Jonathan Harris

This “take over your government” stuff is going to be how Trump blames the people of Iran for anything that goes wrong after the initial bombing.

“I did my job, but a lot of stupid people made a lot of mistakes after we did our job, and we did a great job,” and so forth.

I expected to see full-throated condemnations from every Democrat in Congress reposted into my feed. Since I’m not seeing that yet, I can only assume they’re still dutifully working on them.

Can't wait to be surprised when 85 million Americans don't remember this in a decade.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

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@GOP on X: Vote the pro-peace ticket. Vote Trump-Vance 🇺🇸 04 Nov 24

The lies about Trump's approach to war and foreign policy were ubiquitous. Just a few.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Hate to lib out here, but even if there was some sort of clear, strategic goal, this would still be highly illegal and the president should be impeached and removed from office immediately.

Today was the hottest February 27 in recorded Los Angeles history (91 degrees), breaking the previous record of 88 degrees set… last February.

In Season 2, Dunk will apologize to Maekar for ruining his trip to Ashford Meadow and Egg will claim he’s being made to be feel uncomfortable for the actions of his ancestors.

I guess Thomas’s Obama-appointed replacement would also be gone in the next few years, so they’d be getting 6-3 right back. Still better than what we have!

Of course, justices would likely retire during the previous term of their own party, if not confident in the next election’s outcome, to avoid flipping power, which would also be preferable to them sticking around for 4 decades before strategically retiring.

SCOTUS term limits would also take the guesswork out of things. If this were in place just for the current crop, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito would be gone, replaced by Democratic presidents for a 6-3 advantage. And then Trump would get to replace Sotomayor and Kagan in the next few years.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

lol the PRISON guys didn’t know Trump was on? He’s cooked.

Thankful for the Woke Bureau of Prisons.

"T. Rex Ran on Its Tiptoes 'Like an 8-Ton Chicken' New findings about the anatomy of the dinosaur age's fiercest predator suggest it chased prey 'like an oversized bird.'"

The kid from near the beginning of Jurassic Park that says a velociraptor looks like "a six-foot turkey."

Did this kid write the article?

We miraculously got through December and January without incident, and then February has been four back-to-back-etc illnesses.

I have a few hours of optimism per week, during which I foolishly think "surely I have now caught all the viruses."

Oh yeah, it's maddening to try and figure it all out. "Did I get the cold he had last week but it just took 6 days or did I somehow get a new cold from him that he did not get or did I somehow catch this on my own despite working from home?"

Part of having a toddler and getting sick all the time is that, after every illness, I feel invincible and am convinced I'll never get sick again, until we all get sick the following week.

“well yeah sure people we KNOW and who vote for TRUMP can do it illegally, what’s the problem?”

"Courage"? Does... does he want his supporters to try to hang Gorsuch and Barrett?

In a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the sweeping tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed in a series of executive orders. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the tariffs exceed the powers given to the president by Congress under a 1977 law providing him the authority to regulate commerce during national emergencies created by foreign threats. The court did not weigh in, however, on whether or how the federal government should provide refunds to the importers who have paid the tariffs, estimated in 2025 at more than $200 billion.

Smart Thing For Trump To Do: Give everyone $1,000, which he may be able to do without Congress since it's money he got illegally.

Good Thing For Trump To Do: Hey look, $200 billion is almost exactly how much it cost to end child poverty that one time!

What Trump Will Do: Stadium-Size Trampoline

You already need an ID when you go to the roller rink. You show your ID when you buy a bag of tangerines. You need your ID to ride the haunted hayride where a girl from Madison High died one time, no seriously, she DIED. So what's the problem?

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

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What's shocked me the most is how many people out there believe that the act of artistic creation is an elitist conspiracy against them, and that A.I. will free them from a world where art is a product of talent and effort and vision.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“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.

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Has anyone else’s toddler gone through a Blue Period?