it’s national caregivers day. about 1 in 5 people provide unpaid care to a loved one. you probably know one. it’s hard to understand until you are doing it (and you likely will) but it is heart wrenching, backbreaking work. do something nice for a caregiver you know. no advice please.
21.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 144 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 3
CHEERS: coming up with the phrase "Corolla-sized vermin"
JEERS: using it to argue for slaughtering sea lions
20.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Rise of Skywalker is the single most "hope you fuckers like slop" thing I've ever seen
18.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 98 🔁 11 💬 15 📌 0
A military attack on another country is called a war; saying it's just a military 'confrontation' or a 'calibrated strike' diminishes the severity of the act, regardless of whether it leads to region-wide conflict.
Something to keep in mind in the non-debates on Iran.
18.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 161 🔁 46 💬 9 📌 3
Hosting the first meeting of something called the “Board of Peace” while you’re about to start an unprovoked war with Iran is fantastically in character for the US government.
18.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
the real excitement comes when you start trying random knobs and the backrest suddenly gives out
17.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For years, the first newsletter I read after waking up & getting the kids to school was @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s WorldView for the Washington Post. Nothing else in mainstream US media gave readers foreign perspectives on US news. Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis killed it. Today was its last edition.
11.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 85 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 1
NEW TGS EPISODE: The excellent hosts of @amprestigepod.bsky.social and @wnsdpod.bsky.social (including eternal fan fave @goingmedieval.bsky.social) join me in reminding listeners never to trust an old guy who tells you he’s got a mission from God, because you WILL get killed by the Turks.
05.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2
Regardless of what you think of Trump's policies, "Panican" is absolutely elite political communication on the merits. Of course everyone instantly grasps what it means and it just looks so good on the page, but furthermore it's also very easy to imagine how someone would say it aloud.
09.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 909 🔁 66 💬 90 📌 7
[a 55 year old man approaching you who looks like he's 70] hi I'm Kid Rock
09.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware before posting the image that Sonic and Mario canonically exist in different universes or that Mario could not impregnate a hedgehog with currently available fertility procedures. The image was generated here at the New York Times by this reporter.
06.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 103 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
A Surprise Zone of Interest
We are All Responsible for What Happens in our Community
A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social
“Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”
05.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 878 🔁 263 💬 11 📌 10
this is a military prison, why dance around it www.reuters.com/world/middle...
05.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
05.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 5009 🔁 1628 💬 79 📌 92
I wonder how many people canceled their Washington Post subscriptions today. I still had one for work reasons but since they liquidated the international desk that made my decision to cancel very easy.
04.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Really never thought I'd miss the days when you had to at least send somebody to the UN to wave around a vial of cornstarch before you could start a war.
03.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Buzzing a US naval vessel at this particular moment is so stupid that you have to wonder if somebody in the IRGC is trying to derail the negotiations.
03.02.2026 18:06 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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