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NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

Aurora and Cephalus, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1810, 📸 by Jesse D. Garrabrant

Or Zuckerberg will probably have some spare Meta glasses lying around that they could use.

oh we are fucked

I've always thought Eric Swalwell gave Michael Avenattiesque "I'm a dick to Republicans to advance my career, but maybe that means I'm too good at being a dick in general" vibes, but he has managed to turn out more terrible than I imagined.

This is lovely

What a beautiful moment.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Sorry Clemson

Maybe there’s a reason nobody has tried this before

This story by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social is so so good and so so upsetting. Get ready to have your head explode www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for Iran war supplemental, sources say Some in WH think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress My last story for WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Fuck yeah Afroman!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

We only rate dogs. This is clearly a gigantic mouse that someone just found in their home. Please gently return them to the garden and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: kitsune_inu)

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Gift Article “How Trump assassination attempts played into his decision to attack Iran “I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC of killing Iran’s supreme leader.” wapo.st/4cYVhL3

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

Remember, these guys fired all the people who actually know what they're doing because "DEI" and then hired the absolute dumbest people imaginable because of "meritocracy" and... then they do stuff like leaving comments enabled in their "this is how we concentration camp" PDF.

oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?

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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Sabrina Carpenter being on The Muppet Show makes perfect sense. I think she’s basically a muppet to begin with. Like in the field of contemporary celebs she’s gotta be in like, the top ten of obvious muppets masquerading as people.

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Trump posts racist video about the Obamas. Karoline Leavitt dismisses criticism as "fake outrage." Tim Scott calls it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." White House deletes video. @ericalgj.bsky.social @bellakwai.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Bitcoin explained in two posts: $BTC

Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Have you seen the new blog post? It's on pckt. It's literally on bsky. It's a standard dot site record. It's literally on Offprint. You can probably find it on Margin. Dude it's on your pds. It's a Leaflet original. Go to atproto. Dive into atproto. Atproto has it for you. Atproto has it for you.

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

They say the two happiest days in a gm’s life are the day he trades for James Harden and the day he trades away James Harden