The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

'In the resistance we drive minivans, we take ’em low and slow down Nicollet Avenue, our trunks stuffed with hockey skates and scuffed Frisbees and cardboard Costco flats' #LoveTheGraphic www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

If you have been following the clumsy — no, pathetic — attempt by CBS lawyers to collaborate with the FCC in reviving the pointless "equal time" rule, using Stephen Colbert and his show as their playground... then watch him explain it from his POV. Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...

Well which is it? Are you for birthright citizenship or against?

“Virtue is meant to be signaled” Yes! Sectors of the political commentariat have polarized themselves so drastically against the idea of publicly living a virtuous life that they have embraced degeneracy. Part of this is due to the need to normalize Trump, a lot of it is deep insecurity.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

The English: I can tell how you were brought up, where you went to school, and your parents' average household income within a thousand pounds within three seconds of hearing you speak Elon Musk: as you can see, it is the complete sameness of the culture that makes them stand together

It’s not just that they were “deported to Cameroon.” They are being kept in a facility that they can leave only if they agree to be deported to their home countries. The ones courts have ordered that they not be returned to.

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

Musk is an infection. badfaithtimes.com/the-cybertru...

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

This, too, is trying to shoehorn our current problems into what is, and I mean this as a genuine descriptive term, a Marxist framework. Culture matters! Having a culture of liberal pluralism is something to defend on its merits, it's not just an empty distraction from economic class consciousness.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

To put this in perspective, the federal government spends *a combined* $33 billion each year on Title I (for low income families) and IDEA (for special needs students).

Just one of the worst developments in American society in a long time

What I don’t understand is why anyone is listening to him or Theil. They’re not Americans. They’re South Africans.

Considering the US civil war was primarily fought over slavery I’m going to have to disagree with Elon and say that yes, many people have died to genuinely create a multiracial culture! What an absolute tool!!

I remember in college my econ professors saying that all spending choices were rational decisions to choose the best product at the best price and in my marketing classes the discussion was about how to emotion was the primary factor in purchasing decisions.

And current MAGA meme that "English-Scots-Irish" bloc stands for "real" [ie, nearly as white as Swedes] Americans skips over oceans of blood shed by English, Scots, Irish in fights against one other. (MAGA could at least have watched Braveheart. Or Peaky Blinders.) I'm of that bloc, but: Jeesh.

The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism

I'm not always the biggest Jared fan, but sometimes he really lands a blow.

There are lots of shady things that go in elections campaigns, dirty tricks and cynical maneuvers. "We found out this genuinely really bad thing about a candidate and made sure the public knows" is one of most straightforward, uncomplicated good things a campaign can do. It's a public service.

This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.

2025 has done more to disprove the idea that business control our government when our most corrupt president in a long while keeps making stupid ass economic decisions that is hurting big businesses. Fucking APPLE IS KISSING TRUMP’S ASS!

This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world

Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.

I've read my grandfather's diaries, written in the 1960's, and I can assure you that his generation of conservatives did not see the Beatles as part of western civilization. The phrase "jungle rhythm" appeared several times.

If ICE agents are threatening people with fake databases, that’s not enforcement, it’s intimidation—lying to civilians under color of authority is a civil liberties violation, full stop, and it demands consequences, not spin.

Proposing marriage to an Olympic competitor during the Games is self-centered bullshit

I do really wish more reporters would just ask "Speaker Johnson, do you think it’s appropriate for the Speaker of the House—third in line of succession to the presidency—to be so consistently unfamiliar with current events?"

From an interesting thread 👇

I’ll believe it when Democrats take over and get to examine ICE and CBP from the inside.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Well worth 29 minutes if your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQY...

"Our Democratic Party should have nothing to do with a pro-Trump-billionaire-funded organization that demands absolute fealty to positions that are outside the mainstream of the American pro-Israel community, and then smears those who don't fall into line."

@lutzfernandez.bsky.social nails it - teachers are either all powerful, in which case their decision to pray or not pray in front of students is coercive, or they're not, in which case having a Pride flag to signal everyone is welcome is not a problem.

I think sometimes about how Neil Diamond, America's least controversial singer, often used as a punchline for a kind of lame blandness, had a hit song about immigration.

Bless

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

/2 Bad Bunny stands for “immigration” because he’s not white. His existence within the United States — and particularly his broad popularity and great success — are an affront to Trumpian white nationalist values. That’s the WaPo message, brought to you with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon smile.

I remember a friend of mine spending $50 or so to buy a direct-mail marketed 'how to become a millionaire' advice book back in the 1990s, and getting sent a pamphlet which advised, in clear but indirect terms, that the money is made by taking advantage of rubes like you.

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

How is the National Governors Association agreeing to go along with a Trump meeting that excludes half their members and their vice chair? www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

If “the urgency of normal” is a child development principle, it should apply universally. I’d welcome links if I missed it, but I haven’t seen David Leonhardt, Lucy McBride, TracyBeth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad, David Zweig, or Emily Oster say anything abt kids being denied their right to a public education

I’m confused. Why is Trump asking Iran to shut down the nuclear program that he claimed to have completely destroyed?

The process isn't “due” because they're Americans; it is “due” because they are people, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I could swear I read that somewhere important.

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.