Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.

Thinking fondly of the days when I thought my book Petro-Aggression was about *other* countries www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Only if we could learn….

The vet called yesterday almost in tears after seeing Karma's perfectly normal bloodwork, two weeks after a scary episode with her liver. She either ingested some poison or had bacterial hepatitis, but thank God she's fine now.

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

Surveillance capitalism in action

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

This means that 9-year-old Lucy can deadlift me.

Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it." That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.

We even got our own Ahmad Chalabi!

At all three places where I taught, veterans and military students are admired for their service, their ability to get their academic work done quickly and extremely well, and for often balancing family and school. Not *once* have I ever heard a faculty member disparage a military student.

The amount of shit going down on this planet right now because of Donald Trump is truly unfathomable.

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

the rules are clear: Ryan Coogler gets to keep shooting until he misses

Exxon knew. 🌎🛢️🥺

Burn it down, burn it all down. I don’t want to ever hear that MeToo went too far. It didn’t go far enough.

"Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called “AI slop” from damaging confidence in the industry’s scientific work." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-how-to-remove-tapeworm-by-scooting-ass-across-carpet/

The credibility test is this: If some killed an ICE operative would the killer’s name be released?

Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

The Democratic leaders in Congress have repeatedly shown that they have no interest in leading an effective opposition. They have no appetite for the legislative trench warfare this moment requires. They don't even have the will to speak about it clearly. They just want to be left alone.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

Great maps. Helpful article. And yet, once again, <every> one of these pieces that does not start with "seizing/acquiring 🇬🇱 violates both the UN & NATO treaties & therefore also US domestic law" is failing as journalism. The frame here totally legitimizes & normalizes all of this.

To be honest, though, the city should force them to make this explicit. Show up with an arrest warrant and then have them brandish their guns and refuse to accept it, like the criminal gang they are.

Remember, a non-trivial part of that is Trump wanting Greenland because it looks so big in the Mercator projection "I love maps. And I always said: 'Look at the size of this. It's massive. That should be part of the United States.'" www.newsweek.com/mercator-pro...

Is it literature though?

Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10

Wait till he hears about jubilee

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Visiting Washington, DC in 2028: You fly into Trump National Airport. You head to the Trump-Kennedy Center—via the Donald J. Trump Memorial Parkway & Bridge, passing the Arc de Trump—for a matinee performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rob Schneider and Kevin Sorbo at their finest.

Never been more proud of my alma mater

I remember asking a friend how all the self-proclaimed Christians in this admin can let children starve when the Bible commands them to feed the hungry. Their response was simple: they aren’t reading it.

[stares in Jessica Jones] www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Whoever thought Blackboard Ultra was a good idea should be forced to answer for their crimes.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina. He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.

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Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

For those keeping score of tech billionaire information control: -The world's richest man owns X. -The 2nd richest man now owns TikTok/Paramount/CBS News. -The 3rd richest man owns FB/IG/WhatsApp. -The 4th richest man owns the Washington Post/Twitch. -The 5th/6th richest men own Google/YouTube.