HEADLINES FROM 1998: Microsoft Considered Harmful. “Microsoft has long had a reputation of an abusive company, all the way back to its origins, when Gary Kildall accused Bill Gates of stealing parts of CP/M for DOS. The list of lawsuits against Microsoft for anti-competitive or shady business business practices is so extensive it has its own Wikipedia article. But it’s latest moves to force both subscription models and AI into every nook and crevice of its software may be the final straws that break the Borg’s back, as longtime Windows users finally seem to be abandoning ship.”
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February 25, 2026
MANY ORTHODOXIES ARE FALLING IN THE MODERN ERA: Eileen Gu Indicts Birthright Citizenship And Our Entire Immigration Orthodoxy. “Gu embodies what our immigration orthodoxy promotes: an America where citizens of the world can enrich themselves with no loyalties attached.”
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE: Trump Admin Sues UCLA For Creating ‘Antisemitic Hostile Work Environment.’
THINGS YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HURT DEMOCRATS:
🚨Cornel West Just Called Gavin Newsom a RACIST—And the Left Is Silent Because… Democrat Privilege?🔥
Cornel West just torched Gavin Newsom over his cringey SAT pandering in Atlanta, labeling it a straight-up "white supremacy mindset" that assumes Black folks are "less… pic.twitter.com/Jt0iJNipsn
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) February 24, 2026
OOPS:
IMO the dems were in shock tonight. They believed the media and thought Trump would be coming into the speech wounded. Instead, he came in with guns ablazing, taking victory lap after victory lap, calling out the crazy dems to their face, recounting his and thr gop wins, and…
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) February 25, 2026
BREAKING: The NRCC (campaign arm for House Republicans) tells @FoxNews the visual of Democrats remaining seated & silent when President Trump asked Congress to stand for protecting Americans over illegal aliens was “a beautiful gift” & they will cut those images into campaign…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 25, 2026
AMAZING WHAT A LITTLE LIBERTY WILL DO:
BREAKING:
Official figures released today show that Argentina’s GDP grew by 4.4% in 2025.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 24, 2026
SHOCKER:
Can it be that the administration has a plan? The Lowy Institute asks: what if DJT is sentient after all?
"Donald Trump’s behaviour during this presidential term reveals a surprisingly deep strategic logic.
The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 24, 2026
This applies in many spheres, actually. In 2016, Trump thought he was elected president of a normal America with functioning institutions. Now he knows better.
BUT I’M HUNGRY: “The Progressive War on Cheap Eats.”
CORN, POPPED:
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Woman sues Don Lemon for emotional distress from the Minnesota church protest.
Details: https://t.co/gYxNANbR5k pic.twitter.com/x9iOhbxyEw
— TMZ (@TMZ) February 24, 2026
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Beckham Hotel Collection Bed Pillows Standard/Queen Size Set of 2. #CommissionEarned
CHRIS BRAY: Gavin Newsom Is Playing A ‘Trump’ Character He Doesn’t Understand.
Newsom is not yet swaggering into campaign events in a wifebeater, but give him another week. The character he’s currently playing is a rude, crass, and transgressive, and not above dropping hints about coming up from the streets. Of Marin County, but whatever. If you haven’t seen what his hard-talking communications guy looks like, by the way, go take a look.
It’s a baffling performance, but last year the Bay Area lawyer and journalist Laura Powell gave us the key to understand it: Newsom is cargo culting, like a South Pacific islander watching the disappearance of military logistics efforts after World War II. “In isolated societies,” Powell wrote, “so-called cargo cults emerged when indigenous groups constructed imitation airstrips and towers, believing this would cause Western goods to descend from the skies as they once had, without understanding the actual forces that made the planes appear.” He’s performing a set of appearances, thinking that the images are the substance.
Men are turning away from the Democratic Party, so Newsom turned up last year on the podcast of Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL. As Powell noted, “Newsom laced his speech with curse words – roughly one per minute – and called Ryan ‘man’ or ‘brother’ with cringe-inducing frequency.” He talked a lot about football and guns, bro. Powell summarized the performance as Newsom “trying on a new mask.”
This year’s mask is modeled on the Shawn Ryan masculinity mask, but it’s a different version. It’s more directly a Donald Trump mask, but not quite: It’s a mask of what Gavin Newsom thinks Donald Trump is.
