Ben Jackson

They call themselves the Lhotshampa, they are Bhutan’s Nepali ethnic minority, and their story is one of the wildest things I learned from @astra.bsky.social’s book on democracy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhotsha...

This has always and will always be called a “spinner” by anyone who knows the difference between a dropdown and an accordion

If they didn’t put the landing page for this on ai.free/index.html I don’t know what to say to these people

No balls!

Younger person!

Younger candidates!

Progressives!

A few things from the latest NYT focus group on Democrats that had me 👀👀👀👀

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And now: a Coconino love story.

New twelve-page comic drawn by @bmure.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or download a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing (process files also available for purchase):

hagaipalevsky.itch.io/coconino

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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

i think this is basically correct fwiw.

Nuremberg Trials.

Food is great. It
Unites us as a
Country of diverse tastes.
Kind of a true equalizing force

Isn't it neat to
Come together
Enjoying our memories?

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

“We ran out of numbers low enough,” explains Gallup president Giuseppe Gallup.

Kobe

We got DRAFTSSSSSSSS LFG

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

The music and the sugar cane

Hook it to my veinsssss

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

X did the VICE “non-traditional workplace agreement” 🤯

pretty sure we want the roving patrols and racial profiling punished under the laws that prohibit roving patrols and racial profiling

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

In addition to Don Lemon, they arrested journalist Georgia Fort
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Rep. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social visited Liam and his dad today at the Texas ICE facility.

He shared this photo on social media that shows Liam either sleeping or lying weakly in his father’s arms.

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn

(Size small)