When I realized many years ago that Scalia, revered by conservatives as an intellect on the level of Da Vinci or Einstein, was formulating his legal arguments by listening to right-wing talk radio like Limbaugh and Bennett, it was a real scales-fall-from-the-eyes moment. These guys are just hacks.

Mail-in voting for me, but not for thee. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Trump Declares ‘The Death of Iran’ — Then Brands Democratic Party America’s ‘Greatest Enemy’ in new Post. In other words Trump will now return to having his forces kill US protesters who dare defy him. MAGA is a cancer that must be (politically) destroyed. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

If you say you didn’t vote for this… Fuck you! You voted for all of this. You’re just pissed off you can’t afford gas or groceries. You were ok w/racism & hatred. You were ok w/ppl losing their freedoms & rights. You were ok w/mass deportations. You were ok w/rape & pedophilia. Fuck you!

Excited to be part of this event. Alan is a powerful, must-read voice at this perilous moment.

Remember when Pam Bondi told us all to STFU because the Dow hit 50K It’s down 10 percent since. But that’s gotta be Biden’s fault. Hell, blame Obama….MAGAs will believe it.

The guy who edits this op-ed page sent me the most unbelievably unprofessional & obnoxious email that I’ve received in my entire life when I & two colleagues submitted a piece here last year. Maybe we should have tried lying in the title & writing fascist propaganda.

Shortest Hegseth: We’re winning this Christian crusade—and everybody should bow and thank Dumdum Donny Dictator for our nobody-has-ever-seen-anything-like-it success.

Thanks for this, @samsteindc.bsky.social. It's really hard to keep track.

Agreed. Mike was my dissertation supervisor. Wish I were half as smart and a quarter as knowledgeable as he is.

The level of incompetence and arrogance is both staggering and yet unsurprising. The Keystone Kops would blush.

1. A few months before it started a war in Iran, the Trump administration decommissioned the last of its four mine countermeasure ships. These ships were “capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines.” Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

People who continue to call Sinners a “horror” movie either didn’t see it or simply can’t *see* it. Yes, Coogler says he was inspired by some notable horror movies. But saying Sinners is a horror movie is like saying the Stepford Wives is merely a horror movie.

Trump wants the death penalty for media members who produce fake news. Wait until he learns who won the case between Dominion and Fox News.

Well, then. This is even more shameful & inexcusable.

This weekend I learned that The Violent Take It by Force received the Pneuma journal book award, voted on by scholars of Pentecostalism through the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

So glad Chalamet did not win.

Arkapaw just won the Oscars. Not just her award. She won the show. #oscars

We need a pirate radio tv station playing this clip incessantly to every us military base and robo mailing it to every service member. This is exactly how he values you.

As the Oscars honor Rob Reiner, we revisit one of his recent docs. "God & Country serves as a crash-course in how this hyper-conservative, white-dominant minority—one that doesn’t represent the values of most Christians...came to be such an effectively vocal voting bloc." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Trump is getting more surly and reckless and at some point he’s going to call a female reporter a c—t, or a minority reporter a n—er, and we’re going to all witness one of the most fantastic episodes of right-wing rhetorical gymnastics as FOX and talk radio justify and blame-shift.

Two of America’s best directors are on the board with Oscar wins. But not for directing. (Yet?)

PTA! Very happy.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Just wild. Jackals picking at the American empire’s carcass. Say hello to the Chinese century. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Somebody should write a book about how GOP and Trump are destroying white rural America and yet those same voters still follow him cultish-ly. But what the #whiteruralragefuck do I know?

This is MY hood. Love u DC

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

BOASBERG: “.. the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell .. “.. the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President ..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Look who's having his underlings "leak" to reporters that he was never on board with this whole Iran war in the first place www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

MAGA is demanding that anyone who commits terrorism will Have their citizenship stripped. Of course They completely ignore their MAGA Jan 6 terrorist attack.

My fave month? August. Because I love being near and/or in the water. September nice, too. You guys?

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Department of Yeah-No-Shit:

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

DTF St. Louis, after 2 episodes? Riveting. Bateman, Cardellini, Harbour, Jenkins—all longtime favorites of mine—are great. Great, bit part for Sarsgaard, too. Plot and script hum, only hope it doesn’t jump shark. (Bateman’s previous series, Black Rabbit, started strong but went awry IMHO.)

AI is better than humans because AI doesn’t get cancer. So let’s build data centers that we know will cause humans to get cancer. It’s a win all around. www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

I don’t mean to body-shame the SecState, and my grandfather had ears that would make Dumbo blush, but once you see little Marco’s giant ears…well, you cannot *un-see* them.

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

The Dow is down about 6pct since Pam told us everything cool as ICE because stock market, yada yada

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street. DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it. Our latest with @france24.com:

Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?

This thread and claim is revelatory. It explains Grim, Sirota, Taibbi, others. Wow.

If Dems were smart they’d create shadow groups that spend money on radio/RV and billboards that seem to be affirmative ads from Republicans that pair GOP nominees with Trump and state simply, e.g.: “Vote Cornyn, Vote Trump.” Make GOPers either embrace or distance themselves from Trump. Period.

Wow: Trump’s net approval in Texas right now is -18.7%. That’s right: Texas. He’s underwater in 43 states, including conservative stronghold SC, where he’s double-digits down: -10.9%. Keep talking about Iran and the ballroom curtains, dummy. www.economist.com/interactive/...

This is not good.

Markets perform better under Democratic presidents. Job numbers, GDP growth rates, too. Yet the “GOP better on economy” perception persists. Presidents don’t control economy completely, ofc. But it’s hard to argue GOP is better stewards when economy does worse. If only voters paid attention.