Joel Levi

Wow, Attias’s statement quoted in this article is an absolute masterpiece of a non-apology apology.

"The fight is lost, man."

Worst of all, it appears to be the only way the FBI targets people for investigations. It looks at Laura Loomer's little Jigsaw from Saw panopticon feed and determines who to target next. There is no professional or personal use case for being on Twitter in 2026. It's an engagement trap for racists.

You don't have to stop posting but you do have to stop posting THERE. It is a uniquely, fundamentally detrimental website to you as a person. It incentivizes racism, violence and — the worst crime of all — vagueposting. You are living in a permanent teaser ad for the 11 o'clock news.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

It was just outside and it’s nice for a change. But I don’t live in NYC for quiet.

Thank you!!

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

Is there a bundle of key races we can make a single donation to, or is it too diffuse and one should pick a state or two?

Mr. Patel's aides downplayed the fun-and-games aspect of his visit to Italy when news broke of his trip a few days ago. They said it was a coincidence that the Games overlapped with security consultations he had planned months ago with European counterparts. The core purposes of the trip, Mr. Patel's spokesman said, were to meet with Italian law enforcement off cials and with Tilman Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, and to oversee the F.B.I.'s involvement in Olympic security

Patel’s aides said he had to go to Italy to review security for the Olympic Games.

(That would be the Olympic Games that are just ending now.)

He knows how the reinforce the stupid with his people. It’s a neat rhetorical trick they use.

While we’re debating whether or not Trump called into C-SPAN using a pseudonym to rant about the Supreme Court, let’s not lose sight of how we’re all in agreement this is something he would do and this is the person with the nuclear codes.

Yes they should have done this with their congressional majority.

People like this can make anything anti-Semitic. It seems ridiculous to avoid telling the truth about this Epstein cabal and its reach just because they can twist it. Just as we should tell the truth about the abuses of both Hamas and Israel.

I had no idea Democrats and Joe Biden are so horrible.

By “we let these policies expire. During the previous administration,” are you blaming Biden? The Dems? I don’t understand your message here.

U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with trans people, American bishops passed a major ban on trans heal...

Before praising the current papacy, remember that late last year the Catholic Church imposed one of the most sweeping bans on trans healthcare yet, cutting off life-saving care throughout its sprawling U.S. hospital networks:

I’ll never forget Emily Bazelon’s willing participation in all this.

The nyt is a dishonest broker. Sulzberger and his lieutenants *also knew* this would happen.

They used flat-out fabrications (remember the gender clinic story in MO that was made up) and they pushed outright contempt (like its wholesale smear of trans ppl as “too much to endure”) to pave the way

This, in fact, was the nyt’s intent.

The nyt is an activist anti-trans campaigner, not a dispassionate source of factual information and fair treatment

Politicians, journalists and opinion leaders: Consider the nyt for what it is. Arthur is too heavily invested in pushing this campaign to change

Did not renew my subscription bc of this. Thinly sourced non-story about a secret gay mafia with this cover. No thanks.

James Talarico voting in the Texas Senate Primary with his parents 🥹

The past few months have done wonders for making people across the spectrum realize the government has an endless well of money that it’ll never use to make our lives better.

Yeah both seem bad.

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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“Conservatives say”?

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

I hope more folks will follow @masnick.com's lead here. The twitter files manufactured hysteria got tons of press coverage but this recent case of an actual attack on free speech is flying way too low below the news radar.

www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-are-h...

Imagine Jake Tapper, oh nevermind.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

Opinion | Mass Deportations Sabotage the Economy America won’t keep growing without an expanding workforce.

The Cato Institute obtained internal Homeland Security data showing that 73% of those detained by ICE between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15 had NO criminal conviction and only 5% had a violent-crime conviction.

GIFT link: www.wsj.com/opinion/mass...