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This OpenAI commercial basically says that if you give Grandma ChatGPT she'll end up stranded at sea.

I can envision a scenario where Maga/Trump blames Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure for the high gas prices in the U.S.

So who’s got a projector for that #KennedyCenter tarp? I’m sure someone has those Epstein files projections.

I highly recommend watching the Livestream. It's a victory for our democracy and a historic moment.

My brilliant wife just made the astute observation that Murder She Wrote is just Scooby Doo for grown ups.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Bianco keeps doing "all Californians believe... ' thing. Cheap little trick for a guy that doesn't appear to be in any way qualified to be the governor of the largest state in the country.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Great day for Democracy. Bad day for MAGA and Putin. Let's have a lot more of these.

Well worth a listen. #jazzsky youtube.com/watch?v=Vkym...

Current mood on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Impossibly beautiful. I also found myself audibly telling someone in the crowd to STFU during LaFaro's solo on Alice in Wonderland. If only those people knew what they were witnessing and that he'd leave this world a week and a half later. #jazzsky

Even if you don’t normally stop what you’re doing to watch video, you’ll want to see Professor Scheppele explain what we can learn about protecting our own upcoming elections by watching Orbán’s machinations ahead of the Sunday election there. Essential viewing! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Current mood.

Wow.

The One Where Ross And Rachel... You Know

We're in a moment now where if something precedent happened, it would be unprecedented.

Man Child is an under-appreciated Herbie Hancock album. And it comes with a free side of Stevie Wonder. You can't go wrong.

Poem: Fascist Dispatch: Minneapolis, 1-24-2026 let’s mask our faces from consequence and shame let’s go abuse a family with a funny last name get in our way and we’ll shoot you dead we already shot a nurse in the back and a poet in the head

Informative first hand accounts from leaders on the ground in Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/live/fH76Lrc...

This is worth reading www.ft.com/content/b474...

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

If you have the means, please remotely support local businesses in Minneapolis. One way is to place an order from one of their many excellent independent bookstores (or make one of them the store you support on @libro.fm )

These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Today is a great day to remember Wilhoit's law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

3/ "Instead of doing either of those things [checking for a pulse and administering CPR], the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds. I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know." Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This week, Trump will bomb someone, impose a ridiculous tariff, make some crazy announcements - do anything he can to divert attention away from this outrage. He wants the public to move on and forget this as so many have done with his past crimes and transgressions. Don’t let him.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Filthy McNasty has to be the greatest song name in the history of music. I love Horace Silver's sense of humor. #jazzsky

I'm so glad they gave this performance a proper release. Great performance and lineup. I've watched the YouTube video a hundred times. youtu.be/JW4CCWDAcHw?... #jazzsky

Great tune to accompany the sautéing of onions. #jazzsky

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play. Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Hanging out with two excellent Franks. #huskysky #Zappa

“ICE Out For Good/USA Hands Off Venezuela - Santa Rosa, CA” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...