"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead." To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

This is mental. The generic ballot is only +2 but +14 among those who are certain to vote?! What does one even do with a situation like this.

In a new WaPo-ABC poll, 79% of Democrats say they are certain to vote in November, compared to 65% of Republicans. The largest gap in that question since 2006. (You're basically seeing exactly this in special election after special election.) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, would like Jasmine Crockett to be the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas. They really don't want to face James Talarico.

Big statement by the Greens. Labour's left flank is about to disappear.

The rot goes deeper...

"If you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldn't bomb"-Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana www.axios.com/2026/02/22/g...

Seems like a legitimate troll.

x.com/i/status/202... Hmmm

"New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficiency” from right-wing forces of privatization and austerity." jacobin.com/2026/02/zohr...

Within a handful of years, Detroit won't have many viable markets to export vehicles to.

Last weekend. This weekend. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Miami-Dade man who voted for Trump says ICE "kidnapped" his partner of 20 years, who is Cuban. 8 months detained, she hasn't seen a judge and could be deported to Cuba. "I didn't vote for this," he says. "I'm sorry. I didn't know this was going to happen." www.local10.com/news/local/2...

From the story: Two Tenn Republicans are seeking to impose the death penalty on women who have abortions, requiring the same penalties for women “involved in the homicide of her own unborn child” as defendants charged with homicide. This is the obvious conclusion. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Nissan was supposed to launch an even cheaper version of its affordable Leaf EV for the 2026 model year. That isn't happening.

The only way the NC legislature and the congressional maps can be unlocked is by flipping the NC Supreme Court by winning in 26 and 28.

@jvl spent a few days this week in Minneapolis and wrote up his observations. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I’ve been banging this drum for 6-7 years now, and people are finally starting to wake up: the Sunbelt cheap rush is officially tapping out and the Midwest is turning around. We're at the beginning of a massive vibe shift in American geography. www.economist.com/united-state... 🧵

The Jeffries question? In a Chicago Democratic primary? In 2026? Wow.

Why is it that the normie Democratic stance is to be a coward? To not ruffle feathers? To not stick to a principled stance?

What are the odds that there will be a Democratic trifecta in AZ in January 2027?

"In Gallup’s measure of favorability, Democrats’ positive views of their own party declined about 12 percentage points in the last year. That marked the lowest measure in that question’s history, which dates back to 2001." The DC billionaire establishment wrecked it. apnews.com/article/poll....

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

Whatever the FCC was looking to accomplish, the end result of this gambit is that James Talerico is going to get 10x more play out of this than he would have otherwise had this aired on CBS. #TXSen

I don't like Hillary. I regret voting for her. That being said, Democrats have to come up with a way of discussing how they will police the border and deport folks (focus on violent criminals) who are already here. If they cannot convincingly make the case, they will not be able to hold power.

Run against the machine. It's tried and tested and pretty acceptable in American politics.

The Latinization of the United States is overwhelmingly a Mexican-American phenomenon

The third and second to last being Ukraine and Russia is just another data point of how utterly insane and consequential this war will be irrespective of how little land changes hands. Scores of Russian and Ukrainian young men are dead and will permanently change the trajectory of these countries.

Says a member of said US government. Mike Lee has been a United States Senator since 2011. Where are his policy solutions to make it easy and more affordable to raise children?

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Probably needs to do this more often but it is notable that the former 2x popularly elected head of the federal government says he thinks the "rogue behavior of agents" of said federal government is "deeply concerning and dangerous", and compares it to authoritarian countries elsewhere.

Not an epic sign of the times. "Wendy’s said Friday that it plans to shutter between 5% and 6% of its restaurants in the first half of the year." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/b....

Surely this means... something.

"...The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former US foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Trump's budget chief and an architect of the govt overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs..." www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

This looks like one of those front pages you’d have seen in April or August of 1945.

For years, the first newsletter I read after waking up & getting the kids to school was @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s WorldView for the Washington Post. Nothing else in mainstream US media gave readers foreign perspectives on US news. Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis killed it. Today was its last edition.

The Congressional party in power is abdicating its responsibility of oversight because...a member of their party is running the White House.

Hiring is weak.

Wow, who is he? Dude seems to be a taller, better version of Kevin Durant.

. @conorsen.bsky.social What's the plan here? Who is the likely Dem nominee? Will they be favored in this environment?

If only YIMBYism reigns supreme.

Democrats better not blow the Texas Senate race in the goddamn primary. This thing is going to be ripe for a potential flip in Nov if they nominate the more palatable alternative.

Because there is nothing else going on in the world, the Washpost opinion page has two (2) editorials today bemoaning income-tax rates in other states. It’s become the Highlights Magazine version of the WSJ edit page.