Two years

2026 - 2 = 2024.

No no, that’s impossible. That would have been under a President who Respects the Constitution. No way they’d just ignore the 5th amendment like this.

https://streamingunity.tv/

There. Just saved you half an hour waiting for your download to complete.

760,000 constituents per district in 2025. That’s compared to 213,000 when the number of US House seats was fixed at 435 back in 1920. Don’t even get me started on the US Senate. Two people representing 50M. Fucking bananas way to run a “representative” democracy.

The Republican justices have already signaled that they probably won’t strike down California’s maps

In fairness to the Court’s Republicans, they did suggest in their LULAC opinion that the Texas and California gerrymanders are mirror images of each other. The majority opinion in that case begins with the observation that after Texas drew its new map, “California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done.” Justice Samuel Alito, a Republican, also wrote a separate opinion stating that it is “indisputable” that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.”

The thing about the SCOTUS is that they’re not total dummies. Roberts and Gorsuch, at least, seem to know the long game and aren’t interested in playing full-on Calvinball with the tool of court precedent. They aren’t going to gamble on an entrenched multi-generational procedurally generated conservative majority just to save a few California GOP House Reps who are likely washed in a D+10 mid year election anyway.

They’ll uphold the right of states to gerrymander and allow Republicans to turn the ratchet in another reactionary backwash election, once Dems fumble the bag in '28/'30. Because the important thing is undermining the function of democracy long term.

“I am a very real woman who is talking to you on the internet and I am sincerely interested in sending you naked pictures with no plan for catfishing or upselling”

Seems legit.

Debunking three myths about the end of presidential term limits in China

using the justice system against any and all rivals!

It’s always dizzying to see western liberals insist the Chinese state is riddled with corruption, then blow their tops the moment anyone in China is identified and prosecuted for corruption.

I keep coming back to Guo Wengui, an outspoken Chinese billionaire ex-pat who claimed he was being persecuted for his liberal politics and not involved in a string of high profile scams. Six years after his arrival, he was up on charges in New York for the exact same set of fraud charges he’d fled Beijing to avoid. And - almost on reflex - Guo went back to the same playbook, insisting that SDNY prosecutors were pursuing him for his political views and not his defrauding of clients. Changpeng Zhao has a near identical story.

This is a tale as old as time in western politics. From Fulgencio Batista to María Corina Machado and Reza Pahlavi to Wernher von Braun, y’all vacuum up the trash. The US, the UK, and France absorb foreign crooks under the auspices of political refugee status. And then these slimeballs go right back to defrauding people in their new host nation.

I wonder how many more Chinese dissidents Keir Starmer and Donald Trump will rescue after this latest purge.

I mean, imagine a Chinese publication leaping to the defense of Henry Cuellar, Bob Menendez, Eric Adams, and George Santos.

So much of the US news really does boil down to a handful of senior editors having this burning hatred for the sitting Chinese President.

So the issue is not ICE, but who’s managing ICE.

You can say that about any organization. If the Nazis had been run by Rosa Luxemberg, they wouldn’t be the Nazis. They’d be a totally different thing.

But we’ve been staffing ICE with ice chewing psychos for decades. I don’t believe a reformist bureaucrat can lead ICE. The organization’s rank-and-file would rebel, in the same way the CIA rebelled under Kennedy and the FBI rebelled under Obama.

The issues, Bernie, are both who’s managing ICE and ICE itself. ICE are terrorists, you can’t just say that you will give money to ICE if they remove those two assholes ignoring all the shit each ICE agent has done so far, Bernie.

Even the most left-wing Democrats are still convinced that an organization dedicated to terrorizing migrant workers and extra-judicially deporting Enemies of the State is too popular to dismantle. That’s a bleak prospect for the nation’s future.

He’s in the minority of the minority. Chuck Schumer will be out an hour later saying he’s ready to sign off on ICE funding in exchange for a kick back and a high five.

It’s been sliding all month.

It’s slid 8% over the last month. But at a 282 p/e, it could lose 90% and still be overvalued.

presidents for life

He’s been in office for 13 years. Angela Merkel served for longer as PM of Germany. Narendra Modi has been in office nearly as long, as President of India. FDR served for longer. Calm down.

Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!

The thing about your type is that you only know how to bomb bridges. You’ve forgotten how to build them.

Imagine a president who found corruption in his administration and decided “corrupt officials aren’t useful, they should be removed”.

I believe this is how the Klan operated, back in the day

Damn, setting aside the China Bad hysteria, this is pretty big news

China expels second-highest ranking general, 8 others over corruption

According to the ministry, the Central Military Commission (CMC) Discipline Inspection Commission, the PLA’s top anti-corruption body, investigated the officers and found they had violated Party rules and were suspected of serious crimes involving large financial misconduct. The offences were described as having an “extremely serious nature and egregious impact.”

Imagine living in a country where top officials actually get investigated and removed for wrongdoing.

Must be nice.

The Republican justices have already signaled that they probably won’t strike down California’s maps

In fairness to the Court’s Republicans, they did suggest in their LULAC opinion that the Texas and California gerrymanders are mirror images of each other. The majority opinion in that case begins with the observation that after Texas drew its new map, “California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done.” Justice Samuel Alito, a Republican, also wrote a separate opinion stating that it is “indisputable” that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.”

More Epstein file distractions!

I’m still waiting to hear what happens the day after the Epstein Files get released.

Because the Renee Goode and Alex Pretti slayings put hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans into the streets. The on-again/off-again tariffs have been reshaping international trade relations. Mass arrests and deportations are rewriting the composition of entire cities and states.

What’s been the upshot of the Epstein releases? Anything? Is it a mobilizing event in any tangible way?

Sure. How do you think I’ve been watching it to begin with?

But ffs, why is it so hard for Apple to figure out how to get those numbers up? Every other company knows how to bundle their shitty products. You’d think they would know how to bundle something halfway decent.

Tiktok’s user base is quite large

875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.

It is a shame people don’t choose better alternatives though.

TikTok was the better alternative. That’s half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control

Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.

That’s before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you’re asking for.

How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely

In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn’t know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.

The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate’m!!!