ALL THE BEST PEOPLE INFORMED ME THAT THIS WAS A NON-ISSUE: NYT Editorial: It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem. “At the time, supporters of legalization predicted that it would bring few downsides. In our editorials, we described marijuana addiction and dependence as “relatively minor problems.” Many advocates went further and claimed that marijuana was a harmless drug that might even bring net health benefits. They also said that legalization might not lead to greater use. It is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 12, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
🇩🇰 A reporter asks filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, "Why is your new Danish movie "The Promised Land" entirely Nordic? … it lacks the black people, it lacks diversity.
Mads Mikkelsen ~ 'What??… right from the get-go". 😆
Arcel: "Hmmm, well first of all, the film takes place in… pic.twitter.com/1nllvC6Z7a
— Dane (@UltraDane) February 12, 2026
THAT’S THE GOAL, OF COURSE. BUT WHY LISTEN TO DEM “DEMANDS?” Dem Demands For ICE To Obtain Judicial Warrants Could Bring Immigration Enforcement to a Near ‘Halt,’ Experts Say.
DON SURBER: Transgendering Into A Killer. “He looked like Chris Farley. Even after 6 years of taking transgendering drugs, Jesse VanRootselaar, 18, had a 5 O’Clock shadow that powder did not completely cover. . . . The devil is the Lord of Lies and calling a man a woman is a pretty big (and in this case deadly) lie.”
FOULING THEIR OWN NEST, AND THEN FLEEING IT:
FUN FACT: Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $750,000 to oppose the recall efforts against Newsom in 2021
Obviously they have the money to flee the consequences of their bad decisions, unlike most Californians https://t.co/irVtx7S5l1
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 12, 2026
SHOCKER:
Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor: https://t.co/FL8HJMuhwk pic.twitter.com/0n6Oybswsz
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 11, 2026
THIS IS THE AGE OF AUDITS, OF ALL SORTS. AND MANY ACCOUNTS WILL BE FOUND WANTING.
⚡️This is the preamble to strategic decoupling.
The United States has begun the audit of empire. The tone is paternal but the move is surgical. Europe is being warned that the subsidy era is ending. The Pax Americana scaffolding is being dismantled in phases. This is phase one.… https://t.co/sIL2ZYLiCM
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) February 12, 2026
THEY NEED BABIES, BUT DON’T HAVE THEM SO THEIR ENERGIES ARE REDIRECTED: Joel Kotkin: Why Are Young White Women So Angry?
NO BRAINER:
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 11, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
“With no public acknowledgment other than the President announcing it and this other story we already wrote about it” pic.twitter.com/bPYDlOS6vr
— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) February 12, 2026
February 11, 2026
THE HORROR. THE HORROR.
For four hours.
You know how many jobs I’ve worked where I didn’t get to eat for 8-12 hours?
Yeah. And I didn’t break any laws. https://t.co/ku0Gijn87k
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) February 12, 2026
A NEW ERA:
This fact alone deserves the attention of every mainstream media reporter today: https://t.co/cyA26oMEkU
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 11, 2026
R.I.P. JOHN EKDAHL:
One of the greatest conservative tweets ever.
Got the message across better than almost anything else about how out of touch journalists were.
RIP, John. https://t.co/VF56GBMcUs
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) February 11, 2026
WHERE WE ARE TODAY:
The issue I saw, and still see, is MAGA realized their own “neighbors” would murder them. That was a huge awakening. Translating that into political change is the challenge, made so because the House and Senate GOP despise their own voters. https://t.co/ZJpVe2344C
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 11, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: A city on the moon: Why SpaceX shifted its focus away from Mars: It’s all about speed, and Elon Musk’s catastrophe concerns.
I also think that looking at the world today, he didn’t want to go to Mars while leaving his rear areas undefended.
UPDATE: Related:
🚨NEW: Elon Musk explains his vision for future space exploration, mass drivers, and harnessing the power of the sun.
"In order to understand the universe, you must explore the universe. We're only using roughly 1% of the potential energy of Earth. The only way to access the… pic.twitter.com/SBl2Kg6Kb1
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2026
NOW THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL FULL SELF-DRIVING: NASA Rover Drove Across Mars Without Human Control For Two Days.
THE MEDIA PARTY AT WORK:
wild find, how the media first introduced Jeffrey Epstein 25 years ago https://t.co/RZLXdHQvKr
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 10, 2026
MICROBIOME NEWS: Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventing obesity.
PUSHBUTTON PUSHBACK: 2027 Audi A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron Now Feature Physical Controls. “Unfortunately, other important functions, such as the climate control system, are still exclusively handled by the screens.”
Not good enough, Audi. Flashback: Touch Screens Are Making Cars Worse. It’s Time to Bring Back Buttons and Knobs.
OH, CANADA: At Canada’s Tumbler Ridge School Massacre, When Seconds Counted, Good Guys Were Hours Away. “A shortage of good guys with guns allowed the killer to continue the rampage for quite a while before the lunatic finally put himself down. . . . It all began at 1:20pm. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place alert after forty minutes. Police finally secured the scene of the massacre a little over four hours later.”