What does the DOD even have to “officially put Scouting America on notice” about? Is he confusing it with a branch of our military or something?

Can you imagine a world in which the Pentagon was just like “fine, whatever, Anthropic, we weren’t planning to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or build Skynet anyway.”

If the grand ideals of Western Civilization are so good for people, why do they have to be forced down everyone else’s throats by violently conquering them, instead of just spreading naturally the way Pokémon and Rock n Roll have? After all, nobody had to… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

If Ellison takes over WB, every perso should stop buying/subscribing/watching everything WB. At some point we've got to collectively prioritize human rights over being entertained. While you're at it, stop watching CBS, stop reading its site and posting its links on social.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I guess people have been warning us since about 1774 that if anyone doesn’t have rights, we also don’t have those rights, but we just wouldn’t listen, and now ICE is doing this kind of thing to “even to White people.” Surprised?

“I like Trump because I feel like he really sees me.” Yes, baby, con artists need to be able to see people as they actually are in order to successfully manipulate them.

“Die Reichen begreifen nie, daß es auch Arme gibt.” Fontane, “Vor dem Sturm” The rich never can quite grasp that there are also people who are poor.

“Allies find themselves relying less on official meetings at the State Department and National Security Council and more on back channels, personal relationships, cocktail parties, lunches, and the press.” Government of men, not laws 😥 www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I suspect that the declining populations of blue cities have more to do with de-industrialization and the bidding-up of housing prices by rich people and their children, than with the higher cost of union labor. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

If you’ve never had Campari in freshly-squeezed blood orange juice, you’re not utilizing being alive to the max.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

When the fascists are busy breaking every rule that maintains us in a state of civilization, you can’t keep on treating them as a normal participant in our civilization. Just like the Constitution of the United States, the rules of civilized behavior are not a suicide pact.

Wenn dein Englisch nicht hinreicht, um diesen Artikel zu verstehen, wie kommst du zurecht in ICE-Gefängnis, ohne Anwalt, ganz von Dolmetscher zu schweigen? Und wenn du diesen Artikel auf Englisch doch verstehst, wie bildest du dir es trotzdem ein, es wäre sinnvoll, nach den USA zu reisen?

Watch out, my fellow Atlanta-area liberals. This is not an empty threat. And unlike Minneapolis, there are plenty of right-wing gun nuts here too, some of whom would probably jump at the chance to join in as freelance vigilantes. We need some nonviolence training on a massive scale.

Just look at this picture. You’re already living in a military dictatorship. You just haven’t been its victim yet.

So, Hegseth is butthurt because Anthropic doesn’t want to build Skynet for him? We told you that turning over the government of our nation to the most ridiculous fools available could lead to the downfall of civilization, but you just… wouldn’t… listen….  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

“…jealous contempt for international cooperation.” People seem to have forgotten that, when the United States was created at our Constitutional Convention, there were no countries with “states” as administrative subdivisions. Our founders were using “state” in its…🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Funny how MAGA Republicans are so weak and cowardly that they think Muslims could somehow force them to choose between Muslims and dogs. Muslims will never force me to choose. Not even dogs could do it. 🙄

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

The author admits that, in some of their most shocking, revolutionary decisions, the current Supreme Court almost ignores the text they claim to be so enthralled to. Originalism functions as an excuse to enact Republican Party policy, not as a theory of… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

I just realized today that what makes “Take 5” sound so groovy is that it’s not just in 5; it’s played around a syncopated clave in five. Brubeck just added another beat to a typical West African bell pattern xx_xx_x_ to change it from four beats to five: xx_xx_x_x_. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDD...

A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it. My newest oped on on the lies Americans tell themselves to excuse state violence. zeteo.com/p/ice-migran...

“Nobody in the U.S. is thinking this is 1939.” Eye roll. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Concentration camps were invented by the British Empire during the Boer War in South Africa. They are not death camps, with the goal of efficiently killing everyone sent to them. They are for storing people without treating them as fully human, which means that… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/b...

