SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

This episode of the American Vandal is absolutely essential listening. NB, there are two parts: 1) a history of Canvas as a tech company, and 2) a conversation about AI and teaching. Overlapping but distinct, and equally necessary

we call this the value of the humanities

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

Good morning team! No Kings tomorrow!

ICYMI: Federal air marshals--who are supposed to protect commercial flights--were secretly drafted to replace ICE agents on ICE's charter flights. This had been going on for 9 months, but after I asked about it, internal email suddenly announced it was ending? gillianbrockell.com/extremely-da...

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

And as Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) spelled out today: DHS has been *choosing* not to pay TSA workers all this time while paying other DHS employees. Who's been getting paid amid the shutdown? 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Trump now says he'll declare a national emergency to fund TSA, which ... is legally questionable + comes after Dems have repeatedly (14 times?) tried to pass a bill to fund TSA but been blocked by the GOP. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... via @igorbobic.bsky.social @delaneyrules.bsky.social

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

The federal government is not funded by executive fiat (EO), it is funded by congressional appropriation. The US Treasury is not a checking account that can be used to pay whatever. The money was not and is not there because Congress has not directed it to be there. This is not about timing ffs

Trump says he will pay TSA workers..... Yesterday I asked unanimous consent to fund TSA and pay all its workers for the entire budget year and Senate Republicans blocked it.

4/ If Trump is able to get away with ignoring that, with arrogating the entire power of the purse to himself, then Congress has pretty much no way of checking him.

3/ From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress.

2/ These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

INCREDIBLE STUFF!! “And while the IOC says the SRY gene "represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development,"… the scientist who discovered the SRY gene in 1990, Andrew Sinclair, has publicly opposed using the test to determine biological sex.” MY GOD

heavy handed metaphor alert: sinkhole on the national mall

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Tomorrow's Premium: The AI bubble is a mirage. In an analysis of every major AI data center project, the majority are theoretical or behind schedule. Their customers (AI startups) burn $3+ for every $1 of revenue. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Kind of interesting that this piece published at The Guardian acknowledges that these changes are at least partly a response to the freak out during the 2024 Olympics about Imane Khelif, when the guy writing the piece played a role in fanning those 2024 flames. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

JFC what are we even doing here. “Judges have held that it wasn’t ‘clearly established’ that officers couldn’t rob people when they execute search warrants, or that they couldn’t sexually assault people in their custody, or that they couldn’t set someone on fire.”

A) nuclear suicide vest is bananas. B) You don’t have to do this; they are sending you on a dummy mission, my guy.

Protecting women by requiring them to submit to invasive unnecessary medical tests before they're allowed to play flag football

Yes!!

We don't have to submit. I've said a long time that inevitability is the first lie of fascism. Think about that when AI boosters say there's no choice. There is. There always is.

Happy Opening Day to all who celebrate!! Let’s go Red Sox!! God I miss living in a civilized place with actual baseball

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

The (heinous) International Olympic Committee has just (fucking) formally banned trans participation in sport. stillmed.olympics.com/media/Docume...

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.

This is art

This series at the IMA looks fascinating. #skystorians in Paris should check it out 🗃️

They were put in place by the Federalist Society to “not understand.”

"'I just want to go home,' said one GOP senator granted anonymity to vent." What a big fucking baby. And what reporters' manual says "venting" is a reason to grant anonymity??? www.politico.com/live-updates...

Ok I’ve looked at the text of the draft resolution, read Ghana’s affirmation of the vote, and looked at the EU’s explanation for its abstention. The EU quibbles with the superlative language of “gravest” (but basically doesn’t want to pay reparations if you read between the lines)

As a friend from those Paris days said this morning, the end of an era. But what a sad one

Parody is no longer possible.

Experts looking at these 'translations' appear to be of one voice, going on the quoted posting here: they are atrocious, many are hallucinations. Some sound like work emails?? This project is now quite possibly dead on arrival and probably a colossal waste of money. Good job there, research team!

Trump sent ICE into airports as scabs to weaken a sick-out effort by the TSA union. But it turns out untrained ICE agents can't do much there except intimidate passengers.

one of many reasons to distrust platner is that rural healthcare is in significant trouble as a direct result of actions the republicans have taken. republicans closed rural hospitals, not big pharma, and if you’re running as a dem, it’s your job to say that

Answer: it is a flagrant violation of federal law. Full stop. End of conversation (under 18 U.S.C. § 592, which bans armed federal forces from election sites). see @brennancenter.org info here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

It’s just all gender, all the way down with these dudes

I reached out to DHS to see if they were aware ICE agents were performing TSA duties and asked if they were trained to do them. This was the response I got:

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

Oh Florida simply doesn't allow fraud, why haven't other states tried that.

America is in such a shambles that people are actively rooting for TSA, an organization that normally has the same approval rating as athlete's foot.

Not only were race science and race medicine mainstream — they were *prestigious* and buoyed along by scientific academies, colonial administrators, and ordinary readers. I published an article in HWJ about surgeons using race-making to boost their careers. academic.oup.com/hwj/article-...

Oh, my god