A throughline for so much of the American political commentariat, from left to right, is the utter and total incomprehension that American actions have consequences.

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

NEW: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jagland criminally charged with "gross corruption" over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein.

"Free Pressed" In threatening the press for reporting the truth about an impaired lawmaker, a gang of #Hawaii senators traded their public obligation to transparency for tribal loyalty—and showed just how comfortable they've become with authoritarian tactics at home. #cartoon #art #illustration

"Free Pressed" In threatening the press for reporting the truth about an impaired lawmaker, a gang of #Hawaii senators traded their public obligation to transparency for tribal loyalty—and showed just how comfortable they've become with authoritarian tactics at home. #cartoon #art #illustration

Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy. Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists

Ok, so just a recap. This is the sketch of the woman who took #MadeleineMcCann. Do you know anyone who looks like her? 🤷‍♂️ #EpsteinFiles: www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08...

In case you were wondering, yes we are still randomly blowing up boats and killing innocent people because a drunken Fox News anchor kissed Trump's ass. #demsec #SOCOM www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Poll taxes are unconstitutional. Any i.d. that is required to vote has to be provided by the government. This is a way to disenfranchise the poor. Call your senators.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

1,000%

This is blackout poetry to me

UK High Court rules ban on group ‘Palestine Action’ is illegal. “…the organization will remain proscribed [while the] U.K. government appeals the ruling. Last July, the British government banned Palestine Action under the U.K.’s strict anti-terrorism laws..." www.democracynow.org/2026/2/13/he...

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

The Labor Department reported a 130,000 increase in nonfarm payrolls in January, and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.3%. The report also revised down the number of jobs added in 2025 from 584,000 to 181,000.

Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased

No surprise whatsoever

"Top Gun Ed" Congressman Ed Case’s empty rhetoric on ICE counts for little so long as his campaign funding comes largely from the same war-profiteering donors who supply the tools of militarized policing at home and abroad. #art #cartoon #illustration #EdCase #militarism #imperialism #fascism

Success will require partnership across state and county lines, but the goal is shared: turning the areas around rail lines and high capacity bus routes into places where people can live, work and meet daily needs without the necessity of getting back into a car. hiappleseed.org/blog/skyline...

This is the biggest cover-up in modern history. The Justice Department is protecting Trump, not the victims of Epstein and his cabal of pedophiles. Meanwhile, the UK is launching criminal investigations! www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislai...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett says that Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster, and all Trump "cares about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles"

House Oversight Democrat Rep. Melanie Stansbury Who came out of the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition "The US gov is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking scandal and influence pedalling scandal in the history of the US" "And Donald Trump is right at the centre of it"

He can't stop won't stop. The Honolulu City managing director is a child. A large adult son.

It's the Monday after a huge storm knocked out power for thousands of residents across the state and, here on the island of O‘ahu, the Honolulu City Managaing Director is continuing his embarrassing inquisition into a cartoon and blog post about himself thay he doesn't like. What an absolute clown.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

It’s a feature, not a flaw.

sHe wAS rIghT abouT eVeRythinG

What'd I do other than just post your own dipshit takes? Lmao.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Ghislaine Maxwell helped launch Clinton Global Initiative, donated $1 million. "She... attended Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding.... Ms. Maxwell told the [DoJ]... that she last saw Mr. Clinton sometime between 2016 & 2018, when... they had dinner together in L.A.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I gotta say, as a comms guy, a press release with the wrong date on it is EXTREMELY common. Comms people often use older press releases to write new ones to save time on formatting, and forgetting to change the date literally happens all the time. But he still probably did it.

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

OMG!!! Nithya is who we want to be mayor of Los Angeles. I've worked with her personally through @hofoco.org. She's a progressive who actually gives a shit about helping people, not enriching herself. THE DREAM CANDIDATE: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

I wasn't going to share this everywhere until he posted his most recent response, which is such bullshit I now feel I have no choice but to post this. Like, c'mon man. You're the managing director of the city. What are we doing here? Grow up. Subscribe to my patreon for all the drama, apparently.

That's would work for me.

Inject this into my veins

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.