It’s undeniable that the evolution of drones as weapons in the war against Ukraine has revolutionized warfare. If the US were both selfish and rational, we would be spending billions of dollars importing Ukrainian technology and expertise in order to modernize… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

MAGA dimwit Peter Navarro accidentally admitted Trump-MAGA's claim about immigrants taking jobs is a scam. And as @pkrugman.bsky.social notes, not only is job growth down; *manufacturing* jobs are also down. The whole MAGA story is in collapse. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2064...

“But unlike the ancients, they did so at a cost to their political legitimacy.” Politics is the art of settling conflicts between large groups of people nonviolently. States exist because their rulers believe that settling their differences with their… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

I just saw a miniature compacting garbage truck built on a flatbed chassis. So weird. Not only that, but I couldn’t get a single instance of one from an internet search. The world will never run out of strange, mildly interesting things.

As ICE and CBP testify in Congress, we have updated our tracker of deaths at the hands of immigration enforcers. 25 have been killed with another 18 seriously injured, and there have also been 44 deaths in ICE/CBP custody. Wondering if this will come up at the hearing. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

Are you prepared to GENERAL STRIKE? When the GOP tries to decapitate elections, we must go nuclear and SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN. @gallego.senate.gov is leading the way. Please RP. 💙

Actually, White millionaires and billionaires own the NFL. They control it and they are responsible for what the Superbowl is like, including the halftime show. White millionaires and billionaires ruined the Superbowl for you. Sorry you’re too submissive to understand that, Ms. Loomer.

Evidence of what Democrats are doing: www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

This is who Jeff Bezos is. While he just spent $75 million bribing Trump with a Melania movie, he also fired all the Washington Post correspondents, including Lizzie Johnson who reported from Ukraine. Make a difference — boycott Bezos’ Amazon and Prime Video today.

This.👇

Does this actually look to you like “the index is down for the year,” or like “there’s some noise in a curve that shows the index has made huge gains in 2025 but is now gradually leveling off”? Is this caption likely to make you invest like Warren Buffet, or like a day trader?

“…target of 35 percent representation of racial minorities in its U.S. work force.” Since 61%of the US population is White, this is a plan to discriminate against everyone who is not White, by giving White people a quota of 5% more share of the workforce of Nike…🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Walmart just became a trillion dollar company. Its owners, the Waltons, are billionaires many many times over. The starting pay at Walmart is below the living wage. Many of its employees have to work two jobs and rely on SNAP. It’s time for a universal basic income Abolish the billionaire class

I’m going to play devil’s advocate and suggest that Trump is indeed acting on bad advice, just like all the suckers who voted for him. It’s well-documented that he’s addicted to Fox News and social media, just like his followers. By inflaming and manipulating our… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

“…the Fed’s ‘gain-of-function monetary policy’ “ How can someone claiming to be a responsible, authoritative voice in the public debate on economic policy use this kind of inflammatory, deceptive rhetoric? “Gain-of-function” studies in virology induce mutations… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Gregory in den Berken! What a name! My Dutch name means “from the fen,” but nowadays the temptation to change it to “in the berks” is strong. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Weil Deutsch nicht meine Muttersprache ist, muss ich ab und zu ein Wort nachschlagen. Gerade musste ich „Schnurrer“ nachschlagen. Ergebnis: „Schnorrer.“ Was natürlich wiederum seinen Ursprung in „Schnarre“ hat. Alles bloß so ‘ne Schnerre, meiner Meinung nach.

They were afraid that Obama would come for their guns. He didn’t. They were afraid Biden would come for their guns. He didn’t. They were sure Trump wouldn’t come for their guns. He won’t. He’ll just kill anyone who has a gun and seems to oppose tyranny.

Dinah Washington is singing about how she’s got a dentist who’s over seven feet tall. I suppose it’s supposed to be sexy but it’s going to give me nightmares.

The dominant culture we had lost half of the women women because they got sick of being treated like children or whores. It lost Black Americans because it subjected them to a reign of terror that Hitler studied and copied. It lost young people when it sent them… 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

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