NEW: John Solly Is the DOGE operative accused of planning to take sensitive Social Security data to his new job. Solly and Leidos, his current employer with millions of dollars in Social Security contracts, strongly deny the allegations.
read @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social:
on the internet no one knows you're not a pirate
Times headline
Said in a Daffy Duck voice
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
would not want to be saddled with that assignment
My god
the arguments against eating billionaires keep getting thinner
I just checked and this is real. We call this “a clue”
For anyone surprised by a VC being interim CEO of bsky, may I remind you of BlockChain Capital, the VC that poured $15m into bluesky, also invests in Sam Altman's eye-scanning orb company
You heard HEATED's conversation with @chasecain.bsky.social last week. Yesterday, his first YouTube video after leaving NBC dropped.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQeP...
The internet is the worst.
the upkeep alone on polar bears is outrageous
Well I’m the son of a Nazi refugee and here’s one of the more high-profile black activists in Maine so perhaps you’re missing something.
bsky.app/profile/blac...
gee thanks. I hadn't heard of the tattoo before.
I hosted a fundraiser for Graham Platner @grahamformaine.bsky.social yesterday, focused on contractors and tradespeople in Portland. Took me a while to warm to him but I think he's the real deal.
Reasonable facsimile of my remarks below.
Oh yeah - and I got to play with a baby!
Jesus Eoin - I hadn’t bothered to check out the platner content on Bluesky til now. Godalmighty
"We want the murder software to murder accurately" isn't the absolution everyone seems to think it is. Anthropic is enacting a huge PR campaign and too many people are helping them
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
Wait - the TPUSA performers were really named Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett and Lee Brice? I read that and assumed it was satire.
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Guy who dresses like a Nazi is anti-Semitic!
I asked my cab driver in Davos for his thoughts about NATO, Greenland, Venezuela, and ICE. He said he'd already gone on the record with David Brooks, whom he'd driven from the airport an hour earlier.
by Thomas L. Friedman
That five-year-old is no angel.
Excellent piece. Thanks.
Renee Good is dead because the system was created to harass, assault and intimidate Renee Goods, and because the people who do it enjoy it. Trump II's meme reign seems determined to persuade the last people unconvinced of this.
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
Trump
We’re ruled by 13 year olds
Peanuts cartoon
Things are gonna change. I can feel it.
we wouldn't need a new year if they didn't keep making them shittier and shittier all the time
"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This
Trump Jon benet
Huge if true!
