I have had enough of benevolence. I am not here to feed your better angels. I am here to maximalize your potential for chaos and self-actualization through spite. IT'S TIME FOR OUR 2026 NEW YEARS RETRIBUTIONS! WHO/WHAT ARE WE TAKING VENGEANCE UPON IN THE COMING MONTHS?

Woah.

I would like to personally thank Governor Greg Abbott for empowering California to rid ourselves of Darryl Issa.

"I could smell the onions and mustard"

Los Angeles is celebrating another Dodgers World Series win—but behind the confetti is a billionaire owner with financial ties to ICE detention centers and immigrant-tracking software. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Inside you there are two Garys.

Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein is so, so, so good. I legit shed a tear at the end.

H/T to @thescibabe.bsky.social, I have now used the word "howthefuckever" enough for my phone to have learned it. Good job, phone.

I found my mind wandering through recent-ish history, when the Ukrainian protesters threw Viktor Yanukovych out of power and ransacked his presidential compound.

Right. I should maybe use this occasionally.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

That's a new one.

"The HHS took the meds from my hands" also scans beat for beat with a rather famous lyric from a Ramones song, and now I might need to write a full parody.

@muellershewrote.com I didn't hear Adam Klasfeld mention it, but IIRC Tim Mak is was a combat medic as well. Worth mentioning because he's not just an incredible journalist, but a veteran. And his on the ground coverage in Ukraine included "war dogs" at the end, where he'd post dog pics.

Start funding Democrats on the ground at the state and county level. If anyone can get through to their neighbors, it's the people already doing the work on the ground.

Chag #Pesach Sameach to my tribesfolk who join me in celebrating in the hopes for a future with a strong, *peaceful* Israel that can remain a welcoming home to all of us for generations to come. We're not there yet, but, L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim.

How do tariffs work? Are we in a trade war? Is it possible to make iPhones in America without raising the costs? Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the global supply chain. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGk...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

A liar's worst enemy: data. This is on the heels of Canada calling bullshit on his dealerships claiming to sell a literally impossible number of vehicles in order to claim $43m in rebates.

Strom Thurmond and Elon both taking an L on the same day is a hell of a white supremacy bankshot

Oh thank the fucking gods.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. -William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1) @corybooker.com sets a new record and inherits the torch, bringing forward his light in this dark moment. #SenatorCoryBooker

Hillary is still showing up. We can, too.

This is *extremely* alarming — White House fires a career federal prosecutor because he (1) went after a politically connected businessman and (2) criticized Trump during a 2020 congressional bid. “White House fires a career prosecutor” is itself unprecedented. www.latimes.com/california/s...

my husband just sent me this

The devil's bargain of access journalism has come due.

It's a truly bizarre form of cognitive dissonance to be studying for an SEC exam when there's a non-zero chance the SEC is wiped out before my test date.

Everything Trump is doing right now is designed to ask the question "so who's going to stop me? You?" And unless the Supreme Court says "the courts are, and you're going to listen," we're going to have a bad situation where nobody likes the only answer left to us.

“If you must fall, take them with you” #sygnin #darkart

I miss irony. Y'all remember irony? Can we get that back, please?

This is phenomenally terrifying.

Fascinating look at how deeply surveilled we all are and how dogged law enforcement can follow the tiniest bread crumbs to capture perpetrators they prioritize. In other news, the person who planted pipe bombs in Washington DC ahead of January 6th is still unidentified.

[Aretha Franklin voice] 🎶The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup I check to see if he has died. While combining my hair now And fighting off fresh despair now I check to see if he has died... 🎶

Meta, and generally every tech bro who evangelizes theft for their AI, needs to be held to account for this.

1. EXCLUSIVE On Wednesday, the Social Security Administration secretly enacted a new policy to require 75K more people to visit field offices every week "The havoc and destruction they’re causing is no doubt going to break the agency and hurt the public," an SSA source said 🧵

"Why aren't more Americans protesting?" Because the police are armed the way other country's militaries are, they overwhelmingly support the President, and the laws are making it so anything we do will be considered a crime. Also, for protests to work, the government had to actually care.

French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann posted this on Xitter following Caroline Leavitt's BS response to his call for the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty to France: Dear Americans, Since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:

We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position

youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ Another reason to avoid Tesla. Not that you need one.

This is a brilliant idea.

Fuck. The fatality rate for bird flu in cats is around 90% (depending on the study). Looks like they don’t know yet how the cats got infected but one of the owners is a vet. I keep worrying that vet offices and vet hospitals might become a big transmission area.

Yet another reason to love @marketplace.org: At the end of yesterday's program, they played a clip of Goebbels Barbie saying "tariffs are a tax break!" and then @kairyssdal.bsky.social said "That's a lie. A tariff is a tax on the consumer." That is stand-up journalism and deserves to be celebrated.

The only thing Steve Bannon should be on is fire.

The time span between action and consequences is actually short enough that maybe these dumbfucks will actually be capable of connecting the dots. Whether they will or not...well, I have my suspicions.

Cuomo’s candidacy is a brazen attempt to erase the rights so many women-who we honor during Women’s History Month-fought for. It is an insult to the women who came forward, risking their careers & reputations to hold a powerful man accountable. Read full my Op-Ed👇 www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/08/c...

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There's Stuff Happening Where You're Not Looking www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/07/a...

BBC is reporting that a WWII era bomb was discovered—if I'm reading this correctly—ON THE TRACKS near Gare du Nord station in Paris. At this point, the timeline is just fucking with us. Nazi era bombs? Come the fuck on.