JFC let me off

Who is this for? Who does it help?

‘NY Times’ Columnists Hold Roundtable To Determine What’s Wrong With Them https://theonion.com/ny-times-columnists-hold-roundtable-to-determine-whats-wrong-with-them/

Spoiler Alert

I hate to do this to the English language. But this politruk, политический руководитель has done worse

I’m not proud that I’m that easily triggered by a profile I should ignore. But

The Ohio State University is expected to close ranks and replace him with his hard-line son, further straining an already highly volatile situation in a region that has seen constant conflict over the past several decades

Operation Zaslav. I’m intrigued

Incredible

This is abundance, in practice. Nothing fancy, no grand ideological disputes, just ... get the fucking snow off the sidewalks in a reasonable amount of time.

I experience actual awe watching this.

From the expert

It’s rare to see a single chart that shows us exactly when and how the rot set in 😡

The Atlantic, man. Just.

Don’t worry, your friends are on their way to making it a place nobody wants to move to. People will leave

Happy International Clash Day! Shoutout to KEXP radio. Which album or tracks are you listening to on repeat today? #TheClash

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Hear me out: can we have Gordon back

And in Britain, unrestrained gift of health and other data to the very same people

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Sometimes you read the news and think, I will just focus on some tacos al pastor. Even though it’s a rainy February day in Britain

1. Voyages of scientific discovery (history and philosophy of science department) 2 American Diplomatic History (with Joan Hoff) 3 British Politics (with a visit to Bloomington from Sir Michael Foot!) 4 American literature 1800-1865 5 Economics Honors seminar in experimental economics

“And that’s why we’ve decided to hire David Brooks”

"The war on terror has become a war against ourselves. That forever war must come to an end. Enough with the military gear. Enough with the mass surveillance. Enough with the constant fear of an ever-shifting Other." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Congratulations to CBS News, heirs to Murrow and Conkrite’s legacy

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld … welcome to the resistance.

This guy knows what’s up

This always ends up cool and fine

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

Everything you need to know about Gavin Newsom is contained in his claiming stolen valour over a D1 baseball roster spot he never really had www.kqed.org/news/1198210...

“Riding in a Stutz Bear Cat, Jim. You know, those were different times”

Loser energy too strong to bottle

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

So true

Woah. And huh.

The moderate view

WTF

Trump looks at Putin's Russia -- a failed and decaying state with a ruined economy engaged in perpetual wars of conquest that benefit only a dictator and his cronies -- and asks: How can I make the United States like that?

But this makes it all ok youtu.be/2RNIfBevov0?...

an incorruptible sea

Dark alley trouble

Dark alley trouble

Congrats, antisemitism free speech warriors. Got snookered by the Establishment Clause

Pretty wise