We used to call it “the shits hitting the fan” meal. When they fed you the good stuff, you were about to earn your pay.

Granted by the time I took Laws of War I hated law school and blew it off and took the take home final drunk but I still recall this may be problematical

“I pray God kills him”

a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation

Apropos of nothing, just a reminder that a narcissist will always frame events in terms of how they impact him.

Shame can be good sometimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mentally when I read Presidential Posts I append this emoji to the end of them: 💅

That's one hell of an origin story. In the best sense.

Related to my last post: please let 2026 be the last year I have to suffer through misguided posts about banned books like “This looks like a great summer reading list for my kids.” “Being banned is a great honor!” “Read the books they don’t want you to read.” I’ll explain.

Signing my kids up for summer camp requires thousands of dollars, hours of my time, and a literal spreadsheet about who's doing which program on which week. Just one more part of parenting that feels basically impossible.

Courts are going to decide if they tolerate this or they don’t. Lawyers are going to decide if they’re willing to be in this position or they aren’t. Those decisions matter.

At no point will citizenship ever present a problem of scarcity, unless you're a white racial/cultural supremacist who thinks other people getting to participate in democratic society diminishes your own dominance, which is what this is all code language for.

Georgia woman charged with murder for taking abortion pills www.wsbtv.com/news/local/g...

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

I am hard pressed to think of another major US media venue that 1) helped put such a president in power and then 2) sold subscriptions based on covering the blunders, atrocities, and depredations of that president.

This reminds me of the time my son chose Oral Roberts and Colgate in his bracket so he could tout a dentistry battle. (He’s not a sportsball fan.)

1/The Supreme Court is considering birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, I wanted to explain why you have to clarify citizenship was attained by birth on soil. Before the Civil War, birth status was determined by status of the parent. Your mother was a slave; you were a slave.

two thoughts reading this: first, that i am reminded that the editorial line of christianity today back during the civil rights movement was harsh criticism of King. second, this right here is quite literally slaveholder ideology.

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

I'm nobody's editor but every story about the SAVE act should include the fact that it's a solution in search of a problem.

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I feel betrayed by Trump. But if Democrats keep using terms like “unhoused” and “Latinx” I will have no choice but for a vote for him for the fourth time in 2028.

I get probably eight to ten “inspired by Carolyn” marketing emails a day now and I really resent what’s been done to her. I can’t imagine the pain her family must experience seeing her memory being used to leverage brands in this way.

People have lost their goddamn minds.

The fish rots from the head, as they say. The US has consolidated nearly absolute power into a deeply unwell senile bigot criminal. He has no capacity for complex thought or strategy. Just smash and grab. He is surrounded by toadies and sycophants. That doesn't work all that well, geopolitically.

I’m a Gen Xer so I know the heart pounding fear of showing up to elementary school sans green on March 17th. In an era of no consent and no bodily autonomy, this day was brutal.

One of the great ironies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is that the bourgeois monopoly of ‘high’ culture was broken down by Capitalism rather than Marxism. Discuss.

Perhaps unsurprising, given the author but this (www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...) is astoundingly dumb. It is an *obviously terrible* idea for Dems to sign on to an unpopular war, illegally launched and badly executed. The idea that they could win legislative concessions doing so is moronic.

maybe we shouldn’t accept that everything we ever want should be hand delivered to our house immediately by an underpaid worker which also puts more cars on the street, just increasing pollution and risk of accidents. Maybe.

This is what an aristocratic politics sounds like.

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Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

“Very funny, Jesus. Give it back.”

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

When I played chess seriously people (ie teachers) always said the reason I stunk is that I didn’t really get that my opponent had his own plans - they weren’t just a foil for my own plans. Anyway, this observation seems somewhat relevant these days.

I wrote a little song I sing when I am watching the news sometimes. 🎶they don’t talk about the middle class because they don’t intend to have one 🎶

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

modern twitter is doing to people what everyone thought cambridge analytica was doing and the resounding cultural response to empirical large scale intentional manipulation has been “my followers are there tho”

I’m not anti-plastic surgery ever but I am of the age where it’s happening a lot amongst my peers and there’s a certain level of disorientation that happens when you see a holiday card or a social post and you don’t recognize a face you once knew well.

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.

It’s one of the most unnerving aspects to *all this*

Ossoff is good on this stuff

Happy Pi Day! Fun fact: MIT releases its admissions decisions on Pi Day which is a level of self-aware nerdiness I applaud.

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This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

There's nothing normal about a Secretary of Defense talking like this. Also, nothing like giving away the game about what they did with the CNN merger.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.

Why hasn't Trump received a "rally around the flag" bump in his approval rating? I made every presidential approval chart you could ever want to explain www.gelliottmorris.com/p/i-graphed-...