Seems that JD Vance is promoting his college roommate, Daniel P Driscoll, now secretary of the army, to replace Hegseth—so Hegseth is preparing a preemptive strike. What a nest of vipers this place is. And that in the midst of a war. These are the most unserious people ever to sit atop the Pentagon

The budget also calls to cut the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in half. This budget would crush scientific research.

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

Folks, I give you the New York Times

Fuck it, mask off.

lot of neocons now publishing pieces like, “The Thing I Pushed For Years Has Proven to be a Disaster, Here’s Why MAGA, Not I, Should Shoulder Blame”

The people yearn for trains.

At the end of the day, Zohran has been mayor for 4 months and has done nothing to really justify the view that he’s breaking his promises to trans people. He will probably fall short like most politicians, but the next time you see these attacks try to remember he doesn’t have unlimited power.

I get the impulse to want Zohran to say and do more, but he can’t do more and saying more does nothing. But he did create an office of LGBTQ Affairs since this happen and name a trans woman as its head, so acting like this supposed “radio silence” means he abandoned us is disingenuous.

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

Trump is once again proposing to destroy Alcatraz — a globally popular tourist attraction — by wasting billions to turn it into some sort of prison gulag. It’s an absurd, idiotic idea, a complete waste of taxpayer money, and yet another sign of Trump’s dementia. Back off.

It's consistently shocking how effective we are at giving terrible people the spotlight and how ineffective we are at boxing them out once they are embedded in the culture...

Absurd how the GWOT altered our media landscape for discussing war so much that we can’t see a war with a nation-state for what it is.

so this is the guy who decided to run against Mark Warner in Virginia as an independent that's cool

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

“He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” -- President Donald J Trump, July 18, 2015

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

Does he even want to win the midterms or what

The Trump administration has abruptly ended a Veterans Affairs home loan safety net, causing thousands of veterans to lose their homes or pay a higher mortgage rate: "It hurts paying $3,200 a month."

We were dismayed but not surprised to read that ADL's Mamdani Monitor heavily focuses on the mayor's Muslim appointees, and that it often uses tenuous connections (and sometimes even basic civil rights work) to label them as "concerning." 🧵 jewishcurrents.org/the-adls-mam...

so much of what is expensive in cities is buying your way out of public systems: private schools, gated communities, private transportation

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

well i'm sure the hundreds of thousands of HIV-infected children who choke to death on their own hemorrhaging lung tissue can rest easy knowing you kept your moral compass intact

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Gonna tell my kids this is Dune 3

At least some of it is because the extreme winter left more potholes than usual.

“Vegans are ethically correct but my lifestyle makes that difficult so I don’t think about it much” is really the best take aside from, well, veganism

The other explanation, which I fear may be correct, is that the winters of '24 and '25 were super mild in NYC, so there were far fewer potholes in the first place, vs this last winter which basically broke every street in the city.

In theory this much low hanging fruit simply should not exist - I’m forced to conclude Adams literally refused to take any action if he wasn’t bribed to do it

Are you telling me that the mayor has a “double pothole repairs” button on his desk and his predecessors just didn’t press it?

Oh, Zohran is the real deal. Not just social media posts.

really starting to feel like the energy experts have been freaking out for a reason

his tweets read like well-crafted shitposts - more than that, the platonic ideal of one because in a sense they are - it's the style, cadence, & obliviousness the OG shitpoasters mimicked, but directly & in earnest we're staring into the face of one of the internet's old gods

buggs bunny's carrot & 'what's up doc?' where a refernce to a well known actor at the time, the parody endured but its object of refernce slipped from memory sinilarly, there was an archetype the Oringonal Poasters were mimicking

hmmmmm

This is just one of the ways that we're not *seeing* this war.

Not to endorse the author or anything, but this is just a restatement of Sturgeon's Law: ninety percent of everything is crap

You and your Senate colleagues believing that Pam Bondi "gave up her integrity" to remain in her position is a big part of why we're here

It’s just,,, really funny to criticize the United States congress for insufficient etiquette towards the British crown

House Bill 1637 would establish a panel to review fetal deaths and the deaths of infants up to one year in age and “establish strategies to prevent infant deaths.” The Mississippi State Department of Health requested the panel's creation.

Thiel also has bad Watchmen takes!

in a few years, all the same political reporters who are sanewashing and steelmanning every trump statement will laugh and tell you "everyone knew" how senile trump was. "an open secret" they'll say. Not open enough to tell their audience but all the "right people" already know now and are hiding it

may this be the beginning of something

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

you think I’m just being a weird hater when I talk about education research but no I there actually are like Problems with the field