As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better

It's a bit odd for me that a religious leader in Europe is more aligned with my views on science than theoretically secular leaders in America

Derogatory

and this is adele's best song, a cover of the steeldrivers and bonus track from 21, presumably under some kind of limited now-lapsed license because it's no longer available to stream anywhere and on good speakers this one sounds kind of off from the original too

DHS has never gotten much respect in law enforcement and intelligence communities (in the latter it was basically second to last in the pecking order). Now it’s suddenly flush with cash and high priority and I think it’s very much botching the opportunity at every turn.

Even the grandchildren are using public property to run little grifts

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

are these stories about reading trump administration officials phones in public just a consequence of iphones having amazing cameras now or are these guys just particularly incompetent with opsec

“The NFL sucks” is an interesting position to stake out. Don’t know how that’s going to go. The NFL is … pretty popular.

Newsome is what he is … but I have to admit this is pretty great!

You KNOW Musk was ready for the ADL blowback after the inauguration and couldn't believe it himself when they went to bat for him. Then again no one else could believe they went to bat for him either

If you said this exact combination of words to a cop at a traffic stop, they wouldn't even waste time with the breathalyzer.

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

This is horrifyingly bad. Replace some nouns and quotes, but see Law Dork (and subscribe!) for a response: www.lawdork.com/p/our-leadin...

It’s not even screen out. They get identified and elevated as “balance” and then drown out all others.

A central problem that we still don’t talk about enough is that nearly all of our elite societal institutions - universities, media outlets, corporations, corporations, political parties, etc. - have proven increasingly unable or unwilling to screen out lying grifting charlatans like this

a lot of these people do not believe anything, not really, and think that is true of the people they cover as well

This is it. This is exactly right.

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

The "military is woke" stuff actually started because they didn't help Trump do a coup in 2020. That's what their actual issue is and why they gave that speech. They want to purge the military of anyone who might not follow an order to kill other americans

"These young Koreans see their struggle as a modern crusade. And as their predecessors did, they regard America as a staunch Christian ally against morally corrupting influences. Their oppressor is no longer colonial Japan, however, but the forces of multiculturalism, feminism, and progressivism."

As an AI truther, this article felt very validating still on my library’s hold list for the book AI Snake Oil, though 😡

Every year @monarchwatch.bsky.social offers a great deal on milkweed starter plugs & I'm gonna hype them when they become available early next yr. They thrive in SO many environments. This yr once again I raised & tagged monarch butterflies like this 1, hope they are heading to Mexico right now 🌸🦋

The world can be overwhelming but just 1 plant can be habitat or food. Last week, had the great good fortune of walking around lower Manhattan with @anildash.com & we talked about how community gardens can bring people together. Here are some beginner garden tips fwiw docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Something to lower your heart rate & maybe give you hope: You can help out pollinators & other wild critters no matter where you live (if you want to, that is!) This piece on monarch butterflies, gardens, green-space advocates & biodiversity in NYC is very much my jam 💚🦋 www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

What @notalawyer.bsky.social said.

With China buying soybeans elsewhere, North Dakota farmers are running out of space to store their crop. Says one: “You're looking at about a $100 to $150 loss per acre on every acre of soybeans planted.” He expects losses could top $400,000 this year on his own farm www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

i was at the knitting factory hannibal burress show where the club was unexpectedly closed and they did the show in the basement of the williamsburg kinkos instead. he should've just bought that kinkos tbh, seemed like a more sustainable business.

"When Trump won, Democrats responded by becoming more liberal and human" is not precisely what happened but damn I wish it were

Imagine watching the last 25 years of politics and thinking kneejerk opposition to the proposals of the party in power doesn't win elections

Here's the thing you also shouldn't vote for Cuomo because if he has committed any crimes (and who are we kidding) the FBI is going to find out and use those to flip him just like they flipped Adams

saw the kimmel bit and am mostly just struck that it’s a very specific, brief moment in a country’s history when a comedian targeted by the president both is yanked off the air and returns to antagonize him again. eventually only half of that scenario is going to win the day. we will decide which

suddenly the tattoo winks at you.

Imagine being at an orgy and you see a tattoo of Nixon on a back among the heaving pile of flesh

I’m sure you know about stone and manafort

Call me old fashioned, but aren’t both parts of this relationship currently, uh, married to other people?

It's wonderful when two sociopaths with the mindset of serial killers find each other.

It’s called a polycruel.

Yes and also we all aren't outrage jukeboxes, you can't just press a button and have us be outraged on request. We're all allowed to focus on what we want and where we feel our voices will be effective right now, and trust that others will fight the other fights worth fighting. It's a group effort.

Fuel shortages are sweeping across Russia. Some stations have been without petrol for two weeks. And this isn’t just a regional issue - there’s even rationing in the suburbs of Moscow. Feels like we might be moving towards a tipping point.

Ukrainian drones hit the main oil processing unit at Salavat Petrochemical Plant. #explodey

Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech. I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

I bailed when they put Thomas Chatterton Williams on their masthead and I haven’t regretted it since

Here, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social gets to the heart of how poorly equipped most newsrooms are in understanding the true nature of online discourse these days — as evidenced by CNN’s hamfisted interview of Jack Posobiec, along with MSM’s inability to interpret Tyler Robinson’s slogans

These are not supposed to be the only options in a free society!

It’s because it seems so empty and innocuous and emerged from some of the worst stomach churning dehumanization you can imagine so the contrast is a chasm between the fun it is now and the horror it was born from

The thing white (and non-Black) people need to understand is that the past was exponentially more racist than we are allowed to understand in present day. Why is everything about race? Because white people put race into *everything.* You don’t know because it was too embarrassing to explain.

The term “cake walk” is racist. Carnival dunk tanks? Bafflingly racist. Booker T. Washington visited the WH once and for *years* afterwards one of the most popular songs in the country was “N-word at the WH” which was just the n-word like forty times?! Tipping is race-based as is rent on the 1st.

I love how they go out of their way to explain Alito is very careful lawyer and precise judge, then pivots to saying Alito has never explicitly said the President is Law, without considering at all someone that was careful would never be so blatant and explicit.