This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

people wondering "how we got here" consider John Yoo, who built the 'legal' framework for George W Bush's torture program, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at Berkley University, is treated as a Respectable Source by the media when he should be rotting in prison for crimes against humanity

I am thinking tonight of the trans people in Kansas who will wake up tomorrow morning with no valid ID. I am thinking of the thousands and thousands of trans people fleeing their homes in red states. I am thinking about how the government is making trans people refugees in their own country.

when I broke story abt Hanania being Nazi, almost none of folks he was tied to - Substack, NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Stanford, UT, U of Austin, WSJ, Andreesen, Thiel, Ramaswamy, Sacks, Vance, Federalist Society - would comment my book describes how this was indicator of this fascist political moment

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

A rare outtake.

Kash Patel got his Make-a-Wish. You paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could cosplay as a gold medal winner with his hockey heroes. Dream weekend, very happy he could live out this fantasy @slate.com slate.com/culture/2026...

“Put another way, M/M romance is a genre solution to the problem of heterosexual men” is a sentence that is going to live rent-free in my head for a while

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

“aNd yOu’rE sUrpRisEd wHy” first off I’m mad, that’s not the same thing

Saw a man at the hotel breakfast station ask an employee for something. She emerged from the kitchen moments later and handed him a bag full of sausages. He put them in his pocket and walked out the front door. We forget that anything is possible.

Just a reminder as Trump spews complete lies about voter fraud that he put the full weight of his first administration into proving some of this bullshit and they came up completely empty.

This is Neal Katyal. He argued for Nestlé's right to profit from child slavery without consequence before the Supreme Court—and won! Thank you, Neal. ===============

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

Folks he's saying this shit out loud and into camera you cannot be surprised when you finally realize what he is

This is non-fiction but lands as visceral (as per author's point) social horror. Only it's entirely real. And that some, even many, won't understand, intuit, or feel any sense of the horror at all, will only see cause to celebrate and wonder what the big deal is, is part of the horror itself.

Just came under a MASSIVE PSYCHIC ASSAULT at the grocery store

so it was written. so it will be

Remember when Tottenham could’ve had Eze lol

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

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

anyway time for me to re-up my view that when you make claims like that as a journalist you should be able to answer the simple question “who said this and why do they matter?”

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

“Almost half of young Republicans surveyed see Jews as a threat to the American way of life.” Yep, antisemitism is totally a both-sides issue. Right? Right??

Seems like a useful opportunity for professors teaching Intro to Sociology to explain what state indoctrination looks like

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

i think this is an important story. not enough being written about american outsourcing of indefinite detention

what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them

AXIOS: “The Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize. It could begin very soon.” Is Iran in the Epstein files? www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Tl;dr I could have been excited about the thing if I hadn't seen it enter the world as a smug assault on human creativity, hadn't been relentlessly lied to about its capabilities, hadn't watched it fill the internet with misinformation, hadn't had so many products I use made worse by it, etc etc etc

GEO Group also provides guards for ICE flights and buses between ICE flights and detention centers. If and when we get to the justice and accountability stage, don't forget the contractors.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

I think kids growing up in the Trump era should be told clearly that they are being raised under a regime that espouses white supremacy as if it is a legitimate politics, the same as any other.

Jesse v Marvin