imagine the Pope personally calling you a fake bitch who's going to hell lol

David Roberts - the U.S. is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. And will go down with the fossil fuel ship; and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate. It is rapidly electrifying its economy, dominating the technology, supply chains, world markets, everything

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Akademiks can only continue to have a career if people rock with him. So who is that audience and what is his business model?

Another day at the VA hospital, where my rage consumes me because the ranks of these elderly vets with broken bodies and minds will soon be joined by a new younger cohort fighting an illegal war. At least the ones who won't be returning from Iran in a flag draped box.

Y'all... I've already lost the "Is this real or is it AI?" battle. Yeah, some stuff is obvious, but my AI filter is wild weak. I don't have the cognitive processing power to constantly do this. I'm about to tap out. And we're still at the beginning.

Afroman is an American hero. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

QTNA

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I really might not even watch this time around and I have to mourn that.

Playing a wedding right now. Pulled out Mint Condition "U Send Me Swingin'" during dinner and folks just got up and started slow dancing. A reminder that Black folks will always warm my heart. 🤗♥️

In the middle of still trying to reconcile Willie Colón's death with his late in life turn to MAGA, I watched hundreds of horns play "La Murga" as his casket exited the church and it hit me so hard in the chest that it knocked tears loose. 😞

anyone who watched what happened during his first term. that's who.

This is a Steely Dan song

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

All of us Gen X’ers who grew up poring through the liners notes and album credits on vinyl albums, the J cards of cassette tapes and CD’s reading all the names involved with the albums we loved will forever love & appreciate the contributions Bob Power made to the music that was our life soundtrack.

If I were to pinpoint someone responsible for more of my favorite things than any other single person whose name isn't Quincy Jones... 😓💔

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

I see folks saying it was Sandy Hook but i didagree. A good portion of this country was in favor of doing something about guns after Sandy Hook but big money kept elected officials from doing something. When covid hit people willingly threw fits about masking and went full anti-vax.

IRAN: Retaliatory attacks including on US soil. US: “NATOs assemble! Article 5!” NATO COUNTRIES: “Nah, we’re good, bruh. Gotta continue with our Epstein probes.”

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

JFC. "That's the way it is." What are we doing?!?!

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

The Gen X urge to do the neutron dance

I can't stop thinking about how the planet is run by dorks and pedophiles.

Costa Rica, Mexico, Ghana, Senegal are just a few of the places a number of my friends have bounced to once they decided that this bullshit was untenable.

The Gen X urge to do the Humpty dance.

Just one of those nights where the person who is too stupid to be qualified to speak to me does so anyway.

Covid absolutely destroyed my concept of time. That pandemic was 6 years ago but it feels like it was 18 months ago.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

I was fiending to get immersed in another fictional world as engrossing as the Breaking Bad + Better Call Saul universe. Then Vince Gilligan dropped Pluribus S1 and I binged it and now I need to tap that vein again. 😩

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

My writerly friends who have been on bestseller lists keep insisting that I have a book in me. I have no idea what that book is but it should probably include a vignette where I reminisce on DC strip clubs that no longer exist with a masc of center woman at 2am on New York Ave. Shout out to Club 55.

I used to have a Washington Post byline. I worked alongside people who did profoundly important journalism. It's crazy that all of that is just... done forever.

Fine ass Black women in DC are still undefeated. This is a mildly tipsy observation from tonight's pre-Valentine's gig.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Can't wait to hear how this is deeply un-American

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The Durand Bernarr victory lap is a gift that keeps on giving. The running down the aisle memes. Sharing his relationship with his parents. Detailing his long career path to get to this point. The gratitude and dedication. It's nice when the deserving people win.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Bezos gave rapey ass Ratner an easy, cushy gig and the Trump family a $28 million direct bribe while snuffing out a formally foundational newspaper and also dumping 16,000 employees. Billionaires are viruses.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of J Dilla's death and the release of "Donuts." @elmattic.bsky.social went deep on the mythology, impact, and legacy of the greatest hip-hop instrumental album ever made. www.passionweiss.com/2026/02/04/j...

There's no agreed upon value for journalist labor when living in the era of Facts Don't Matter.

Assholes like Bezos, Musk, etc. could fund journalistic, humanitarian, scientific, cultural institutions in perpetuity on the planet, probably cure world hunger and still have lifetimes of money they could never fully spend. Billionaires are a virus.