Like tankies and Taiwan. Maybe they should have been part of China 75 years ago but there are a lot of people (Ethnic Chinese and indigenous!) who very much don't want to be now
Steamed Buns@aremay.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's immensely entertaining watching people try and get out of acknowledging that there are people on the islands who might get a say
As an Alabama fan these are completely different situations for reasons you'll have to give me 30 minutes to an hour to come up with
TW@twesq.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlabama fans in 2010: Auburn should do the right thing and sit Cam Newton. Auburn:
Dutch winning this game would be so disappointing. Just no interest in playing soccer the last 30 minutes
Pulisic is such a game wrecker at this tournament
Those indulgences and annulments didn't sell themselves y'all
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5mo ago'flexibility on doctrine' is far more of a Catholic hallmark over time than people think, too.
This goes so hard...if you have a <5 year old
NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 7mo agogood night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.
We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.
“Dear ICE agents - I hope you’re respectful to everyone and show kindness… we should treat all people the same, even if we don’t know them.” If this doesn’t shatter your heart you don’t have one. 💔 Our kids are watching. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
![Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[Image of child being arrested]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35
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ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
theguardian.com
Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
hypocrisy has always been a part of the American DNA. That's fine. "It is hypocritical to say this thing is bad when we didn't say it about another bad thing" is not a call to say both things are bad. It is a call to say nothing. And fuck that shit.
"oh your fantasy football punishments are so boring. oh no one cares. oh there's more important stuff happening in the world." I thought that too before my brother had to take a shot of a different fish sauce every day for a week and dedicate it to a different player on his last-place team
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9mo ago“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
youtube.com
To finish this out: This may make some people angry and uncomfortable, but just to clarify, I am 100% correct.
some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA
Donald Trump’s War in Venezuela (Congratulations to the Winners of the “Fell for it Again Award”)
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
The Dodgers have signed Madison Bumgarner to a four-inning, $160 million contract
Why did Miami not take a timeout????? Is Christobal seriously playing for 3?