So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die

if you want to actually like any of the protagonists Wuthering Heights is not the book for you if you are just here for Mess it is an incredible time

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

if the story was "The Olympic Village has run out of toilet paper" for the fifth event in a row, someone would be looking into what went wrong, but because it's condoms and people are weirdos about sex it's a punchline Sorry to be so annoying about this, I work in harm reduction

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

It's true these spaces are only being used this way because of a noxious combination of money being no object and safety not being on the list of priorities. But on a deeper level, Sarah is right. Every time we're told something "can't" be done it only means they're not willing.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

I love Freddy D 'cause he's brilliant, flawed, messy, and fly. So totally human, which means he's also immensely frustrating at times. My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business. Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Trumpists do not believe that people who disagree with them are entitled to a voice in government.

WATCH — @gomez.house.gov interviews Rep. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social : “I think 🇺🇸 has been lied to about who these people are in ICE detention. That stereotype has so consumed what we think of immigrants that we’ll put a 5-year-old kid who’s done nothing wrong in prison.”

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends" Indeed. www.science.org/content/blog...

Meet Teddy, a serval born October 26, 2025, at the Nashville Zoo. He'll be an animal ambassador once he's settled in his new home. [Via Cincinnati Zoo]

I do really wish more reporters would just ask "Speaker Johnson, do you think it’s appropriate for the Speaker of the House—third in line of succession to the presidency—to be so consistently unfamiliar with current events?"

Ominous bird valentines.

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

… and then what??? What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?* Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone. *next skeet

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

This is a long thread but you should read it. In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this

Hang on, that's not a press report, that's just a summary of "99 Luftballoons."

In “Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott came out as gay 50 years ago, on February 10, 1976. (At the time, it was a revolutionary move.) Here’s that strip and the ensuing dailies:

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The political dynamics of 2025 were shaped by Democrats and Republicans over-reading Trump's victory in the same way. That turns out to be a problem for a LOT of rich and powerful people who made a very large bet on the theory that MAGA had won the culture war. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.

He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.

I had a whole thread about the Minnesota Dildo Rebellion yesterday, which I ended with famous quotes about revolution updated to the current moment. I was very proud of my work, but I think only one person saw them. BEHOLD MY WORK, BLUESKY.

We have to get members of Congress inside these facilities to report on what’s happening. It’s essential for human rights reasons - this surely isn’t good - and it’s also good politics, because whatever they find is going to be bad enough to further tank support for immigration enforcement.

A reminder: there is not a single housing market in America—not one city, state, or county—where someone relying on SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment. Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.

Incarcerating babies is an evil, morally bankrupt practice that calls into question any commitment our nation claims to have about the preciousness of children, the sanctity of family, and the importance of community.

More of this for every god damn interview, with every god damn politician. Both sides of isles. Thanks.

oh! you can click on them to make them jump!

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