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This is dictation not reporting.

Trump said our economy is "roaring." Really?

Workers just took home their smallest share of profits in recorded history.

CEOs are making 285 times what their workers make.

Trump just gave a $1 TRILLION tax cut to the 1%.

It’s never been clearer who Trump serves.

I actually think the behavior of the Republicans in the audience has been more noteworthy than Trump’s speech itself.

The braying, boorish jeers and yawps of a party fully given over to fascism.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

A majority of Americans feel the nation is doing worse compared to a year ago
(CBS News / @today.yougov.com)
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

Trump again claimed he brought in $18T in foreign investment in the US. No idea where that number comes from -- BEA hasn't released FDI data for 2025 yet -- but it seems pretty implausible. For context that more than half the size of the ENTIRE US economy (~$31T)

Trump is trying to paint a rosy picture of the housing crisis.

In reality, a majority of Americans can’t afford rent on a modest 2 bedroom. Americans aren't buying their first home until 40.

And Trump’s tariffs have raised the costs of a new home by $11,000.

At his first SOTU address, Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new second-term low of 37% in our polling, and he no longer has a positive approval rating on any major issue. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...

The father

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

trump says he has driven inflation down, but here's what the actual data look like from january 2024-present. as you can see, it's been pretty consistent.

ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.

Color me suprised.

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

Dems demand probe of Trump’s SAVE America Act website "This webpage appears to be a prima facie violation of restrictions on the use of appropriations for explicit appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress to support pending legislation."

The White House is blatantly violating the law that prohibits the spending of tax dollars on lobbying -- with a new website urging people to call their senator to support the SAVE voter-suppression bill. And guess what? They don't care. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Honestly the NYPD should be embarrassed that anyone is complaining. They walked through a planned snowball fight and got pelted with snowballs. Them’s the rules, man. That is not assaulting an officer

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If you don't have the budget to market the game (and this is a form of marketing) and you don't have a built-in audience then how are you going to generate sales in the first place?

Most Americans say Trump is growing erratic with age, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Six in ten Americans, including a significant slice of Republicans, think the 79-year-old president has become erratic as he ages. The six-day poll concluded the day before Trump's expected State of t...

📈 REUTERS poll: More than 60% of Americans say Trump has "become erratic with age."

That includes 30% of Republicans and a whopping 64% of *independents.*

President Trump will turn 80 years old on June 14, with more than two years left in his second term.

These type of numbers would usually cause a POTUS's own party to create distance from him ahead of the election. I am hopeful this will happen once the Republican primary filing deadlines pass but we will have to see. He has already compromised them

Only a handful of them could stop the chaos

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

A good take on the "men are lonely and angry so we must accommodate them" movement

www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

I'm old enough to remember when games were distributed with the first chapter free and often it was a shorter map/episode to give a sense of the game and it was a great way to sell to new hesitent buyers.

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

Musk at World Economic Forum

This guy's smiling photograph is appearing today, in normal news coverage of an elite gathering.

He has killed 215,000 adults and 445,000 children with USAID cuts, as of the most recent estimates. 14 million deaths are expected by 2030.

Is DHS submitting unisigned affidavits to courts? Don't they have to identify the officer (presumably could ask for it to be sealed)?

@benrothenberg.bsky.social Poker clock for tennis. 25 secs per point plus 60 per set that winds down when you use up the serve clock.

"...a Big Secret"

NEW: US courts are foiling efforts by the Trump administration to keep information under wraps about DOGE and the role that Elon Musk played during his whirlwind stint with the White House last year
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Just last week I won my lawsuit against DC MPD with the judge ruling they must release all body cam footage from the response to DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. Wonder if it's related?

As ICE moves to massively expand immigration detention through the purchase of warehouses around the country, the best example of what these places might look like comes from Camp East Montana, which opened in August and now holds over 3,000 people per day in terrible conditions.

Read more below!

Contrary to Trump Administration Claims, Americans Won’t Receive an Average $1,000 Extra in Tax Refunds This Year The White House and congressional Republicans’ own data show that the average 2025 tax refund will increase by much less than $1,000, with most Americans earning less than $100,000 in income seeing no...

The latest way Republicans have fudged the numbers and lied about how much money you’re getting back in tax refunds this year: www.americanprogress.org/article/cont...

Man puts up a poster on a wall in San Francisco that reads "ELON EMPOWERS PEDOS" with this link at the bottom: https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphic-than-whats-on-x/

Some guerrilla poster people (NOT @wired.com) are putting up these signs in SF with a link to this @regret.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social story: www.wired.com/story/grok-i... Photo by @thiccreese.bsky.social