Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

the FBI deleted this tweet might’ve hit a little close to home for the director

Tucker Carlson would lead four shows ranting about how (((coastal elites))) made this movie to mock the white Americans who bravely settled the west. Kid Rock would try to shoot a DVD box set and miss. MTG would challenge Mel Brooks to a Crossfit pull-up challenge.

Everyone claiming you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today would be apoplectic over the line “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

please enjoy this breakdown of the horrors of crime-ridden culver city

She was basically perfect in a Kobayashi Maru and saved the Democratic Party from electoral catastrophe and she should be remembered fondly forever because of it.

@jakubkrupa.bsky.social does it again.

Like, if I were to casually describe the people of Smackover, Arkansas, as a bunch of ignorant hicks (hypothetical!), my political career would be over.

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

This is such terrible advice that I should use it to update my example of when stretching your y-axis is misleading, and truncating your y-axis is fine. Hint: Only a fraction of people in a trial will get infected regardless.

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

Sure but chocolates help

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I can't get past the idea of DoD handing over a high-powered laser to the Border Patrol sadists. When I started working at Los Alamos, there was a feeling of camaraderie that meant that a screwup was a betrayal of your colleagues. Hegseth and Duffy have no sense of that.

Lot to enjoy here but I'm really fascinated by the idea of not voting yet being able to "prove" you'd have voted otherwise. What does this person think such proof consists of?

LITERALLY YES YOU ASS.

oh man remember that year or so where we were told over and over Gaza was the single most important issue, it shut down college campuses and the media covered the protests and every twist and turn of the war? any way this happened and coverage? protest? lol as if, and ask yourself why that is?

Neither left nor right but actually a secret third thing (reactionary far right) Neither left nor right but head up their ass

A mother forced to leave without her 6-month-old A pregnant mother forced to leave without her 2-year-old A mother forced to leave her disabled son, who cannot understand why his mom won’t return for him This isn’t long ago or far away. This is here and now.

We need to beat them and impose consequences. Vought, e.g., has declared in writing that because Trump was put back in office, it is to be a permanent stamp in the size and scope of government. We can’t let that be true.

Amazing (terrifying) use of Claude aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engi...

Happy Valentine’s Day 💙

i'm not going to say that platner's campaign paid a senior editor for the new republic to write a fluff piece on platner, i think the editor made these choices, but it's very difficult to imagine a single word that would've been different if the campaign had paid for it

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine. Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

America is so fucked not sure people realize how different this country is gonna be real fast

The officer who fatally hit her, who was going 3x the speed limit and not continuously sounding his siren as required, and who had other collisions on his record, "received a traffic citation for negligent driving and paid a $5,000 fine."

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

I cannot think about anything but the children in Dilley. I just lie here with my heart hammering in my chest and I feel like the anger is going to crack my sternum in two.

The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

Shout out to @doritreiss.bsky.social who was been correcting antivaccine disinformation for >15 years with grace and courage in the face of a deluge of vile insults and slurs. A teacher and role model. 💪

What did we do to those guys after the war again?

Thanks again median 2024 voter, you really outdid yourself

Are folks at Columbia aware that going all in on AI is literally the centerpiece of their new President’s approach to the modern research university?

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

I'm listening to Robert Caro's Master of the Senate & I think we need to face the possibility that Caro has bad constitutional politics. He says the failure of the Johnson impeachment "saved the presidency"—as if what was truly at stake wasn't the consolidation of the Union victory & Black equality

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HUGE

This is probably the most forceful Healey has been, but it's time for action, not rhetoric.

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

I think this could work

interesting posts 🥴 from a WSJ reporter who also wrote this piece www.wsj.com/health/healt... about the FDA refusal or Moderna flu vaccine under Vinay Prasad

"politics as consumerism" brain is a disease

$500k to deport a migrant This should be a scandal.

“I've said to a couple of my colleagues, like, man, what would it have looked like in 2024 when we're in the thick of the campaigns, if we stopped being so defensive on immigration and we went on the offensive; had we all collectively rang the alarm when we saw it start.”