With respect it is a mistake to view this as an error.

The WP is playing Pravda now.

All that matters is publishing what the regime chooses to say.

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

As bombs fall far away the naked man dances in his imaginary technicolor dreamcoat to the patter of light chuckling among the NY Times reporters.

The naked man yells out "who is laughing?!"

The NY Times reporters respond "we were marvelling at your beautiful coat sir, wherever did you get it?"

is everyone on glue

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

How's the sand hole, John? The one in which you stick your head? Bits of silicon getting in your ears are they?

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Why are they discussing the WWE on SportsCenter? I don't have a problem with wrestling, but this is theater, man. It's like having a segment during the Oscars where they break down the NCAA tournament bracket.

So now that President Clinton & First Lady Hilary Clinton have testified regarding " Epstein's Trump Files " Donald & Melania you are up!

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

I recently saw a dentist, who told me I would qualify for the new Canadian dental plan and a replacement crown would be mostly covered in six weeks. I don't miss wondering if I will have access to vaccines, healthcare costs, fluctuating tariff rates, or issues with my immigration status.

So now that Hillary Clinton has testified to the Epstein Files, the other 900 hundred MEN named in the same files are being called up to testify, right?

Good statement!

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

i think it's cool how zohran was like, yea i made some mistakes during the first snowstorm, so i'm gonna take everything i learned and do better this time around, and so far it seems like he has. accountability! responsiveness!

Omg yes! My thought was that every tenured faculty member on this website should take this exact paragraph to their administration and ask whether this would count as education at their institution— and devise an organizing strategy based on the answer

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

John Roberts making a play to rebrand "The Peter Principle"

His kingdom for a shot of that old John Roberts elixir, miraculous protection from any legal ailments. Tastes great too!

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

the lack of good candidates aside, voting in general in the US is simultaneously very robust, distributed control and like zero fraud, but instead rampant suppression of mostly left-leaning citizens, stripped of voting rights or wrongly removed from rolls for discriminatory capricious reasons.

This is true, and part of me hopes she does, so the national conversation can start to be centered around her perspective, but, but, the merciless racist misogyny she will be subjected to- one cannot wish for anyone to take that on.

I’m so scared they are gonna run Newsom for President I’m sorry he is just not likable regardless of how many funny memes his team can come up with. Give me AOC give me Crockett give me a fighter.

The CIA World Factbook has been a great source of data over the years. As of 10 days ago it is just gone with a bland announcement. And the archives, e.g., the-world-factbook/about/archives/2021 @ www cia gov have vanished. Wayback machine has them. The announcement: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.

Like the Grinch, he might succeed at taking away the trees and presents, but like the Whos in Whoville, we're all still going to show up on Election Day and hold hands and sing and cast the votes that throw that rancid orange mfer out.

So, yeah, "fun" to think about, but...

what rights sociopaths should have- yes, life, but what else that balances equities- is an underexplored question.

From Harry Bernstein’s 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship biography: “I have proven with all this that age need not be a barrier to a useful and creative life. I hope to be able to reach one hundred. I hope to write more books. But with all of this I will never lose the memory of the one thing that gave me the strength and inspiration to accomplish what I have done thus far, my wife Ruby. Memories are supposed to dim with the passing of years. But my memory of her grows richer and deeper each year. I can still see her as vividly as I always did, her lovely, oval face with the smile always on it, her soft, dark eyes looking up at me with such love in them. Her presence will always be there with me until I too am no longer here.” https://www.gf.org/fellows/harry-bernstein/

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.

I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.

OMG ROFL