February 2, 2026
LOL, LINKEDIN: Conservative group blasts LinkedIn for removing pro-ICE post, labeling it ‘hateful.’
“.@DHSgov is carrying out the essential task of keeping our country safe,” State Freedom Caucus Network posted on Jan. 27 on multiple platforms, including X and LinkedIn.
“Biden let over 10M illegal aliens enter our states, many being violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must ensure collaboration with ICE and CBP to remove them. Our caucuses are on the frontlines leading their states to support @POTUS’s mission to keep Americans safe!”
On Thursday, SFCN revealed a screenshot showing that while the post had been allowed by X, it was flagged as “hateful speech” by LinkedIn and removed.
“Apparently protecting children is ‘hate,’ but letting actual predators roam free is fine,” SFCN wrote. “@elonmusk doesn’t censor us, but @LinkedIn does! We’ll be deleting our account as a result.”
I can’t remember the last time I read something about LinkedIn that wasn’t basically a joke.
“THE AESTHETICS OF REBELLION ARE WORN BY THE ACOLYTES OF THE REGIME:”
We live in a backwards age where the aesthetics of rebellion are worn by the acolytes of the regime. If someone is goth or otherwise weird-looking, you can be reasonably sure they hold all of the Approved Opinions, or at least mouth them fervently. https://t.co/agDLqcg8vT
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) February 2, 2026
This is why the British government coding Amelia with the aesthetics of rebellion was such a strange choice: Amelia Victorious: How to Lose the Culture War With a Video Game.
There’s something genuinely funny going on in the United Kingdom right now.
The British government’s Prevent office, housed under the Home Office (think Department of the Interior, but allergic to dissent), partnered with a media nonprofit called Shout Out UK (like a PBS focused on preventing “radicalism”) to come up with a clever new way to re-educate British youth.
The concern, as always, was “radicalization.” They thought the solution was inspired: a choice-based video game. Kids like games. Games involve decisions. Decisions shape values. What could possibly go wrong?
Thus Pathways was born, a government-funded interactive morality play designed to gently shepherd British children toward being properly antiracist, properly accepting, and properly enthusiastic about the ever-increasing number of migrants reshaping their country. Civics class, but fun. And digital. And corrective.
As part of this effort, the designers introduced a character named Amelia, a cute, purple-haired, vaguely goth girl who carries a Union Jack and talks about Britain being for the British. She was meant to function as a warning, a living illustration of how nationalism can look attractive, even charming, and yet be dangerous to the impressionable youths of Britain who may not have fully internalized the idea that Brexit is bad and they are to obey their elitist overlords.
What they did not anticipate was that the public would take one look at adorable, charming Amelia and decide she was the good guy.
QED:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Heart disease remains the top threat many women never see coming.
THE WSJ HAS LOST WHATEVER NEWS MOJO IT ONCE HAD:
"Gabbard answered written questions about the allegations from the inspector general’s office … That prompted the acting inspector general at the time, Tamara Johnson, to determine the allegations specifically about Gabbard weren’t credible."
They are deathly afraid of Tulsi. https://t.co/WBUW2WFSfK
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 2, 2026
CHESSBOARD RESHUFFLED: F-35As Deployed to Puerto Rico Now Moving Across the Atlantic. “USAF F-35As deployed to Puerto Rico for the attack on Venezuela might now be part of what Trump called a ‘massive armada’ moving towards Iran.”
NONE OF OUR VERY BEST PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT CLEANSING WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT: Iran, Nigeria, DRC, and Kenya: Deadly Persecution of Christians Goes On.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Doctors share the best ways to get the most from a bidet.
DON’T GET COCKY: Even CNN Admits That Democrats Are Screwed.
THAT WOULD BE NICE: Former Trump economic official Gary Cohn says Kevin Warsh will ‘take the Fed back to its traditional’ norms.
“He was instrumental in that crisis,” Cohn said. “Kevin was the point person at the Fed — he was involved in every one of those discussions. And I truly believe, without Kevin’s expertise, and without Kevin being there, we would not have come out of the 2008 crisis as well as we have.”
The president’s selection of Warsh as his nominee was expected to be viewed as a safe choice on Wall Street given his monetary policy experience and well-established views on inflation.
Cohn said he expects Warsh to “stay out of a lot of the non-financial issues,” while he is “going to be involved, obviously, in setting interest rate policy.”
Looks like a real improvement over Powell — still, maybe the best selection for Fed Chair would be a dedicated “End the Fed!” type.
