photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

It feels like a man staring straight at his own expiration date, frantically trying to staple his name to something permanent.

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

42 yo father of two and I don't know whether to be pleased or dismayed with how well my tastes are represented in this thread

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Well this is a nice surprise. And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general). deadline.com/2026/02/bald...

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

perfectly brutal description.

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

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Related: A lot of folks think having the maximally cynical read on everything makes them savvy, but a reflexive cynicism is just a kind of inverted naïveté

Trump wants to control the country’s future by rewriting its past. For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles. Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

he's a few years younger and a good deal richer, so I have to accept the unfortunate and demoralizing fact that JD Vance will probably outlive me

he looks like a tom and jerry character that got hit in the jaw with a wooden mallet before the character rearranged its face back

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

🚨 There are corgis at the Pro Bowl 🚨

roasted his ass

"say the line, Bart!" GOD FORGIVE WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

In honour of Melania, here's a reminder that the thing Kane is applauding in this popular gif isn't good. It's very bad! It's his wife singing poorly in an opera he paid for.

Republicans: We believe in free market capitalism The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear. Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!

I hate to dwell on the horrors, but more horrors about the links between the transphobic "Gender Critical" movement and Epstein...

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

man it took me a long time scrolling to realize catherine o'hara had died bc people were just posting pics and appreciation and like, why wouldn't you do that on a normal day

This machine yub nubs fascists.

Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

The Starfleet Academy show is legitimately good: bold choices that mostly land, Holly Hunter as a steady anchor, cadets with interesting backstories, and Paul Giamatti chewing scenery like he’s leaving teeth marks in the bulkheads. Recommend!

Looks like @coyotemedia.org is sending its mascot around

This Postman Situation is CONCERNING

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"

Total fascism is not possible in a society that both despises and is not afraid of the fascist forces

we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics

Once my 10-year-old daughter learned the scope of Rowling's hate campaign, within a week she took the Ravenclaw throw blanket off her bed, put the Potter LEGOs and board games in storage, and moved the books to an out of the way bottom shelf. I didn't ask or suggest that she do any of those things.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

Tim Doyle showing what these characters are all about.