A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Alex Jones becoming a "trust the state and our brave cops" guy remains one of the weirdest sidebars of this era. He was born to lick boots.

I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

Good morning! Fuck ice!

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

So unless you’re demanding the creation a violent police state to enforce laws against jaywalking, littering, and walking your dog without a leash, you don’t get to appeal to some high-minded neutral concern for perfect statutory enforcement.

this was an execution. The agent should be immediately arrested.

we will greet them as liberators

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE

I’ve seen lots of requests about where to send money. Please do not send me money, I have a job and can afford this. But I’ve seen many heroic observers for whom I suspect small amounts of support would be welcome and helpful, so if anyone has ideas on how to safely assist them, I’ll share it.

The Don't Tread On Me folks are sure turning into Comply Or Die.

billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something

This is what I mean when I say the Trump era has made me “more conservative”: He is taking a wrecking ball to norms and institutions he does not understand, on the premise that American power, prosperity, and stability are some ineluctable law of nature rather than hard won & fragile achievements.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Some people really needed this apparently

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Immaturity masquerading as strength is the defining personal characteristic of our age.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

Real liberalism has been tried. First it created the Constitution. Then it abolished slavery. Then it ended segregation. Then it created the greatest surge of prosperity in history. Our problems today are not because liberalism failed. They are because we failed liberalism.

The hypocrisy of Ben Shapiro & most of my former colleagues in the conservative media world is that they’ll easily condemn Nick Fuentes, and some will condemn Tucker Carlson, but none will condemn the source of the problem - Donald Trump. My take.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Bcuz of Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump, 400,000 children around the world died these past ten months. 400,000 children are dead and America is weakened bcuz of what Musk, Rubio, & Trump did. Elections really do have consequences. Today’s show.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

When I went to Congress, I wrongly considered Nancy Pelosi my political enemy. Over time, I developed immense respect for her, even when we disagreed. She, better than anyone, defended democracy against Trump in his 1st term. She’s an American giant. Well done Madame Speaker.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-t...

This is just not true. The Challenger data is not a representative sample of workers and these mostly reflect changes in data collection practices. The BLS data is a better sample, and layoffs in 2025 have not been high.

AI search is 5.6% of search traffic rn and has grown 126% yoy. 98% of chatGPT users still use google. They just route by query type now: LLMs handle more research/complex q's, search handles more transactional/navigational searches. Seems more like a behavioral split and not direct replacement.

No, that’s exactly what it means

I even found time to get my sign made. Let’s go

I don't hate America, I just hate him. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Happy No Kings Day!

Physics Paths xkcd.com/3155/

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

White people hate being called racist more than they hate racism

After World War II, countless Nazis became prisoners of war—utterly defeated. And yet, even then, America gave them due process. Liberals will never abandon the rule of law. Not even for the most abhorrent, evil people among us. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

Jews have thousands of years of stories, and extensive discussion of the 19th and 20th centuries, showing why caping for antisemites—as Jonathan Greenblatt and ADL decided to do—is a bad idea, and usually goes very bad for both the Jewish individuals who choose to do it and for the Jews in general.

Most voters make an emotional decision based on vibes, and then backfill a Serious and Respectable sounding rationale they can tell themselves, and especially pollsters. But there's a lucrative polling/consulting sector that relies heavily on professing not to understand this.

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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."