Horrifyingly familiar. It is clear to me now that being soulless & cruel is, for millions of people, their default factory setting. Only imposing strong laws, unbending norms, & personal consequences will hold their worse impulses in check. And then we risk becoming monsters ourselves.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Where do you get your news?

What the absolute fuck?

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

Your regular reminder that Huckabee, like many other far-right American evangelical Christians, "supports" Israel insofar as it means bringing about Armageddon — in the literal sense. A world-ending battle that will bring back Christ. It's the foundation of their politics in the Middle East.

I challenge NBC to find a Bible with the "Ten Commandments" that match language mandated by lawmakers in Louisiana. They won't because law deletes most of text & even rewrites a couple of places. We don't need a government translation of the Bible, nor should it be forced in schools!

Hard to pick a favorite part of this video, but these two young women landing punches *at the same time* on the head of the old guy who had their friend in a chokehold was pretty solid.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

RIP Ruben Ray Martinez www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

A fun and dare I say spicy update: Alice Little, the sex worker quoted in my story as opposing the union effort, is starting work at Sheri's Ranch next month, something she did not disclose in our interview, or an in op-ed she just published. We've updated our story to reflect this new-to-me info!

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

SCOTUS stands up against POTUS on issues where capital opposes POTUS (Fed independence, arbitrary tariffs...). Anywhere else?

This 💯

There are 3 heads of state who tried to overthrow their countries,SK, Brazil, USA. 2 in prison, 3rd reelected. What usually happens are executions by the gov't or the people for traitors such as these. We will now see what happens to countries that don't purge their ranks of usurpers.

The Village East by Angelika on 2nd Avenue at 12th Street in the East Village is celebrating the life and legacy of Catherine O'Hara with screenings of two of her fan faves: "Beetlejuice" on Feb. 21 and 23, and "Best in Show" on Feb. 22 and 25.

He's also so terribly ignorant. I don't like arguing if he's "dumb," I mean, that, I don't know. But he's ignorant and he has no desire to check his own assumptions against facts, which is worse. And he's surrounded by people who profit by his ignorance or too terrified to question him. Good times!

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

It’s because extortion is the only business trick he knew, and he’s convinced tariffs are some kind of “art of the deal” leverage. Which explains his abject failures in real estate, sports team ownership, aviation, casino management, continuing education, food production, resort development, telecom

He also cannot a imagine a situation in which both parties walk away satisfied. Someone must always suffer, to not stiff a vendor is a failure, to follow through on a promise is a sign of weakness. He's a broken man who thinks he will be happy if he breaks everyone else.

Yup! Having the safety net of a billionaire daddy to bail him out made him the worst businessman ever. That billionaire daddy being an absolute cold bastard made him an incredibly needy disordered narcissist. Never has there been a better case for loving your kids and letting them fail.

At the press conference, Trump says he is "absolutely ashamed of certain members of the court for not having the courage to do what's right for the country" & congratulates the dissenters by name for their "strength and wisdom and love of our country, which is right now very proud of those justices"

I just heard someone say 30 seconds until Trump begins barfing live www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jG...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Cc: John Roberts

These 3-yr drops are stunning. Absolutely stunning. New Orleans: -55% Baltimore: -60% Philly: -60% Chicago: -40% Buffalo: -55% Pittsburgh: -50% Albuquerque: -40% Newark: -40% San Antonio: -55% Portland: -45% The media coverage of these staggering drops, tho, is staggering in its relative silence.

Running a bar is hard work. Even Jamie Dimon and his team are still figuring out how to manage one inside their $3 billion headquarters. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3OxImFI

Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning? I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions. /1

Olympic highlight in this house.

The cast of "RoboCop" (1987) reciting their favorite lines. Bonus feature from "RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop" (2023).

I saw Jesse Jackson speak at Stanford in 1988. He spoke in, with perfect irony, White Plaza. He was an extraordinary speaker, a master of classic oratory. Conservative writer P.J. O’Rourke famously gave him a backhanded compliment on it: /1

When Trump's -8 in a Rasmussen poll, you know things are bad for MAGA. Subscribe to watch the latest Behind the Numbers with @therickwilson.bsky.social & Andrew Wilson www.lincolnsquare.media/p/ice-is-tru...

Join us for a conversation with Brian Daitzman of @theintellectualist.bsky.social for a deep dive into the dark side of Trump being "all-in" on cryptocurrency. Watch today at 2pm ET, only on Lincoln Square: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“I hear people talking the language of participation, justice, equality & transparency but almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance…& of the rich just not paying their fair share.” “Just stop talking about philanthropy & start talking about taxes… All the rest is bullshit in my opinion”

There are HUNDREDS of people who watched this show! Do you hear? HUNDREDS!!

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Ladies this is how you tell your man it’s time to bonesmash

Damn this cat has seen an absolute scumbag parade

Honorary EGOT for Catherine O’Hara NOW

I confess I was tempted to buy this

Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court. www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

Good heavens can you imagine an entire funding apparatus concerned with social justice? When will the national nightmare end? (The Atlantic, I guess, in every editorial meeting)

Spotted on the London Underground….the Brits don’t miss 🎯!

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

“.. The increased struggle among low-income and young borrowers unable to pay their loans is consistent with elevated unemployment rates .. “.. The jobless rate for workers 16 to 24 years old stood at 10.4% in December ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

DOJ trying to indict opposition lawmakers for accurately stating the law is an authoritarian weaponization of the justice system. Grand jurors returning a no bill is patriotism in action.

The legacy of the Roberts' court is death, disease and destruction.