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Does make you wonder why GWB bothered to peddle doctored/strained evidence to make the case for war with Iraq. Seems like Trump, by contrast, would just start a war, hope it ends quickly (he *is* sensitive to public opinion), and let folks scream about it until they get distracted or discouraged.
February 19, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Does make you wonder why GWB bothered to peddle doctored/strained evidence to make the case for war with Iraq. Seems like Trump, by contrast, would just start a war, hope it ends quickly (he *is* sensitive to public opinion), and let folks scream about it until they get distracted or discouraged.
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Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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February 19, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.
Head-spinning survey of legal economics. $3,400 an hour for superstar lawyers is eye-popping. $1,000 and hour, on average, for partners at AmLaw 50 firms is also jarring. And AI contracting work and billing opportunities for a wide block of other lawyers is worrisome.
www.wsj.com/business/law...
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Top Lawyers’ Fees Have Skyrocketed. Be Prepared to Pay $3,400 an Hour.
Expertise and ego are pushing up hourly rates to once-unthinkable levels.
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February 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Head-spinning survey of legal economics. $3,400 an hour for superstar lawyers is eye-popping. $1,000 and hour, on average, for partners at AmLaw 50 firms is also jarring. And AI contracting work and billing opportunities for a wide block of other lawyers is worrisome.
www.wsj.com/business/law...
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Textbook example of everything going right in squashing an insurrection and an illegitimate presidential power grab.
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Here’s the latest.
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February 19, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Textbook example of everything going right in squashing an insurrection and an illegitimate presidential power grab.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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This is barbaric. They deported a sick two month old baby and his family because they didn’t like how this story was drawing attention to their crimes.
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 3:01 AM
This is barbaric. They deported a sick two month old baby and his family because they didn’t like how this story was drawing attention to their crimes.
This shows the disconnect between incentives for many policy choices and political repercussions. Trump gutting gov't-funded scientific research makes his base happy, and he won't care about the horrific results of the policy, since he'll be long gone by then and he'll blame intervening factors.
February 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM
This shows the disconnect between incentives for many policy choices and political repercussions. Trump gutting gov't-funded scientific research makes his base happy, and he won't care about the horrific results of the policy, since he'll be long gone by then and he'll blame intervening factors.
"It was reported on Sunday that Trump was credibly accused of abusing at least two young girls, citing court records and an internal FBI slideshow that was released in the latest tranche of Epstein files." Huh. I wonder if other media outlets will pick up this reporting
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Damning report torpedoes Trump's 'central defense' about Epstein ties - NewsBreak
A new report on Sunday torpedoed one of President Donald Trump's "central defenses" about his ties to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has oft
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February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
"It was reported on Sunday that Trump was credibly accused of abusing at least two young girls, citing court records and an internal FBI slideshow that was released in the latest tranche of Epstein files." Huh. I wonder if other media outlets will pick up this reporting
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Key takeaway here is the line about Trump voters being willing to tolerate his lies and outrages, "as long as their personal comfort was maintained." So many of the awful things that are allowed to happen in the USA are based on that calculation.
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Regretful Trump voters say their lives are 'getting worse by the day' - NewsBreak
Follow-up interviews with Trump supporters one year later reveal a souring on the administration’s policies — and not for just one reason. “Inflation, immi
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February 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Key takeaway here is the line about Trump voters being willing to tolerate his lies and outrages, "as long as their personal comfort was maintained." So many of the awful things that are allowed to happen in the USA are based on that calculation.
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💯% correct. We need to resist conspiracy theories.
Conspiracist thinking was one of the key tools for the ascendancy of the far right and now I feel like I'm seeing the same patterns of thought (if not the same specific beliefs) pop up more and more on the left and that is *really bad*.
Conspiracism gets so preoccupied with what's hidden (whether real or imagined) that it ignores what's in plain sight. How wealth and power are produced and maintained is not a mystery, it happens right in front of us every day through processes which we are all capable of seeing and understanding.
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
💯% correct. We need to resist conspiracy theories.
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This dumbass considers BOTH Irish and Italian culture as white.
And thinks "white" music is not largely derivative of Black music.
Churches?!?! There's a commonality to white churches? To "Scots-Irish" and Irish Churches.
It makes my head hurt.
And thinks "white" music is not largely derivative of Black music.
Churches?!?! There's a commonality to white churches? To "Scots-Irish" and Irish Churches.
It makes my head hurt.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This dumbass considers BOTH Irish and Italian culture as white.
