"If there was a magic revenue stream that could make arts organizations self-sustaining, we would have found it by now."

Man, this keeps getting weirder and weirder

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The Bible says a lady turned into a pillar of salt one time, so I wouldn't necessarily treat it as a science textbook.

Excited to report that every answer to "I know the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into" is giving me an existential crisis Are the astrophysicists all right Are you guys all right out there Is this normal for you

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

All this for a VICE President

This might be the funniest set of replies I’ve ever seen

Stuck a share size pack of peanut butter M&Ms in my coat pocket during my layover and managed to forget about them until my second flight landed in Boston, so now I have a snack for the 2 hr drive home. Thanks, 5 hours ago me!

How dare

Imagine the reaction from patriotic Americans if another country's broadcaster did this

man I’m sorry, for whatever else you can critique about American liberals from the left, “they love having meetings” isn’t one you really have room to make

Somebody who says “vote for what is morally right” is not actually talking about your morality as an individual. They are talking about the morality of the policies you support on their behalf, as their rep. You’re never going to convince anybody that’s out of bounds.

Apologies for being a stream of bad news these days, but since a lot of people on here are my irl friends and I don't really have a better way of making announcements than this website: My mother passed away earlier this week, six days after my brother.

I mean, I defy anyone to tell me it was a mistake.

So, this is a long shot, but: I'm looking to hire a developer/programmer for my non-profit arts org for ongoing part-time maintenance and troubleshooting work on a proprietary database that's coded primarily in VB[dot]net. (I know, long story, it is what it is.) Would appreciate leads/reposts!

we at the republican party want a small federal government. so small it can squeeze into every aspect of your life. this will cost a lot of tax money

People say it's too hard to cook at home and I say maybe you just aren't trying hard enough

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

Imagine being this much of a bootlicking loser

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

"blamed on a staffer"

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

One of the flight attendants on the plane I’m currently boarding is having an absolute meltdown over the PA.

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife

"If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop."

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

I have never seen a state government so wildly, willfully, and confidently incompetent as New Hampshire's, and I have lived in Alabama.

Same thing

What Bannon is proposing is illegal. Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Washington Post has only a single arts critic left - everyone else got fired today, along with all three arts editors. (There are still a couple of excellent arts reporters.) I was so upset I dusted off my blog to have my say: annemidgette.com/blog/f/a-req...

Not enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop. ICE must be abolished.

I KNEW IT

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

NY Times with searing look at the trauma ICE is inflicting on local children and families: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u... (gift link)

No, Democrats want ICE abolished because we’re not falling for this shit anymore. “Please take accountability, Nazis,” is not a thing. We don’t need more body cam footage of the government killing people. With us or against us, Chuck.

Male Republicans, by generation: Great-Great-Grandpa: supported Lindbergh, was actual Nazi Great-Grandpa: reported neighbors to HUAC for Catholicism Grandpa: misunderstood Blazing Saddles Dad: misunderstood Rage Against the Machine Son: Deputy Assistant, Memes for Trump admin, is actual Nazi

Very much beside the point, but why does Mike Johnson's voice not match his face AT ALL? Every time I see a clip of him, it's like someone else is throwing their voice into his dumb little mouth.

Someone outside the US: So, let me get this straight. The groundhog... Me: Is clairvoyant, yes

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

extremely funny to do this with a 14 seat restaurant that’s been open for 75 years

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

Today in Minnesota federal agents stationed themselves in dark SUVs along school bus routes during afternoon dropoff so they might have the opportunity to abduct and deport children and their parents

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

So the next step from democrats is: “it is illegal to do this without approvals and in 2029 we will hold all companies that take part criminally liable and seize all their assets to pay for restoration.”

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LEFT OFF FRANK THOMAS. THAT'S THE BIG HURT. THAT MAN IS BASEBALL

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.