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I've accepted that trying to get people to understand there is no House at all when a new House convenes is a fool's errand
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They forgot the part where the 'incumbent GOP majority' have no role in seating the next house, and this type of 'plan' would result in vacant seats in more than just the House.
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I've accepted that trying to get people to understand there is no House at all when a new House convenes is a fool's errand
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In an email to Michael Wolff while Wolff was writing an unflattering exposé on the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein states that people who had dinner with Trump were concerned about his dementia. He was wearing too much makeup and didn’t recognize old friends.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In an email to Michael Wolff while Wolff was writing an unflattering exposé on the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein states that people who had dinner with Trump were concerned about his dementia. He was wearing too much makeup and didn’t recognize old friends.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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“We got 5 million viewers for our halftime show what does that tell you?” buddy the dogs pissing and shitting on the puppy bowl field at halftime got 12 million viewers it tells me you don’t understand numbers
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
“We got 5 million viewers for our halftime show what does that tell you?” buddy the dogs pissing and shitting on the puppy bowl field at halftime got 12 million viewers it tells me you don’t understand numbers
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literally: losers form new group of losers
thats not a pejorative or anything - these people try to do stuff and lose
thats not a pejorative or anything - these people try to do stuff and lose
Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth," deregulatory policies with an eye toward 2028, according to plans first shared with Axios.
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group
It's the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence.
www.axios.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
literally: losers form new group of losers
thats not a pejorative or anything - these people try to do stuff and lose
thats not a pejorative or anything - these people try to do stuff and lose
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Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
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Posting again.
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Posting again.
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Mr Starmer, it's monday
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Mr Starmer, it's monday
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THE FIRST EPISODE OF MY SECTION 230 MINI SERIES IS HERE!!!!! I have been working on this for month and this series is entirely self produced and self financed. Please watch and share!
They Are Trying To Kill The Internet
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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February 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
THE FIRST EPISODE OF MY SECTION 230 MINI SERIES IS HERE!!!!! I have been working on this for month and this series is entirely self produced and self financed. Please watch and share!
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I wanna see how that Weekly active user metric is calculated so badly
Leaked OpenAI memo:
- 800mm WAUs
- Codex +50% WoW after GPT-5.3-Codex launch
- ChatGPT “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth”
- 800mm WAUs
- Codex +50% WoW after GPT-5.3-Codex launch
- ChatGPT “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth”
Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI.
www.cnbc.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I wanna see how that Weekly active user metric is calculated so badly
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"Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" ... says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America.
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
"Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" ... says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America.
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All this Ring hate is heartwarming. I’m about to tear up.
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 AM
All this Ring hate is heartwarming. I’m about to tear up.
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Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
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Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
Imagine what the quality of AUSA staff and other attorneys at DOJ will be if the already below-ground standards need to lowered to recruit. I mean someone is going to get hired that makes Habba look like a modern-day Darrow.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Imagine what the quality of AUSA staff and other attorneys at DOJ will be if the already below-ground standards need to lowered to recruit. I mean someone is going to get hired that makes Habba look like a modern-day Darrow.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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We live in a new age of superstition and witch-hunts, where legend and myth and rumor are as real to the masses as proven fact, enabled by a digital dreamscape where any idea that seizes people emotionally quickly generates its own evidence and community of true believers. Many examples. Bad for all
February 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
We live in a new age of superstition and witch-hunts, where legend and myth and rumor are as real to the masses as proven fact, enabled by a digital dreamscape where any idea that seizes people emotionally quickly generates its own evidence and community of true believers. Many examples. Bad for all
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“The Epstein class” is an absolute bar.
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 AM
“The Epstein class” is an absolute bar.
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80% of the political posts on this site are some variation of a combination of these two mutually exclusive tenets:
1. i would simply not be in the minority
2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority
1. i would simply not be in the minority
2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority
Saw someone say about Democrats that “I just don't accept "we don't have the votes" anymore. Get creative. Just do things. “
… I am not doing free PR for Dems but literally do people know what a minority is
… I am not doing free PR for Dems but literally do people know what a minority is
February 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
80% of the political posts on this site are some variation of a combination of these two mutually exclusive tenets:
1. i would simply not be in the minority
2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority
1. i would simply not be in the minority
2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority
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I think there is a pretty clear-cut argument that DHS as named has to go
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
I mean her objection to agreeing to the magic words was explicitly "they do stuff other than be goons about immigration, which will still need to be done," which is the case regardless of what it's called
there's going to unfortunately be a lot lot lot more of this as we figure out what to do w/DHS
there's going to unfortunately be a lot lot lot more of this as we figure out what to do w/DHS
February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I think there is a pretty clear-cut argument that DHS as named has to go
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
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"Contrary to what the FBI and DOJ have said over the past year, it turns out there really is an FBI list of other people suspected of possible wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. President Trump is on that list, as well as a number of other powerful people."
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Here is the FBI's Epstein List
We still don't know what the FBI did to investigate these allegations
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
"Contrary to what the FBI and DOJ have said over the past year, it turns out there really is an FBI list of other people suspected of possible wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. President Trump is on that list, as well as a number of other powerful people."
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in 2019 on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is completely indefensible.
February 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in 2019 on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is completely indefensible.
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The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles
February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles
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bitcoin might be the only thing in the world where its cultural value could go up if the people who loved it the most never opened their mouths
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
bitcoin might be the only thing in the world where its cultural value could go up if the people who loved it the most never opened their mouths
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Welcome to the Winter Olympics don't ask about how many people died or were injured in the making of this sport please and thank you.
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Welcome to the Winter Olympics don't ask about how many people died or were injured in the making of this sport please and thank you.