Dan in Kansas City

Takeo Ischi - Wikipedia

My favourite example of someone going on a journey to learn the mysteries of the occident is the Japanese guy who travelled to the Alps in the 70s to meet “the Yodel King” (seriously) and became a famous yodeller in his own right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_I...

The White House sent Trump to Georgia for damage control on the economy and health care ... instead he focused yet again on 2020 election denial.

None of this bodes well for the GOP!

This is a crime.

If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.

This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

one of the things that haunts me about coverage of gaza is how obvious it is that the death toll was/is inaccurate - news media will have you ignoring what your brain tells you about what lies under bombed-out rubble, what happens to bodies when entire square miles are systematically bulldozed, etc

We now know with 100% certainty the floor of Trump’s support

there is no unifying theory of donald trump necessary beyond that he is a complete sociopathic narcissist, he is five years old, and he is dumber than dog shit.

everything is just just filler

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Dude Alyssa Liu is so cool and I love that American athletes keep showing that boiling yourself in a pressure cooker if your own imagination actually isn’t the best way to be great at something. We really are making progress as a people, even though the worst of us are determined to reverse it.

Gold medalist goalie Aerin Frankel faced 99 shots through the entire Olympic tournament. She made 97 saves. Her penalty kill save percentage was 100 percent. The best American goaltender operating right here. 👇🏼

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

The entire decade-long Soviet war with Afghanistan resulted in what is effectively a month and a half of losses from their war in Ukraine.

That's absolutely insane. They're sacrificing an entire generation for this.

DOJ used to put these on the walls of post offices.
Smaller. And sometimes with a posted reward.

SATURDAY NIGHT I WAS DOWNTOWN
WORKIN FOR DA FBI
SITTIN WITH A NEST OF PODCASTERS
KETAMINE PILING HIIIIGH

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Trump has doubled his net worth since being reelected through blatant and egregious corruption. The salary is peanuts.

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer — who herself is under investigation for an affair she had with a subordinate, and also instituted a monthly prayer service at the department — has been banned from HQ after two female employees reported he sexually assaulted them.

Grift all the way down

I am begging people to stop saying that QAnon was right all along. QAnon is a death cult that believes Democrat politicians and celebrities are torturing babies, draining of them of a substance called adrenochrome and then using it to live forever.

many very smart people have proposed the running out of goons theory

Can curling solve male loneliness?

Trump made $4B in his first year of his second term. Trump is suing the IRS for $10B. Trump just announced the US will contribute $10B to his Board of Peace. A $10 billion contribution to a Board that he chairs without congressional appropriation or authorization.

WAKE THE F*CK UP AMERICA.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

It is such a problem that "concentration camps" and "death camps" have been collapsed into one in the American imaginary, because no, I don't think the Trump regime is building death camps at the moment.

But concentration camps also kill.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

a government for, by and of degenerates

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

Hell yeah 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Some good patriotism

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative