“Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, explaining the Party's 10 Point Program. Despite being labeled a criminal organization by the FBI, the Panthers were rooted in community care. Free breakfast programs, health clinics, education, housing, and protection against police abuse” BHM 🖤✊🏾

In fairness, he’s no more racist than the guy who was president before Biden.

Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.

there's a reason the Nazis went after Raoul Minot for documenting the German occupation in photographs. fascists want to own the record: the power to reshoot history, frame by frame, until their preference becomes the only memorable reality. generative AI is the culmination of that desire.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

This galaxy is VERY tiny—much much smaller than our own Milky Way—& incredibly distant. But we can see it AND distinguish its shape! How? The light we see from it is from SO LONG AGO that the Universe was MUCH smaller at the time: we see it as it was when it was close enough to us to look big!! 🤯

“Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the Southern District of New York ordered the federal government to unlock the billions in federal grants to the program, as the case proceeds through the courts. If the Trump administration complies, the project could soon restart construction.”

I stopped by “The Late Show” (soon to be the LATE Late Show) to give Mr. Colbert a piece of my hand-drawn mind. @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

Team Cheerios (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999-2004): A combination of frosted and brown sugar-glazed Cheerios pieces, made of both corn and oats. Check this quick 🧵!

Imagine that

Every damn day he does something crazy and the entire MAGA leadership bends over backwards to pretend it wasn't crazy and to explain it away. And then a few hours go by and he comes out and says "no, I did the crazy thing on purpose." And repeat. And the media never seems to remember that.

This vector of attack worries me a lot more than the wandering ICE goons on Election Day.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

I've said it before and I'll say it again "We can't fix the Dems, we need a new viable third party" is the political equivalent of "we can't fix Earth's environment, let's colonize Mars" In that however hard the first one might be - maybe very! - the second one is orders of magnitude harder

Interesting move from Gov Tim Walz here: He calls on Kristi Noem to release detailed information on how many migrant kids from Minnesota that DHS has imprisoned in the vein of 5-year-old Liam:

A couple years ago some guy emailed me, threatening to beat me up, and a very quick search showed he was a dorky-looking 40-ish real estate agent outside Philly. Toyed with sending the email to his boss, but realized it came in at 1am and the guy was probably hammered.

DOJ’s Frivolous Boasberg Complaint Dismissed—While Nobody Can Explain How DOJ Got The ‘Evidence’ It Never Provided Back in August, we wrote about the Department of Justice's unprecedented decision to file a judicial misconduct complaint against D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg. The complaint, which…

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

Pocket Princesses 439: Winter Olympics edition!

I’m going with “Both.”

Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed www.ft.com/content/7001...

In case you thought I was kidding. Ryan Clark posted this and immediately they ask "Grok". So Grok is the arbiter of truth. The CSAM maker is the arbiter of truth. Epstein lives, baby.

The Kermit and Piggy press tour videos coming out have been the best. Their chemistry is on point. #TheMuppets

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.

I get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.

The song that just played at the opening ceremony en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisenc...

Taylor Rehmet's win in a Texas state senate shocked pundits. But, as I found in interviews with people close to the ground, it's not so surprising. A lot of it is about the books bans. People hate the book bans. Even some Republicans! An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/02/06/s...

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Abolish ICE and DHS. Shut it all down.

After many instances of the Trump administration lying to the courts as well as flouting dozens of court orders Judges are beginning to realize that it is, in fact, a criminal organization.

"I jumped at doing anything that Rod [Serling] wrote. When my agent told me they wanted me for a Twilight Zone, I didn't have to look at the script. I said yes." — Jack Klugman, star of TZ's "A Game of Pool," "A Passage for Trumpet," "Death Ship," and "In Praise of Pip"

Don't use AI! You'll shoot your eye out!

Italian luxury brand Moncler designed a white puffer coat for Brazil’s athletes at the Winter Olympics. But Alpine ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen stunned the crowd in Milan by opening his coat to reveal the blue, green and gold Brazilian flag on the inside lining. bit.ly/4bFMBc2

There you have it. The truth has never mattered to Trump as much as his ego does. He lost the popular vote in 2016. He lost the election in 2020. And everything since has been about protecting his ego.

Hey East Bay bike riders, I wanted to share something I've been helping with The Android/iOS app "Bike Streets" is a navigation app that is built around a network curated by people who actually ride. This means the directions it gives won't throw you onto a terrifying 4-lane road, like Google Maps

Tenure enables freedom of speech, which is why aspiring tyrants don’t like it.

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

United, against Trump. Canada will open a consulate in Greenland on Fri in a show of support for the Arctic island after US threats to take control of the country. Canadian FM Anita Anand will inaugurate the diplomatic mission in the capital, Nuuk, accompanied by a delegation of Canadian Inuit.

My very most cringe, normie opinion is that the Obamas are extraordinary people -- the smartest, kindest, funniest, most self-aware & self-possessed human beings involved in US public life in this century. They modeled decency -- called the country to decency -- and the country said No.

No, really, @washingtonpost.com, I am the one who is sorry to see you go. Farewell to what was once my go-to, trusted news source. I'm sorry that you had to die in darkness.

Are they going to also "blame a staffer" for Obama permanently living, 24/7, rent-free in his head? #pathetic

Italy's president takes the tram in video tribute to Milan transport reut.rs/4qoWbUq

35 feet would make the statue of Columbus not only taller than the statute of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial (19 feet), but taller than the entire memorial itself (30 feet)

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I want to see a composer race at some point during the ceremony.

WOW! WHITE HOUSE SAYS TRUMP DOESN’T WRITE HIS OWN TWEETS??? AUTOPEN!

The CIA Erased The World Factbook With No Warning… And Told Everyone To ‘Stay Curious’ For over half a century, the CIA's World Factbook has been one of the most quietly useful things the federal government has ever produced. A comprehensive, regularly updated, freely available reference on every…

Joe Rohde Tried to Get Tropical Americas in Animal Kingdom for 15 Years, Including Gutting DinoLand USA

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations