The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

The self-wagging tail takes shape

Wrasse are brilliant little bastards, I'd be surprised if they couldn't where some ants can.

Graffiti text on a stairwell wall reading "may thy riot gear chip and shatter". Also do double quotes sound weird with a screen reader? I don't use one, does punctuation help or annoy?

Droopy pants are out of style and dopamine hacking apps bring in too much money, this is the new cloud we're yelling at.

Trump started the war and killed their head of state during the last round of negotiations.

Helpful context!

NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"

While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12

Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026: On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said. Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid

Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Does this count as escalation next to launching decapitation strikes during negotiations, blotting out the sky with clouds of burning oil, cutting off water supplies to the region, and double-tapping an elementary school?

We said we wanted total war w no rules of engagement and that's what we got.

If the old testament god were real, neutralizing that threat would be civilization's only chance at long-term survival.

That's my candidate for the Great Filter: did you overthrow or escape your local magic space tyrant?

Antscan

@soren-lorenson.bsky.social Found this on the Blue Place today:
www.antscan.info

Thousands of micro-CT scans of ant species from around the world. No idea what I'll do with it but this clearly belongs in my bookmarks...

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

Wow, they went all the way with it. No workers or males at all, fully asexual reproduction...

That's bonkers. 😁

To come and ask this man for help defending ourselves in the war we started is fuckin audacity.

The return of the Friedman Unit

We're old. We get to let this shit roll on without us, it's an absolute blessing.

Its one thing to read the histories and realize that fascism is an ideology by and for weird losers who suck at everything, and another to live through it

Wish my first thought wasn't that this is the setup for the most ridiculous false flag attack conspiracy of all time.

Also wish reality was less mouth-foaming halfwit crazypants so I could just chuckle at a ridiculous idea and get on w my day.

Always, yeah.

I keep getting alllllmost there and being rewarded with some fresh crisis to untangle, instead

My sense is that these guys, who often talk about regular people as 'NPCs' imagine that by seizing control of media outlets they can *create* such an audience. After all, that's what they think the 'Cathedral' did in the other direction.

They can't imagine liberalism as an organic ideology.

huh weird is that usually how it goes or no

Dude if you have a problem w me say so

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

"What's unreasonable about needing ID to vote?" they say.

Watch the hands, not the mouth.

Just that, for decades.

Allied casualties, no. We don't have allies anymore.

Fewest allied casualties of any war in American history, people are talking about it. Saying thank you, sir, with tears and everything.