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Jimmy Lai got a 20-year sentence for saying things the Chinese government didn't like China's 'national security law' was tailored to zero in on someone like Lai, who pushed for democracy, freedom of speech, and government reform.

This man got 20 years in prison for saying things the government didn’t like.

He’s 78, so that’s a death sentence.

I wrote about why everyone should know who Jimmy Lai is: reason.com/2026/02/09/j...

All chocolate is Dubai chocolate to me cause I do buy it

man these people are just thugs and gangsters

One of the most blackpilling things about the Biden years was that we heard for *years* before that that ppl would happily support a slight rise in costs if it meant that lower wage workers got a raise & when we saw that actually get implemented a bit, ppl lost their fucking minds with rage

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.

Wow excellent @mtkonczal.bsky.social Vibecession piece

1) specific essentials inflating faster than overall inflation

2) inflation makes first time home buying especially tough (wonkish)

3) hard to plan w/ price uncertainty

4) high borrowing costs

newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-afford...

More accountability than anyone in Washington or in the news media

The way I would at right now is that federal agencies are looking for gray areas where they can refuse federal orders, and judges are getting wise and making it far harder.

When they are told "let this person go. Now." They do it. Classic bully shit.

[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!"

meanwhile

Trump WH 🤝A Bunch of People On Here

Wildly overestimating the influence of this on housing

the only way this makes sense is if there’s something utterly damning yet to drop from the files

NO SECRET POLICE IN AMERICA.

It's easy to understand, and hard to argue against.

Yep. Many of us who weren't sufficiently Trump-curious had to find other places to work.

The libertarian movement had one job, and it failed, and now it wants credit for success.

The thing is, that's guaranteed *not* to clear Trump's name. Indeed, Trump pardoning Epstein's right hand woman to get her to sign off on his "innocence" is as close to a smoking gun as we're likely to find.

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says:

"The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

I always find ppl dooming about this scenario funny, because what the fuck do you think happens next? The legitimate Dem majority (which, btw, is going to be quite large the way things are going) declares itself the House (and very possibly the Senate, too) & then says Trump isn't President anymore.

This would be terrifying if control was actually going to come down to a small number of closer races. But it’s not, and nobody frothing into a panic over it will internalize that load bearing part of the speculation.

Recently wife and I stunlocked a guy who works in the bleeding edge of AI (San Francisco) and asked him if, instead of putting AGI in a brain implant, he can just start with a consumer printer that works reliably. Genuinely he did not know what to say.

So this is news to me. In the lead up to the 2018 Brazilian election, Jair Bolsonaro claimed he was not working with Steve Bannon. It turns out he was working with both Bannon AND Jeffrey Epstein.

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

ICE agents! Keep quitting, spill the beans and help us take down the institutuon that's not going to pay you anyway.

ICE is torturing legal residents until they agree to deportation

Striking from Marquette poll:

Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.

That's data given to me. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2062...

I remain shocked by how much work was done after Katrina (subj of my diss) on evacuating pets in disasters relative to evacuating people without cars, or with disabilities, or with poverty, or elderly, or, or, or

Bad Bunny at the Halftime Show: “God bless America,” *triumphantly lists every nation in the continent*

Donald Trump, seething from his couch:

I really genuinely want to know what PR independence people think would ensure a higher quality of living without statehood because a lot of people who don't live on the island seem convinced the American boot is all that stands in the way of sovereign prosperity and it sounds like bullshit.

Genuinely do not think we were the intended audience for that ad