Rebecca Fishbein

Been thinking a lot about this and Leslie Jordan would have done a great Greg Bovino.

I'd never heard of the author before but her Wikipedia page sure is an adventure.

Second of all, JK Rowling has been a virulent transphobe for most of Gen Z's conscious lives, so.

Like, first of all, the web headline is "The Harry Potter Generation Needs to Grow Up," and while I'm sure there are still Potterheads out there, I'd wager most millennials outgrew Harry Potter years ago. It's not our fault the IP refuses to die.

I feel like this was an interesting look at generational differences (millennials relate more to a Good People Defeat the Bad Guys post-WWII dichotomy while Gen Z responds more to the more nihilist revolutionary cycle a la the Hunger Games) but it's wrapped in a really stupid concept.

Greg Bovino saying the word gestapo is like a reverse three-finger gesture.

It’s so absurd. I grew up in NYC, we almost never had snow days (there was one in 1996 during a blizzard that was the first in decades).

Well, they certainly know they’re losing.

Love having a hands-on mayor in a snowstorm! If @mayor.nyc.gov could come shovel my block, where there is a foot of snow on the sidewalk, that would be delightful.

SEAHAWKS SUPER BOWL

I’m never going to see a Mets World Series win just give me a fucking Super Bowl

What the FUCK riq woolen

Jesus CHRIST

This Seahawks plane, I mean flight from SEA to ATL, is LIVELY with commotion on every big play. The whole place lit up when Kupp scored

Unfortunately I have decided to project my feelings about my lifelong Mets fandom onto this Seahawks season and now I’m preparing for heartbreak.

(Yes, this is the first football season I have ever paid attention to, ever.)

Anyway, once again please say a prayer for the Seahawks, as a Seahawks Super Bowl would make the best person I know (@andrewjoyce.bsky.social) very happy

Chat is it good when neither football team wants to win the game

Pushkin looks very cozy

To be fair, as the paper of record, the NYT has to be careful with initial reports, which makes it hard in a breaking news situation. That the paper is being so definitive right now basically means the evidence/reporting is airtight.

Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

Front page of NYT.com: "Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting," "Agents Kill 37-Year-Old Man in Minneapolis" "What We Know About the 2nd Fatal Shooting by Federal Agents" "Who Was the Man Shot and Killed by Federal Agents?" "Timeline: A Moment by Moment Look at the Shooting"

This is the most definitive front page I've seen from the NYT in a long time.

I hope people in New York City know that it has actually snowed here before.

Gov norm signs constitutional carry of concealed handguns without permits into law

This was the very first law Kristi Noem signed as Governor of South Dakota

www.argusleader.com/story/news/2...

jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests Alex Jeffrey Pretti “loved this country, but he hated what people were doing to it,” his father said from Colorado.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"

Thinking back on this gem from 2024

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

Killing of Philando Castile - Wikipedia

Today I'm remembering Philando Castile, shot in 2016 by police in the Minneapolis suburbs after being pulled over for a broken brake light. "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me," he said. Ten seconds later one of the cops had shot him five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

That is my bad for not reading the second amendment correctly, I will do better

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.