The news is a public good worth funding but our leaders have completely lost the plot. See: Amazon’s decimation of The Washington Post juxtaposed against its record breaking revenue. Amazon takes the No. 1 spot on the Fortune 500, ending Walmart’s 13-year run: fortune.com/article/amaz...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

The fundamental breaking of the social contract of neighbors helping neighbors feels evil in a way that's very hard to articulate.

My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year. 🤣😩

Happy lunar new year. 새해 복 많이 받으세요~

Hey, can we get some more news out of Saint Paul re: this?

saw this like two seconds after @graceishuman.bsky.social sent me this post anyway, if *I* believed hell was an actual place full of actual souls, I would certainly not act the way many of these people do

Today's halftime show prep is "El Apagón" (the blackout) Easy version: the song itself is 0:00-1:00 and 1:40-4:30 of this video Advanced version: watch the whole 22 minute documentary (w/ English subtitles) about displacement, gentrification, and the Puerto Rican electrical grid

Next is "El Apagón" (the blackout) which I could write a whole thread about on its own The song and its video (a mini documentary) are about a lot of things, including the problems with Puerto Rico's electrical grid, which have gotten worse since Hurricane Maria

Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

That Dunkin ad

Wax figures in the sun

AND CRRRRRRRRRYPTOOOOOOOOOO

The young boy who received the Grammy from Bad Bunny has been confirmed as child actor Lincoln Fox, who posted about it on Instagram: “l'Il remember this day forever! - it was my truest honor 🐰🏆🏈”

ICYMI: In 2024, @angelymercado.bsky.social wrote a review for us on Bad Bunny's “Una Velita”, a song which discusses this exact topic: www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...

Your periodic reminder that almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

WHY IS KATSEYE IN A CAR INSURANCE COMMERCIAL

Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny renewing the Italian/Latino Friendship Treaty of 1983, love to see it

Me rn:

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AI evangelists crying, wailing, knowing they could never prompt art like that.

Benito said "God Bless America," and then proceeded to name every country in South and North America. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

He did What a time to be alive

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

I was like...!

If anyone is wondering, like I was… myshakespeare.com/hamlet/the-s...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Washington Post laid off many of their staff photographers, too. Which seems missing from a lot of coverage I’ve read.

Washington Post —the paper of the nation's capital — cutting its sports section right before America hosts the World Cup is... just...

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

How much you love your kid? That’s how much the mother in detention loves hers. How much the mother in Palestine loves hers. Just because you can’t imagine the unimaginable- their separation; death- doesn’t mean so many in the world are not enduring it.

i do think that if you find yourself spending more than a few minutes a day obsessing over what another person who's largely politically aligned with you said or did on a social media website, you gotta go touch some grass (and i am talking about a lot of people here, including myself sometimes)

It’s important to understand that Dominicans and other immigrants are part of the fabric of Puerto Rican society — and ICE is currently terrorizing them on the island. Benito is speaking against what’s going on in the U.S. but also on its colony, where people literally did not vote for any of this.

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

This is one of the reasons I have argued that ending immigrant jail should be a core demand. The capacity to hold people in jails around the country makes it easier to arrest and deport. (It also kills people and holds them hostage, but I digress). www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The nuremberg race laws were legal, so they were ok! Amazing fucking take, congratulations bsky.app/profile/joel...

Levitsky and Ziblatt write abt how “strong“ conservative parties are a key ingredient for democratic stability but a key caveat always gets missed: it’s the responsibility of CONSERVATIVE elites to gatekeep their looney-bin, not liberals “helping (them) by elevating certain figures

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.