If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

France held 1st round of local elections yesterday. The leaders among the top 10 cities: 1—Paris—left lead 2—Marseille—left lead 3—Lyon—left lead 4—Toulouse—right lead 5—Nice—far right lead 6—Nantes—left lead 7—Montpellier—left lead 8—Strasbourg—left lead 9—Bordeaux—left lead 10—Lille—left lead

Our politics responds to intensity of beliefs or organization and normies just don't count. Extended party network>>>parties.

When I taught APT this year we watched both Sinners and OBBA. The students had no trouble fitting Sinners into APT and several choose it for final presentation. OBBA not so much.

trump's war.

This was the MAGA promise to their voters in 2025. You can be as terrible as you want and the government will make people be your friend.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Javier Bardem wins Oscar for best supporting actor for his portrayal of a man with a very strong work ethic looking for his employer’s lost money.

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

Frank Figueroa, 49, the ICE Special Agent in Charge in Central Florida, pleaded no contest in 2006 to indecent exposure after exposing his genitals and masturbating while staring at a 16-year-old girl in an Orlando mall food court. Figueroa avoided a formal conviction and retired with full pension.

Are we ready for members of the admin to start betting on the outcomes of missions they are conducting?

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "We were very aware that we would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans"

"Tuesday’s results confirm what our campaign has believed from the start: Mississippi is more competitive than Washington insiders assume, Cindy Hyde-Smith is more vulnerable than she lets on, and Scott Colom is the right candidate to make history in November," Colom's campaign said.

The post-New Right GOP is put together as an opposition party to Democratic governance. It's not a governing party. "Family values" and "law and order" was great at linking disparate parts of coalition for decades but now only the personality of the leader can do that.

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

I made a little table of all the video overviews I've recorded for my Law and Economics Seminar drustevenson.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

It's amazing how much Arendt's "banality of evil" interpretation of Eichmann has taken hold of the way students see all Nazis. No, they were among history's great haters. They were smart and knew exactly what they were doing.

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

What are the most important secondary works on Locke's property chapter?

If Joe Biden's son-in-law was flying around the Middle East as an unofficial Secretary of State while also working on business deals for his company with the same people he was meeting with on behalf of the US government, I'm pretty sure it would be a bigger story 🤔

He’s laying ground work for appearing in military garb in public,

The Trubio Doctrine: Military power, no allies, no diplomacy, no planning www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...

More excellent coverage from our new paper of record People.

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The Senate must reject this bill.

Sweeping guilty verdicts in the federal Prairieland antifa cases. These cases were an effort by the Trump admin to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists and further, prosecute dissent. This Texas trial was a test of his power. He won. This laid out the case and stakes: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

This is seems like some good evidence the US government thinks birthright citizenship is real. They make accidental Americans pay to renounce their citizenship. @evanbernick.bsky.social

This is seems like some good evidence the US government thinks birthright citizenship is real. They make accidental Americans pay to renounce their citizenship. @evanbernick.bsky.social

I thought the goal was to put federal workers in trauma?

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

Don't forget this mass rapist is still free: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

We’re not talking enough about what’s happening in Vermont. There’s no excuse for this brutality. None. Law enforcement has a right to do their job, but their job is to de-escalate, not assault people. Video credit: Itisu Siru

These are the people who decide for governments whose door gets kicked down and which children get dragged off to camps.

He understands that marketing this technology to GOP voters requires telling them it will own the libs.

Orbán steals money and gold from Ukraine. Hungary returns seized Ukrainian bank vehicles, withholds cash and gold reut.rs/4lwrV9m

Presidents are often defined not by their promises, but by their priorities while in office. Trump is pressuring Congress to pass the SAVE Act, which would be the most restrictive federal voting law in American history. bit.ly/47Fxr3s

Usually I say "bad for America, good for my paper," but this is actually bad for my paper. I am stunned that Alan Sears's ADF is backing CSAM generator X. Sears was part of Meese's panel on porn before he founded ADF.

National Guard units are still wandering around DC, and as far as I can tell they do... nothing. But this morning I saw a group of four CamoKids walking down the street, and when they got to the corner they did a little formation, and I just thought it was the funniest thing.

Jodi working her same theme.

THIS January Platner joined a racist YouTube channel for a chat and proclaimed himself a long-time fan. People CAN change, yes. Platner specifically and demonstrably has not

He understands that marketing this technology to GOP voters requires telling them it will own the libs.

Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?

Scarpetta is terrible but Jamie Lee Curtis is having a great time.

According to the Pentagon's own estimates, Trump’s war in Iran cost nearly $2 billion a day in the first 6 days. That's $11.3 billion in reckless spending, and still no answers on why Trump started this unnecessary war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

The Atlantic thinks Trump is flummoxed about what to do about rapist candidate. Babe, 1/3 of cabinet is accused of rape.

The snow may be gone, and the sun is finally shining, but it’s never a bad time to discuss housing policy and show off this delicious chicken cobbler! Tinyurl.com/RB4CSolveOurHousingCrisis

Bombing freedom to Middle East was always grotesque but is just absurd from party that is bringing US to authoritarianism. Bringing free markets and democracy to Iran and state capitalism and authoritarianism to US.

Fuck Kobe, all my homies hate Kobe