Bless these kids for standing up and accidentally exposing this 57-year-old loser to the world.

If it weren't for activists, we wouldn't know most of what's going on in our country.

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Update: The federal indictment against Kyle Wagner confirms our reporting, that Wagner was arrested and charged with cyberstalking right-wing agitator Jayden Scott (who allegedly stalked a Minnesota reporter before this) and NOT federal agents. /

the costco CEO is a 40-year-veteran of the company who rose from being a forklift driver to the top, the firm has made a public point of defying Trump's racism, and by god they will make sure that the hot dogs have ketchup. www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/b...

It’s literally this easy.

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

There’s just so much sadness in this photo. This should have been the night of their lives.

Can't believe this would happen with tech built by indiscriminately vacuuming up all of the Internet, running a billion Plinko simulations, then training by sociopaths who can't even understand culture much less appreciate humanity.

"Plans for a proposed federal immigration detention facility in New Hampshire were scrapped by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday after hundreds of protesters took to the streets over the weekend in protest." www.rawstory.com/ice-26753150...

A snowball fight is not a crime. White people please be serious.

Hey this is my friend I've talked to her very extensively and she is a front line protester and I believe in her.

You cannot imagine the nightmares happening in there. That's why these facilities say they 'need' prior notice before inspection. It's going to break people's brains when we find out all that was happening. And all because Chuck gave them your tax money

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Using taxpayer money to investigate snowball fights. GET THE FUCK.

Close.

I try to explain to my students Ferdinand Kronawetter's coining of the phrase "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" in his April 1889 speech in Vienna. Now I can just show them this Elon Musk tweet.

It’s been a month and none of the killers have been imprisoned or even named and our elected leaders in this state claiming they beat fascism by secretly like capitulating with ice. The secret police have impunity to murder us in the street while elected democrats do nothing but theater.

HEY TORONTO: Help me brainstorm purposeful, real-impact extracurriculars for a frustrated and justice-minded 11th grader. Volunteer opportunities, training programs (automotive? engineering? environmental? assume they've already engaged with the TRCA) Not just for volunteer hours, for uni apps 🫶

the wildest thing about this is that there is a recorded example of this anti-vaxx behavior from anti-trans bigots: littman's "rogd" "study" about a made up diagnosis, "rapid onset gender dysphoria" which exclusively polled anti-trans parents was used to build the foundations of today's bigotry

Even as ICE sparks rising public horror with its tactics and killings, a raft of companies that have never before worked with the federal government are signing up to work with the agency. And its money won’t run out anytime soon. trib.al/te3qFMj

it's molting season for RFK Jr

Christ.

The MAHA influencers are now eating raw chicken to "detox"

Wow, this sounds truly horrific—wait, what’s the doctor’s name

"Oakland teachers union votes to authorize strike" Power to the teachers! For the kids. For Oakland ✊✊✊! Lowest pay in the county and 1/6 of teachers leave each year currently due to lack of support. We'll walk the pickets too & bring em coffee and donuts like always oaklandside.org/2026/02/23/o...

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

Every single person who claims LGBTQ people are a danger to children is a pedophile themselves. Every. Single. Time.

this is drake behavior

"of course people should have known, he didn't hide any of it!" is a valid complaint but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people self-evidently did not understand what they were voting for and they don't like it

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

At the top of my "Mass Deportation: If You Do It" piece from July 2024 is the reason that nowhere in the piece does it say anything about people actually being deported:

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

Images of Omaha no. 2, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie.

Bluesky functions as heir to the 2002-2009 progressive blogosphere. It's more cohesive, more effective and more fun than X's hive of scum and villainy. It also makes many X users apoplecticly angry that we're all happy with this arrangement and I love that for them.

They are stealing children in order to brainwash them into becoming the next generation of psychopathic fundamentalists, and that is not an exaggeration or a conspiracy theory.

I wrote the cover story for the new issue of @gambitweekly.bsky.social — According to a class action lawsuit, the state of the healthcare at Angola penitentiary has led to inmates’ disfigurement, exacerbation of ailments, and even death. I unpacked how things got the way they are!

Take it from me: Earnestly giving a shit to the point of cringe can bring absolutely beautiful things into your life

This is happening in cities all over the country through direct gifts, police foundations, or nonprofits—rich people are forcing an agenda of mass surveillance and elected officials never say no to “free money”

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

Dear fellow childless women, my challenge to you is this: don't justify your choice by reassuring people that you're an "auntie" or that you spend a lot of time playing with or nurturing children. You're just reinforcing the toxic notion that childcare is what women are meant for.

From a good thread with plenty of food for thought.

here have some news of some people being good neighbors, both the guy who jumped in and the others who rushed to help

im going to give credit where credit is due: through his incredulity at this point, trump has really brought crystalline clarity to the disease at the center of our american system. well put sir

I would bet money this woman thinks she’s anti-racist because she sees herself as trying to help these poor dumb negros get out of a “bad” school.

I and my USG colleagues would go to external meetings where lunch would be served and to follow the rules we had to pay for our sandwiches.

Also the SBC:

false: see “Repo! The Genetic Opera”

Stew Peters is also largely known for Holocaust denial (and no it is not subtle) if you want to know the media environment in which King is currently swimming share.google/GSuW9BDPnuwu...

worth pointing out that "Jews are inauthentic" is a major antisemitic trope, which is why antisemites like Carlson and King love to claim Jews aren't real Jews—rather than just pointing out that Netanyahu is a genocidal monster, which really seems sufficient.