“We ran out of numbers low enough,” explains Gallup president Giuseppe Gallup.

Quite the chart

Oh, so their internal polling is BAD bad

After two weeks deep inside the Epstein files, I've come to view his operation as something close to an elder abuse scheme. Pitching old oligarchs on the collapse of the global order as a way to fund his sex trafficking operation. www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...

No exaggeration, we can’t have a republic if this behavior becomes normalized

This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand. The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.

The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.

what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"

Confirm!

Prince was the best halftime show. I will accept no counter argument

Watching the superbowl with a bunch of 75+. Waiting for the right moment to start talking about war in Europe.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Burger King Lear.

“In his 2025 State of the Union address, Trump cited “$32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova” as an example of “appalling waste” in U.S. foreign aid.” Granular look at how USAID DRG funding was used in Moldova and what’s replacing it (LOL) harriman.columbia.edu/usaid-spent-...

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Mongolia is shining again in Olympic fashion!🇲🇳✨ "the most stylish delegation in this global capital of fashion was the one wearing a cashmere collection inspired by warriors on horseback, nomads in yurts and the strength of history’s most sprawling empire." www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Only amateurs steal elections in election day

Trumpmenbashi.

I’m going through boxes of my old stuff at my parents’. Apropos of nothing, this is a list of all the foreign correspondents in Warsaw in 1991.

💪💪

portraying epstein as a "foreign agent" of [fill in the country] is satisfying but lets the US off the hook for creating the network enabling him, and misunderstands his business model as hierarchical links with foreign spies instead of a node in a global network of converging interests

Purely by the numbers, Donald Trump is closer to a president who isn't getting invited to his party's next convention than he is to a president who has the political capital to "steal" an election. They are panicking. They want you to panic. They are the ones currently losing.

How bad could it be?

Another reason to learn French - there are hardly any English-language newspapers left.

There are some countries where alleging immigrants are a drain on public finances is plausible, but the US? The public benefits are nowhere near generous enough.

again, for everyone: when people believe their right to vote is threatened, they get angrier and will counter-mobilize. when people think their vote won't be counted or will be stolen, they are less likely to turn out.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Important survey of users of data collected by the federal statistical system. If that describes you, please take the survey; it only takes about 5 minutes to complete ssrspanel.com/wix/4/p86843...

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

‼️🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen’s hopes of running for President next year are dribbling away. At her appeal against conviction for embezzling EU funds last night, the prosecution appeared to hand her a life-line but the concession was largely meaningless 1/ www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

A lot of protest material is a bit kitsch but this knitted cap that spells out Fuck Trump in Morse code should be in the Smithsonian. America is already great.

I love France on all days in all ways, but especially when she’s all, “Don’t make me tap the guillotine.”

Remember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute

This is very, very good.

This, along with the seizure of ballots and voting data, is another massive red flag for Americans: This is the kind of thing authoritarians say and do when they are preparing to rig the vote. They are preparing to steal your vote, and you have to take action now to stop them.

As I've been saying: defending democracy requires being appropriately alarmed. "There won't be elections!!" is an absurd and counterproductive line, but "they can't possibly do anything bc the federal government doesn't run elections and they don't have the manpower" is unwarranted complacency.

Here’s a gift link 👀

A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

No one is flying to the US! Why ever not?

"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

At least nobody will ask “what’s the worst that can happen?” for another 20 or 30 years

EL OH EL. I went to University with Newsom, at the Bay Area school commonly referred to as the one "where rich kids went who couldn't get into Stanford." He drove a red Ferrari. That stood out, even there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

“The Dossier Center has uncovered Jeffrey Epstein’s close contacts with 🇷🇺 Sergei Belyakov, then Deputy Minister of Economic Development and later head of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum Foundation. Belyakov is a graduate of the FSB Academy which prepares Russian intelligence officers.“

actual soup nazis

La France, sous un feu croisé de désinformation russe et américaine Depuis le début d’année, les réseaux prorusses et les comptes trumpistes ciblent de plus en plus la France. Avec des méthodes différentes mais un récit convergent, ils représentent un défi inédit. www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...