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after years of media laundering cancel culture hysteria and right-wing propaganda about alleged liberal censorship, the constant and nationwide right-wing crackdown on free speech, free thought, freedom of ideas, and objective truth has gone basically unnoticed by the mainstream press

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

A lawyer from Mamdani's corp counsel was in court *today* defending mass sweeps for BS offenses - many of which should have been mandatory desk appearance tickets under a law NYPD continues to violate without consequence - that kept people in jail for multiple days awaiting arraignment.

I get the argument for patience with Z, but with preliminary budget, keeping Tisch on with NYPD, disgraceful mass arrests for low-level offenses (like two seats on the subway) for which people spent days waiting to see a judge, backing off promises to disband SRG, it's been a bumpy six weeks.

press releases trumpeting a crime “solved” with a product are often prewritten by marketing teams. Flock gives this to cops: “The __Police Department has solved [CRIME] with the help of their Flock Safety camera system. __ Police installed Flock cameras on [DATE] to solve and reduce crime in [CITY]”

these are basically the photos you see when dictators or terrorist group leaders are deposed and people storm their mansions filled with gold toilets built on stolen wealth

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground.”

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Name a film you would call PERFECT.

Any genre

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 ...

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...

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

After railing against narcoterrorists + deporting migrants w/no criminal record, President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president last year – then federal officials lifted his ICE hold & whisked him to the Waldorf Astoria

My latest for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

why won't lefties embrace a panopticon of nonconsensual surveillance and monitoring, "efficiency," algorithmic propaganda, faux art slop, and mass job replacement that also has the little side benefits of torching the planet and hoovering up natural resources

This is a very dumb question and the answer is obviously no, he can’t.

Then the City Council should be loudly advocating for the wealth tax that Hochul has been blocking rather than targeting the mayor who’s trying to fix the budget fiasco Adams left behind

I don’t disagree with this but I wish the discourse around party loyalty was just as aggressive and critical when it comes to statistically more disloyal “moderate” voters and progressive/left candidates.

Subway crime is up. The NYPD blames the cold weather. In the first five weeks of 2026, major crimes reported on the subway system increased 17%.

The unreported side of this @gothamist.com story is the NYPD has been clogging arraignments with hundreds of low level arrests that by law should be desk appearance tickets. It’s part of a continued NYPD violation of the mandatory appearance ticket law without judicial consequence.

It is unconscionable that Democrats haven’t been introducing articles of impeachment regularly. Pirro and anyone else involved in the unethical failed sham prosecution of Kelly, Slotkin, and other Democrats should be impeached and disbarred.

Community mesh is a big and expanding deal in NYC!

This is indistinguishable from Völkisch fascism

Somewhat beside the point, it doesn’t describe either Western, European, or American history. It’s just using “Western Civilization” as a stand in for whiteness.

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

I wonder what a MacBook would look like that was essentially focused on purely maximizing the efficiency gains since the M1 without squeezing out speed gains that don’t help the average user. How many days could that computer last on a charge?

RFK Jr. is either a never nude or always skips leg day and wants to hide his little chicken legs

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Also in the “boring” category of tech, basically all medical research on vaccines, treatments, and cures

GLP-1s alone could have as much effect on actual people’s lives as AI

Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote

How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

Conservatives never actually cared about people coming here “the right way,” it was always just white nationalism

Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

As we saw during the brief woke era, the country is run by middle-aged white men who are absolutely freaked out by the rise of a young, diverse, liberal workforce with high expectations. AOC is going to trigger *all* of that.