I’m sure if Joe Biden had called white Americans “pirates” who had “ransacked” Alabama, the NYT would write that he “put on a show” 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This seems really bad. Fuck these guys.

Particularly given xAI’s record operating gas turbines at its Memphis-area data centers and its… cavalier… attitude toward emissions permitting. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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“This was the most openly racist State of the Union in modern history, where President Trump spent protracted portions of the nationally televised address spewing his hatred of Somali Americans with all the dignity and panache of banned 4chan content.”

A tax economist put his entire life savings into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldn’t cut spending. His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because “they didn’t seem to understand what they were buying.” He made a 37% return

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Mike Johnson: "If we lost the midterms -- heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the House -- it would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect."

The bravest person in Congress is Democratic Rep. Al Green. He always speaks truth to power as he did last night during the fascist State of the union holding up a sign to Trump's face that read "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" He was ejected from the State of the Union for daring to defy Trump!

If humanity fails, it will be because of people like Trump.

Everything about our culture from the virtuous to the playful to the transgressive to the mortally sinful was dictated by powerful men who viewed us as objects to be used. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I know this is facile but imagine if a Democrat said this about Republicans.

Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.

Shoutout to EVERY SINGLE PERSON who called to scream about this, and showed up to protest. We did it! Even though it's nauseating to see Blackburn pretend this is some sort of win for the corrupt, criminal black hole she claims is a human soul. #NoNashvillePrisonCamp

This is the way to do it

I bet he would love to do the same kind of of ghoulish enumeration of wounds for the deaths Renee Good and Pretti... it doesn't matter to him why someone dies violently or who they are. He just revels in it.

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

Well, I found an article on the effects of sleeping two hours a night

NEW: TX AG Paxton sues international abortion pill provider Aid Access for allegedly shipping medication to Texans. This comes after a similar suit against a Delaware-based provider. These suits go up against shield laws + now, international law Filing www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

And STILL Ukraine stands. Bruised and battered but as yet UNDEFEATED! #slavaukraini www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

No-shows by Trump's envoy to France increase diplomatic friction reut.rs/4kTVKjx

what could go wrong

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

"Here are all the reasons why Texas is so shitty in 2026 and how I'm going to fix it!" --Republicans, who've controlled the Governor's office for 31 years, both chambers of the Legislature for 23 years, and Attorney General's Office for 25 years

wanna bet?

A lot of the elite consensus around Epstein (which will likely be most legible in opinion essays) will of course boil down to the idea that no one should be held responsible for the systemic sexual abuse of women and girls. That was also the elite consensus around MeToo, enforced through pop culture

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

Wait they are literally hitting themselves in the face with hammers. Why is everything so stupid. www.gq.com/story/what-i...

What you'll get is a NYT article like "I was one of the lawyers who scrubbed Trump's name from the sex crime files. What I saw shocked me" and it'll publish a month after Trump dies

BARI WEISS GONE WOKE?!

Yeah, I’d do TV when I was at Cato because it was part of the job but every single time I’d think “this is a horrible way to tell people about anything remotely complex, and it might be worse than nothing if the viewer now imagines they’re adequately informed about the issue.”

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

Commented elsewhere on this gem by quoting John Berger's pre-feminist insight from On Looking.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

Originally I was 'legalize meth' because we need to legalize and regulate all drugs and end the racist drug war, now I'm 'legalize meth' because we're very close to 'how would things even be any different'

There was a coordinated campaign to convince people that scientists were liars. Americans were fed a deluge of this 👇 for years from all over, every angle. Today, these actors claim they merely want to restore trust in science, as if we can't see that they taking a wrecking ball to it.

State of Florida's new mandate for public college Intro Sociology curriculum: "The following should not be included in any course content... "Discussions arguing a causal association between institutional sexism and unequal outcomes between men and women" Indoctrination, not education nor science

Still sort of astonishing how the men of a political faction so obsessed with masculinity will dutifully debase themselves and betray their principles to adopt the biases and obsessions of an 79-year-old demented clown -- in this case by performatively smearing the U.S.'s closest ally.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.