The state of the union is jesus fucking christ www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

He was training to play Olympic hockey.

I don't think I've ever seen gears shift this fast before.

When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture

So good

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Morons Morons are in charge www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Also the reason FBI couldn't investigate Renee Good's shooting is bc doing so would contradict what Dear Leader said publicly.

The major flaw with the claim that Trump's foreign policy is "realist" is the fact that it is so deeply ideological. There is no "realist" case for driving South Africa into China's embrace, rather than competing for its partnership. The only reason Trump is doing so is based on racist memes.

"I just want to find 11,780 votes"

NAMES MENTIONED IN THE FILES: •Trump— 38K+ •Reid Hoffman— 2.6K+ •Bill Gates— 2.5K+ •Peter Thiel— 2.2K+ •Elon Musk—1.1K+ •Richard Branson— ~1K •Howard Lutnick— 653 •Kevin Warsh— 521 •Larry Ellison— 398 •DACA recipients— 0 •Trans people— 0 •Drag queens— 0 www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?

Funny to see the use of “communist” or “socialist” applied to the American left while the American right has the government taking pieces of companies and declaring what interest rate banks can charge. Words have lost all meaning.

BILL CLINTON: "Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back."

And the 2A-breathed assholes have finally given up on "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and are now resorting to, no, it's the guns. In order to justify fascism, every principle and credo -- pretended or otherwise -- can and will be jettisoned.

This is what the president was doing last night while all the insanity was happening in MN.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

This exchange is why I don’t watch these shows anymore. Hosts either don’t know how to ask followups or aren’t allowed. How hard would it’ve been to ask: “Mr. Sec., did the 2nd amendment protect Alex Pretti?” “Are you saying there are situations where the 2nd amendment doesn’t apply? Which ones?”

In-groups who the law protects, out-groups who it binds…

I have been thinking about the 2014 incident at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada this weekend as well. Quite the contrast in responses.

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

KEN GRIFFIN, on tariffs: “.. Unfortunately, the most recent research indicates the tax been borne by both American consumers and by American businesses. So the money raised by Washington in the tariffs has really come at the expense of the American people.” @cnbc.com

You have to admit: watching this administration embrace government intervention in private-sector pricing, capex, executive compensation and capital returns is pretty delicious. 🤡

“.. Chavez came to power in 1999 when audited reserves were about 75 billion barrels of reserves. The year he died in 2013, they magically jumped to 300 billion unaudited.” 🇻🇪

Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

As Mark notes, everything Trump does is transactional. This isn’t about some sense of personal loyalty to a supporter any more than his Jan 6 pardons were, because Trump has never in his life felt a scintilla of loyalty to anyone. It’s about establishing a precedent he thinks will be useful to him.

Rioters? Agitators? Immigration agents' claims against US citizens mostly fall apart in court. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c...

If you give this administration a presumption of honesty, you are acting like a credulous sucker. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Drain. The. Swamp.

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

There isn’t a pretense of a fake justification for a made up war. No washed think tankers making an argument, no wack op-ed commentary, no reason at all, nothing.

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Analogizing the EU to the Nazi regime is embarassingly ignorant of history, and it's shameful that our new national security strategy seems to say that those promoting international cooperation in Europe are bad and those trying to rehabilitate violent nationalism are good

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

It is unending: In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to the National Park Service website. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

2 HONEY 2 CRISP

this administration really does shine an unflattering light on the influencer class, by and large a group of people with no discernable expertise or skills. get famous railing against FBI guys using jets, become FBI director and use the jet for an absolutely stunning amount of influencer fucking off