1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Love how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.

NEW: Children are developing encephalitis as the South Carolina measles outbreak continues. @emilymullin.bsky.social has more:

Money can buy happiness. If Elon Musk built a rocket and shot himself into the fucking sun that would generate massive happiness.

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”

Is there a urologist around? I want to ask a question about something I am writing.

Academics and pundits spend too much time quibbling over whether the Trump regime is “authoritarian” or “fascist.” What is not debatable: a regime that abuses, terrorizes, and neglects children — and engages in a cover-up of monstrous sex crimes against kids — is evil.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Q: What are you doing about a systematic coverup of horrific gender-based violence? A: Hey! You’re a bitch! You should smile more!

Seriously, it shouldn't be hard to identify the other reporters in the Oval Office and to ask them why they remain silent when the president of the United States verbally attacks one of their colleagues.

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

The best thing people who learned Black history as adults *ahem* can do in Black History Month is refuse the mic, & pass it to people who learned Black history at the feet of their elders as kids.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

So there is no autism epidemic caused by vaccines?

You don't reform this. You disband it, then you put it on trial.

Been thinking of her in particular since I learned she's on the spectrum. Knowing how much this experience has probably made her want to retreat to the familiar makes me admire the courage it took to talk about this so much.

I don’t understand why colleagues stay silent when this happens.

These people are terrorists. Full stop.

On behalf of all mothers of all autistic children, everywhere: Fuck. All. The. Way. Off.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Whisky Soup

More attention here, please.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

An utterly irredeemable political party full of morally bankrupt cowards

Part of my book on backlash politics since Reconstruction focuses on the shoring up of Jim Crow in the early 20th century through a combination of Confederate memorialization and the demonization of Reconstruction, and the founding of the Alfalfa Club in 1913 fits right in to that timeline.

The entire press corps should walk out, not come back, & we simply shouldn’t tolerate this. Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

I’ve written an editorial for @consequence.bsky.social revealing the inspiration behind my song ‘City of Heroes’ and reflecting on the role that music can play in the struggle against oppression consequence.net/2026/02/bill...

I propose we hereafter refer to tech company surveillance proponents as COINTELBROs.

They should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.

Christopher Nolan has cast a Genovian as Penelope and a Bostonian as Odysseus. And they will be speaking English, a language that did not exist in antiquity. This whole production is pure chaos.

"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Find myself singing “wood duck on a big wheel”🎤 like I’m Lucinda Williams singing Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

I'm pretty sure this didn't happen so hard it actually caused things to un-happen.

Call me old fashioned, but at the bare minimum polite society needs to see someone taking responsibility and demonstrating both contrition and reparation. Saying it’s all been a smear campaign and he’s innocent isn’t that. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

It is hard to fathom how inhuman, sadistic and disgraceful it is for government agents to be lurking at elementary schools to seize kids and use them as hostages. To send little kids to concentration camps. To refuse needed medications. Truly, American Gestapo.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

You nerds will appreciate this. I got married on Saturday! It was wonderful. It was at a rare and historic book library, and we leaned into the theme. Table centerpieces were books checked out of our library based on our interests, themed to that tables’ guests. And Eileen made paper roses.

Harsh on Zeus here. Who amongst us hasn’t, when trying to hide from our harpy jealous wife, disguised ourselves as a swan, pretended to flee an eagle, landed in a beautiful woman’s lap, and accidentally fucked her?

No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don't want to dunk on this person in particular, but...lots of theorists and analysts have explained this, including James Baldwin. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/not-all-wh...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes