/3 …because the United States is governed by the whims of an unhinged lunatics and his mediocre top officials. No responsible leader wants to send their young men and women to die because the freak leading the coalition is sundowning. Nobody wants their servicmembers to be put at wanton risk…

/2 More seriously: I submit that it would be reckless, and an abandonment of duty, for other countries to join our Iranian adventure. Coalition action requires some level of responsibility, some level of shared assessment of reality. That’s totally absent here….

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

[SATIRE] "For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Exactly. The needle which AOC has threaded quite well about Tucker and MTG is that while it's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing you also don't have to trust these people any farther than you can throw them. This isn't a hard thing to understand, unless you're paid to misunderstand things.

California, Illinois, New York, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, and New Jersey should wipe every single Republican in their congressional delegations. The rules are whatever Republicans can get away with. We can win or play fair, I know which one I’m picking.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

distressing antebellum politics energy

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

*Through gritted teeth* He's right.

A smart response for VA dems short of full on nullification would be something like: We thank the VA court for its decision, but in light of the Callais decision from SCOTUS I have instructed the VA legislature to draw new constitutionally compliant maps for immediate use in the 2026 election.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Literally the only prominent Democratic politician who even approaches (good) college-seminar level discourse in his public statements is Zohran Mamdani and the public response to this has been overwhelmingly positive lol

a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”

youtu.be/SRzS61buXkQ?... From his mouth to Democratic leadership's ears...

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

The Constitution has in many ways become atrophied. New states, different number of justices or even amendments? All legal and have been done many times. But people these days act like you're ripping out the foundation of the Republic by even suggesting doing something like that again.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

This is very compelling! Pete Buttigieg just gets it. The sheer humanity in this clip is why I like this man so much, everyone should watch it!!

Mood

Happy Shoulda Finished The Job Day

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

I'm rapidly coming around to the idea that they should grind all governmental action to a halt and impeach him on new grounds every day. His list of crimes is so long, they would never run out of. It would be political theater, but perhaps the good and needed kind.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

The best current “view from a height”…. (10:54 UT) #ArtemisII

Congratulations to the many people across the world involved in the Artemis Program on the successful launch of Artemis II tonight! youtu.be/HBITb9Zz0rY?...

NYC’s new child care search tool puts 10,000 programs, safety records, and maps in one place. “This will make it easier for parents to understand the options in front of them,” Mamdani said of the newly launched directory.

For tax evasion. For illegal detentions. For bribery and extortion. For espionage. For corruption. For every crime that the Epstein class is currently getting away with. Rule of Law. Run on actually holding the powerful accountable and enforcing consequences and you’ll win in a landslide.

Amazing turnout at the #StPaul #MN protest today. Bernie & Bruce & Baez were great. But what gave me the most hope was this little girl, perched on her dad's shoulders for hours, clutching a #NoKings sign & an American flag.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

impeach him IMPEACH HIM literally just for this HE'S ADMITTING THAT HE'S BREAKING THE LAW YOU CLOWNS IMPEACH HIM

OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SAY X IS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM ITS NOT ITS THE SIZE OF PINTEREST BUT IF I WAS LIKE 'DEMOCRATS GOTTA WIN THE COMMENTS WAR ON PINTEREST' THEYD LOCK ME FUCKING AWAY

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I beg you if you are over the age of 12 to put down Harry Potter and read Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy instead, which, aside from being vastly better written, also has significantly smarter themes (and a cafeteria that tries to eat people)

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

As president, Trump has mounted a full-scale assault on offshore wind. So far, he’s lost every subsequent court case, but of late his administration has come up with an innovative new strategy: bribery. prospect.org/2026/03/25/t...

How can this go on for another 3 years?

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

USPS is the bus ride that saves you from needing a $75 cab. It's the public school that saves you $5k in tuition even when the diocese is helping with the funding. It's the public housing that keeps you housed when you don't have money for $3k rent for a private family-sized apartment.

I mean this sounds like an oil propagandist in 2013: "Even in Spain the sun does not perpetually shine. Sometimes, the wind dies down. Droughts happen." Meanwhile, comments:

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

This brilliant and moving essay on disability by @adapalmer.bsky.social is one of the essays in our collection Trace Elements, out next Tuesday strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...