Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

It's also deeply 20-something coded behavior, for when you're old enough to be an adult but insecure and uncertain of who you ought to be. Eventually you finally become who you are and you're free.

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

NEW: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office reacts to Thursday's "Broadview Six" revelations. The former lead prosecutor in the case had serving as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Durbin's office says her detail from the Justice Department "has been terminated."

Everyday It Gets Crazier #dementia It's getting closer to putting Gramps in a home.

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

Notice they keep calling it a settlement agreement. Over and over. Sane washing the fact that this isn’t a settlement. It’s not pursuant to a lawsuit. It not approved by a court. It JUST THEFT.

This feels incredibly accurate. I covered Biden toward the end and he suffered from the fact his voice sounded weak and frail and he would trail off. That looks different from Trump's decline, where he rambles and yells a ton. Now that Biden's gone, it looks worse www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

This is a paranoid fantasy that the media encourages but it’s actually not true. The US produces a very educated populace. It’s just that the sheer scale of our R&D requires drawing on the finest talents of a far larger population base via immigration.

I saw these headlines and thought "oh well some jerk wrote a form letter to a kid's letter that's dumb" but no it appears that one of the worst people in Congress took time out of her day to talk shit to a 10 y/o and tell him he should be more worried about debt and school propaganda than climate

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton mocked for misidentifying a ‘street taco’ The British political strategist drew swift criticism in a state where tacos are practically the official dish

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter wants SCOTUS to overturn the 14th amendment. None of this protecting equal rights and due process for ALL citizens stuff for these good ol' Southern boys. They're determined that the Confederacy will rise again. www.rawstory.com/fourteenth-a...

mercantilism: failed capitalist free market: failed planned economies: failed we are not repeating the mistakes of the past, no we are instead moving in a bold new direction with the Centrally Unplanned economy. all decisions will be made by a guy who has no idea what's going on.

Similar to the fracking and nuclear, it seems like a lot of the vitriol for data centers isn't based on objective measures or theoretical risk, but rather popular pushback on the behavior of an industry where everything they do is ham-handed and abusive.

I can't say I've been blown away by the gubernatorial field, but of all the credible contenders this is the correct choice. Steyer's housing platform is good and significantly more fully realized than anything his main opponents have offered.

Farmers are coded "working class" as rural white people, even though they own their means of production. Meanwhile, I have a PhD and teach at a liberal arts college, so no one will ever call me working class, even though I earn a lot less and depend on wages. It's gendered vibes, all the way down.

Republicans made clear they would not be deterred by Democrats simply matching them seat for seat. The only way to stop them was to make clear that Democrats will go further than they will — and mean it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

US ‘drowning in misinformation’ under RFK Jr, autism advocates say Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

SCOTUS Deems Witch-Burning Constitutional as Long as Accused Given Opportunity to Confess

Once again putting my motion on the table, since the impeachment clause looks like a dead letter, for a majority vote next year to defund the entire Executive Office of the President. If Republicans embrace the fiction of the 'unitary executive,' let Trump fulfill that vision by operating solo.

“When Peter Thiel said, ‘I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,‘ he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

20 years ago, folks youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a...

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

over at the newsletter I wrote about Sam Altman and how the tech press is obsessed with mythologizing unethical assholes

Contra Andy Weir’s silly take about social commentary (he really thinks Grace choosing to help a certain someone rather than returning to the people who sent him to die isn’t social commentary?) a round up of all the best Star Trek episodes, all of which are highly political:

WELKER: Do you think it's appropriate for POTUS to celebrate the death of Bronze Star recipient? BESSENT: Neither one of us can understand what's been done to the president & his family W: So there's nothing wrong w/post saying, 'Good. Mueller's dead'? B: We should have empathy for the president

Sources told @theobserveruk.bsky.social that crypto donations had “come into a wallet controlled by a permissible donor” and were then turned into fiat, adding “this makes it much harder to track”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

NEW: Pete Hegseth's pastor and mentor says the United States should ban public Masses, Marian processions, and Corpus Christi devotions. Hegseth invited the anti-Catholic preacher to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon on February 14.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

You gotta be kidding me