Gady Epstein

I have a secret to tell Marc: The reason for being a moral, decent, good person is not so that people like you and stop criticizing you. In fact, you're right, they won't. You do it anyway.

Oh I have it somewhere, in storage

Oh it gets better

no, looks fascinating. Probably more informative than the fake Soviet newscast I taped for a 7th grade social studies unit on the centrally planned economy

the rise of Solidarity owing something to the ruthless capitalism of Western banks is a good one

It’s from GHW Bush mocking (it would seem) an old Bircher expression from the Cold War and China v Taiwan

You’re not going to believe how dumb the origin story for this is

fwiw, I wrote this lengthy piece where I talked to medical professionals and trans people all of whom were very clear that gay and lesbian kids are not being forced to be trans. www.readtpa.com/p/no-gay-and...

The usage of “2.0” indicates this was produced by a FriedmanLLM

Also, people need to look up Ike’s nuclear policy

Yes of course agreed

No single person is the undisputed face, fair enough. There’s probably 3 or 4 faces

Sure but this is not an invented narrative to serve some agenda. I also think it’s worth reading the piece before making a tendentious case about it

This is just not true, Newsom is tops in the Emerson poll that just came out a few days ago (one doesn’t have to like that this is so but it is) emersoncollegepolling.com/february-202...

Important to remember this was part of one of the wrongest “calm down” series in history

So many dupes over on the other app whose most recent post is “1d” ago because their world model has been exposed (again) as idiotic

Good thread on the blatant hypocrisy displayed here, including by the grifty enablers who brought you the “Twitter files” (who have since gone quiet)

Ross Douthat tweet: Fundamental factional energy -- Silicon Valley: Faust bargaining with the devil RW populism: mob boss in a tinfoil hat The Cathedral: Voluntary human extinction

The peak is really his next tweet where he just assumes the form of Curtis Yarvin

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the US in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again & again & again—to force the US govt. to comply with court orders”

*210* violations of court orders in MN alone according to Reagan-appointed judge x.com/rparloff/sta...

Inside this latest Trump-Mamdani meeting: -Last time the two met, Trump asked him to return with ideas to build big things. Mamdani came back with a massive housing proposal -Mamdani's team created mock headlines to show Trump how such a project would be received. He was "very enthusiastic." -Mamdani pushed for release of Columbia student detained today, Trump calls him later to tell him she's being released -Mamdani gives Susie Wiles a list of four other students he wants help with, all targeted in pro-Palestinian protests https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4 Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Fascinating

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

This is real good.

The AOC Munich story becoming a thing was obviously inorganic but the truth of the information environment behind it is even worse than I realized

Training for New ICE Agents Is ‘Deficient’ and ‘Broken,’ Whistle-Blower Says

‘Among the exams that are no longer listed as being required…are “Judgment Pistol Shooting” and “Determine Removability,” a reference to how agents decide if people they encounter have legal status in the United States. It was not clear from the documents when those exams were removed.’

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need. That's according to seven sources who work at the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which handles the custody and care of children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian, or are separated from family by immigration authorities. All of the sources declined to be named for fear of retaliation. Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls.

“The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas”

Some are as young as 13.

"This is 100% and exclusively about abortion”—former head of unaccompanied minor program

www.tpr.org/news/2026-02...

Well that’s interesting isn’t it. The DNC reportedly described the Biden administration’s support for Israel as a “net-negative” in the 2024 election