A tailor once told me what he paid for a two story home in Palermo and it was shockingly low. You still get to be near great food, culture, and (if you care about this sort of thing like me) bespoke tailors. Certain areas are even walkable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3l...

My grandmother died at 63, when I was just 9, to pancreatic cancer. She never got a chance to see any of her grandkids graduate, get married, or have children of their own. And as the matriarch of the family, her death left a hole nobody could fill.

In high school my friends and I would yell lil jon's "WHAT? YEAH! OKAY!" at each other through the hallways. So I'll never judge the kids for finding their own fun, dumb catchphrases to goof around with.

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

Sir you are the provider of bad news for Republicans

Look I am famously opposed to Democrats focusing on kitchen-table stuff like healthcare but when the president is out here saying "Stop whining about your healthcare going away, losers" you pretty much gotta take that ball and run with it

Very important to hate fascists more than you hate liberals.

my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

i'll say this, though, i think habitual speeding and reckless driving offenses should be treated with the same kind of seriousness that DUI/DWAI offenses are, because, as a pedestrian, i'm far more likely to be hit by someone not paying attention or speeding while stone sober than someone drunk

The administration is quite literally breaking all the laws of God and man to destroy Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an example to everyone. His freedom is our freedom.

when a Dem dares break out of this cycle, as you saw with Lina Khan, the entirety of the extraction class has an embolism and works tirelessly to destroy them Press still doesn't explain any of it coherently

Everybody should be up in arms about this, before it's too late To comment, email [email protected] by February 9th with "OMB Control Number 1651-0111" and "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security" in the subject line I plan to email them and cc my legislators

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: The signals we’re getting from companies about their own staffing plans in 2026 suggest continued deterioration in the labor market, and without a pickup in hiring it’s hard to optimistic growth forecasts work out: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.

A meager 1200 is hopefully a sign to a lot of people that gross violations of ethics aren't an assured payday. I wish that sheer profit motive wasn't what it took to get people to think twice about trying to cash in on anything like this in the future...but if it helps, it helps.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

more and more people are saying! www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

We'd be better off if impeachment was closer to a vote of confidence than a trial

A lot of people are so addicted to feeling aggrieved at the democratic party, they literally can't recognize a win when they see it.

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!

Racism. The answer is racism.

Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again. Sometimes it’s just racism.

Every President who has been impeached or had a serious threat of it has lost the next election or his party has.

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.

When I’m done writing my book I may take a crack at a “corruption is a first-order counterintelligence threat” story. And US spies know it: CIA has used rampant corruption in places like China in the past to go on recruiting sprees. Mutatis mutandis.

Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness. 'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.

Venezuela's just the first of many, and they're hoping other places will just fold instead of getting into a protracted air and ground war after this one. And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"

Jesus Christ, public opinion is not some static thing that has to be “respected” by politicians. Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in. Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.

Yep.

Entrenched Dem incumbents don't want to risk changes in their own districts and local party structure. Important to remember that many have built up fiefdoms and relationships that would change in redistricting, and local parties are often incumbency protection rackets first and foremost.

Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act: "There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created." On the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

Kagan's line of questioning here was pretty much Gorsuch's music to invoke the nondelegation doctrine, which he then jumped in and did. Remember: this case isn't about making Trump king. This case is part of FedSoc's generational project to destroy the fed gov't's regulatory power.

There is no plausible way to weasel out of this in 2026. Using ICE to intimidate a couple polling places or whatever ain’t gunna cut it.

everything is actually just closer to the camera in texas

I would love to repost this just like every election night

folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here we are going to win

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

New level of local politics sicko unlocked: attend the campaign kickoff for a local judge race. I’ve known Habekah since 2020 when she spent damn near the whole year helping get protestors out of jail. She’ll be an amazing jurist. Please join me in donating! secure.actblue.com/donate/habek...