And thinks "white" music is not largely derivative of Black music.
Churches?!?! There's a commonality to white churches? To "Scots-Irish" and Irish Churches.
It makes my head hurt.
And thinks "white" music is not largely derivative of Black music.
Churches?!?! There's a commonality to white churches? To "Scots-Irish" and Irish Churches.
It makes my head hurt.
Less than 14% you say? Least surprising news of the day. The Admin never cared about taking "the worst of the worst" off the streets; it's about whitening the country, and frightening dissenters.
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Less than 14% of those ICE arrested had violent criminal records, data show - NewsBreak
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administ
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February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Less than 14% you say? Least surprising news of the day. The Admin never cared about taking "the worst of the worst" off the streets; it's about whitening the country, and frightening dissenters.
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It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
A bracing, sobering update from @nytimes.com editorial board. Stifling dissent.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
A bracing, sobering update from @nytimes.com editorial board. Stifling dissent.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Bravo, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez! Elon Musk always drones on and on about declining population rates being the West's biggest challenge and, if that's so, he should embrace migration. But he's anti-immigration. I wonder why, hmmmmmmmmm?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas
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February 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Bravo, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez! Elon Musk always drones on and on about declining population rates being the West's biggest challenge and, if that's so, he should embrace migration. But he's anti-immigration. I wonder why, hmmmmmmmmm?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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"Across Mr. #Trump’s admin, racist images and slogans have become common on government websites and accounts, with the WH, Labor Dept and Homeland Security Dept all having promoted posts that echo white supremacist messaging." What a damning line. What a crazy era.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas
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February 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
"Across Mr. #Trump’s admin, racist images and slogans have become common on government websites and accounts, with the WH, Labor Dept and Homeland Security Dept all having promoted posts that echo white supremacist messaging." What a damning line. What a crazy era.
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I’m not even done downloading all of it and it’s not like I have a slow internet connection
February 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I’m not even done downloading all of it and it’s not like I have a slow internet connection
Yup. That's similar to something I tell myself: if someone says three or more times, in the course of one conversation, how ethical they are ... run for the hills.
100% of the people who say "I'm the least racist person..." are incredibly racist.
February 7, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Yup. That's similar to something I tell myself: if someone says three or more times, in the course of one conversation, how ethical they are ... run for the hills.
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Absolutely, very much like Chomsky and Mearsheimer in that regard. It's mob-boss hyper-realism. But the truth is that there's only two at the moment--China and the US--and Russia is well on its way to being a Chinese vassal state in the next decade plus.
February 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Absolutely, very much like Chomsky and Mearsheimer in that regard. It's mob-boss hyper-realism. But the truth is that there's only two at the moment--China and the US--and Russia is well on its way to being a Chinese vassal state in the next decade plus.
Maybe it was a crazy idea on my part, but I assumed media "rapid response teams" meant we'd know everything there is to know about this final drop of Epstein files within minutes of its release. But it seems like we're still uncovering awful material, like this guy's email to Epstein, days later.
Also: the deranged racism!
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Maybe it was a crazy idea on my part, but I assumed media "rapid response teams" meant we'd know everything there is to know about this final drop of Epstein files within minutes of its release. But it seems like we're still uncovering awful material, like this guy's email to Epstein, days later.
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for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
Smart @wsj.com op-ed, but it misses the real point of tariffs. They about *power projection*, not the economy. Want to annex Greenland over EU objections? Threaten tariffs. Want to force Venezuela to follow our orders? Threaten tariffs. Want to X? Threaten tariffs.
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Opinion | Are Trump’s Tariffs Winning?
He says yes, but let’s look at the evidence that voters feel judging by their views of the economy.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Smart @wsj.com op-ed, but it misses the real point of tariffs. They about *power projection*, not the economy. Want to annex Greenland over EU objections? Threaten tariffs. Want to force Venezuela to follow our orders? Threaten tariffs. Want to X? Threaten tariffs.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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"Talks over a new treaty—or even an informal extension of the current one—never got off the ground. When Trump was asked why he had not taken up Putin’s offer for a one-year informal extension, he shrugged, 'If it expires, it expires.'" This seems monumentally stupid
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
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February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
"Talks over a new treaty—or even an informal extension of the current one—never got off the ground. When Trump was asked why he had not taken up Putin’s offer for a one-year informal extension, he shrugged, 'If it expires, it expires.'" This seems monumentally stupid
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