Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show

The Dunkin de-aging ad may be the worst thing I’ve seen in a long time.

This is pretty common when thing on X dot com now. This thing where Principled Liberals engage with troglodyte gutter racists spewing slurs by just politely responding to them like peers in a debate club. It’s completely deranged.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

Popping into his replies like a horror villain everyone thought was dead.

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

They’ll be hearing from his father

The people voting for Iraq at least had the excuse that it was very popular and there was political risk in opposing it. ICE is wildly unpopular. Just do what is right.

Yes, I’m buying groceries for multiple families now.

Numerous people are pushing back against the reasonable consensus that Epstein was evil and that cozying up to him showed bad character. You are under no obligation to take those arguments seriously and respectfully. Look out, they may call you a “woke” “mob.”

I grew up as a middle class white kid. We absolutely used coupons and bought generic! The idea that you are facing despair unless you vomit out money without thinking is crazy. The Latinos for Trump also mentioned the coupons. It's crazy.

This is the crux of all these economic malaise arguments. Certain prices have always fluctuated. There have always been some people doing worse than average. Why has it become a grave political concern in 2023-26 when people have been happy and optimistic under similar conditions before?

Cutting coupons and buying generic are not indications of "living below the poverty line" and the fact that people think this is due to their brains being cooked by social media content which distorts perceptions of what a middle class existence actually is

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Cook PVI is vote share so this is a twenty point margin.

A 25% increase in real wages?

I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.

This is sickening. The people who did this need to go to prison.

We are living in a *dramatically* improved world. It's up to us to defend that world, and make things even better.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

My family used to be much more COVID cautious and on the covid caution groups you would get attacked viciously for not aligning with the view that capitalism was the main enemy and fixing health practices could only be achieved through a communist revolt.

As plenty of others have noted, one striking thing the Epstein files reveal is just an extraordinary level of moral rot among elites, even if you assume most of his eager friendly correspondents were not directly involved in his crimes.

The point of protesting is to show open and public opposition to something and to persuade the public, not to LARP as the French Resistance.

When the video came up of AP kicking the headlight Republicans leapt on it because they knew that it would mobilize some of their base to see this as civil unrest. There is a reason they made sure everyone's grandparents thinks Portland is a war zone.

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"someone" For fuck's sake

"It means he gets results you stupid chief!"

Okay, looking at the precinct data, Rehmet overall *improved* vs the EV in the precincts that added eday votes and is broadly running ahead of Nov by a lot in those precincts as well

It’s not enough to have passport-only voting — to protect against voter fraud we must only conduct elections on Saturdays in January.

Safety is our top priority with regard to streaming what may be a live snuff film

From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀 go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)

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This @warontherocks.bsky.social piece (warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...) on Israel's conduct in Gaza is devastating and ought to put solidly to rest the undead claim that Israel was exercising some sort of exceptional restraint. I look forward to the folks claiming that studiously not reading it.

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.

FETTERMAN joins fellow Democrats in seeking DHS changes via government funding: “I want a conversation on the DHS appropriations bill and support stripping it from the minibus.”

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

We have like five videos from different angles showing exactly what happened and it's still treated like a disputed fact. There will never be a level of proof that would prevent Republicans from lying about it and the press treating it as disputed. It's like the Chapelle R Kelly juror sketch.

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet). But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings. The lesson: let the world see.

over at liberal currents we've been emphasizing from the start the personalist nature of trump II--and on top of that, its highly ideological nature, and its fundamentally aesthetic conception of politics. all of these things are anathema to basic *state capacity.*

We are endowed with inalienable rights.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L