tapping this sign again because people are so goddamn credulous, no, private equity is not why housing prices are rising, housing prices are rising because of insufficient supply

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

good morning TL it's monday let's grind

We gotta stop pretending we aren’t just as brain rotted and or cooked on this platform as any other it’s very much a false self constructed sense of moral superiority. Regardless of any specific ideological orientation you take online spaces make you feel worse about yourself and the world.

Great read for anyone interested in the history of English:

feel like i'm gonna be getting a lot of mileage out of this one

Hey yeah I have a clear answer- it’s because Alex Pretti was legally armed and they used it to justify his extrajudicial murder at the hands of the state. It did not allow him to defend himself against the state. Hope this helps!

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

Immigration is the kind of thing you can only be mad about if you either don’t have real problems in your life, or you blame the wrong people for the problems you do have. Being anti immigration is just bullshit. Literally nothing good comes from it.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Much like how Bill Clinton was said to have been the first black president Trump could be said to be our first genderqueer president. As I type this I think I mean this is as a joke but even I don't know.

We are all looking for the guy who did this. See Robinson, Tim, Leave, I Think You Should, §1 Ep. 5.

Epstein died in a locked cell with three neighbors who all told investigators that nobody did cell checks, let alone enter cells, the night Epstein died. Everything else is commentary.

oh, is there a courtsball on?

Jen's right we should be thankful for Alysa Liu who represents true and real American excellence and how she has helped us all learn that a tariff of unbounded amount, duration, and scope is an illegally levied tax FUCK YEAH LETS FUCKING GO okay sorry its all getting a little mixed up on me

because random people can't beat the us military?

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Social media is being overrun with Illinois ppl THANKING us for being willing to pay for Bears. They literally sound like one of them fathers that's willing to give up his parental rights if the baby mama's new husband wants to adopt and he don't have to worry about child support no more 🤧 😫 😂 🤦🏿‍♂️

Crazy milestone in the US trade data released today—America now imports more directly from Taiwan than from China for the first time since 1992 The trade war has cut US direct trade with China, and the AI boom has caused a surge in spending on Taiwanese-made semiconductors

“The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department’s headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The New York Times.”

a government for, by and of degenerates

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration. even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

Following American politics closely enough to offhand reference the CTC but not knowing a) which party was responsible for implementing the expanded CTC/the machinations of how it wasn't extended and b) how US elections work is a level of insanity that needs to be studied in a lab

Fantastic, cannot WAIT for my tax dollars to be pissed away on this while half the streets in my city have no sidewalks

this is like 75% of people who yell at Stancil or Darling

"bless his heart"

He's reaching levels of comic book villain I didn't even know were possible

I'm not saying that ICE is going to try and do Minneapolis here on Long Island, but the general perception among those who monitor them here are concerned something is up.

think that "epistemic pessimism" is a major and untheorized political ideology issue. many of us subscribe to largely implicit notion of US electorate and media as being beyond redemption

The “ICE patrolling schools” thing is extra ironic because a lot of them probably aren’t technically allowed within 1000’ of one

So here’s my number, Call Me Meiji!

This is a dumb take because there are a TON of immigrants in the country who are some flavor of evangelical, and we need to cross-pressure them to vote Dem.

This guy thinks if only he was good at Poasting he'd be happy, and he's wrong. Nothing will ever make him happy. His soul is too shriveled and dry to ever experience it. But also, he'll never be good at Poasting.

The left is excited about underwater robots that livestream video feeds of octopus nurseries from the deep Gulf of Mexico. The right is excited about summarizing a five word e-mail, incorrectly.

He’s not just emulating Pol Pot, he’s killing descendants of Pol Pot’s victims.

some people are so compelled by AI they want to marry and fuck it. yet the Left, a monolithic group with one singular take, will not even engage with it

Straight-up, unvarnished, unconcealed white supremacy from the US State Department. This is a literal repeat of the 'white crisis' which led to the idea of the racially exclusive 'West' in the decades up to the 1930s. These aren't even echoes any more - it's a mirror image.

Big news from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social: FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com

Car supremacy is now feminist, you heard it here first

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Anatole France but seemingly seriously.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Wow.

As we are doing another round of “is Gavin Newsom the preordained devil of the 2028 primary?” I want to remind people that a lot can and will happen between now and the primaries. No value comes from screaming about it now.

youre only a REAL new yorker if you quit your dishwashing job in texas, got here by bus, continuously get hustled, and squat in a condemned building with a 5'4" italian who dies of shoeshine madness