I hate to be That Guy, but I just rewatched the halftime show and was literally moved to tears at the end. Incredible.

Fun fact: every gold medal won by the U.S. will be melted down for gilding in the White House ballroom.

My thoughts (almost) exactly. Wild that the GOP didn’t even consider it a possibility.

The rules clearly say we act in bad faith, manipulating the system to give ourselves disproportionate power, and you pretend it's good faith, letting it happen while unilaterally restricting yourself in adherence to standards we say must be honored when it helps us and violate otherwise. No fair!

Sorry a staffer started world war 3, he was new.

🎵Love Is All, "Spinning & Scratching" (2005) The guitar groove here is so very Extremely My Shit.

Woke up to the news that a web site I have no memory of registering for is changing its terms of service. So now I have to deal with that on top of everything else.

I feel like… The president…. Might not… Consider Black people… …to be his equals

Across social media platforms, political posting is linked to affective polarization--extreme users post the most. As polarized partisans increasingly dominate the conversation, casual users disengage and the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more extreme. arxiv.org/html/2510.25...

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

Using AI has made me realize how much I read passive-aggressiveness into text that is perfectly neutral. I have to remind myself that it's a simple generation of text, and that it is NOT being condescending or insinuating that it's all my fault.

Obviously...

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

It only January

It’s hard to imagine someone more universally enjoyed than Catherine O’Hara where the opinions range from “I like her and her work” to “I love her and her work” and that’s a pretty good legacy

🎵Peter Matthew Bauer, "Gold Paint for Blue Skies (New Year's Eve Version)" (2025) Guy from The Walkmen puts out song that is Very Good. That's it. That's the post.

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...

Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop? www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

IDK why right-wingers keep bringing up Obama's record deportations, it just shows that if you wanted to have a conservative immigration policy without partisan militias occupying cities and gunning people down in the streets you could do it and a lot of americans would be fine with it

I love how people are using their communities to reach people who might not have heard it otherwise. They're not going out of character and "sorry for the political post". They're posting exactly what the communities want and still making the point.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

I think that nothing can be more depressing than how social media reveals so many people to be cruel and illogical until I realize how many more people feel inspired by said cruelty and illogic.

This is remarkable.

Breaking: Republican candidate for Minnesota Governor Chris Madel drops out of the race. “I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin... I did not sign up for that.”

Excellent article. This sentence in particular should chill the people who still think it won't affect them: "Many neighborhoods began organizing local watches simply to defend themselves."

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The right wing is so fully astroturfed that they genuinely cannot comprehend organic behavior

Over and over, we see how the expectation of decency and calm is only extended to liberals and moderates. Absolutely no one expects it of conservatives.

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

ICE is apparently staffed by second-amendment absolutists who now consider the exercise of second-amendment rights a summary capital offense.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

I’ll raise you by narrowing it down to a single year. 1993: Indigo Girls (Chapel Hill) 10,000 Maniacs (Charlotte & Richmond) PJ Harvey (Atlanta) Liz Phair (London) The Breeders (London)

I’ve started posting here for a while. Catch it before I give up again!

An exchange from the series Firefly between one of the protagonists and a mercenary bounty hunter has lived rent free in my head for 20+ years, and has sadly been on my mind a lot recently-- River: You like to hurt folk. Jubal Early: It's part of the job. River: It's why you took the job.

seriously if you’re a regular TikTok user you should probably reconsider that. the new US-based ownership will not be shy about using this shit against you.

Things worth really hammering to any family and acquaintances whose reflexive attitude is “but we gotta enforce the law”: (1) Lots of the folks being targeted came here legally; the administration has retroactively declared them “illegal” despite having done nothing wrong

Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.

It's great to have our children be old enough to join us on our anniversary in the annual watching of our wedding video and have them say "you look so young!!" in complete and genuine amazement all the way through it. 😐

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

It always amazes me how often Democrats are like nonprofit management, and the part that drives me most crazy is the constant looking for magic bullets; as though there's one campaign, one message, one person that will change everything. So intensely reductive and naive.

Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

He’s not wrong.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

🎵Sparks, "Tryouts for the Human Race" (1979) Name a better song about sperm. I'll wait.

I feel kinda silly to preparing for another week filing TPS reports at work when European leaders are posting about how they’re ready to go to war with the U.S. over Greenland.