Jamison Foser

It’s the “everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life” that’s extra-aspirational

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Go ahead, pick the "wrong" fight Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of MEXICO

hey it's the "everybody go along with Trump's 'Gulf of America' bullshit" guy

(previously: www.findinggravity.net/go-ahead-pic...)

took 50 years but I finally found a suitable role model

kids today will never know the joy of coming home drunk at 2 am and turning on a 20-inch CRT to see the GOAT infomercial scammer Don Lapre enthusiastically pitching his foolproof plan for accumulating life-altering wealth by placing thousands of tiny classified ads in newspapers all across america

that guy peaked too soon. he would have *cleaned up* in 2026 America

AI Slop is the new Tiny Classified Ads

Nothing has changed here.

So you might ask - how will we know when things have changed? For me it’s all the kids back in school.

don't forget the white nationalists, coach

Milan mastered happy hour. You order a drink in Milan and they bring you a whole spread of cured meats and cheeses and whatnot with it. Quality stuff, not garbage. You know how much you have to suck to get people who could be sipping a negroni and nibbling good olives to take to the streets instead?

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Clout chasers truly don’t realize, or don’t care, that they are one of the MAJOR disseminators of propaganda and misinformation. That they’re playing into the hands of fascists. That their selfishness is a danger to us all.

At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building

Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Trumpworld assumed MAGA-adjacent parts of the culture would thrill to ICE brutality. ICE recruits among fans of UFC, Nascar, military tactical equipment.

But even MAGA-friendly constituencies and parts of the culture are now rejecting ICE and mass deportations. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Striking from Marquette poll:

Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.

That's data given to me. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2062...

She got a seal of approval from the Bezos Washington Post!

Yeah I recently glanced at my bookshelves and saw like half a dozen books with “RFK” on the spine, mostly from my (very long ago) high school years, and thought “oops better make sure these aren’t in my zoom background!”

* probably?

ah shit I knew that of course

I'm assuming some sort of xtreme raw milk-based bullshit

it's not your fault
it's not your fault
it's not your fault it's

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

IDEA: instead of throwing a bunch of development resources at making AI-enabled memeoji stickers* maybe Apple could figure out a way for my laptop to glance at my calendar and see that I have a five hour flight coming up so it should go ahead and charge to full instead of stopping at 80 percent

I have considered both points of view and after weighing both sides carefully I have concluded that yours has advantage of not being completely fucking evil.

For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism. Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide.

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

just to be excessively clear: those howls of derision would be deeply stupid and corrosive to our politics and to society itself. but stupider still is selective application of said derision.

fear not I'm sure it will come around again, like all of my Posts

if John Kerry answered a "what are you eating during the Super Bowl" question with "ferments" the howls of media derision about effete northeastern elites would be endless.

but Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Junior (of the Massachusetts Kennedys) is a man of the people you see, so this is fine

(I don't have time to tell that story now but if you've followed me for longer than a few months you've probably already heard it twelve times)

this of course reminds me of the time Bret Stephens linked to a video from before Chesa Boudin's tenure as SF DA to illustrate the effects of Chesa Boudin's policies and when I asked the NYT to remove this violation of the space-time continuum he assured me it was all god, that's just how they roll.