You know how Elon Musk treated Twitter employees after he took over the company, and the institutional impact that had? What if we take an approach like that with some military officers, in particular ones with technical expertise?

that’s right

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

👀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...

If you live in California and want to see elevator reform happen, email your state legislator and tell them that there’s an unbacked bill floating around if they wanna carry it and to email [email protected] to see it :-)

The America I love is the one that welcomes Arthur Liu - a refugee from communist oppression - and his daughter becomes an Olympic gold medalist! I don't love the America that excludes people like him, or deports them back to their oppressors, as right now with many Cubans, Venezuelans, and others.

Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter.bsky.social) has learned that Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner Bros and help Paramount win, giving the president control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/17/t...

This is a ridiculous failure of public planning. The GEICO site is gigantic, and it's across the street frkm 15-20 story buildings. It should be home to about 5,000 people, like the Census tract to its north. Instead there will be about 1/4 of that.

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

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

It’s been about a month since four members of the Oglala Sioux nation were disappeared by ICE. All efforts to reach them have failed.

Bonus: Noem's boyfriend, sex pest, and shadow DHS secretary Corey Lewandowski also works closely with the firm. They were paying themselves millions of taxpayer dollars to boost Noem's public image while they lied about immigrants and slandered the people they gunned down in the street.

Nazi shit

God help us. A lot of people will die needlessly, including Americans.

Good. Keep it going.

"Rich guy living in multimillion dollar single family home arguing that new apartments are the the 'real' luxury housing, and thus shouldn't be built" is easily one of the most rage-inducing genres of public comment

Sigh bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Do you know anyone who dislikes Violent Femmes? youtu.be/DUoYud9_Hb8?...

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I think there's room for Dem messaging along the lines of "you won't have to be ashamed of being American if we win." The way we are treating immigrants and people who "look like" immigrants is the most shameful event of my adult life.

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

🚨 shingled high rise alert. I repeat: shingled high rise alert. 🚨

Oh damn Frank spitting facts about how Alx screwed itself decades ago by not doing massive upzonings near metro stops when it was built It’s not too late! We can do that now too!

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

Such a good movie - last day on Netflix btw youtu.be/f9cDKbmCD0o?...

I think it's been 15+ years since I watched this, but I remember enjoying it. www.metacritic.com/tv/broken-tr...

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

This is so obviously a cover-up.

Q: How's your week going? A:

Grab you honkbalknuppel, opening day is just 46 days away

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Rosslyn on ice

Good news for Ballston. It will be nice to have the Rustico space filled. The restaurant scene in Ballston is so competitive but there's a seemingly endless source of people willing to jump in. www.arlnow.com/2026/02/13/d...

Gonna see a new movie about my ol' pal, Heathcliff the cat: WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026)

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Deporting undocumented immigrants only gets to 22% in this YouGov poll. 6/

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

This will be an interesting time. 66 is tolled heading into DC in the morning.

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

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MAGA Middle Earth

No mention of CAFE standards www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Are we sure it’s not because landlords became less greedy

a reporter could get trump to confess to everything by asking him if he just wasnt famous enough to go to the island, just say youve heard he “never had the juice”

We Democrats are going to have to learn to resist our emotional attachment to policies we know will hurt our constituents if we're going to provide an enduring alternative to fascism.

Rezonings and code changes are really hard. Permit reform could be an easy slam dunk for speeding development. I’m working on a commercial development in Boston and it is in limbo because ISD’s plan review is taking ten months and counting.

The men's halfpipe event has advanced so drastically from the Olympics of my childhood. Every run blows my mind.

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