FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Inside this latest Trump-Mamdani meeting: -Last time the two met, Trump asked him to return with ideas to build big things. Mamdani came back with a massive housing proposal -Mamdani's team created mock headlines to show Trump how such a project would be received. He was "very enthusiastic." -Mamdani pushed for release of Columbia student detained today, Trump calls him later to tell him she's being released -Mamdani gives Susie Wiles a list of four other students he wants help with, all targeted in pro-Palestinian protests https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4 Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Fascinating
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.
Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasnβt allowed to use the word βfascismβ during press junkets in 2025.
Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
Rapist mentality and rapist language
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
our single greatest mistake as a country was not hanging every single confederate traitor. now we have the AGOTUS providing cover for president pedophile and his cohorts
how do we even get here
To be clear, we're saying they have no money and no documentation but somehow they're snatching up homes? In this economy?
βFour of my children just evaporated,β Badran said, holding back tears. βI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?β
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
Itβs been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
βICE GTFO OF MNβ
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasnerβs opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
βEUSEXUAβ by FKA twigs wins the #GRAMMY award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!
Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.