👀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...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Today I learned that not only was Elon Musk's maternal grandfather a conspiracy-obssessed, antisemitic and white nationalist supporter of Apartheid, but he was also into alternative medicine (he was SA's leading chiropractor) and was an amateur engineer/aviator who died in a plane crash.

Fascist UK fraudster & xenophobic hate monger Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, er, I mean Tommy Robinson, has just arrived in the US for a tour of the country. Last time he came he was booted out for a fake passport. But times have changed. Now we welcome dudes who sic racist mobs on immigrants.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

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.

by the eleventh “it’s a very sad thing” I started to wonder if maybe this guy is guilty

This should be a bigger story. More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.

Guillotines

lmao

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

well at least the next Dem admin will finally be able to get past the ridiculous "the FBI must be run by a Republican" thing and clean house because we're going to get Special Agent Big Balls at this rate

The sheer scale of the corruption - announced just today - is astounding and shameful.

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

Attacking Iran is the fucking stupidest shit I've ever heard and nothing screams that the entire American administration is made up of cowards and fuckwads quite so much as positioning ourselves to do something this god damn insane. For fuck's sake these fucking fucks.

Hi. Former NSA hacker here: This portal will be used by US intelligence and law enforcement for intelligence collection and to deliver 0-days to targets of interest. You can take that to the bank. I'd bet my mortal soul on it.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Democracy dies in darkness www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Just to add to the AI bubble discourse: these are all OpenAI vendors. They are "investing" in an opaque (but known to be deeply unprofitable) private company which then sends them cash which then shows up as revenue in their public filings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

white evangelicals are the most dangerous malevolent force on Earth. www.axios.com/2026/02/18/r...

It drives me insane that Elon Musk basically did a Holodomor on the third world and it's not treated like a bigger deal. This should be the number one thing that people know him for. This should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry. This is a history book scale atrocity.

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’” Solidarity to a real one.

One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/

BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

they're being called Stephanyahu, LeKud James, and the KDF

Black people in the South are very familiar with the whole Scots-Irish “fighting” culture thing

On Matt Taibbi's flight to the sun, he can ponder all the speech he's freed. gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-...

Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"

Top to bottom, an incredible image

Not the point, but Hanania looks like an exact average of Patrick Fischer in MULHOLLAND DRIVE and Robert Blake in LOST HIGHWAY

‘We control one of the handful of commodities keeping the entire cable television industry alive so our plan is to do everything possible to destroy its value.’

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

No. This guy isn’t even a Democrat and fat-shaming is not what people mean when they talk about ‘dark woke’ or ‘woke 2’. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Hey, quick question: I need to pour bleach on my eyeballs. Do you have any bleach I can borrow?

The official ICE account of what transpired was an obvious lie from the outset. News outlets like the NYT reported it just the same without noting its obvious untruthfulness. Is there a lesson here for NYT?