This is like the worst Onion article ever. The End Gun Violence banner that travels around to the last mass shooting

I know that everyone here hates the “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” messaging but “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US

folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

By the Israeli's own admission, recent negotiations were a ruse and there was never interest in a deal. Iran, per Oman, was willing to swear off enriched uranium stockpiling, which is essentially what America wants. The point of the war is to wage war.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Time and again, the story of the successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism is in the strength and courage of individuals, often at great personal risk, set against marked cowardice by institutions and elected officials in positions of actual power.

Transformative work of the day:

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

So-there's going to be a "a report, in writing, setting forth the circumstances necessitating the introduction of US Armed Forces, the constitutional & legislative authority under which such introduction took place; and the estimated scope and duration of the hostilities" w/n 48 hours. Right? RIGHT?

There used to be a research firm called Directions on Microsoft that would put people on the employee shuttles to see what they could overhear. Also, the locker room at the gym where Microsoft gave free memberships was always a great place to hear about new projects.

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

Epic Furry 🐺

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

As a tech lawyer who works on a *lot* of software contracts, I'd point out that if you add restrictions like these to an agreement without assuring both technical feasibility and independent auditability, then all you've written is a termination for convenience clause with extra steps.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Operation Epic Furry is what Pittsburgh Sanitation calls the day after Anthrocon

it's sure too bad nobody recalls what the S or C in SCIF stood for.

Observation: if Joe Biden or (god forbid) Barack Obama wore a fucking baseball cap during an announcement that they had taken America to war without Congressional approval, we would never fucking hear the end of it.

Ummm.... Us. I mean, ok, we don't put schools on Iranian military bases, but my kids went to schools that were on base a couple of times.

Next D administration and Congress needs to outlaw these things, and assess 300% tax rates on gains from them

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

I have not read the thread because I have been busy dealing with the breakdown of the rule of law. But when I’m not doing that, I’m trying to teach my law school students is that they will need to learn (as lawyers always have) to balance time and resources with precision and accuracy.

not a misfire, American officials are apparently known to stay here

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

cannot fix this

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

he does — for better or for worse — always just say stuff that he aims at doing

“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Several people have been cleared of federal charges tied to Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. But they still had a price to pay. For example, the 17 cleared defendants spent a combined 150 days in federal custody, records show. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Back in the early days of Trump I, a Twitter account labeled "President Villain" took Trump quotes and put them on comic panels of the Red Skull This pic was from late February 2017

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The trial exposing far more info about the agent than the incident really underlines how ginned up this prosection was

Really adds insult to injury that this top-down gang of rapists and wife beaters loves misusing the terminology of intimate abuse like "stalking" and "gaslighting"

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

Trump’s DOJ has now indicted 39 people in connection with an anti-ICE protest, making them the first 39 people to ever be charged under this previously unused provision of the FACE Act. Expect some 1A litigation! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

Can you imagine how hurt Elon Musk's feelings must be right now? You put all that effort into creating a Nazi CSAM-generator. You convince the federal government to buy it, you coax Microsoft into making it available on their platform... ...and Trump effectively says "but we want Claude 👉👈🥺"