“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life” azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Further building blocks in the Trump / Silicon Valley data juggernaut, for automating loyalty tests and repression as a service. OPM was the federal agency used by Musk to send his "5 bullet points" emails. It remains compromised.

How many times will we have to keep quoting the direct words of the Trump-Vance team’s mediator? It is insane the low regard these people hold us in

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

Northern Indiana Public Service Company locked out its employees who are with the United Steelworkers Local Union on Thursday afternoon, as the company and labor group couldn’t reach an agreement on contract negotiations.

Cool country where you’re left asking whether a joint chief of staff was forced out because he opposed a disastrous ground invasion of Iran or because he opposed a Blackhawk hovering over Kid Rock’s pool.

Similar to being called a racist, getting cancelled was the worst thing that could happen to anyone and it was applied oh so unfairly…

the funniest tweets were always the ones unintentionally funny

"'If it weren't for Miller pushing, this would be dead by now,' the source told me. A new DHS secretary may not be the obstacle many wish it were." Read more to learn why now is the time to be making noise.

Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens. That history ALONE should be dispositive.

Laying down a marker now: The first time a Supreme Court pundit uses John Roberts's "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution" line to cast him as Our Principled Defender Of The Rule Of Law Agains Trump, I am going to go their house and give them a swirlie

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

He lived through slavery and did nothing. Good riddance.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

"One month into their illegal war of choice with Iran, the United States and Israel find themselves realizing they're not the only ones who can throw out the laws of war and go apeshit"

At least the USMNT has an easy group. But it’s going to be tough once they run into the heavyweights. If Belgium is doing this to you, it may look like a real crime scene against the better teams.

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

At this point they’re going to charge people to breathe the air during the World Cup www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

It’s far from perfect but so glad it exists.

Listen to this. We have a duty to really sit with the seriousness of the situation. We’re in the middle of the most consequential war in modern history, people are suffering and dying, and listen to this fucking pig. This crisis is as bad as you could possibly imagine.

“Everyone should see the Alvin Ailey dancers at least once in their lives.” - mom. I went as a teen, and now my mom bought tickets for my wife, my daughter, and me because they need to see them too. Thanks, Mom.

chat is this bad?

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

Translation: Everyone should be nervous.

It’s cool that the highest level of our government is basically a Make-A-Wish program for middle-aged losers

Just a piece of advice as you're watching preventable tragic accidents, disastrously dumb wars, and murderous thugs terrorizing people. Anyone who has ever worked at a business where management was corrupt and stupid and money started hemorrhaging, things do not just get better.

I will never accept the “Capital One Guy” as a staple of popular culture and every year that you try and make me there is a white hot resistance that only grows more and more irrepressible within me.

UNC working on one of the most A-Z chokes you'll ever see

ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3

the Christopher Columbus statue makes a little more sense now

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

“Very funny, Jesus. Give it back.”

Ides of March sales are brutal.

I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business. A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.

It used to be a presidency-imperiling scandal if a well-thought out military strategy didn’t work out and now they’re all openly admitting they didn’t even consider a single, solitary thing and were just doing it completely on the fucking fly.

Magic-Wizards just contained maybe the worst minute of basketball I've seen in a Wizards game this week, which is saying something

Good medical advice!

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

I am reminded of old wounds bsky.app/profile/oluf...

part of the reason I use sports analogies so often is because it's a ready made context where people aim to understand how competition and contest works unlike politics, where certain people forget or giddily pretend not to understand how competition/contest works

Wrote about the US government following the tradition of dehumanizing their enemies as barbarians to justify their violence but also how it sells its constant violence to Americans by convincing Americans that they’re the only real human beings open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

Signed up for the updates that Marco Rubio was promoting for Americans stuck in the Middle East, to see what steps were being taken to get them out. And it’s no joke that there’s no plan. For example, this is what you get if you’re in Bahrain:

The second set of screenshots are from an old draft of my soccer book. I’ve been screaming into a void for almost a decade now, but glad that at least running is taking this sport seriously as an art.