Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

"So you hate waffles?" is def competitive discourse posturing but that's only one stripe of a genuine reading comprehension crisis (or perhaps one that's always existed but for which we now have mass evidence). Online and off it's striking how many people just can't follow the *point* of an argument

When we topple the Trump regime we should claw back every dime his family pilfers from the U.S. Treasury. Include all the fines & restitution he allowed fraudsters to get out of paying via corrupt pardons. Costing Americans billions. Stop MAGA now.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you

The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 …1/

I desperately miss everyone standing 6 feet away from me

The greatest lie the devil ever told is "keep me signed into this app"

I think shit like ICE kidnapping children will be the lasting legacy of America. Like Germany had other things before world war 2. Like you ask about German history in 1900 you’re gonna hear about the printing press, operas, train industrialisation. After 1945? We all kinda zero in on one thing…

Reading that propublica piece earlier I was thinking that this is one of the darkest moments in the history of a country known for its ability to forget its many crimes. I hope this haunts us and shames us until the end of time.

I really don't think a lot of elected Dems understand how radicalized a lot of people like me are right now. Like the only debates about ICE and DHS I want to hear from my candidates is about who has the better plan to dismantle both and who will prosecute the ICE goons better.

The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.

You know what? Let me give y'all a fucking example. Calling something "racist" or "white supremacist" will literally be interpreted by white people (broadly construed) as adjacent to an ad-hominem attack because of how we've culturally organized our understanding of racism and white supremacy.

a reminder that it's free to be kind

The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted. Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral. They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

@zer0mass.bsky.social yes hello, alleged antifa pope here, can you please fix my gamecube? it keeps whispering at me to commit property damage and overthrow the united states government

We were fine. And yet even Dems agreed to a draconian immigration bill-- which Trump rejected because it would help Dems. They're just tearing the country apart because they can.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

i love the current white house strategy of “daily undeniable evil scandals that make them look evil and insane” i think they should keep this up

I hope all 23 Democratic Attorneys General open up simultaneous investigations into Elon's extraordinary lawlessness and depravity.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

Counterpoint: If you nominate Gavin Newsom, I won’t vote for him.

They're trafficking children

i agree with this, as long as by “take accountability” you mean “prepare your horrid souls for damnation because you will find no quarter on this Earth”

I can't believe they canceled *checks notes* Jeffrey Epstein

This is the perfect Ken Klippenstein story

You start to notice after awhile that the same people who pretend to oppose fascism while laying down for it are the same people who are either in the Epstein files or take money from and protect the people in the files.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

Sometimes men really do mistake other men's misogyny for virtue—they think it's evidence of intellect or integrity.

Can’t wait to see what Mike Johnson hasn’t looked into this week.

They're so ANGRY that we take care of each other, and not just angry. So CONFUSED by it. And that is why we will win

What horrible people ICE agents are. The worst of the worst.