Jen Jacobsen

Goose and a Watermelon.

The author of this piece is shockingly naive.

State of the State.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Sometimes you just have to ask—why? The Senate voted to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was expected to save Americans billions each year.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

They expected bad things to happen to people, just *other* people.

we believe we are special and we simply are not

If the word "inclusion" makes your ass mad, I'm sorry for you. Go relearn that shit at your nearest Kindergarten, if it hasn't already been defunded and whatnot.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Sometimes I wonder if all the people who used to make calculators are now in a Thursday Night Bowling League with all the people who used to make VCRs.

Having mastered large language models, submarine design, Chinese balloon dynamics, Suez Canal boat traffic patterns, and toilet paper supply chain logistics, I would like to explain some of the potential dangers of mRNA vaccines….(1/14)

i'll fess up: for the last like fifteen years i despised Jesse Eisenberg on reflex. anytime he came up in a movie I'd say, nah, not for me, fuck that guy.

turns out i just hated Mark Zuckerberg so much my hate boomeranged around to Jesse. kinda a compliment to his acting when you think about it

Weird, Gavin Newsom just invited Hannibal Lecter to his podcast to see if they can find common ground in their shared interest in the culinary arts.

Having meatloaf for breakfast. BECOME UNGOVERNABLE, EMBRACE CHAOS

I am SO ready for Poker Face to return!!!

a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

FFS what timeline are we in???

Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump The third-term senator from Connecticut is eschewing caution and throwing out the traditional political playbook as he seeks a broader audience for his critiques of the president and his agenda.

“Nothing matters other than the question of whether or not we let the billionaires destroy our democracy. There’s a ticking time bomb inside our body politic right now. It’s very possible this thing could be completely rigged by the summer or fall of this year.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

The thing is that of course these guys want to just privatize all this shit without understanding that the reason we LITERALLY HAVE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is to do the things that don’t actually make a profit but still SUPER need to get done

Wow— powerful read. Thanks for sharing.

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

I went to a tariff war and a hockey game broke out

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this Omar El Akkad

yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy

join me

This is probably the most accurate take.

"Canada has the longest total coastline in the world, therefore we are well within our rights to rename our major oceans. Henceforth, the Pacific Ocean will be known as Poutine Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean as Hockey Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean as the Gulf of Brian Adams."

- PM Trudeau

Not quite true— I bet you can reference heterosexuality and straight gender binaries