Sam Myszkowski

American war planning in Vietnam was not infrequently just genocidal! Planners would talk about being at war with the demographics, that they wanted to inflict enough casualties to negate how many Vietnamese might reach military-age in a given year. And fascists like Hegseth think it wasn’t enough

all in all, a jarring and depressing experience. I feel like I need to start studying antisemitism deprogramming or something in case this starts being more common.

he asked about my keffiyeh as I was leaving and when I said "It's for Palestine" he said "that's what it's all about" and started talking about the Oliveira video and how what happened in Gaza is going to happen in the US and he feels like he has to talk in code about it

worst part is that he was kind of a textbook "socialism of fools" antisemite, simultaneously expressing the bo burnham sentiment "every politician, every cop on the street serves the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite" while also believing in great replacement theory

yesterday I met a guy out in the wild who had been super indoctrinated by the Tyler Oliveira New Jersey video - just genuinely alarming to meet a budding antisemite who is really eager to drunkenly talk about it at a bar with total strangers

Why is my Pepco bill so high? We dug into DC's electricity The cold weather is only part of the story.

NEW: When cold weather arrives, most people expect to see a bump in their utilities.

But recently, many D.C. residents have been shocked to see their electricity bills had double and even triple — in some cases, climbing $1,000+ in a single month.

What's going on? @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

No one will remember anything Trump said because he never says anything new unless it’s a lie

The throw-down style analysis of the SOTU you get from The Daily is so brain meltingly stupid

cops are so stupid: "Emergency medical workers later took the two injured officers to the hospital in stable condition, the police said."

they walked their stupid asses into a snowball fight and got some snow down their shirts and called an ambulance

i will continue beating the drum that blue cities and blue states need to build as much housing as possible not just for economic or demographic reasons but for the sake of protecting vulnerable people

Merrick Garland low key an icon for a guy that just likes to chill and relax and not take his job too seriously

is it toxic masculinity if the most I have cried at a movie this year was Godzilla Minus One

I am heartbroken to hear the news of Rev. Hagler passing away. He was an incredible human being, a human rights activist, a fighter for justice for all people for income inequality, racial inequality.

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

The Canada Goose in Brooklyn Park is wild.

People sneer so much at this basic-ass shit sometimes and like, I get it, maybe to you it’s very basic, rudimentary, not illuminating. But I promise you there are people out there who need to hear it.

The 51st has produced so much valuable reporting in just a single year, with only one full-time reporter. Can you imagine what a second year could look like if this newsroom had triple the reporting capacity?

The good news is that we don't have to imagine — we can make it happen. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

it's base cowardice by any Democrat, any liberal, and any leftist who refuses to consider this. The purported order, the fundamental myth of borders that they keep an interior zone safe with a cordon against an alien world, belies the violent disorder that cordon imposes in both directions

Paul's argument is absolutely correct and really critical to how we can comprehensively leave this moment in the past. The idea of any "immigration system" that doesn't just look like a family finding jobs and a new place to live should be abhorent to anyone that abhors the violence of CBP.

“You can no more slap a few reforms on our current system of immigration enforcement than you can create a safe structure for child abuse. You can’t tidy up a mission in which harm is the core principle.”

this is why we need local sports journalism

BREAKING: Sunrise DC woke up Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta this morning.

Millions of people aren't sleeping soundly because they are afraid ICE will knock down their door.

We're making sure the CEOs making millions housing ICE aren't getting a good night sleep either.

not to mention the astonishing structure this whole thing reveals - US citizens scamming Venezuelans with bogus tenancies, a building so mismanaged that dozens of legit tenants are rent striking, an owner calling in the secret police in a last ditch attempt to keep control of their properties

zero fucking surprise that this is landlords using CBP thugs against tenants.

the Italian Fascist paramilitary, the squadristi, were funded by working for agricultural landlords to break up farmworker organizing and evict tenant farmers

Journalists have critical skills we need! BUT don't blame "people" and "consumers" for this loss. Bezos killed the Post by: deciding not to pay its workers, offending readers by running his personal opinions, & hiring management that hates reporters. "Consumers" aren't the problem; billionaires are.

the smirk after he says "for what?" has got to be one of the most physically repulsive gestures out there. vile little pig man!

I'd speculate Stancil is the archetypical 1-Zellnor Myrie 2-Brad Lander 3-Zohran Mamdani voter which, while not a particularly large constituency, is a core part of any actually-governing socialism

Verge headline: I was detained by federal agents in Minneapolis Photo depicts a person wearing a hood entering an area via a gate on a chain link fence

One local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back.

Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...