New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Watched Charlie Wilson’s War last night. Not perfect, and apparently they cut out a scene at the end connecting the events to 9/11, but the Zen Master scene with the late Seymour Hoffman about What Happens Next is going to be rattling around my head every day watching this war in Iran.

We've opposed them, talked about them, decried them this whole time. We said this would lead to a rise in antisemitism AND Islamophobia. We aren't surprised. We're terrified.

The anti-Zionist Jews in your life are all freaking out because we knew this would happen. We warned this would happen. We've been scared of this happening. On some level, since forever. On another level, since October 7 2023. You don't need to tell us about Israel's government's crimes. We know.

The last couple weeks of war have put me in mind of this remembrance I wrote a few years back. "I'd like a bit more contemplation about what exactly it is we should Never Forget, and also what it is that we seem to want to Never Remember." www.the-reframe.com/never-rememb...

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.

"...one of the things that helped people accept their work as concentration camp guards was that the terrible conditions of the camps themselves made the prisoners’ literal filth synonymous with their inherent filthiness. " www.welcometohellworld.com/look-at-what...

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.

There was a picture of a soldier kicking a Palestinian man and someone speculated on just what the soldier was thinking and that’s just always how it goes when the oppressor is allowed humanity and the oppressed are objects upon which they explore their humanity through.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

“We’re going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official says of Lebanon.

"We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel. And we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away. And we can and must condemn the broken politics that allows leaders to make war that they pretend has no consequences."

You ever notice how the framing never goes the other way? E.g., “Will Coloradans see higher prices if CEO pay keeps going up?” But workers start making noise about their physical safety and the media framing pits the consumer pricing interest against the worker safety interest.

My Department of Early Childhood bill, HB26-1259, passed the House today. This bill makes technical updates to Colorado's early childhood system so programs can effectively and efficiently support Colorado’s kids, families and providers of care.

Oman's foreign minister, who attempted to shame the US into not entering a war of aggression, says that the goals of US-Israeli war on Iran are not limited to weakening Iran, but also the Gulf states and anyone supportive of Palestinians. Calls on GCC to reconsider security arrangements.

The more I think on recent work by @gruberte.bsky.social @jlappen1.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmijin.bsky.social and friends, the more inevitable it seems that governments will need to take over/wind down certain fossil businesses to avoid catastrophic failures and inequities. This...

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

"The wealthiest 10% of people on the planet are responsible for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research." The climate scene should keep inequality in mind. Who are we solving the crisis for? #Inequality www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...

put aside what israel is doing to palestinians, or lebanese, or syrians, or Iranians, etc etc. its weird as a lebanese person to say this but ive been very distressed seeing the enormous damage israel is doing to its own people, and to jews more broadly around the world. its distressing to see

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

Spotted in the wild

Meanwhile, Xcel's profits could triple to $1.9 billion by 2031, while electricity rates rise as much as 55%, according to state regulators. .... It's up to Colorado to shield consumers from the price shock of Xcel Energy’s data-center related building boom coloradosun.com/2026/03/12/x...

i knew a bunch of folks who worked at Facebook's outsourced content moderation shop in Austin and it fucked a bunch of them up, so i'm imagining that at a larger scale (of both operation size and depravity). The tech sector is, I suppose, an imperial actor

Observing history? Wokeness running amuck in the military!

Sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner with a knife on camera is apparently legal in Israel

I know I harp on it but I have to — John Hickenlooper introduced this guy at the Senate confirmation hearing hearings, and big picture, electing Dems like him with a pro oil and gas background paves the way for endless war

More than 630 people, at least 91 of them children, have been killed in Lebanon in the past week, authorities say, as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has engulfed the country.

New: Rep. Andy Ogles, who said Muslims don’t belong in America, represents one of the largest Muslim populations in the American South. His Tennessee district includes a neighborhood known as Little Kurdistan. Some Muslims in his district fear his comments will fuel harassment and violence

It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

Something strange happened before this story was published. An on-record source backed out and asked to be removed -- after being contacted by the director of Denver's transportation dept. We decided to address this in the story, transparently:

Frey explaining to constituents why he did jack shit against ICE but is fully prepared to stop the Council from helping:

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

Remember, as Jared Polis argues that Tina Peters was punished too harshly, that this is how his Department of Corrections has treated everyday, non-famous prisoners: required labor for almost zero pay, and possible solitary confinement if you decline to work. Read this by @brycecovert.bsky.social:

The 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 11-, 12-, 18-, 24-, 36-, and 60-month periods ending with February 2026 were all the hottest recorded periods of that duration in the calendar in Colorado's 131-year temperature record history.

This is hilarious, they brought on a guy who is trying to compel Colorado cities to partner with ICE in a showcase of civility in politics, and predictably the event is disrupted and cancelled by protest. Shoutout Tim Hernandez, Michael Fields is a bastard. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

America is about to learn how tiny the federal gas tax has been all this time. 18¢ per gallon, unchanged since 1993 and not tied to inflation. Fill your SUV’s tank and you can buy half a pack of gum on Uncle Sam.

Anyway, I’m posting that old article today for no reason, it has no bearing on the current ongoing conflicts the US is wrapped up in.

Watching the CT legislature quietly eliminate free bus fares for high school kids after it passed last year(a few million $) as the governor casually talks about using $500 million on a temporary gas tax holiday is pretty radicalizing www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Rising gas prices in 2026 should not be treated like rising gas prices in 1970, we can and should use this as a moment to hyperscale decarbonizing the economy. I’ve been 95% car free for 6 years now, really not worried about the price of oil on a personal level. E-bike + bus pass is cheap!

Pretty simple, my understanding of freedom for Iranians does not include getting blown up by bombs or dying of cancer from the black rain that comes with blowing up oil refineries.

She is an *extremist* disinfo peddler, not at all a journalist!

After recent poll showed Americans were more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis for the first time, new Quinnipiac poll finds the % of Americans who feel the U.S. is too supportive of Israel matches the % who think it’s just right (44%), also the highest ever. poll.qu.edu/images/polli...

The realization that if the vision of God I’d been sold was accurate(accept Jesus, go to heaven), then billions of people who’d never been exposed to the word of God were sentenced to Hell without any opportunity to avoid it, which seemed so unimaginably cruel as to invalidate the whole enterprise.

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.