Average Jon

Tea Time with Tony in Tel Aviv

Looking out from my 30th floor window in manhattan, “if private equity didn’t own so much housing, I could be a true American and live in a single family home over there in the promised land of New Jersey”

heaping praise on a dissent when you lost is so embarrassing

this presser has less juice than a concession speech

the concentration camps I voted for are necessary, but just not here, they’d ruin the neighborhood character

When the people you voted for make you look at the kids they're putting in concentration camps

Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf

not the most important part of the essay, but the world is significantly poorer due to restricting the freedom of movement. Paper that was linked inside the article:

well then it hasn’t been a very successful one

Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."

I had to put on microspikes to walk to the dentist today, but the roads were mainly clear

would help if snow plows didn’t dump all the snow from the road on the curb cut, so that you could cross the street and not have to walk in it

this administration is toast

11:03 NEWSLETTER Ross Douthat OPINION Immigration Enforcement Is Unavoidably Upsetting. But This Is Something Else. Jan. 27, 2026

From article: I'm squarely in the camp that Walsh is satirizing, since my position at the moment is that the Trump administration was entirely correct to prioritize deportations after the collapse of immigration enforcement under his predecessors, but that misplaced priorities and excessive brutality have created a debacle and that simply doubling down will make things worse. So let me make a brief case for that view - that enforcement is necessary, this approach to enforcement is bad, and a different course is possible. Start with the points that Walsh gets right. It's true that you can't have sustained immigration enforcement without also having upsetting cases and sympathetic deportees. If you deport illegal immigrants with families, you will have to choose between family separation and deporting children. If you conduct arrests in homes and neighborhoods, you will be accused of traumatizing kids and communities; if you conduct them in workplaces, you will be going after the hardest-working migrants. If you focus only on immigrants who have

guys, they’ve (almost) lost Ross Douthat

if ice is doing Good Samaritan copaganda, they know they’re cooked

Presidents schedule showing movie premier at 8 pm

he’s too busy hosting a movie premiere tonight to post

it should be easier to get citizenship than a drivers license

there is no life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without freedom of movement

in addition to dismantling ice and prosecuting everyone involved, there is no way forward without open borders

I have a feeling that the truth and reconciliation committee is going to unearth horrors that are, even today, unimaginable

Short Haul D8 | Tern Bicycles

This one is pretty compact but has decent cargo capability, and with accessories would allow you to put grocery bags directly on it. I’m thinking of getting the electric version soon

www.ternbicycles.com/us/bikes/471...

just the party of incels

yea I think they leaked it to indulge in it. pretty sick, but it’s exactly who they are

there is exactly one optimistic scenario I am hopeful for in 2026

DC reduced traffic fatalities by over 50% from 2024 and had the lowest number of deaths since 2012. A pretty remarkable feat given larger trends in US

if you are issuing not-that-vague death threats to someone describing the composition of crude oil, you need to log off forever. you are way more online than your brain can handle

With this regime anything is possible…

un golpe de estúpido

Wonder if Bari Weiss has any thoughts about the “liberty, equality and the rule of law” today