When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

For every actual libertarian at Reason there's a Wario version of them on staff who's really into state power and unitary executive stuff. I honestly don't know how they keep it together over there

Incredible statement from the mayor that perfectly encapsulates the "I don't see race" mindset

after giving it a lot of thought….good bunny

That Jurassic Park commercial is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

That very clearly wasn’t Liam, is everybody faceblind?

Megyn Kelly is going to burst into flames

Flyover country facebook uncles are inventing new slurs

all of these commercials feel like bits that got cut from 30 rock episodes

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

Most of these commercials feel like they’re twice as long as they should be? A lot of belabored bits that don’t really work.

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Both Super Bowl starting quarterbacks are alumni of the Cooperstown Dreams Park youth baseball camp #LocalAngle

I used to drive by this steeple all the time! Highway 32 between Twin Valley and Ulen

Paige’s last story for us, now atop the homepage, shows what we lost. She could have done a quick hit on Oz telling Americans to delay retirement, but instead delivered a comprehensive piece rich in policy analysis, data, voices of real people and a rare non-TV interview with Oz wapo.st/4rHUCC6

"tip your landlord" lmao

"two years of transformation" the transformation in question:

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

In my 30 years in journalism, I don't believe I've seen anyone beclown himself as thoroughly and as profoundly as Will Lewis has. Good riddance. www.ft.com/content/5fa6...

“Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

“Partisanship is inherent and permissible in the legislative districting process” — Ted Cruz in September, in an amicus brief supporting the Texas gerrymander. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

They’re actually doing one of the shitpost maps you used to see with every single district having a tendril that reaches into the main metro area to pick up blue voters. Given the circumstances you love to see it.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Today I said the dog was a bad dog and my eight year old said “he’s not bad, he’s moderate to severe.” We need to ban pharmaceutical commercials and we need to do it now.

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

I don’t care if this ends up being garbage or not I will be there on Day One

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

Guessing it took until 5 o clock because they had 37 consultants arguing all day about whether to say “Fuck Donald Trump”?

Fun thought experiment: Imagine if Biden told Ted Cruz he would withhold funds for a new highway overpass in Dallas until Cruz agreed to name the entire Texas interstate system after him.

deranged maximalist takes are a sign of a thriving social media platform, you love to see it

I don’t know if this counts as a watershed moment or whatever but it is significant that even the NYT has to drop the pretense and call it what it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

"praying it was fake" what does that mean? It's literally right there on his truth social account and the White House press secretary defended it on the record?

Look at the fit on this guy. The camo, the three-sizes-too-small tactical vest thingy

We used to be a proper country www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

Expedited deportation proceedings for a preschooler in a bunny hat www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If Fred Flintstone were an incel.

This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

I just learned that The Post fired Marty Weil. I wasn't in the newsroom much, but when I was, he came in for his evening shifts, he would come through and say hello to literally everyone there. A really great guy, and a true sign of what The Post is giving up.

I don't see how Will Lewis can effectively lead WaPo. Lewis did not save Bezos from himself on opinion pages. (375K+ cancelations) His innovations did not stem enough red ink. And he has not taken any ownership of the devastating ensuing cuts. He's making Murray own it alone.

Incredible dispatch from the GOP caucus in Clay County www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I have no interest in defending Jeff Bezos but this is extremely not what happened after he bought the Post. The newsroom added hundreds of journalists and dramatically expanded foreign coverage. Dozens of engineers were hired to support the Post's software business. Now he's undone all of that.

"And even as we produce much excellent work, we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of audience" they're still trying to make a play for Fox News viewers, good luck with that

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Glenn Kessler confirmed as much after he left