Both men were born into privilege, but Trump went on to create real estate and entertainment empires, while Newsom mismanaged a city for years and now an entire state.
I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHY:
How is the Jack Hughes photo not the cover of TIME magazine? It is literally one of the most iconic American photos to ever exist. pic.twitter.com/XK4WxyJZdB
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 24, 2026
UPDATE: I stand corrected. But I’ll bet it won’t be on the next cover either. I’d love to be wrong.
A GOOD CORRECTION FOR THE BLACKPILLERS, DOOMERS, AND PANICANS OUT THERE:
If it wasn't for rightwing lawyers, Trump wouldn't have been on the ballot in 2024, the Ninth Circuit would still be an leftist law factory, Roe would still be law, Chevron would still be law, discrimination against Whites would still be legal at universities, COVID vaccine… https://t.co/XnNNlCFJNu
— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander_) February 23, 2026
JEFFREY CARTER: “You know why libertarian Republicans can’t win in general elections? They are terrible at strategy.” “AOC would never break ranks with Democrats. She’d never pick a fight to make them look bad. Massie goes out of his way to do it.”
AND YET THEY’RE UTTERLY COMPLICIT IN IT: Mark Judge: The Mainstream Media Will Not Survive ‘The Information State.’
FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Incompetent Olympics Chief Threatens to Fire Staffers in Mid News Conference.
An optimistic collection of six stories revolving around leaving Earth, or living (and making a living) further out in the solar system.
Xanadu–Sometimes, making a profit just needs an outside perspective for why it hasn’t yet.
Turing’s Legacy–It takes love to make a person. And maybe an accident.
Theory in Practice–Psychological care may well be more important in a closed environment.
Reasonable Accommodations–Microgravity could be an answer to some disabilities.
You Can’t Go Home Again–The effects of long-term isolation on asteroid miners explored.
Everyday Miracles–What could push someone to emigrate to a new off-planet colony?
CALIFORNIA POST EDITORIAL: Racist liberals should quit calling everyone else racist.
AI AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL: Refine.
F-BOMBS GALORE FROM THOSE WITH TDS, BUT MY GENTLEMAN FRIEND AND I ARE THE ONES WHO GET EJECTED FROM BLUESKY: About a year ago, a parade of Democratic members of the California Assembly abandoned X (Twitter) and took up residence in the “safe spaces” of Bluesky. It’s a lonelier place. Most of them don’t get too many followers there.
Last summer, I started an account at Bluesky too. I had almost no followers there, but I didn’t open the account to get followers. I wanted to be able to tag my posts to the Assembly Members so they (or their staffers) would see them. Call it an exercise of my constitutional right to petition the government. I wanted to inform them about the folly of their latest effort (known as ACA7) to gut the California Constitution’s prohibition on state-sponsored preferential treatment based on race and sex.
My posts were perfectly civil—though I expect I was saying things some of them preferred not to hear. But within a very short period, I was unceremoniously thrown off of Bluesky—probably at the behest of one of the Assembly Members or staffers. Evidently, if you’re not a sycophant telling progressive politicians that they’re wonderful, they throw you off.
Much more recently, my gentleman friend was kind off to open an account and post for me. It’s very tame stuff–sometimes things like “Keep Discrimination Illegal: No on ACA7.” Much of it was information on polls that suggest ACA7 will lose or links to op-eds.
Still they can’t stand to hear it. Very quickly he got thrown off too.
Meanwhile, stuff like “[F-bomb] THE UNEDUCATED UNEMPLOYED MAGA MAGGOTS” and “[F-bomb] every democrat [that showed to the SOTU address]” is evidently just fine. So is “Donald Trump is a [f-bombing] traitor to the United States of America.”
Perhaps I was naive for even trying with these folks.
SHARIA-FREE AMERICA: That’s the goal of the newest caucus on Capitol Hill. Launched by two Texas Republicans, Rep. Keith Self and Rep. Chip Roy, in December, the Sharia-Free America Caucus already has 40 members.
THAT’S BECAUSE NO ONE CAN: After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms. Wisconsin Can’t.
FRANCE, BEING IDIOTS: Shadow government.