Justin
@justinreese.com
Software developer, refugee advocate, recently Coloradan. Coloradian. Of Colorado.
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I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.
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This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
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I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.
Elon alone could use his wealth and position to secure adequate food, water, and electricity for everyone on earth. He chooses moonbase tourbus instead.
February 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Elon alone could use his wealth and position to secure adequate food, water, and electricity for everyone on earth. He chooses moonbase tourbus instead.
I'll campaign for the Democrat who promises to seize these and give them away to, I dunno, domestic solar manufacturers or Somalian daycares or something.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I'll campaign for the Democrat who promises to seize these and give them away to, I dunno, domestic solar manufacturers or Somalian daycares or something.
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Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite
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(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
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Never Forget
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Never Forget
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
The aesthetic of 90s P&S film is simply stitched into my bones as the aesthetic of memory itself.
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The aesthetic of 90s P&S film is simply stitched into my bones as the aesthetic of memory itself.
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Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.
February 8, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.
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You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists are meanwhile never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious."
February 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists are meanwhile never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious."
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The degree to which legacy media starts with the premise that white racists and badly-socialized men are the default heroes of the American story is extraordinary. bsky.app/profile/jens...
We had a writer submit a cutline for Bad Bunny’s performance. Had to do a little editing - replaced ‘controversial’ with ‘Grammy award winning’, and replaced ‘polarizing’ with ‘most popular Latino rapper of all time.’
February 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The degree to which legacy media starts with the premise that white racists and badly-socialized men are the default heroes of the American story is extraordinary. bsky.app/profile/jens...
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“millennials are the only generation after leaded gas and before the social media proliferation”
guys: we were also the only generation to have WISHBONE and BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. let’s think about THAT.
guys: we were also the only generation to have WISHBONE and BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. let’s think about THAT.
February 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
“millennials are the only generation after leaded gas and before the social media proliferation”
guys: we were also the only generation to have WISHBONE and BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. let’s think about THAT.
guys: we were also the only generation to have WISHBONE and BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. let’s think about THAT.
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When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
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An under-appreciated piece of this story is that one of the more liberal members of Congress met with clergy to discuss ICE/DHS, and she found herself to the *right* of several faith leaders whose support for abolishing ICE was so intense that they got into a genuine spat with her over it.
Granted…
Granted…
“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
An under-appreciated piece of this story is that one of the more liberal members of Congress met with clergy to discuss ICE/DHS, and she found herself to the *right* of several faith leaders whose support for abolishing ICE was so intense that they got into a genuine spat with her over it.
Granted…
Granted…
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The federal clearance of Renee Good’s murderer—ordered either at the behest of Trump or by “working toward the Führer”—sends an unmistakable message to ICE et al, that they can murder anybody in service of Trump, and they will never be held accountable. That’s why Dems must loudly say otherwise.
February 7, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The federal clearance of Renee Good’s murderer—ordered either at the behest of Trump or by “working toward the Führer”—sends an unmistakable message to ICE et al, that they can murder anybody in service of Trump, and they will never be held accountable. That’s why Dems must loudly say otherwise.
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The investigation into the murder of Renee Good was terminated because the findings might undermine Trump’s declaration that she had driven over an ICE officer.
If you’re tracking signs of fascism, “no research that might have findings counter to Dear Leader’s claims” is a big one.
If you’re tracking signs of fascism, “no research that might have findings counter to Dear Leader’s claims” is a big one.
February 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The investigation into the murder of Renee Good was terminated because the findings might undermine Trump’s declaration that she had driven over an ICE officer.
If you’re tracking signs of fascism, “no research that might have findings counter to Dear Leader’s claims” is a big one.
If you’re tracking signs of fascism, “no research that might have findings counter to Dear Leader’s claims” is a big one.
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Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”
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This is a great observation. I hadn't been able to put my finger on this line but, yes, this is it. There are for sure prominent Dems who are to the left of Spanberger who have zero fight in them, and I'll take one Spanberger over ten of them.
VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This is a great observation. I hadn't been able to put my finger on this line but, yes, this is it. There are for sure prominent Dems who are to the left of Spanberger who have zero fight in them, and I'll take one Spanberger over ten of them.
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My very most cringe, normie opinion is that the Obamas are extraordinary people -- the smartest, kindest, funniest, most self-aware & self-possessed human beings involved in US public life in this century.
They modeled decency -- called the country to decency -- and the country said No.
They modeled decency -- called the country to decency -- and the country said No.
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
My very most cringe, normie opinion is that the Obamas are extraordinary people -- the smartest, kindest, funniest, most self-aware & self-possessed human beings involved in US public life in this century.
They modeled decency -- called the country to decency -- and the country said No.
They modeled decency -- called the country to decency -- and the country said No.
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...