“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human” is diabolical

Will always remember watching Michael Knowles call for the “eradication of transgenderism” at CPAC … news outlets reported (correctly) that what he was calling for was the eradication of trans *people* but then bowed to pressure from Knowles’ lawyers at Daily Wire to change/hedge

im not sure this is a thing you want a judge saying.

*taps sign*

Anyone who skeets more complaints about Will Stancil than John Roberts, Mike Johnson, and John Thune should be automatically logged out of Bluesky for 72 hours

Trump wasn't elected in a vacuum. A horrible person became president twice because horrible people kept voting for him.

A lot of "this-is-the-moment-when-Donald Trump-became-president" energy here

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

What about when he lied about the woman his administration murdered? That was a pretty not great moment IMO.

Thank god we got to the bottom of that

think for a minute about how much you would have to hate your audience to give this man a microphone

Our system allowed a convicted felon to return to the presidency — whereupon he instantly used his powers of office to steal from the public. Yeah, that tracks.

AI executive: we all agree AI sucks shit right?

start each broadcast day with This Land Is Your Land you cowards

I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation for this, according to michael tracey

if you missed the trump presser here’s a quick recap

It has been obvious for the 10 years we’ve had to listen to him ramble on about this that he literally believes a tariff is a bill the US sends another country and then that country has to send the US money. That is what he has been talking about this whole time, to this very moment.

Legal normies and the left have to stop flattering themselves that Roberts ever does anything they like to gain credibility with them for something worse he plans to do. When it happens, it's only a collateral benefit. bsky.app/profile/espi...

Always remember: The Roberts Court is ALWAYS outcome oriented and only INCIDENTALLY “rule of law” when being so is convenient. It's never "doing the right thing." (From March 2025) www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

This is the same Supreme Court that exempted Trump from the constitution's prohibition on insurrectionists getting elected to office and gave him immunity for the various crimes and misdeeds, past and future, that he commits as president, so this is one of those times he's right for the wrong reason

my theory is that this is because 1) Brett Kavanaugh has always been truly terrible and 2) Brett Kavanaugh feels a great deal of loyalty towards the president whose administration faked an investigation into rape allegations against him

Thinking of the Yale Law eminences who vouched for Brett K. (Hi, Akhil Reed Amar! Amy Chua! William Eskridge! Start of a long list.)

Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett have never given us reason to believe they act on principle...

"The overall sentiment is one of outrage and frustration" is an era-defining phrase. Like you'd find in the opening paragraph of a Dickens novel about all this bullshit.

Ray Ban-Meta AI Glasses: Glasses So Tacky It's Illegal

I hope the absolute dumbest people alive (the self-styled "free speech" advocates who spent years pretending campus leftists were the nation's greatest threat to free speech) are happy with all of these bans on "discussions."

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

FYI, @washingtonpost.com: Here is the 8:23 p.m. story you didn't credit in your 11:22 p.m. "breaking news" report. Please add credit. Thanks. —>

part of the point of writing something is to figure out what you want to say. asking AI to write it for you means you never figure out what you wanted to say. which seems counterproductive!

I want to help Marie complete her utter domination by getting her the resources she needs. If we could print her tens of thousands of red cards, I have faith that she would distribute them ALL. So help us help Marie. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-whist...

here is a thread you should read right now

every single thing Michael Tracey ever does is the most Michael Tracey thing imaginable

the streets are saying

"has little to gain buy-in from Congress" is a funny way of saying "has not received authorization from congress as required by the United States constitution."

The idea that we can have a functioning mass-democracy when people are cooking their brains to this extent remains extremely TBD imho.

"They mix baby formula with water that is putrid."

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

gosh the New York Times taking an insufficiently critical approach to covering a Republican president's war of choice in the Middle East? That's so unlike them!

The word "Congress" is no where to be found in this NYT piece. The reporters/editors don't seem to care I guess and oh BTW ... this "would be at least the seventh American military attack in another country in the past year, and his second on Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Exactly, David. They did what they wanted to do when Trump admin was more than willing to take the blame.

I know we’re all just used to Trump living in his Mad King era, but this isn’t how this is supposed to work at all. The entire reason the Constitution puts this power in Congress is so that whether or not we go into a war of choice isn’t just one man’s decision. www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/p...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

not gonna say the name because the world could do with a whole lot less Discourse about that franchise but I will say my buddy and I walked out of the theater and all the way across a large parking lot to his car in silence and then simultaneously started *yelling* about how crap it was

seems bad

And naturally, he falsely refers to me as a "transgender activist." I am not an activist. There's nothing wrong with activists. But I am not one. Meanwhile, he, a guy who has made his entire career about trying to stoke a moral panic about trans people, juat gets to be considered a journalist.

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” - 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

a whole lot of folks whose jobs *should* require knowing this would do well to print it out, tape it to the wall next to their desk, and develop a habit of reading it three times a day.

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

just a casual reminder that the New York Times ran like 50 articles in a week after Joe Biden had a bad debate