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When being royal and having hereditary power comes with more checks and balances than an elected democracy….

“.. I regret suggesting the authors should be disciplined for their research. Indeed, I retract that suggestion,” Hassett’s statement read. “I was upset .. @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/kev...

“Bye, America” 😔 @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/buy...

for the record: No Other Choice…. Insanely good

Leopards Eating People’s Faces party is undefeated!

The DOJ can't sustain the cases that they bring against protestors -- mostly because the cases are built on lies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yes and then all they do is make more humans! It’s awful!

This police chief, at a minimum, needs to be fired immediately.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Another time to remind everyone that being in the USA illegally is a civil offense, not a felony.

In San Francisco, the heart of the tech universe, they're having a hard time empaneling a jury about Musk's actions when he bought Twitter, because people hate him so much. The quotes are amazing.

Visit the US and receive free government housing! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Any Girl Scout troops in the Twin Cities that need cookie sales?

another one for the many "i'm going to post a psychotic thing AI CEOs say every day until they stop" Tik Tok accounts.

Ugh, my X account just got hacked. And ofc, there's no real customer service/safety left there any more.

This is an IQ test. If you nod along with Sam, you failed it.

Notably (a) this is meaningless in terms of the budget and (b) Republicans don't care about the budget anyway. The sole purpose is to torment highly-skilled career officers because the Trump admin is filled with no-skills dilettantes who resent everyone with expertise and commitment to their work.

Good cause, but nope, no thanks, no to polar plunges.

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh are a caucus of grievance and resentment that has given license to their political agendas and personal corruption that make a mockery of both legal and judicial ethics.

I’m sorry, you didn’t know about it already?

"Masculinity influencer"? No, Galloway's an attention addict with creepy opinions about others' sex lives; here are receipts--e.g, on men in the delivery room: "disgusting & unnatural” This Masculinity Influencer Is Loud and Wrong About Paternity Leave www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Well, look at that. Either way, they were gonna rake it in.

A grant request proposed a trial to study whether a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine had negative effects. 7 current + former CDC employees say that everything about the proposal set off alarm bells: "None of our scientists would touch this...” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Okay, I'll tell you why. Whether it's the endless newspaper columns, or the eager first-year students at Yale, or the Friday night summary for PBS News, or the Rolodex of every single opinion editor in New York or DC, this man keeps flooding the zone with his shrugging and mindless middleness.

The lazy pseudo-filibuster (send an email and legislation is blocked) has worked to Republicans' benefit >95% of the time for the past 50 years. I hope both parties understand that, if this happens, the Dem base will absolutely demand the "talking filibuster" on everything for the next 50 years.

Trump outwitting the Supreme Court by testing all the laws at once - Trump raises tariffs to 15% on imports from all countries www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Don't fall for stupid. Mail in ballots are a legit way to cast your vote. I know because it's how Republicans won in 2010! A Moment of Clarity youtu.be/-VtkK-3bUNQ

Every time you post about Will Stancil you are increasing the odds that some journalist will write a profile about him.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

I know this isn’t the point of this @theweekendprime.bsky.social @crampell.bsky.social et al clip, but the guy’s extended tangent about why he thinks trump was a good businessman includes him saying he is aware people will say he got a seven figure head start from his dad… youtu.be/JcdACq02RyQ?...

@dandrezner.bsky.social and I talked about it awhile back podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

No. No, it is not possible.

The establishment legal press corps’s willingness to accept Sarah Isgur’s desperate rebrand as a Thoughtful Legal Pundit media personality remains mystifying and embarrassing

Might be my favorite political comedy in the past 20 years!

Don't tell anyone but I think I like this movie better than "Sinners," which I love.

I wrote about this a while back. (People forget It's a Wonderful Life is really dark!) newrepublic.com/article/1893...

This tracks with Disney’s recent guidance about headwinds at its domestic parks. @forbes.com $DIS www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Recorded from Miami (on vacay)!

ICYMI! (Up on SSRN soon & on Scholastica now 🫠🫠🫠)

We cannot and should not host the Olympics. The rest of the world must act in protest.

I'm sure Chuck will send a strongly worded letter and Susan Collins will be concerned.

Exclusive: A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the effects of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in the African nation of Guinea-Bissau. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Be still, my 90s teenage heart.

if you have some time for weekend digging:

I wish I had this optimism.

Go-Go’s release “Head Over Heels” as a single 42 years ago today. 🎂 “That was the beginning of the end, that album," said Belinda Carlisle. It has a “cheerful melody” — but also “captures the darker side of fame. I had an appreciation for the lyrics then, but not like I do now.”

From aviation-world reporting experience, I know something about planes like the flying yacht/spa/hotel/bistro/737MAX that Noem has ordered for herself, at our expense. Many "real" billionaires would consider this too ostentatious. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

NEW: Big step for Democrats who want to win control of US House Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signs law which allows for a new Virginia congressional map to be approved by voters in upcoming referendum, with early vote beginning on March 6 and Election Day on April 21

This woman was arrested by police in South Carolina because she cheered on plans for an anti-ICE protest by high school kids. WCSC-TV says she posted: "'Let’s talk about how to make this the BEST,' according to the incident report." www.live5news.com/2026/02/18/s...

