Again, <results> do not make elections "free & fair" or "fully democratic." And leaders/parties <can> lose under competitive authoritarianism. That's why it's still "competitive" & not just full-on "authoritarian."

Nirvana's most lasting impact is making all of us think that "never mind" is one word.

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

"Needy Amin" is just ... there doesn't even have to be a clue identifying this person.

They lied and here's the video proof. I cannot believe we're just gonna keep on like this and absolutely nothing happens

Our government tried to do the Bay of Pigs with even fewer, stupider guys and I can’t even enjoy it properly

Here's @booker.senate.gov trying to use a hearing next week to build pressure. deadline.com/2026/02/para...

This is one thing that needs to happen. If the deal can be slowed until Dems (goddess willing) take the House, then the corruption will be a magnet for oversight.

We need a bunch of private sector lawsuits to get this blocked, suits from a diverse array of actors with possible standing including: members of congress, states, competing media organizations, literally anything mentioned in the monopoly and FCC case law.

I think there's a framing in here that's a good distillation of the principles we've seen animating people on the ground--that these are our people because they are of our community.

we've shipped out 984,000 whistles pretty much entirely driven by this website, and sent about $25-30k worth of requested supplies to the twin cities on top of it, AND we've begun bulk buying red cards for various immigrant rights groups. bluesky gets shit done.

It's one of my favorite topics to teach in sensory physiology-- how plants likely evolved capsaicin as a deterrent to keep us from eating them and that didn't work out so great for them (or did, since we now lovingly grow and cultivate them):

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

If our leaders lack the will to even fire these men, much less bring charges, then people who have lost all hope in a peaceful solution will start solving the problem on their own. No one wants that.

Data Center Dems need to wake the fuck up and realize that siding with Mark Andreessen and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel is political suicide, in addition to being just plain wrong.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

lmfao

@faineg.bsky.social will have words about this I expect

Technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing “Gugusse and the Automaton" – which features, by the way, the first known moving image of what might be called a robot – so that it can now be enjoyed by anyone online!

👇🎯💯 The unprecedented corruption is the point

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

no quarter can or should be given to hold this evil to account

I mean, they fired tens of thousands of feds in a single day in 2025 and shuttered an agency that saves countless lives, and nobody batted an eye. And Congress didn’t even authorize it!

I’m sure that all the news outlets that aired and published this image will no longer take the police at their word, right? Right? Right? Right? Ri

If there was this great, untapped audience, then Kurt Cameron & Kevin Sorbo would get half-billion buck contracts and double-digit gross points, not SAG rate 2) the Atlas Shrugged movie(s) would have made their bank back and be on AS17: Galt & Rearden Heated Rivalry instead of $40M under water.

#goodnight 👋🖤

Dems get away with this because it's not covered by local TV news. So I understand it on that level. What I don't understand is why they're doing it in the first place. Because, again, it's not covered on local TV news. If the argument is "appearing centrist" their target audience isn't watching!

These Democrats are voting for Trump's agenda while going on TV to insist they actually oppose it. We need to believe their actions, not their words.

The llama was so much more important to me than the dress. It’s my main memory of the dress to be honest- why do you keep hassling me about this stupid dress, can’t you see there’s a llama?

It has always been Hullabaloo. Always.

The Trump administration has just deleted this photo of Trump Cabinet Secretary Howard Lutnick with Jeffrey Epstein on what appears to be an island.

"And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there is one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."

anyway theonion.com/just-six-cor...

You know who else declared "a national emergency"? www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Did not have THIS on my bingo card! Deeper & deeper fissures in the coalition of the evil!

yeah the next DOJ should be ready to go to war here, it's not like avoiding a fight will make them LESS hostile expecting a pretty big talent drain from WB/HBO, too, once they start pushing propaganda as hard as I expect they will

total disaster, holy shit complete control of most of the media in the hands of the fucking ellisons

This is who Chuck Schumer not only refused to support but actively worked to undermine:

Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

Messaging moment: Call it the “Voter Elimination Act,” not the “SAVE Act,” when referring to the GOP’s bill that would keep millions of Americans from voting. Full discussion with @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on this week's Meeting the Moment here:

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The drugs.com AI is working spectacularly well

Mamdani getting a kidnapped kid released from ICE in less than a day kinda lays bare the full depravity of the Democrats' "we can't just DO things" mentality for the last year.

Fascinating

Judge excoriates feds after another migrant detention ruled illegal newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/26/j...

meanwhile, in the birthright citizenship amicus ....

the table of authorities is 4 US cases, 1 english common law case, 11 scriptural cites, and a bajillion popes

second paragraph is one of the funniest paragraphs ever in a statement of interest, concerning a person who is not actually listed among amicii. is the pope ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo..... well, he's not NOT ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

She wants more of that beetlejuice!