Pardesi

“A gun range for guards”

I use only the finest artisanal bombs in my violence.

genuinely curious to see if we ever get 2008-2010 nostalgia, because boy, that was just an outright grim period for everyone who graduated college in those years.

Yeah, what happened with this story?

In addition to being a very uncomfortable dog whistle, this framing is completely the wrong lesson to take from the Epstein news. It’s about how widespread and pervasive misogyny and sexual abuse really are. This framing lets most of society off the hook too easily.

I'd go Mussolini, but I get where this is coming from.

To paraphrase @postoctobrist.bsky.social, he is the Son of the post-1970 Half-Century.

= Hollywood REPORTER SUBSCRIBE Yes, you were inspired by history books, including the use of pretext. Yeah, it's the same shit all the time. Get rid of truth, get rid of a free press, destroy communities, nationalize the businesses, find an arbitrary enemy that you can elevate and false flag them through propaganda. Flood the zone with as much gak and atrocity as you can so that nobody can pay attention to what just happened, and pray that you have an overwhelming majority of sheep that will follow you. It's just tragically and sadly familiar. It's on them; it's not on us.

Hollywood SUBSCRIBE REPORTER they have that kind of game. Everyone's wondering, "Why is Silicon Valley going along with all this? Why hasn't anybody raised their hand?" And I think that there's a much more terrifying tech reich that's lurking in the background of all of this. That is actually sophisticated, and I don't think the Trump people are in control of any of that.

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the results are pretty clear, and nothing makes young people stop trying weed than “their parents and adults talking about how much they like the stuff, and how it helps with sleep and pain”.

Folks can dunk on the rest of it, but the very first sentence is a total boner. Teen use of cannabis has been declining, for over a decade now, it’s like the easiest thing to look up, haha

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

And as Israel carries out its Final Solution in Gaza and prepares to do the same in the occupied West Bank, the world must never forget the white American evangelicals who gleefully supported, welcomed and celebrated it all.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026

Sky is correct. This take is responsible.

I think it’s a 95% shot that there’s a 1st wave of strikes & status quo pro ante a few weeks later / maybe a 60% shot of a long war.

If you thought Rubio’s MSC speech was a sign of reconciliation, you’re a rube.

Doug Wilson preached at the PNT this week.

real trumpism has never been tried

"At least three" is something I bring up on occasion still.

I mean, "uh, let me clear..." is an all-timer.

I wish I had a girlfriend right now, if just for the simple pleasure of saying "Sir, I want to kiss you so badly" until she went to the other room in annoyance.

Oy.

once again we are

i'm 20/60/20: 20% ground war, 60% limited strikes (n.b. using the word 'limited' loosely there), and 20% nothing happens

and spare me the "trump's gonna TACO, he's bluffing, 2 weeks" crap. at this point we've got so many more assets in the region that such shit looks like the "putin won't attack ukraine" bullshit.

to use a vulgar metaphor: you don't put on a condom unless you're going to fuck.

Summary US military planning highly advanced ahead of Trump decision Israeli strikes in June were 'instructive,' US official says US officials expect Iran to fight back, raising risks WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.S. military planning on Iran has reached an advanced stage with options including targeting individuals as part of an attack and even pursuing regime change in Tehran, if ordered by President Donald Trump, two U.S. officials told Reuters. The military options are the latest signs that the United States is preparing for a serious conflict with Iran should diplomatic efforts fail. Reuters first reported last week that the U.S. military is preparing for a sustained, weeks-long operation against Iran that could include striking Iranian security facilities as well as nuclear infrastructure.

jaw is on the floor, this is going to go catastrophically bad www.reuters.com/world/middle...?

It’s giving middle passage

“I want to be a good boy” is wild

More like where the fuck is congress

I remain convinced that "make the bad thing on the news go away" is what drives the median voter's behavior which is why it's simultaneously incoherent and thermostatic because they'll believe and project really stupid shit they think will make the bad thing go away

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

what he said: Democratic justices are a disgrace to the country, always vote to make America weak you can't fault their loyalty

AP quote: And of the more liberal justices who opposed him, Trump said “you can’t knock their loyalty,” even though he disagrees with their views

this media is unfixable

Many such cases

We are in for a ride.