Wow.

An extremely urgent reason why California needs to go all out to get more housing built...rather than slow-walk things like SB 79, as some local governments want.

Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was expected to do. Ellison, Bezos, and other oligarchs are not trying to make their media properties profitable. They are turning them into regime media--to make their other properties more profitable.

Imagine if you told someone even 15 years ago that Republicans in the Department of Defense would be denying scholarships to military personnel going to MIT or John's Hopkins because they might learn something about racism or climate change. The entire party is consumed by 4chan brain.

It depends entirely on what kind of district you're in! Most politicians are in safe districts, and a big part of their job is to move public opinion in those *rare* cases where public opinion doesnt match good policy.

I'm not even saying that's the most *likely* possibility, but it's just very clear that the likelihood of that outcome as increased and even if there's, like, a 1 in 10 change that "AI replaces most to all white collar jobs in 10 years" that's an *enormous* risk to the social order!

I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.

What people on both sides of the AI debate don't seem to get is that it is possible for AI to be on the cusp of eliminating 50% of white collar jobs in the next two years, *and* also be in a massive bubble because the AI companies have no moats and cannot effectively monetize the tech.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933" degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Epstein Survivor Maria Farmer / @meidastouch.com Epstein provided Trump with a young girl at night Ivana Trump scouted girls with Maxwell for Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Tbf people are constantly being lied to and don't know how to parse the truth. Trump said he would tighten the border and only go after murderers, rapists and drug dealers. People like that idea. Trump lied to them, and the traditional media repeated his lies uncritically.

My "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" shirt is answering a lot of questions raised by my "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" shirt.

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

Seems like a lot of evidence against a “the failure was democratic messaging” story of 2024. What’s happening, that people disapprove of, is exactly what prominent democrats said would happen (and often was written down in Project 2025).

It's almost as if the MAGA core, from the elites in Trump's cabinet to the J6 shock troops, have something *very particular* they share in common.

Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

Analilia Mejia ran a powerful grassroots campaign laser focused on ensuring our economy works for families, not billionaires. New Jersey deserves a fighter and not a spineless Trump lackey, and we’re all-in to make sure she wins.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

Wow. Also it’s not just the redactions! DoJ is hiding HALF of the files/pictures/videos. The worst half.

I guess that was *technically* an interception

Wtf does having a "handle" have to do with AGI? I am so confused and not going to look it up because it still won't make sense.

That was the most sus AI ad yet. Wtf

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

If this is legit, it is the most badass thing to ever happen at a Super Bowl.

MAGA can storm and stomp all they want. They will never be cool. They will never run the culture.

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

"Meanwhile, the pardon power in the hands of a ruthlessly criminal president is the skeleton key to a dictatorship." Total abolition of POTUS's constitutional pardon power —and replacing it with a pardon commission like most other states and countries—is low hanging bipartisan fruit.

Europe gets it! The UK raids the home of a close Epstein pal. Poland probes ties to Russian intel. France raids the office of Musk's X. But the U.S. elites who palled around with the world's worst sex creep get away with it The crisis of elite impunity. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

American concentration camps. This must be stopped.

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%. This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.

If democracy is going to survive, we need to curtail the pardon power of the president. It is a loophole big enough to allow rampant corruption and a full-throttle authoritarian state. My latest: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/i...

A completely insane scandal that should end career and roles in government

What a disgrace. ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial. This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

Dope www.fastcompany.com/91485386/evs...

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

The "righteous" side of them wants to have a trad wife at churning out white babies. They also want to experience entitlement to mistresses. But many want illicit depravity of raping teens (girls AND boys) w/shared sexual secrecy, a club #Epstein provided. (Can't tell me boys aren't on the table.)

The Romans had an appropriate postmortem punishment for evil men like this: Damnatio Memoriae. All your statues were destroyed, your name chiseled from all monuments, all public records of your existence erased. In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.

Me, looking at the Bitcoin price drop:

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

And it's just not just the far right types like Hanania. It's McArdle, Douthat and Barro--the supposed reasonable right. These guys on the right used to have moral panic about teenagers having sex. Now they have moral panics about teenagers NOT having sex.