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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot:
Let's talk about the opening part of this statement: "nobody is illegal on stolen land." We can break it down, but we should also know what it is. What we are looking at is Chinese-style political sloganeering called "tifa" (提法).
Communist communications ever since Mao took… https://t.co/OPEfOnL9FI
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) February 2, 2026
Chaser: Billie Eilish gets permanent restraining order against man who repeatedly turned up to her home.
—Metro News, June 19th, 2020.
EZRA KLEIN AND MUZZLE VELOCITY:
He didn’t seem overwhelmed at all, and that was at night, on a gruelingly noisy plane, grilled by reporters after an evening event where, as WaPo puts it, “Trump tries humor, gets some silence, at black-tie dinner with ‘people I hate.'”
He seemed to be up for all of it. But I’m pretty sure Klein wants to think otherwise: “This is a presidency that is, by any measure, failing. Trump is unpopular; his brutality and his tariffs have turned immigration and affordability, once among of his strongest issues, into liabilities. Trump’s opposition is increasingly united and mobilized; Democrats are besting Republicans in elections all across the country and disciplined, brave, beautiful protest movements have emerged in the cities ICE has sought to occupy.”
By any measure? That can’t be true. He’s at least succeeding by that measure of “muzzle velocity” and the measure of courage and optimism in facing a hostile press. Ironically, Klein is exhibiting the same kind of optimism, energy, and boasting to which Trump is so deeply committed.
One of them’s right and it’s not Young Ezra. Who’s not so young as he was when that name was coined, but the, none of us is.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S WHAT LEFTISM IS ALL ABOUT: Boston’s Mayor Wu Has a Great Idea, If Destroying the Nation Is a Great Idea.
I ALREADY LOVE HER, YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP SELLING ME:
IT’S AN INSURRECTION, AND AN INSURGENCY, AND IT’S FOREIGN-FUNDED AND ORGANIZED:
Julio Rosas has spent years documenting left-wing riots. "What I’ve witnessed over the past five years is the emergence of something else entirely: networked, coordinated, ideologically committed groups that operate more like cells than citizens."https://t.co/lYLY7grNZ6
— Junto (@ReadJunto) February 2, 2026
NICE: Biden-appointed judge rejects effort to halt Trump admin’s immigration operation in Minnesota. “Judge Katherin Menendez said that there is ‘no precedent for a court to micromanage such decisions.'”
AND SO IT BEGINS: AIs Now Talking With One Another Behind Our Backs. “‘The most interesting place on the internet’ has no humans in it.”
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FINGERS CROSSED: ‘We’re not in a bubble yet’ because only 3 out of 4 conditions are met, top economist says. Cue the OpenAI IPO.
Owen Lamont, a portfolio manager at Acadian Asset Management and a former University of Chicago finance professor, said that while the market looks and feels frothy, we are not currently in an AI bubble. As he talked to Fortune from his office in Boston, the S&P 500 breached 7,000 for the first time, but he wasn’t dissuaded. To Lamont, the tell-tale sign of a bubble is equity issuance, when corporate executives, the ultimate insiders, rush to sell overvalued stock to the public.
“Part of the reason I think there’s not a bubble is I don’t see the smart money as acting like there’s a bubble,” he told Fortune. “Maybe I should say there’s not a bubble yet.”
In his view, the smoking gun for a bubble forming would be companies going public and selling equity. That would be a play for the dumb money, he added.
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Lamont’s bubble-detection framework relies on “Four Horsemen”: overvaluation, bubble beliefs, issuance, and inflows. While he conceded that three of these are present in the market of early 2026—valuations are high, retail investors are piling in, and sentiment is frothy—the absence of issuance disqualifies the current cycle from bubble status.
In the meantime, enjoy the ride.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW A THING OF THE PAST: After huge snowstorm Penn climate scientists warn about . . . global warming.
Classical reference in the headline.
ROBERT SPENCER: Play Civil War Games, Win Civil War Prizes: Trump Draws a Red Line for the Blue Cities. “Trump added a pointed warning for future Renee Goods and Alex Prettis.”
THE MISSING MEN OF UNC. UNC-Chapel Hill is now slightly more than 60/40 women to men. This is more lopsided in terms of sex balance than most big state schools because NC’s big engineering school is at NC State, but this is just another wake-up call that there is a mismatch between what our culture (likely) needs and what our institutions are designed to deliver. (I say “likely” because you can credibly argue that men are less likely to need a college degree because of the nature of the jobs they may select.)
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas State to host ‘Trauma-Informed Yoga’ and ‘Condoms Cocoa and Consent’ events.
