E.J. Kalafarski

16 years after Citizens United, it's insane that Congress isn't allowed to prohibit this kind of naked bribery of the President of the United States.

Well that’s bad. And it was sounding like the Wet Dress Rehearsal went so well, too.

If the money has to get refunded, and it gets refunded to companies who claim that they only raised prices because of tariffs in the first place, what happens next? Do companies keep $100B in extra revenue, or do they return money to consumers in the most giant class action in history?

You honestly think the *Trump administration* is about to start extraditing and prosecuting rich and powerful people associated with Epstein? As though that won’t shine a bigger spotlight on one rich and powerful person in particular?

JD Vance hasn’t posted in 21 days.

Colorado Democrats Push to Rip Up 2028 House Map for an Extra Edge

Trump started an arms race and it was stupid, he’s getting crushed. There’s good news for Republicans, though: they can join Democrats to ban gerrymandering nationally. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

And it should make people feel better that Trump has utterly failed to corrupt the judicial system over the last 10 years. There’s just no public support for dismantling an impartial justice system.

A Case Against 6 Democrats Lacked Urgency. Then Came a Swift Bid for an Indictment.

The media continues to call the rejection by the Grand Jury remarkable, but it’s more the baselessness and incompetence of the prosecution that was remarkable. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Spider-Man 3. It’s certainly not the worst movie ever made… but the trailer for it might be the best movie ever made, and the actual movie certainly didn’t live up to that.

Congrats to RFK Jr. on all his efforts to save kids from mercury in vaccines.

It's all imagined. To remember that "homogenous era," they have to retroactively call Italians, Polish, and Irish white, which people in that era didn't. You could imagine future racists pining for the homogenous era of the 2020s but only able to show their work by including Hispanics.

Trump's termination of Gateway stuck about as well as his termination of congestion pricing.

At least someone is still measuring approval.

Everyone remember the drones? We elected Trump to get us answers. Thank god that nightmare came to a satisfying conclusion.

YouTube video by DW News Reports: Ukraine retakes 200 square kilometers of Russian-occupied territory | DW News

Musk can literally throw a switch at this point to decide who starts winning the war. He turned off Starlink for Russia and Ukraine immediately retook 200 kilometers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teVr...

Andy Kim is right to call this "unhinged," because the plan for the tunnel was finished years ago. So what's Trump talking about? He's talking out of his ass, trying to make it sound like he discovered a problem to cover up for the renaming blackmail.

Wait, let me try: Republicans want identification at polls but not on X. Am I comparing totally unrelated things that require different standards right?

Happy Presidents’ Day, a day to honor Presidents worthy of honoring. Which is presumably not the Presidents so afraid no one will honor them that they need to coerce and blackmail people into honoring them.

Not the way our current economics work. But the early days of Facebook, when you knew everyone was a human because they needed an .edu address? It was magical.

I suspect you're spending a lot of time talking to bot farms designed to push everyone to political extremes. I'd love to have a single social network where the users are all verified humans.

Yet another reason most of our economic problems can be traced to the generational blockheadedness of George W. Bush.

Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall was amazingly affordable gambling all night, right on the Strip.

Did my taxes entirely before learning TurboTax was going to hit me for their new Expert Review upcharge. Had to Start Over and do everything again to deselect it.

More evidence that the next President should order the IRS to just provide pre-filled 1040s to filers.

Also, Pitt is playing a very fit, athletic idiot, not an out-of-shape, burned out idiot.

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

We're living through the "people believing the War of the Worlds broadcast is a real invasion" phase of the technology. www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...

Birthday of a legendary anthem and maybe the best start to a song ever.

This is literal Bond villain stuff by Zuckerberg, to take advantage of political upheaval to deploy your dystopian technology to all of society.

Pretty amazing explanation of certain pronunciations that I had no idea weren’t a modern corruption but rather survived from even older forms of English.

Trying hard to remember if we ever created some kind of consolidated Department of Homeland Security or Director of National Intelligence to help make sure the military stays coordinated with everyone else across the federal government.