* End fact-checking on social media * Stop deplatforming those who promote dangerous misinformation Of the two major parties, only one takes these positions Can journalism stand as neutral before them? www.status.news/p/left-to-th... From @status.news [no paywall on weekends]

The good news is that ICE's stealth plan to get 23 concentration camps up and running before anyone noticed is melting somewhat under the light of public exposure and outrage The bad news... www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

Maybe a researcher on lying shouldnt wear his beard on half his face like idk JANUS also? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

It will never stop being weird that Drudge Report has for years now just been like the bulwark

A must-read conversation about the realities of concentration camps between two of the best people on here, @andreapitzer.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Read this: @jamellebouie.net and @andreapitzer.bsky.social have been leaders in calling out the inhumanity of Trump's concentration camps. Here they are together: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o... (Gift link)

The new 15% global tariff: - Trump doubles down on his failed, wildly unpopular economic strategy - Invalidates every trade agreement negotiated over the past year - Will force every R in Congress to go on record while getting challenged in court - Super Mad Kingy 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Bob Costas has been Remembering Some Dudes uninterrupted for the last 20 minutes on MLB Network. We are so back.

From the Congressional Research Service: "Section 122 provides some contextual evidence that 'balance-of-payments deficits' does not refer to trade deficits." www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Great stuff here from @cdelawalla.bsky.social.....

Pam Bondi on the Dow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71X...

“Spending three days on the ground in Minneapolis brought home something that may not be obvious from afar: Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

Getting more AOC-pilled by the day.

Go, already. Just... go.

“Years of tortured rationalization had created, in the end, a party of hypocrites.”
 @mattbaidc.bsky.social writes about Democrats’ decades-long relationship with Bill Clinton, and why they’re finally filing for divorce www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Lol. The judge assigned the Stonewall Pride flag case — Judge Jennifer Rochon — clerked for Trump’s sister and was general counsel of the Girl Scouts before Biden appointed her to S.D.N.Y. in 2022. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/188298926/...

BRUUUUUUUCE!!!!!!!! (I got tickets!!!!!!!!!!)

Because “emergency” 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

I had missed this in the midst of, well, everything else, but, great work from @marisakabas.bsky.social and @rcfp.org!

The Supreme Court decision to invalidate tariffs is no surprise, except for the three dissenting justices whose corruption knows no bounds. The ruling has established for all time the total constitutional faithlessness of the court’s angry men. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-unhing...

Did One of the Greatest Movies of 1976 Predict Our Effed-Up Present? 'Network' turns 50 — and somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever

RenMac:

The State of the Union is that we've all had enough of Trump's bullshit. My latest 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-state-...

After the first two weeks, this is my most popular post on HateComesToMainStreet.com

Pie, tart as ever. 10/10

Very revealing interview with two elite White House reporters: They’re covering a mad dictator and a liar, but they call him “transactional” and say “He simply does not prioritize being accurate.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ashley-parker-michael-scherer.html

I don’t usually beg, but please read this piece.

10% yesterday. 15% today. As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Johnny-come-lately Neil Gorsuch wrote “it can be tempting to bypass Congress…But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design…deliberation tempers impulse.” Yes, but Trump was unleashed by Gorsuch & the SC extremists.” www.americaamerica.news/p/can-the-su...

im not sure this is a thing you want a judge saying.

SCOTUS should’ve let Trump tariff Japan until it saves Punch the monkey from its zoomates.

The economy is rigged. Large corporations pay little to nothing while Trump announced today that working Americans will pay more. itep.org/live-nation-...

Section 122 allows temporary tariffs up to 15% so Trump announced a 10% worldwide tariff last night just so he could up it to 15% today and sound tough

Hey guys, it seems maybe not great that we’re careening toward another war in the Middle East simply to ensure that the Mad King isn’t embarrassed too much?! This might be why Congress is supposed to be involved in making war too? cc: “Wag the Dog” (1997)

"Trump went on to praise Kavanaugh, who wrote the principal dissent in Learning Resources, for his 'genius' and 'great ability,' which is instantly, effortlessly ruder to Kavanaugh than anything I have ever said about him." @jaywillis.net, on yesterday's SCOTUS and POTUS happenings.

Because of course he’s doing this…

"... we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools. The explosion of non-consensual deepfake pornography and app-facilitated sexual abuse is merely one aspect of a tech revolution that is reshaping women’s lives."

Why hasn't Howard Lutnick been fired? Because if Trump fired everyone who blatantly lied to the American people, he wouldn't have a Cabinet, and he'd have to fire himself too.

Yes, I have seen the Bad Law Professor Post of the Day and am choosing not to engage with it

Yes also she may not know as much about the Syrian civil war as Lindsey graham does but if one were president, we’d likely have reinvaded Afghanistan; if the other were, she would know that’d be stupid

"Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence."

There’s a newborn baby here at the DMV, which is smart, because by the time his number gets called he’ll be old enough to get a license

"A California judge admonished members of Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Ray Ban-Meta AI glasses, which are equipped with a camera, as they entered a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for a landmark trial over the impact of social media on children." www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-tr...

Supreme Court Conservatives’ Favorite Anti-Regulatory Trick Comes for Trump’s Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

@sammellins.bsky.social gets results nysfocus.com/2026/02/20/h...

The headline here, @apnews.com, should be conditional ("claims to fire," "purports to fire," etc) because, as your article correctly notes, "...the law says that the district court may choose U.S. attorneys when an initial appointment expires..."

And just when it was starting to melt...

People thought this principle was going to sink Trump in 2015, and I cannot express enough how much voters just want leaders to confidently convey — sometimes however nonsensically — how they are Feeling

“I don’t think he can take this loss [on tariffs] and then be seen as backing down on Iran.” Oh sure all the libs say this stuff. Wait — this isn’t a lib? It’s a former Trump cabinet secretary? Who has never said a bad word about him? 😳