The people yearn for a President Yoon trial and conviction

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

New fee schedule announced for Japan status of residence change/renewal and it is WILD 1-year permission: ¥6,000 → ¥30,000 5-year permission: ¥6,000 → ¥70,000 PR approval: ¥10,000 → ¥200,000 (whew) www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

TIL that % Arabica is Japanese apparently, even though I only ever see it in expat-facing neighborhoods here. Is it like a VC capital thing? B/c frankly nothing about the brand strikes me as Japanese it's so airport departure gate liminal...

New app project: a vault for your random thoughts that FEELS like a sleek social media experience where big heart number always goes up

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

His behavior is dictionary definition of stalking as well

I honestly had no idea the PS5 has been out for 6 years already. It basically didn't exist in stores here (literally Japan) for the first three years, and since then virtually every game I wanted to play on it has been announced for the Switch 2.

You ever see something so pathetic and yet utterly contemptible it immediately cancels out whatever pity you initially felt?

what is with these people and dogs?

Sorry but I think it's probably Not a Great Sign when you feel the need to put this at the top of your newsletter

Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!

The French duo is ice dancing to Blue by Eiffel 65, transitioning into Daft Punk. We're going to live forever.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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

Re: this post 🙃😩 digital.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

This is one of those great (derogatory) elections where the evidence is clear that voter preferences are not in any way tied to material changes as much as aesthetic ones. See: cratering of youth support for Sanseito to LDP

I think autocorrect should suggest 🤌 when I type "italian hand"

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Threads is I think currently the most important social media platform because it's the only one where the witches have discovered the magical barrier protecting Trump from harm. it's not a barrier of his own making btw it's apparently an Outer God's doing

This is insane??

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Hot take but the fact that Harris is polling highest isn't an indication that most people are steadfastly behind her but rather that the field hasn't even started consolidating. And if Mamdani taught us anything, it's that there's a huge lane for someone willing to talk directly about policy here.

Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.

Earthquake?

Collective judgement is silly, overly simplistic, and fundamentally wrong. In Gervais' mind "celebrities" as a collective (one to which Gervais himself belongs) may be "in no position to lecture the public," but good people like Big Bunny have the credibility and responsibility to speak up.

Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don't want to do the whole "nowhere else in the world" shtick but the density of this kind of sublime cultural fusion in the US is really incredible. It is quite literally what makes the US the US.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

As Mark Winchester @archerknewsmit.bsky.social has noted, “foreigner problem” and “foreigner policy” are terms that have come into currency only in the past year Nakano Kōichi ran a search on Asahi Shimbun database and saw such terms had no or only single digit hits until 2024, but 3 digits in 2025

Knowing fucking anything is "professorial" and "condescending." Only a level of ignorance & belligerence that matches the dumbest 20% of the population is truly authentic. This is why the GOP is full of rich nepo-baby Ivy league graduates trying their level best to act as stupid as they can.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

There comes a point where you can't keep being credulous about these "passed by one vote" moments as anything other than designed

Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

This is a wonderful thread and Ms Rachel is a lovely individual. "They did the right thing even when it was hard because it was right."

I'm just amused that Davos is the new UN, and that world leaders give back-to-back speeches like it's General Assembly week. Almost like capital rules the world order or something

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

The Insurrection Act in no way whatsoever suspends, closes, or bypasses the courts. It is not a suspension of habeas corpus. It is not martial law. It does not authorize rule by decree. It allows using troops for law enforcement but that's it. It's not an instant dictatorship switch.

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him