So apparently Lily Orchard is trying to revive her career by fighting... *Reads notes* ...God. of the Bible. In a... Hazbin Hotel vid. Lily, you will never be a JRPG hero.

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.

A billionaire family that owns a bridge crossing between Michigan and Canada has wanted Trump to stop a new bridge — and Trump is now threatening to block its opening (with authority he doesn’t have). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

B.C. cancelled its drug decriminalization pilot, saying it hadn’t “delivered the results” they wanted. Its results: fewer drug users arrested and traumatized by cops. @desmondcole.bsky.social explains that when governments cave to moral panic, we lose good policies. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going

In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists." I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone. This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."

"the Capitol Police wouldn't let that happen" Oh the Capitol Police that is overseen jointly by Trump and this present Congress? You want to gamble this on *cops*?

One of the drs being sued for injuring a patient “began consulting for Acclarent in 2014 & received more than $550,000 in consultant’s fees through 2024 according to a federal database that tracks financial ties btw companies & physicians. At least $135,000 of those fees related to the TruDi system”

“Acclarent has denied the allegations in both suits, which are ongoing, according to court filings. The company says it did not design or manufacture the TruDi system but only distributed it, according to court filings.”

“Acclarent “knew or should have known that the purported artificial intelligence caused or exacerbated the tendency of the integrated navigation system product to be inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable,” the suit alleges.”

“Since AI was added to the device the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions & adverse events…Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads”

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

jesus christ!!!!! stop wtf!!!!

“I hold my teams to the highest standards”, you really do! You should not be the highest standard, it’s very bad that you are the one with the highest standards in all of society, but you are Chappell Roan!

More accountability than anyone in Washington or in the news media

"that couldn't happen, the Constitution specifically says they can't do that" WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN

After all this people are still refusing to understand that guardrails only work if enforced, and that there is no one left with the power to enforce the formal mechanisms at this point

People are in my mentions saying "but the guardrails" and I feel like I just time warped back to December 2020

Mr.Beast just acquired a teen focused financial app in a deal reportedly worth over a billion dollars if you're wondering where his particular brand of evil is headed

Well, fuck.

It's the William Gibson thing about the future being here, just unevenly distributed. The collapse is here, just unevenly distributed.

It's not just that there's no safety net now, it's that there's BEEN no meaningful safety net for communities for a long time. Things are already held together with spit and prayer, and all it takes is a strong gust of wind to topple over what's left.

But it is hard not to feel like we're getting to a point systemically where all the supportive infrastructure around us now crumbles the moment there is an even slight hiccup--a glitch in the insurance marketplace, a spell of cold and some snow.

We'll have employer health insurance starting tomorrow. We'll have the electrician paid off next month and enough at that point to pay off the credit card balance and start paying off the family debt balance. Again, relatively speaking, we are lucky. Relatively speaking, we are okay.

We are lucky in a lot of ways. We have that support, we have enough room downstairs to host pooled childcare, I am home and able to help out, we will eat and pay the mortgage and heat (though it will mean carrying a small credit card debt balance, and a bigger debt balance to my family).

Our family will make it, we have resourced parents who will save us if we teeter too far on the wrong side of the edge.

The snow conditions are still so bad in the neighborhoods that anyone with mobility issues or navigating with little kids is facing major safety issues just trying to leave the house. So the issues are cascading for many, especially folks in need of medical care or having to check in for benefits.

The state played take-backsies on Medicaid, then Congress let the healthcare subsidies expire, then the entire state marketplace fell into disarray and spent January telling a bunch of us that all we were losing coverage and putting us in a position where we had to spend MORE hours on bullshit.

The mayor couldn't be bothered to deal with the snow in the neighborhoods. Everyone had to reschedule for WIC appointments, we all have to wait until March and lose benefits in the meantime. The host church's steam heating froze up during snow & has to be replaced & the preschool had to shut down.

Keebler Sweet Spots (1992-circa 1995): Bite-sized shortbread cookies, with a chocolate drop pressed into the middle

Which franchise are you glad wasn't ruined by Michael Bay

the first 17 seconds of this opening have been living rent free in my head. just perfect animation from start to finish youtu.be/5uSwBDO-PvU?...

This is my favorite Snoopy expression.

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

sometimes there is also good news

The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason www.reuters.com/business/ene...

If you don’t live in America you might be thinking, well at least that covers any dental expenses you might have, and the answer to that is that it does not, it covers 19% of it.

Dental insurance is great because sometimes they say I’ve already paid for three months in the future and sometimes they say I owe them for two months and it might be cancelled and sometimes they never take my payment at all, I think they just randomly pick one like it’s a fortune cookie

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

libertarians liked trump because, as a political movement obsessed with age of consent laws, they found a degenerate pedophile relatable

I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.

you're going to see a LOT of this sort of retconning (I was always on the right side of history) by all the very loud people who were on the wrong side of history. Especially as Trump's health fails. we need a big tent to dismantle fascism, but a little accountability might be nice as a treat

these guys are kind of different from the couch-locked Ron Paul fan slanket wearing libertarian keyboard champion types, who are in a different but less destructive strain mostly fixated on weed, greed, and crypto. though there can be overlap. Most of them helped enable trumpism too.

again I know a lot of them, and unless I missed it, I've yet to see a single one of these free market think tank knobs face ANY meaningful reputational impact whatsoever in the Loper Bright, Supreme Court-driven, corruption free for all their policy proposals directly enabled

A lot of these free market libertarians in the last year or DID shift some of their attention to combatting Trump's attacks on free speech. But they want to pretend they didn't play a starring role in paving the way for the total destruction of the federal regulatory state by autocratic zealots

most of these "libertarian free market think tankers" were paid covertly under the table by America's shittiest companies to argue for ZERO functional oversight of corporate power, then when the corpses, rampant fraud, and mass suffering appear, they're just completely intellectually fucking absent