Totally anecdotal but one thing that bothers me about bluesky is that it feels more credulous than even pre-musk twitter, like there is an extremely, extremely large appetite for appealing lies and virtually none for debunking

The full story with a gift link (it's such a mess):

I can respect leaking military secrets to win a forum argument but to do it for profit is just unseemly.

Really can't overestimate how much of a difference it makes for somebody to make just one connection with somebody from a different cultural group.

truly the greatest thing currently running on the internet. it's good to be sincere, earnest, and lift up others imho

The summer games are people who are good at sports doing sports. The winter games are avatars of humanity spitting in the face of God, and curling.

How long until the real story on the Gallup approval poll leaks?

Reminder that the keep 4o cranks represent the smallest and least unhinged pro-AI constituency that will exist for the rest of your life. It’s about to get SUPER weird.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

That's why we have to talk to them like this.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic" 1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property 2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention 3) No masks 4) No secret police: Officers must have ID 5) Keep enforcement away from

Defense attorneys say law enforcement obtained "30 days" of camera images of Marimar Martinez's car all over Chicago. "They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store." They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.

watch us, bitch

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

If these had been agents under my purview I would have *immediately* reprimanded and reassigned them after taking that call. Immediately. And the fucking DNI of all people facilitated it. That is so far out of bounds I can hardly fathom it.

What the rest of the country needs to know is those days don’t exist in Minnesota right now. Every single day we hear about them terrorizing one of our neighbors, tear gassing the helpers, and driving around our city like maniacs

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A note from our editors:

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

I’m so old I remember when it was illegal to condition civil service hiring on supporting a particular President or tyrant.

we will win because people are outraged and furious and people will stay outraged and furious because it won't get better until we win. real crap tautology you ask me

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.

Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.

Trump has probably taken in some $5 bn from foreign governments and their middle men... each time with clear expectations from the US government, which Trump promptly delivers.

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

You could add up all the corruption in US history from every Administration and not even sniff Trump’s year in office. Every other President in history gets impeached unanimously for this. Every one.

I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.

Gawker was killed to protect pedophiles

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

hard to overstate just how much Houston nailed it with the dunking astronaut logo

The irony of my child’s sign they were so proud to bring this afternoon.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

“These practices reflect more than permissive risk tolerance. They amount to a breakdown in the application of distinction and proportionality as those principles are normally understood and enforced in modern Western militaries.”

This is an important, credible, and damning article about the IDF in Gaza by Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Raider colonel with combat experience from Fallujah and Mosul who maintained close contact with IDF officers during the war (while keeping a low public profile). Read the whole thing.

Thoughtful comments from former CIA Middle East hand @mpolymer1.bsky.social supporting @andy-milburn.bsky.social’s analysis of IDF conduct in Gaza (which predictably is coming under attack on Twitter from those you’d expect to attack it).

I wake up at 6am i remove my phone from three layers of Faraday fabric, and check Signal messages using a dedicated burner laptop running Tails OS from a thumb drive I don’t use a mouse; the movement of the cursor could be used for biometric identification