If JBE, Kelly, Cooper, and Beshear are all pro trans.

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

I just read a very affecting account of the relationship between Polish and Jewish socialists before and during the Holocaust. You see this exact dynamic from Poles at the time. They would say to Jews: “we support you, but we can’t condemn antisemitism because we need to recruit the working class”

Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Look at this ignorant moron try to answer a question about his own beliefs. Racists don't actually know anything, they just.... believe things.

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky #HigherEd