It's difficult to explain all the outside spending developments in the bellwether NC-04 race, but I'll try to break it all down. As of last Friday, the numbers were: Nida Allam (challenger): $1.1 million Valerie Foushee (incumbent): $100,000 Today: Allam: $1.58 million Foushee: $2.27 million

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state

This has been the case every time. A consistent and clear public majority against the facility, with ~5 to 1 during the first vote, but the city commission (at least, the ~3 majority against it in principle) is basically saying "we can't fight this, CoreCivic will ruin us financially if we do"

Fun! Fact: this is extremely easy to prove because he admitted this in an email to a friend back in the day, it's just that the rationalist crowd tried to unperson Topher for sharing it (despite there being no agreement of confidentiality) web.archive.org/web/20210217...

Vichy Twitter is the perfect place to spread conspiracy theories, in this case antivaccine Covid doomerism. it's like (ironically in this case) a person with no immune system attracting opportunistic infections

IDF intentionally killed the most famous Arab American journalist in the world

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we are zooming out to try and get a better look at the Jeffrey Epstein story, given all the emails we've seen. how did *this guy* end up as a linchpin of the global elite? www.leftanchor.com/e/the-epstei...

there's so much elite media denial that it was the exact same group of people promoting vaccine denial as were promoting the trans panic. reading tweets like this or singal's ny times op-ed, you'd think they were two separate and opposed groups.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

this explains a lot. apparently the BBC promised Davidson that they would edit out any swearing, but despite having a 2-hour delay they didn't do that. instead he was miced up from 40 rows back variety.com/2026/film/aw...

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

[shouting to be heard over a pack of ICE officers beating Jimmy Kimmel with truncheons for calling Trump 'a doo-doo head'] my precious friends are being digitally drawn and quartered by the woke mob simply for closely associating with Jeffrey Epstein for 20 years

ever since Mayor Mamdani implemented Sharia socialism in New York, schoolchildren are bopping our precious NYPD troops on the noggin with giant inflatable hammers. @mayor.nyc.gov must denounce these heinous atrocities

Nixon: Homosexuals don’t [inaudible]. But they have a new word for it. Look maximizing. Haldeman: Looksmaxing, Mr President. Nixon: Right. [Expletive deleted] are always Look Maxing.

It’s an indictment of our political system that Democrats may need to win the congressional national popular vote by a double digit margin to even have a chance to win control of the more powerful of our two legislative chambers

The big difference between the US and Brazilian/Korean case isn't that voters care less about democracy. It's that American elites basically did not care about it after two weeks

we've got a Q&A with Adam Green about why he went for James Talarico here at @prospect.org prospect.org/2026/02/24/t...

"Will they ever learn? No, this is what they do. They are professionally unself-reflective. They are alternately cynical and gullible as their careers demand. They want to ride in the storm and direct the whirlwind, but may well find themselves knocked on their ass."

Chuck Schumer's legendary candidate recruitment skills strike once more

this is well done. South Korea appears to be the first society to be suffused with no-shit seething r/childfree type bigotry www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this is good www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

wild that an actual flat tax (including on income derived from loans against asset appreciation) would mean a GIGANTIC tax increase on hyper-billionaires

still pondering this piece. if you are interested in why rents (particularly in NYC) are so high, can't recommend it enough

totally agree with this piece, but amusing how you could make it "the socialist case" by changing the headline and like 2 paragraphs www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...

Love this piece from Shervin Malekzadeh on what it's like to be an Iranian expat, watching an authoritarian U.S. threaten his authoritarian homeland. "We live our lives as Iranians and Americans between existing and emerging autocracies, unrepentant regimes devoted to violence at home and abroad."

"we estimate that BYD avoids roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups relative to Tesla in the Seal–Model 3 comparison." rhg.com/research/why...

"Datacentres have to be built, connected to the grid and cooled; real resources have to be diverted to investment rather than consumption, and this doesn’t happen when there’s no clear path to selling the output." backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we...

cant.stop.laughing

“Much like Epstein was a sucker's idea of a genius, so too is chiropractic a dupe's idea of pathbreaking medical care.” defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia. The cruelty is boundless.

I forgot I RTed this and getting a second kick out of it lol

wild stuff www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

No court has authority to prevent the report from being subpoenaed by congress and read into the congressional record, FWIW

Any accountability is better than none, and late is better than never. It’s a lesson to put in our back pockets as the Trump regime conducts an ongoing spree of crimes and corruption that is unprecedented in American history. buff.ly/zYqD7p1

ICE activity continues to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families, despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents. Students attend school remotely, staff monitor arrival and dismissal, and leaders wonder when they can resume normal school operations.

"The American culture of elite impunity is clearly deranging to society, stoking the cynical nihilism that redounds to the benefit of people like Trump. Today, thanks to the Biden administration’s feckless dithering, the number of people deserving of Andrew-style treatment is long indeed."

that’s crazy

Have people seen the way X has locked down article sharing? Not only are links (presumably) still downgraded, now when you click on one it creates a super ugly intra-X window so you’re forced to stay on the site while you attempt to read the article. All it really does is disincentivize reading.

"It’s good when some rich jerk gets what’s coming to him, even if it comes far too late." prospect.org/2026/02/23/a...

Getting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on disclosing confidential government documents is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. But establishing a record of elite accountability is worth it, writes @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2026/02/23/a...

they finally got me to read the Stancil piece. I would charitably call it ill-judged www.theverge.com/policy/88102...

I will admit Bluesky can be kinda annoying at times, and one of those times is when relatively prominent people come on here solely to insult the entire userbase over some silly drama

There is a stark and likely deadly divide between the approaches of Tesla and Waymo and I wish it would be acknowledged loudly in every conversation on AV. gizmodo.com/tesla-robota...

As true today as it was in 2020: The next Democratic-controlled government has to expand the Supreme Court. There’s simply no way for Democrats—even Democratic majorities—to accomplish anything for as long as this Court is a reactionary obstacle to everything

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

renting a car and if I drop it off at noon, the price is $50 a day. if I drop it off three hours *earlier,* it is $129 per day. curious

global trade war back on!

boy is there nothing worse for my productivity than a constant stream of notifications