Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

Breaking news: Notorious Pedophile Joins Pedophile Party

This seems not so good.

If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...

"Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open." By 1245 ET, S&P 500 futures had surged to a new record high with this $325 mn trade profiting +$50 mn in 4 hours. That's +$50 million over the same exact timeline as oil traders made +$70 million on shorts. What's happening here? Insider trading.

So Trump made that announcement just to pump the market on a Friday afternoon. Truly the funniest timeline. Don the Con through and through.

liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0' my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Don't encourage me, my family will leave me if I hike any slower or take more iNaturalist pictures.

JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

China invested in solar and petro energy alternatives. The US invested in, ah, well...

I know that I am a China person so it may be an “when all you have is a hammer” type situation, and I do still think there are a massive structural issues in the Chinese economy, but still, right now, it is very much looking like this meme

Elect a clown get a circus.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

NK looking at Iran like:

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

it's not right vs left. it's the rich vs the rest of us.

We need to redefine “national security” and what makes us safe. Making sure people are fed and housed makes us safe. Healthcare makes us safe. Renewable energy and climate solutions make us safe. Imagine if we funded these instead of bombs.

Platner is a trust litmus test for me at this point. I will remember and so will a lot of other people.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

fully doing the meme

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to the Israel: "Anyone who wants to leave Israel should do so today."

China urges its citizens to leave Iran immediately.

This is how billionaire silicon valley tech bros feel about American tech workers:

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL): Trump's name appears in the Epstein files more often than Harry Potter's name appears in the Harry Potter series

Only a fucking moron goes to war, of any sort, with the Canadians. Have you seen those people?? How they live??

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is lying his ass off about his family's deep ties to Epstein and how many visits he's made to Child Rape Island Nutlicker Lutnick's sister, Edie Lutnick, was a founding member of Ghislaine Maxwell's TerraMar (money laundering) Project that launched in 2012.

And like Rome, it would be nice if the eugenicist billionaire empire fell.

We've got a new read on the AI boom. Google could shell out more in capital expenditures (read: data centers) in 2026 than Exxon Walmart Boeing Intel UPS FedEx GM Caterpillar Ford Tesla AT&T Verizon T-Mobile & the biggest US defense cos and railroads Combined. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

Case in point. bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He received the endorsement of nearly every major organization representing the police with this message. In 2024.

And the thin blue line will still protect these guys because local cops will choose Punisher face over protecting the public every time.

From the same link: “ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but [police chief] O’Hara refused, sources said. O’Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.”

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it. Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.

I don’t think immediate execution is a reasonable punishment for annoying the heavily-armed masked agents of the state.

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

The Brits - “Oh my god we may have to develop nuclear war plans against the United States” The French - “OH HO HO TIME TO DUST OFF OUR NUCLEAR WAR PLANS WITH THE UNITED STATES”

Maybe I'm a dreamer...