And many of them went to the press and whispered that the problem was trans people.

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

Do people really believe the cartels can operate the way they do, with all the military grade weapons, logistics, drones etc, right at our border without express US natsec approval?

Do you see what they do to Iran, a nation literally thousands of miles away? Theres like 50 bases surrounding it.

She definitely didn't go on to kill her girlfriend and publicly admit it in another book, I can tell you that!

[personally driving a bulldozer through an unhoused person’s worldly possessions] we must support mutual aid

In 2025, the US was the only tourist area to see a decline in visitors Visitors to the U.S. from Canada — the second-largest source of U.S. tourism after Mexico — were down by 28 percent in January when compared to January 2024

Fer realz, TrumpMAGA are driving away a golden goose of travel income for American business.

"In 2025, the US was the only tourist area to see a decline in visitors. It’s not looking any better this year"

cropped screenshot of youtube home page recommendation for "I Built a Secret Gaming Pod" by channel Jake Carlini a woman sits in a large leather recliner and a photoshopped cutaway shows an implausibly sized man crouched up inside a secret compartment underneath the seat, gaming

The Human Chair - Junji Ito

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson Donald Trump calls for a ban on Muslims entering the United States; Dorothy Thompson wonders who is most susceptible to Nazism.

His whole exercise reminds me of the “Who goes Nazi” essay from WW2.

harpers.org/2015/12/who-...

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Perdue updates the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The conclusions about student cognition aren’t the interesting part for me so much as the money being spent on youth surveillance that isn’t leading to better learning outcomes. Teachers are being laid off, schools & libraries are closing, books are being banned.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

This article begins "After a year in which the Trump administration has pressed to limit the ways Americans can identify as transgender in public life...".

"Identify as transgender". If that doesn't give away the New York Times' whole game, I don't know what will.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

the only people who don’t understand this are … uhh … checking notes … 80% of the American political spectrum

NYT faced hotdog man: we're all looking for the guy who did this.

The terms of the debate haven't changed at all for Republicans, but now comes the part where "respectable" anti-trans actors like the NTY are forced to shed the fig leaf of "fairness in sports," and join in on directly questioning "the validity of transgender identity."

am i crazy or is this just cunty peter griffin

america is all about starving cuba and killing 1 million arabs annually and giving 10 trillion dollars to israel and if you complain about that you’ll be put in a concentration camp

Costco believes in business.

this is the energy every candidate should have, it shouldn’t take ICE murdering your constituents and the DOJ covering it up to get them there. we shouldn’t have to die for chuck schumer to grow a spine

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

If you want to learn more about these psychos and how dark and weird their minds go, start here:

People glaze over the whole “Peter Thiel and his friends literally believe poor people should be turned into biodiesel” thing WAY too often.

AI is like they invented a way to sometimes turn gravity down to 20% and everyone went "yay, we can just moon-bounce everywhere!" And now they're all "oh no, my gummy bones!"

the first matrix is about becoming a popular transsexual shitposter and 2&3 are about the ramifications of your actions and duking it out with your haters.

resurrections is about building a new following on a different website.

"Not evil in some movie sense. Silent partners in a real world sense." well damn

Eminem News

every single piece like this should include a statement as to whether the writer is using a subscription to Claude or ChatGPT or if they're paying for the API, and if it's a subscription, the article should have a giant red sign that says THIS USER WAS SUBSIDIZED

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground Scenes from a city under siege

if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there:

www.theverge.com/policy/87710...