I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Exactly this

The guy is a gutter racist and always has been, and it’s embarrassing when anyone pretends otherwise. Pretending otherwise is telling on yourself. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/...

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Mamdani cheating at politics by being a normal human being who has been to a child’s birthday party before

double booking alarms for "sperm" and "king of saudi" is absolutely crazy work

Every day some new depravity that would be the end of any other presidential administration in history.

The racist video posted by the President is perhaps the most egregiously racist thing shown in the White House since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. Here's an article from Denver's Black newspaper in 1915 calling for Americans to denounce such racist imagery.

bad bad bad www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance

we can all just start refusing to respect these preening monsters ever again. we can do that right now.

A load bearing skeet in the current climate

"If your yacht fails to endorse a candidate for president in an existential election, people will say, 'Good. A boat should not endorse candidates for president.'" Food for thought as zillionaires mull how to spend their pocket change www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... ht @suellentrop.bsky.social

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Richard Epstein and Max Raskin say Americans are not thieves, and yet here they are trying to steal my time and attention with the dumbest horseshit I ever heard. Really makes you think.

"When you cut your sports section, it’s because you actually don’t want the paper to exist anymore." —Josh Marshall talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-yo...

Good. Shut that shit down

It is also very telling that throughout the episode, the feelings/consequences they are trying to understand belong almost exclusively to the pedophiles, not to the victims. In fact, the word 'victim' only shows up in the transcript TWICE.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Stephen Colbert has the most delightful case of senioritis I've ever seen

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tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

I think they penguin researchers/handlers have stockholm syndrome TBH. Like they get into penguin stuff cause they think their cute and by then they're so far in they can't get out so they resign themselves to being in a toxic situationship with a bird.

I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Wyden isn’t an alarmist! He’s not a lawmaker who manufactures drama and scandal to keep the attention on himself and his career! When he makes moves like this we should be very concerned!

nobody: not one person: me, trying to be normal after hours of reading the epstein files: the sultan of dubai is into hair

One thing the Epstein stuff has made clear yet again is that awful men believe that all men are awful.

These are horrible people and the people who follow them are either horrible or badly misguided.

Absolutely! I went through the same process a few years ago and can now happily report I haven't given Amazon a cent in over 2 years. Have you looked into Kobo Plus at all? I was never on kindle unlimited so not sure how the catalog compares, but it's one option.

Yep it isn’t easy! I think I can finally wean myself off Amazon prime and subscribe and save and all purchases but I had a false start and I still can’t give up kindle unlimited yet. But everything is doable in stages and even in stages it’s worth doing I tell myself.

Better than that cancel your Amazon Prime subscription! I had cancelled once then weakened and did a monthly subscription but this is irredeemable of Bezos so I pulled the plug permanently this time today. Democracy can’t be the price paid for convenience - I need to remind myself of that.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

these billionaires will punish the existing customer base of any media outlet for not wanting the product that the billionaires think they *should* want

/4 I continue to think that the constant theme is elite pundits being hostile to trends or discussions that criticize or hold accountable other elites.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

i dunno man maybe the political director of a cable news network should be a tad bit less credulous

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

there is an object permanence crisis in american news media

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

As high-profile people attempt to defend their connections to the most notorious child trafficker and child rapist of all time, this is a good reminder that it actually never was difficult to not associate with a pedophile sex criminal

one of the core values of the US Republican Party is tolerance and (sometimes celebration of) sexual violence. you don't elect a rapist to hold rapists accountable.

This is true and the extreme nature of how bad US elite impunity has gotten. But it's also because it's such a US-centered scandal. It implicates such a concentration of the most mega-powerful political and economic elites, their combined pull far exceeds Andrew plus a few specific politicians/CEOs.

well they didnt elect a govt with the express purpose of supporting pedophiles

Ezra Klein is not a fucking liberal, he’s an apologist who grifts on white liberals who don’t wish their bullshit to be confronted.