these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Absolutely gutted by this @ahylton26.bsky.social interview with a first grader who was left home alone for hours last month after ICE arrested her father outside their apartment.

USS Ford is a couple more months from breaking the record for longest sea deployment since the Vietnam war, back when volunteering for 330 days underway in the West Pacific seemed preferable to the draft

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Kash Patel is going to make history as the first FBI director to get medically evacuated from Burning Man

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

“.. The government told federal courts, in writing, across multiple cases and stipulations, that refunds would be available, automatic and assured. It made those representations to defeat petitions for emergency relief. Courts believed it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go...

BREAKING: DHS is pausing TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs amid its funding lapse.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is not a particularly well-written EO. But a few notable features: 1) CUSMA-compliant are excluded (yayy) 2) Max duration of 150 days (yaaay! more uncertainty! moaarr!!) 3) excludes several goods on basis of domestic need that are subject of 232 tariffs www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“The victim, Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot multiple times in South Padre Island by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after he did not follow commands to exit his vehicle, according to internal ICE documents reviewed by The New York Times.”

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

NYT BABEEE www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/a...

What a story! www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

“Welcome to Kristi Noem’s bedroom.” Jacob Soboroff gives a virtual tour of the $70M luxury jet Kristi Noem is demanding DHS purchase for “deportations.”

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

This really is a great picture:

NEWS: The Epstein victim who told the FBI that Donald Trump also sexually assaulted her when she was an underage teen had a brother who was arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The woman was suing Epstein’s estate at the time. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-t...

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

They just said 90-year-old Tenley Albright, who competed for the U.S. in Cortina in 1956, is in attendance. Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.

In a normal administration, this would be a big deal, but its not even the biggest Labor Department scandal from the DeRemer family. The Secretary is already accused of having an affair with an employee, pushing grants to donors to boost her career, and visits to strip clubs on work trips.

it's almost like tariffs increase prices!

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

The executive jet that DHS says it needs has a “bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump." TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

After blaming a (non-existent) staffer for the Obamas-as-apes video, this is quite a remarkable statement by Leavitt.

I see we're doing "no religious people in the big tent" discourse again, good luck with that.

I'll avoid previewing my essay out drip-by-drip from now on, but dare I suggest that if American law professors are telling you they've discovered something new about the Law of England in the Year of Our Lord 2026, without new evidence, they're making nonsense theories up. They aren't scholars.

Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!

Demand for U.S. durable goods slipped in December, according to delayed data published by the Commerce Department. on.wsj.com/4qL7fLH

Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway. New: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Thank god

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The irony, of course, is that the noblest legacy of Western Civilization is the pluralist liberalism that the pseudointellectuals yanking their marionette strings are so keen on destroying. Rawls and Hayek are heirs to that tradition; Patrick Deneen and Curtis Yarvin want to raze it.