I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

great look at all the people who orbit me

main takeaways from the super bowl are the seahawks defense is legit and the ad industry is washed

explaining my dream to my shrink

two super bowls in a row with drake getting slammed

emerson lake and palmer hive rise up for “the adventures of cliff booth” trailer

y’all want the government to support the arts and yet you’re mad about this 🤔🤔🤔

They’ll be hearing from his father

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

my chemical weapon

oh come on

@radleybalko.bsky.social hmm

when you buy a black untuckit shirt you get a free hosting gig on a sports gambling show

pre-ordered the hell out of this

hang on i got u [clicks on a file called “grifter list,” it takes ten minutes to open because it’s so big]

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

this is a phenomenal quote

“Never once in the many years I have been reporting on Wyden have I ever encountered a warning of his to be hyperbolic, let alone baseless.”

A couple weeks ago a good friend of mine told me, “you need a purpose in life.” After some soul searching, I decided my purpose in life will be a newsletter. I hope you like it because I do like receiving accolades.

please stop saying i have an e-reader problem

two-screening hockey and curling, so if i have to flee to toronto please welcome me

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

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

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

“play la marseillaise”

just gonna take a wild guess here that the rest of the press corps ignored this and continued to act like this is okay

preoccupied with whether or not/didn't stop to think etc

isles announcer brendan burke: horvat heads toward the bench, no doubt frustrated that he couldn’t put the puck in the net horvat (audibly): FUCK

a veritable who’s that

Clout-chasing pseudo-journalists really need to knock it off with posting old videos without acknowledging when they're from. When people see posts like this, the assumption is that this happened today/yesterday/this week. This video is from September. Do better, @onestpress.onestnetwork.com

wHy WoN’t LiBeRaLs DaTe Me

wHy WoN’t LiBeRaLs DaTe Me

addison rae is ashlee simpson except nobody cares about lip syncing anymore

hm just me i guess

this has to be read to be believed

nw

look whose life goal of not being rich and famous doesn’t seem so stupid now

@bdgrabinski.bsky.social!!

my "If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epstein and I would still have 99% of my mind available to think about other things" t-shirt has ppl asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

this is not the greg bovino i know www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

the jerk stop called

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

some truly amazing quotes in here

Full intro + video www.instagram.com/reel/DUJiilU...

goddamn i love tom morello