Jaclyn Friedman

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

A reminder that there are more Christian Zionists in the United States than Jews, Zionist and otherwise

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Democrats should run on breaking this up. I don’t even care if they can’t do it right now. Make a stand against state-run media.

This seems very bad

This can’t be reformed, only destroyed before it kidnaps and kills again.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Give transphobes an inch on anything and they will come for everything.

bUt ItS sUcH a TrIcKy IsSuE

No it isn’t. Everyone gets the same rights. Period.

A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.

Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.

CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.

One of the all-time best

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

The state of the union is jesus fucking christ

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Antonia's Line

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

Mr. Schwank was hired as an ICE lawyer in 2021 and became an instructor last year at the federal government’s law enforcement training academy in Georgia, where he taught courses on the law. He resigned on Feb. 13 after he and another publicly unidentified person submitted a confidential whistle-blower complaint on a separate matter that has raised constitutional questions: a new ICE policy allowing deportation officers to enter homes and arrest people without a judicial warrant. “ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution,” he said on Monday at the event with congressional Democrats.

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

The Price of Admission to Epstein’s World: Silence

Then:

When in 2017 Deepak Chopra complained of a “crazy” day, Epstein replied, “I’m in Florida, but would like to send two girls.”

Now:

“I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the victims in this case,” wrote Chopra in a statement earlier this month.

bastards

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

I dream of my books becoming irrelevant but until then you really should read this one

sincere q: when did Japan get so good at figure skating? I mostly only pay attention every four years, but their skaters have been such a joy to watch this Olympics. Did the Japanese state decide to invest? Was there just a figure skating craze in Japan some years back?

I love a routine that starts small and just builds and builds and builds (Torville and Dean's Bolero was FORMATIVE AF) so I think Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event

I’m agnostic as to whether Talarico or Crockett would be a better nominee. But the Streisand Effect is definitely in full … effect.

This bad-faith talking point has been taking off across the right-wing industrial outrage complex, and it's obvious they never bothered to check that Jasmine Crockett had been on his show twice before.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Worth remembering that widespread portable facial recognition will inevitably include people using these tools as a way to “identify” trans folks and racialized “others” far beyond what is already being done. We can have a free society or we can have these technologies. We can’t have both.