Total, unconditional QAnon victory. All politics now is just trying to uncover the secret messages from whichever satanic pedophile cult you believe runs the world. Suboptimal, if I'm being honest.

GDP is kind of standardized college admissions tests—there are a lot of problems with using it, but all the alternatives on offer seem much worse.

Tbh “gdp is a flawed figure” is true but is itself very often a motte to the bailey of “a much better method of estimating wealth is the number of skyscrapers with LEDs you have” or a similarly vibes based analysis

Decent chance the White House tweets out some ai slop tomorrow of like a penguin on this boat in an iron lung.

each passenger was allowed an area the size of whaaat?

Like I noted with Abughazaleh, you gotta root for these sorts of candidates to lose as a matter of principle at this point bc it would be extremely bad for our politics is this sort of brain wormed, terminally online wrecker shit were to be rewarded with a nomination.

Reminds me of Jamaal Bowman doing reelection events not in his district & then wondering why he lost the primary. What the fuck is wrong w these sorts of candidates that they get so terminally online that they cant grasp that their voters are on the ground in their districts & not in their phones?

Putting all of this silliness aside, if only there was an entire US agency dedicated to feeding, teaching, and treating developing nations around the world while earning us good will….oh wait.

that was always my favorite part of the essay to write.

“the gang transvestigates General of the Army Douglas MacArthur”

oh I remember this one actually—it was really good.

That feeling!

when you support bailing out Argentina, bombing Iran, & acquiring Greenland.

hwhat.

discovering even more vindication of the 30-40 feral hogs guy.

maybe you had to be there.

a nothing ever happens guy, for severe winter weather events.

oh *brother.*

A combination of views that always struck me as a little odd is fervent support for FDR & the New Deal *&* the belief that Woodrow Wilson was one of the Worst Presidents Ever.* *There are a lot of really bad US presidents.

it's very simple. Donald Trump is an asexual man who has been married three times & credibly accused of sexually assaulting women & is also gay.

no way lol

I'm pretty sure that the Treaty of Versailles was the Treaty of Versailles for white people.

Anyway, this is a screenshot from a 1980s document entitled "Land of the ZOG" that was owned by a White Christian nationalist antisemite who'd recently been the chair of the OR GOP and was credibly suspected by the FBI of being a Nazi.

Endlessly frustrating to me how impossible it is to read good reporting, due to pretty much every major and minor outlet reducing themselves to some flavor of Breitbart-tier axe grinding rag.

if the tariffs are so good & important, you kind of have to ask why so many get lifted or subject to exceptions, etc.

This is not a particularly well-written EO. But a few notable features: 1) CUSMA-compliant are excluded (yayy) 2) Max duration of 150 days (yaaay! more uncertainty! moaarr!!) 3) excludes several goods on basis of domestic need that are subject of 232 tariffs www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

*Even scummier* behavior. This is like high school bully behavior.

I will never vote for Sean McElwee.

He did it through another avenue that hadn't been ruled out by the ruling, but yes. Notably this one requires Congress to vote on it after 150 days.

Wait so he declared a 10% global tariff by executive order hours after the supreme Court said he couldn't?

All Vattel says, as far as I can tell, is if you go abroad and cause trouble, your misconduct isn’t imputed to your country unless they ratify it. It’s just a chapter on vicarious liability of states. I also don’t really get the point, I was hoping reading Vattel would help, but no.

Looking into it

true. fortunately it is not ambiguous whether adolescent cattiness & cliquishness negatively affect journalism in the aggregate (they do!) bsky.app/profile/sara...

this is such an important question to pursue—thank you for Holding Annoying Guys Accountable. it's kind of the 2026 version of reporting on the Pentagon Papers.

Neopronouns of xir own design + a poly relationship with Kevin Warsh and at least one woman with Mar-A-Lago face

well, that’s slightly confusing.

Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.

now we are cooking with gas!

hmm.

Malthus is a very interesting figure whose work was considerably more complex than his detractors or promoters would have one believe.

A reminder that the Revd Malthus *was* aware of birth control (albeit of very ineffective sorts) & disapproved of it on principle.

I think that this is true, but it's also a critical factor here that many of these people have insisted that they may dish but are not under any obligation to take, which is also untenable

hmmm.

Mood

btw the article at the top is always a funny reminder that xi jinping lived in iowa for a while and still has a bunch of random old white people as personal friends there en.people.cn/n3/2026/0218...

was not keeping up with this (from late January) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...