Astonishing details in the Los Angeles fake drug rehab center case, these fraudsters were genuine monsters

The fake rehab center operators were drugging their human livestock to stop them trying to leave, so they could keep the insurance money flowing

"the perfect sandbox doesn't exi-"

I remember my first time waiting for the check in a European restaurant too

More anti-Waymo fearmongering!

I've seen chart crimes, I've seen chart felonies, but this is a violation of the chart Geneva Convention

I saw Jerry Seinfeld standup last night; honestly, he is still excellent.

There’s a funny paradox where we associate his register and delivery so strongly with core 1990s memories that we don’t really expect the actual guy to riff on phones, AI, prediction markets. But he does.

If you want a good example of why ITEP's concept of effective tax rate is meaningless, go to the report and organize the table of companies by "tax rate paid."

There are two companies with ETRs >100% and dozens with ETRs >21%.

Genuinely heartening to see this investigation is beginning now under the Trump administration, and conversely, that the Omar investigation began in June 2024 during the Biden administration.

GEM claims it’s likely a fourth pollster this cycle, SoCal Strategies, has been distributing fake polls

A judge ordered a teenage suspect charged in the Bite of Seattle mass shooting released to home detention, overriding prosecutors' objections. fox13seattle.com/news/bite-of-s…

Good afternoon, especially to Indian Americans with 750+ on the Math SAT and/or strongly productive jobs in the tech sector!

Thank you for your contributions to the US, especially as measured by your deservedly high market incomes! 🫡🇺🇸🕉️

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

Most of the jokes are already made, and I encourage you to have fun reading them.

Personally, I just think that every major brand should employ one (1) enjoyer of map based strategy games who knows all the historic flags.

Birds of prey are not inherently Nazi, especially in a North American context. Red black and white, also not inherently Nazi.

But specifically bounding a black stripe inside a white stripe on red is unfortunately very Reichskriegsflagge.

Falcons look like they're about to invade Poland

A policy that "does not exist and will never exist"?

Is that an assurance that Zucman, Saez, Shanske, Gamage, and Galle will never promote a permanent state-level wealth tax? Because they've advocated for them before and called them the goal quite recently.

NEW YORK TIMES now confirming my reporting from weeks ago that El-Sayed signed a letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012

(naturally not crediting the Free Beacon at all)

El-Sayed also refused to comment on letter to them!)

nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/…

I dislike shrimp; they're weird and gross and insect-like. So in practice I am an excellent Shrimp Effective Altruist by not eating them.

However, I am a bad Shrimp Effective Altruist in theory; their gross arthropodal nature means I'm unmoved by appeals to their welfare.

Some big personal news: I'm moving to join Works in Progress as executive editor, starting next month. I have been hoping for an opportunity to work with @bswud and @s8mb for more than a decade, and I'm incredibly excited to finally have one.

WIP is expanding on every front right now. We'll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we'll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I'm planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here.

The print edition of WIP has existed for less than 12 months, but sometime in the next week or so we will reach our 10,000th paying print subscriber. It's a group that now includes people who've been at the highest echelons of government and who run the world's biggest public companies. We’re already on track to 3x that number next year. We'll be in store at Barnes & Noble, Hudson News and independent newsagents next week too.

I think WIP is providing something that people are craving from physical media right now: fewer, extremely well-crafted pieces in a beautifully designed form. Issues now feature an amazing group of columnists, including Tyler Cowen, Dan Wang and Stephen Kotkin. Each edition is better than the last.

You'll see us in more and more places next year too. In January, our new weekly documentary films will launch on YouTube. We're expanding into the events space, with a new series in North America. The sky is the limit from here on out.

NEW: Another insane one involving Fairfax County, VA. A Tunisian illegal alien w/ 30+ arrests and 90+ felony & misdemeanor charges throughout northern VA who routinely has his charges dropped & ICE detainers ignored is back in local custody again.

@NickMinock reports Fairfax DA Steve Descano botched a felony drug case against him last week that could have put him in prison for up to 40 years. Descano’s office failed to publish a witness list as required by a judge’s order, resulting in certain witnesses not being able to testify, and the case was dropped because of Descano’s error. Now he’s arrested again - this time in Arlington County, VA.