Over the period of 1994 to 2023, "immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt." Source: the libertarian wonks at the Cato Institute.

Among Schumer's many failings, it seems to have never occurred to him that the Imperial Presidency is bad

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

Broke: Ban billionaires because wealth disparity is unjust Woke: Ban billionaires because they destroy the rule of law Bespoke: Ban billionaires for their own emotional wellbeing

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

If for some reason you are highly knowledgeable about the law, and you also want to help us tear down the law to advance the racist fever dreams of a dying pedophile, we just increased our signup bonus to $300

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Once again I feel compelled to note that there's a whole world of wholesome perverts out there who manage to get what they need sexually without destroying human lives in the process, and most of them don't have a billion dollars to work with

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

does anyone know when MELANIA 2 comes out

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish lives — and the millions of others — senselessly murdered by the Nazi regime. We remember not only the unimaginable loss, but the warning history leaves us.

you gotta celebrate them leaving. they can't win their fights. they can't win their war. the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.

mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is: 1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which 2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that 3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...

ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!

Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that woke, for lack of a better word, is good. Woke is right, woke works. Woke clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

I actually think this is a significant part of the reason we haven’t seen much of ICE in New York City the density and transit here means that they get mobbed by thousands of New Yorkers in a span of minutes

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

massively increase the number of immigration judges, make them real courts, and give as many people as possible clean in-out decisions within in 90 days is the 'install linux, problem solved' of immigration issues in that the solution is not really complicated, it's just really hard

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)

“It’s all gender?”

Guys, this isn't funny. Late-stage gerontocratic empires only do this when they're very distressed

This, too, is gender-affirming care

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

my 2025 year in review

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

In Zootopia 2 there's a lizard named Jesús, which implies the existence of Christianity

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Tech executives saying something stupid is really not an excuse for turning your brain off and not being able to evaluate a technology on its own terms

I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it. The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism. You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.

Liquid Glass is designed for somebody with excess screen real estate on their phone, which is… nobody?