So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Lovely appreciation of Tom Noonan from Owen Gleiberman here variety.com/2026/film/re...

The logic here only makes sense if you assume AI and human beings are in a competition for resources (which in some meaningful sense might be true), and that the most efficient consumer of resources for performing AI-related functions should be allowed to win (which is pathological).

How about we solve like 10 major domestic problems with $500 billion instead of throwing it at the Pentagon for fun

Every word of this is a nightmare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m on a trip with my family so I wasn’t going to do a newsletter but then I saw that visualization of very grim data that I thought deserved some comment. And then I added other stuff, too. www.howtoreadthisch.art/a-visualizat...

Speed up, world!

I'm sure CNN's reply would be, "Well, we're not going to be baited by his rants and tantrums," but you can't attempt to rebrand silent, complacent servility as a form of being above it all. Find the shreds of dignity that remain in your profession! Fight back! What's he going to do, call you names?

To anyone with real political power who wants to complain about Trump but never wants to even *mention* impeachment: shuddup, loser.

The guys who made millions selling NFTs aren't hanging their heads in shame at their folly. They got theirs, the rug got pulled, and they moved on. And, in an illustratively large number of cases, they specifically moved on to selling AI.

DOJ used to put these on the walls of post offices. Smaller. And sometimes with a posted reward.

Well done, King Charles

You have questions, we have answers.

Very important that we forget how intentional this all was, so when the inevitable disasters come, the regime can pretend it could have happened to anyone.

The level of sublimated homosexuality in this administration requires a full-time, on-call team of Freudian first responders.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration. #BrutalButAccurate

This is intriguing but I still think that voters are, at the moment, assigning "progressive" and "moderate" to "willing to fight" and "prone to cowering" as opposed to making ideological or policy commitments. Would love to be wrong, but either way I'm pleased.

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

This super sweet female young cat was found in Bushwick. She's currently staying on a terrace because the cats living in that house are not very friendly, and she is looking for either a foster or a forever home. If anyone can help, please send me a DM

This is why fascists hate artists 💜

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

Spot on – by cartoonist Pia Guerra

AI can’t do this.

dart frog toxin, ffs

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

Glad I don't have children because they'd probably be the exact age to be walking around doing shithead face into the phone camera all day. Fuck you. Get a job. I hate my fake kid. Little piece of shit.

Imagine being in jail for possession of cocaine and seeing this shit

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

I ask because one way to judge whether that young man with a Nazi tattoo and a military background is on your side is whether he’s putting his body between ICE and their targets.

We live in a time where we can assume the most obvious, embarrassing, and ultimately destructive answer is true until proven otherwise.

When the dog succeeds in catching the car and not only does he not know what to do next but he notices that he was also somehow the one driving the car: the Epstein files

If it's political to honor war dead, presumably there's an opposing political position, which I suppose is that they do not deserve to be remembered? So if you die in a war rather than some other way, to mourn you is controversial? I really hate this.

One of the things I appreciated watching the Bondi debacle is how gleefully all the Democrats displayed their utter loathing of her. Really, it was spirit-lifting.

RIP Brewster himself, Bud Cort.

Was unfamiliar with James Van Der Beek, having never watched Dawson's Creek (I never watched Gilmore Girls in its initial run either, my bad). But damn he was hilarious on Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23. That show was underrated, so was he. Rest In Peace.

“this is about safety” what the actual fuck is wrong with these people

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Jamie Raskin is a national treasure.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

You know what would be "exceedingly reasonable"? Demand the dissolution of ICE and the immediate prosecution of every single crime its agents have committed. Your statement is insulting. Shame on you.

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The entire point of the cartel threat is that the targets can’t be sure the government will keep them safe. But there may be no one safer in America than DHS agents! They’ve shot two people to death and had their bosses blame the deaths on the victims!

Playfully toeing that line between high-functioning weirdo and low-functioning normie

When a headline says it all:

ITMFA, A

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

holy 💩 Seattle 💙💚

I honestly did not think anything connected to the NFL could be this cool 🇵🇷