Aaron Homer

What I hate about this is the idea that "elites are pushing Newsom" no see Newsom wants to be president and he's governor of our most populous state that's also where our entertainment industry is he is going to be able to run credibly if he wants to.

This is (mostly) a joke, to be clear.

Showing my 3 yr old The Little Mermaid, after previously showing her Moana. So now I'm wondering: are there any kids movies where the lesson is "listen to your parents"?!

I'm all for age appropriate independence and rebellion, but it's hard enough getting a 3 yr old to listen.

A Washington Post columnist whose beat is food and science was whining on here yesterday about how scientists fleeing to Bluesky meant science was "hard left" - the truth is that if science has a leftward bias, it's because the right has decided to destroy science.

"Economic anxiety" as an explanation for Trumpism is no more true when AOC says it in left-coded language than when the NYT says it in centrist-coded language.

This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

I fear this is being treated as background noise rather than the 5 alarm emergency it is. Absolutely terrifying.

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

"faculty violinist Stephanie Arado, who had been invited to perform, chose a solo violin piece and made a customized outfit that featured the phrase “The evil must end now” and “ICE OUT”.…the university police escorted Arado from the building as if she were a danger to campus safety."

It’s basically legal for drivers to kill pedestrians in America, especially if you do it while driving a Mercedes

The fact that somebody is lying about who reached out to who tells me - assuming that the DoD official is the liar in this case - that DoD is using this as an opportunity basically to send a message to the other LLM vendors: you give us the tech, we use it how we want, or you lose your contracts.

During a diversity roundtable last month at the National Press Club, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, gave shocking news on the state of the Black press on the eve of its bicentennial. "We all have felt the damp hands of oppression and suppression over the last 12 months," said Chavis, whose trade association represents more than 200 African American-owned community newspapers. "I'm going to be very honest: We've lost advertising revenue 80% over the last 12 months."

Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

Can’t believe we are still doing this

this is a really important point. the district courts are trying to contain this administration. the circuits, by and large, are still working, with the occasional exception of the 5th, 8th, and DC circuits.

the Supreme Court is on an island. lawless and completely rogue.

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄

This is really complicated. The situation in the US drives the global vaccine market and the fact that currently HHS is run by anti-vaxxers means everything is very uncertain.

But I agree, Moderna Canada may have an opportunity to step up. We need to figure out how to make it happen.

France correctly approaching the exposure of an international pedophile ring as a prosecutorial problem; not taking the American route of doing damage control for the elite.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

the account which posted this appears to be an AI agent farming karma before it turns into an advertising bot

yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die

I love this America so much. I am aware that I am in a constant fight, one with existential stakes but which will not be conclusively resolved, to determine whether the America that exists is the one I love or the one people like Rubio love. But it is a fight to which I am wholly committed.

Thanks, but the quote from Andy is missing.

Yeah, slavery is substantially watered down in schools bc they don't like teaching kids about an entire society based on mass rape.

Is this available for Patreon members?

all of this is horrible, but the thing thatshocks me the most is every time they do this to some random person it radicalizes dozens of other people in their personal circle of friends and families.

Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.

A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.

When I see angry posts about Democrats' record on trans issues I can't just let them go by. I don't see it as my job to defend them, and I have a lot of problems with how they're meeting the moment, but on trans issues the support really DID NOT collapse the way many expected it to.

As we dismantled in-house capacity, we dramatically ramped up the requirements/paperwork for executing basically any project (RFPs for consultants because that's been outsourced, EIS's, lawsuits).

And the result is... car crashes like this, which don't make the front page but undermine confidence.

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes