Amen

Literally perfect

You can really feel the snow coming where I am in NJ. Temperature dropping by the second, sky very cloudy.

This story is so bonkers.

Seve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Literally lol

This is so amazing. Under the midwestern nice there is always a finely honed knife of passive aggressive pettiness.

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

turns out almost nobody other than total freaks likes or wants this shit

Jayhawks need to get it together or we’re losing at home 🫠

This is disgusting. All of these people who negotiated with ICE and told no one what they did need to be removed from office.

i do think if you talk about people like this you should be put in the evil triangle from the SUPERMAN movies and hurled into space

The guys calling this KU game have said Cincy’s Jizzle James’s first name about 20 times too many.

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Well, he seems like a positive guy?

I think national press and rightwing watchers are neglecting NH. Always conservative for New England, its legislature has gone Texas-level MAGA, seeking concealed carry on campus, leading the nation in defunding public ed, battling vaccines, etc.

Ready to watch this KU game! I would like to hear LESS from the announcers about Peterson and his potential draft number and more about team play, moving without the ball, and unselfish hustle. (A girl can dream!)

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Make the AI bros explain, in every interview, every medium, every time, how many deaths is their ability to not write their own emails worth.

“I will scale the building myself to tear that shit down in three years," says a former J6 prosecutor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

On the one hand, what they're able to do to children is the hardest to fathom, but on the other, it's the same force at the root of all ethnic cleansing; they see immigration as an infestation, they see immigrants as vermin

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

If you missed it, go find the women’s speed skating event that just concluded. Beautiful, heart-pounding fun. The guy calling it was aces, too.

😕

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI. They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

This obsession with being kissed by big tough men is a LOT

I’m very good at reading language

There’s nothing more menacing than this guys’s weird alternating between yelling and whispering.

Nearly all of the men in this season of Love Is Blind are such trash.

Don't take your eyes off Gaza & the West Bank. The horrors continue. apnews.com/article/isra...

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

I just don’t like the vibe of these parents not gonna lie

Every death in captivity is murder at the hands of the captor.

It has been beyond endlessly frustrating for me, a former professional athlete, that not a single Dem could muster the courage to say “what the fuck is wrong with you, sports are inherently unfair to begin with, let kids play with their friends”

Anyone else hoping for a Heated Rivalry moment on the Pitt tonight?

Siri is such a badass for asking 404 to report this when I was doxxed pre-LLMs, it took some creep 50+ hours to track down my name. it was game over the moment he posted it online. shit like grok amplifies this threat exponentially. it’s dangerous, it’s violent, & it’s coming for YOUR info next

Trump may well be careening into a major war and the American corporate media coverage is credulous and feeble when it should be vigorously alerting the public to the dangers, the lack of any reasoned argument, and the imperative for Congressional authorization. presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

HOLY SHIT WOMEN'S HOCKEY!

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I feel bad for that Canadian player but I don't think the US player did anything crazy.

Trying to log into a long-dormant small investment account from a previous job from the 90s. They wanted me to say my exact start date, and for an optional security question asked me the color of my 1986 Subaru. This really feels bizarre, especially as the company "knows" me enough to send me mail.

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

i feel comfortable saying that, if as the author suggests, up to 30% of white collar workers lose their jobs in the next 12-18 months, no one can actually predict what the worst case will be, the economic and political conditions will be worse than anything anyone alive has ever seen in this country

highly encourage getting off of substack if and when you can.

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.