Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
I urge everyone to do likewise.
Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
I urge everyone to do likewise.
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
I urge everyone to do likewise.
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Every time I see an account sharing "news" here via a bit of copy-and-paste text or a screenshot of a headline but with NO LINK TO THE ACTUAL STORY, I block that account.
ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.
February 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
February 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
Philly-area friends who like books and cozy little bookshops, please visit Little Yenta Books in South Philly. Ariel and Simon are good people with good taste in books.
Philly-area friends who like books and cozy little bookshops, please visit Little Yenta Books in South Philly. Ariel and Simon are good people with good taste in books.
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"