im sure the staffer who posted that video is a very real person who was spoken to very strongly

JD Vance ruins everything

NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

Everything this office posts is done with the express approval of President Nixon.

Furthermore, US travel services exports were flat in 2025.* They had increased by 13% in 2024.** *Source: Year-to-date data through November 2025 from Exhibit 3 of BEA 2026 www.bea.gov/sites/defaul...

NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium. Even the commentators can’t hide it…

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

It’s a miracle that’s all it fell. I can’t imagine wanting to vacation here as a foreign citizen right now.

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Evil.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

It is mean but I’m sorry GEDstapo is pretty good

Newsmax stock hit an all-time low of $5.88/share today, down from its peak of $265.00/share ten months ago. It has lost 97.8% of its value.

Oh man it would be so awful if Vance got utterly and mercilessly booed at the opening ceremonies. I sure hope this request goes to everyone who will be in attendance.

#Autopen @politico.com

Whoa, Senator Scott. 👀

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.

bad bad bad www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Politico: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing federal rail tunnel funds www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Bitcoin is getting pretty close to being down 50% from its October peak, and it's hard not to view that as one of the most positive indicators we've had in a while.

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

Exactly, and this is why I’ll always use the two spaces after a sentence: 1) It feels right to me as a writer, and anything that helps me write is a Good Thing. 2) For editors, co-authors and others, eliminating that extra space takes a whole 30 seconds!

As someone who wrote for the @washingtonpost.com for eight years it’s pretty infuriating to watch Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis do what they’re doing to the place. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-sad-angr...

No.

Oh yeah.

You can take my two spaces from my cold, dead, computer.

Karp is the quisling who cut the first big law deal with Trump.

incredible 🤣

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public. Not great. Really not great. h/t Sahil Kapur

New Q poll: ICE approval 34%-63%, down from 40%-57% on Jan. 13. 60% think ICE should withdraw from Minneapolis, while 36% think ICE should continue its operations in Minneapolis. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

“The Census Bureau estimates that manufacturing construction spending, which surged with Biden-era funding for chips and renewable energy, fell in each of Trump’s first nine months in office.” www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Harvard University refused to cave to President Trump's extortion demands, even as other universities and leading law firms kowtowed. And now, Trump has dropped his demands for a $200 million payout to the US government. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

@dandrezner.bsky.social and I were just taping the latest episode of Space the Nation when Molly Murderkitten came by to, well, not "hi." Maybe, "You can't prove anything," or "I did it and I'll do it again!"?

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

The year is 2027 and the only protected classes are dudes in the Epstein Files, youth pastors, and ICE officers.

Notably this includes Ana Voss, head of the civil division, whom Chief Judge Schiltz thanked by name for handling a deluge of habeas petitions in response to ICE’s barrage of unconstitutional arrests

CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease. lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt

Trump’s militarism is not playingterribly well with the general public — but I doubt it’s gonna split his MAGA base. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-trumps...

This is so grim. Dreading the images we’re going to see out of Springfield this week.

The Trump administration keeps pretending it's illegal for state and local governments not to assist in its roundup push. But such policies reflect a “decision to not participate in enforcing civil immigration law - a decision protected by the Tenth Amendment,” as a federal judge wrote recently.

On Warsh it is *definitely* worth reading @crampell.bsky.social’s brutal assessment in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

This is the sharpest political skit I’ve seen on SNL in quite some time. youtu.be/-wQhY5CMMl4?...