Lennart Zandbergen

Probably true. Crazy that even with arguments related to terror, crime and insurance fraud, it's not a political no-brainer. NYC has so few entry points, catching people with the use of license plate camera could be so simple!

I've been in multiple southern European and Middle Eastern cities where you see huge amounts of ignored traffic violations, but a lack of license plates is never one of them. Really surprised me to see that in a place like NYC.

Why are untraceable cars like this not seen as a terrorism threat?

Het is volkomen idioot dat de Nederlandse overheid actief is op een platform dat haatberichten eerder stimuleert dan verwijdert.

All of that could be true and the future is bright etc, but that's not what all the vibecoding we've seen so far is about.

The only reason AI vibecoding works is because every coding question in some programming languages has been asked on message boards before. That's not really the case with COBOL

'No expense has been spared': Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations DHS leadership says the department needs the jet for immigrant deportations and Kristi Noem’s travel. A brochure given to passengers who recently flew on it with Noem highlights its “exceptional inter...

Birkin bag? Check. Solid gold Rolex? Check. Top of the line Gulfstream with bidets and love nest? Check. Welcome to the world of Kristi Noem. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

An NBER study said that .7 %-point of current inflation levels can be explained by tariffs, sounds about right then. www.nber.org/system/files...

No, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t trigger the 2008 subprime meltdown A Bear Stearns mystery solved

Absolute banger of a long read from @bondhack.ft.com, ostensibly about Epstein, but ends up solving the qn on who triggered the GFC.

(No spoilers, but you have heard of the actual person.)

Where else but @alphaville.ft.com.

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Isn’t part of the return also an increase in safety? Better gates mean that it would be harder for people with mental health problems to get in the system, and also that it would become more effective for MTA/nypd to get people out of trains and stations without them re-entering immediately.

The girl is seventeen and must’ve been in a bubble prepping for the Olympics for months, what do you expect them to say

Fantastic use of AI.

Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee
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Great reporting and more evidence that the incentive structure of social media rewards the worst behaviors and has massively warped how people see and experience the world — and for the worse.

Het verschil is dat onder Obama vooral mensen aan de grens werden teruggestuurd, niet dat er ongetrainde agenten mensen van straat plukten en op het vliegtuig zetten. Onder Trump zijn er ook veel minder statistieken beschikbaar.

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

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He’ll want to make sure there’s not another iteration of this 2014 Sochi Olympics picture

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...

The most important infrastructure project in the US, on which billions have already been spent and thousands of jobs depend, will not continue unless... www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

It's interesting to see European right-wing politicians attempt to strike a balance between praising Trump for his $$ while trying to woo an electorate that doesn't like him.
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lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Kalshi Claims ‘Extortion,’ Then Recants in Feud Over User Losses It began innocuously enough. A stock analyst pulled data on betting results to argue that users of booming prediction markets were losing money faster than on traditional gambling apps.

Kalshi users lose even more money than gamblers on other platforms, and the company tried to exert pressure on an analyst that pointed this out.
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"Suggesting the bullet traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep"

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

“Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.”

“For much of the 2010s…it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”

Agree - Uber will buzz my phone asking if I'm OK if my cab is stuck in traffic for too long, so they should also be able to flag if deliverista's go against traffic or are speeding. They're not doing that because it hurts their bottom line.

McDonald's is ending its test run of AI-powered drive-thrus with IBM Ever get your McDonald’s order mixed up at an AI-powered drive-thru? The experiment behind the fast food giant’s current automated order taker will soon be coming to a close.

No doubt it will be just as good as the trial McDonald's ran a while back! apnews.com/article/mcdo...

Full Bad Bunny speech

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...