I actually disagree with all the leftists on here saying that Mamdani shouldn't have taken the bait. He should have immediately done a video very solemnly erecting a comically large memorial plaque on the site of the incident He should have hired bagpipers. And shed a single, dignified tear

I lost count of the number of white people who insisted all day yesterday that nobody was harmed. One guy in particular was like “prove it.”

highlight of my day is that I got connected to this guy and am sending him a copy of my book to thank him for the piece of perfect cinema.

When I was testing OpenClaw in a sandboxed container for work, I didn’t give it access to my email, but I did tell it to check for updates to its own software. That put it in an unkillable loop like this and eventually forced me to trash the whole thing

I appreciate this and he hit the nail on the head. youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs?...

Also very happy about Pope Frio and Svencoolie.

The only reason I don't really get angry about Kristi Noem and Kash Patel using taxpayer money to live influencer lives is that at least they're not doing their jobs

Time for my annual-ish reminder that everybody needs to read The Child Catchers, by Kathryn Joyce. It's 13 years old now, but it's never left my brain.

the university has covered itself in a giant I'M WITH STUPID t-shirt

the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout

Cool, cool. Which ones are in charge of the children they detain?

“It IS tricky to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. I made a list of some other words that rhyme with time: Crime, tim, crumb and time.” - Run-G.P.T.

Studying how this curriculum was put into place would actually give you a pretty good education in the basics of sociology.

It's going to be genuinely difficult to figure out how much money he and his family literally just took from US taxpayers. Don't even mean the crypto scam profiteering shit, like actual treasury money that by one mechanism or another he turned into his own money.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

The lasting way to fight fascism—and the thing each of us can do—is to liberate your mind from the fascist framework. Stop being frightened of the things that fascists say are frightening. Start looking at those things as liberation. Fear the things fascists say make us safe. See them as prisons.

oh man, I will admit that while I rarely miss things about twitter, I do miss the chaos of getting online and finding out JCO is posting but not knowing if she's doing some lightly incoherent racism or delivering two to the chest and one to the head of some right-wing weirdo

This is an exemplary sentence.

Just like the narratives around trans rights and racial justice, this framing constructs "activists" as unreasonable, radical and holding all the power. "Do you know how mean fat activists are if you lose weight?" Do you know how mean everyone else is if you don't?!

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.

"Oops, sorry I missed the AI hallucination" is the new "Oops, sorry I cut and pasted someone else's work into my notes and forgot to attribute later." Like... there are ways to make sure these things don't happen in the first place?

I'm adding a reply at the top of this thread to link to the Ars comment on the story - arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0... And the comment from Ben Edwards about how it happened. bsky.app/profile/benj...

Weird how “revere motherhood” never seems to translate into “respect women.”

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Bluesky is the only website where you can find the author of Nixonland arguing about when you should pick up your pussy and leave

Roses are red The dot is pale blue Here's a mote of dust in a sunbeam From a distance of forty AU 🧪 🔭 🌍

This seems half cool, half “we have invented the cursed red shoes from the famous cautionary tale The Red Shoes”

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

It used to be a lot more fun to be an absurdist

Mail carriers... "You know that they’re shooting tear gas on the other side of the block.” And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.” But that’s my job." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Quick question: Why are we incarcerating "pregnant, unaccompanied minors"? Like, at all?

American royalty

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Yes, Trump has turned the United States into a kleptocratic police state. But lib wine moms sound so cringe when they point this out. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Yikes that’s fuckin dark www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/atru...

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Good point. I forgot the 47th amendment, "one in, one out"--if you let in ONE five-year-old, you'd have to kick another out. I mean, how many five-year-olds can fit in this thing? (America, that is.)

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

Good questions!