SMDH. "He met with Epstein starting in 2011, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. Gates said he was aware of some '18-month thing' that had limited Epstein’s travel but said he didn’t properly check his background. " www.wsj.com/articles/bil...

They hate whores because whores are honest about what they do.

It's always rather funny when a fanatical devotee of fundamentalist Christianity or fundamentalist feminism (they're hard to tell apart) tries to attack me on some post from over a decade ago, and the best they can come up with is "You're a whore!" And I'm like, "Yes, and?"

If I’d been in that locker room when Trump called I know I wouldn’t have laughed at his crack about the women’s team because I’ve never laughed at anything he said. And my teeth would have been gritted at the sound of his voice

it is very funny that mike lee’s brand for most of a decade was the intellectual “constitutional conservative” when it is quite clear that he has given himself a lobotomy

I adore Alysa Liu but I’m trying to imagine Michelle Kwan skating off and yelling, “That’s what I’m fucking talking about!”

Bless the US Women’s hockey team for rejecting Trump’s SOTU invite!

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

John Barron making guest appearances in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being nearly 80 and still calling into TV under an alias. Cringe.

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

I’m rooting for the American hockey women but there’s no one I’d rather lose to than Canada.

I met Angela Ruggiero in 2007 when I took my daughter to a weeklong hockey camp in Michigan and my daughter had a great experience learning from her.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

WOOHOO!!! Mikaela Shiffrin wins GOLD in Olympic slalom. I’m so happy for her🥇 #TeamUSA

Tell me you’ve never taken an economics course without telling me you’ve never taken an economics course

Reminds me of the Republican Congressman some years back who was asked why he didn't travel abroad. "I've been there," he said.

Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees' constitutional rights #ICEOUT #Whipple #FDT #Epstein #GTFO thehill.com/regulation/c...

It's all lies, top to bottom. bbc.com/news/article...

A @dailybeanspod.com listener went for a run in our neighborhood the other day.

“This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

He was a friend, an ally and one of a kind. He built Cato out of nothing into a major intellectual and policy force. I'll miss him. www.cato.org/edward-h-cra...

Emmer steps to the mic and says: "Pedophiles. Rapists. Murderers."

Kacey Musgraves weighs in on Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and the Super Bowl on Twitter.

Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU

Today I'm offering the complete bibliographical essay from the backmatter of "The First Tycoon" to assist historians working on the 19th-c United States. What I describe could not be done by AI. It's not just reading undigitized pages. It's judgment, interpretation, consultation—all creative acts.

fight vs fold

Not a bug but a feature.

“They’re close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably thought it was okay to hit on them". Bullshit. Young adult guys in the 70s referred to underage teens as “jailbait” because they were unquestionably off limits. They still are and always have been.

The very concept of a "National Prayer Breakfast" is the apotheosis of virtue signaling.

At last night’s UConn-DePaul women’s game in Chicago, I got a fist bump from Azzi Fudd’s mom

“This is how men behave.” No, this is how toxic douchebags behave

TIL that Texas A&M University, my dad’s alma mater, once offered its presidency to Jefferson Davis.

FACT CHECK: ✅Arrests of people with no criminal record surged by 2,450% ✅Only 5-7% have violent criminal convictions ✅74% have NO criminal convictions ✅Number of children held by DHS jumps 6x www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-d...

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

My latest for @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/04/c...

As a lifelong country music fan, I want to commend all the country artists who are NOT appearing in the Turning Point USA halftime show

I have sometimes been accused of being overly judgmental for cutting out people who have done or said things I consider inexcusable. But seeing the people who hung out with Jeffrey Epstein post-conviction and now claim to regret it, I think there's something to be said for my approach.

A conservative economist schools the President. open.substack.com/pub/johnhcoc...

Swalwell: Nobody wants to perform there. Everyone who had been booked is now canceling since this guy put his name on it. I think he’s trying to save himself the humiliation of no one wanting to perform there or go there.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

ICE has most likely violated more court orders in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...