Important to note that the bipartisan abundance housing "supply bill" is now a housing killer and must be opposed

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

In Montreal, bracing for the storm of the century apparently

So Ron Johnson's attempted defense of his war powers vote on NPR this morning is something else. He basically said we can't vote on the war, it's too unpopular.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

It's a very good *political* argument that "we're paying a billion dollars a day to bomb Iran instead of paying for universal healthcare" but it's not based in *economic* reality. We can actually do both.

Dems seem confused about messaging again I think the correct message is "Donald Trump should be impeached for starting an illegal war"

Mad king.

Going to war without congressional approval is impreachable

leak drip drip

what did the robot tell them to do

Invading Iran without congressional assent should be impeachable one would think

trying to punish the elites I guess (I admit to having global entry)

We’re back, baby!

think how much happier we'd all be if we were all dead and AI just did everything

LOL 15% is the maximum he can do, for 150 days. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

I starting to think the left should come around to the major questions doctrine.

Elevator reform in Washington killed by the elevator lobby

Surprising no one, Joshua Bell is in the Epstein files (in this unexplained video without sound, I'm sure he was playing quite well) jmail.world/jefftube/wat...

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

I have seen a couple "now that the tariffs have been canceled get ready for a rolling fiscal crisis" takes from people that should know better.

We really need to do something about the president thinking about starting a war with Iran without congressional approval

Because you, citizens and Judges, have been EXTREMELY UNGRATEFUL for all the good work I've been attempting to do for you, YOU WILL HEREBY BE PUNISHED WITH AN ACROSS THE BOARD 10% TAX INCREASE. Please vote for me in November!

Jesus christ. www.narativ.org/p/breaking-j...

Who is Kristi Noem's husband and what does he think of all this

The real way authoritarianism happens is when the leader gains control over the power of the purse

just waiting for a visionary politician to seize it

Honestly the Epstein files destroying all these creeps is great and hilarious, even some of the worst have still avoided accountability

interesting

I really worry about Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. and I REALLY worry about the Ellisons doing it. We need to stop this!!

I know it's like we're about to invade Iran but it feels like Trump has been oddly quiet anhybody seen him the past few days?

hmm

Finally checked out a Claude Code demo and I'm freaked out

given all the wonky policy nerd types a decent percentage of which must live in New York City how is there not a full-time NY Tax state tax reform policy account

Just do it Mamdani

New York should absolutely raise its property taxes instead of its income taxes. This article is all over the place and the problem is nobody really understands (including me, a guy that has gone down the rabbit hole a bit on this) how fucked up NYCs taxation is. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

these storms we're getting this year are f-ing crazy

Karen Bass needs to go

Your honor, I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.

Well, it looks like part of Project 2028 is going to be adding a statutory directive to the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses

I just really wish the billionaire tax were actually well designed

The California way: never do anything if instead you can order a study report about whether or not you should do anything

ok so as a student of the modern world I guess we must discuss this important question: Was Jeffrey Epstein good at emails?

The classical music Epstein beat

No.

It would be amazing if there were some kind of deliberative body that made laws and was apportioned according to the nation's population. Until that time, however, we have no choice but to be governed by a 9 member council of wizards whose composition only moves when a wizard dies of old age.

" We need more housing, and housing follows the laws of supply and demand. If you don't have more supply and you still have a lot of demand, the cost of housing is going to go up."

So far Arellano and Steve Lopez have weighed in on Nithya and neither of them seem to get it at all (probably generational).

oh Nithya's announcement has given me such new purpose