Trump is Challenging his Fellow Grifters the Right Way. -Ezra Klein

ATENÇÃO NOVO RATO JUST DROPPED

The Leos and Bannons would welcome an Antipope. But what they see in Catholicism is its lineage back to classical civilization and its heroic glory. While Dolan might make a fine American Antipope, he can't take his cathedral with him. It is legally property of the Catholic Church. This will fail.

List of the places that Israel has bombed in Lebanon in the past hours alone. List is likely not full

I’ve never been more optimistic about America winning the World Cup. Real chance no one else shows up.

😼 How does this contraption work? The inquiring feline.. 😽 #cat #curious

Time for Bari Weiss and Matt Taibi to shine

Byron Allen is basically the most bland “entertainer” in the business. If he were an ice cream flavor, he’d be slightly sweetened ice

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

The government wants a trillion and a half annual military budget. And they want it at a time they say they no longer want to defend Europe but have plenty of time to menace parades with attack helicopters. The world can be a dangerous place, but enough is enough.

True.

Good night. Happy Friday. Here’s a bird that is a whole sound department.

The problem is that all the people who are in a position to put workers on the moon believe "no man, no problem" and there will be no worker safety laws there.

Hot take: the profession of “pundit” should be outlawed.

I guess I am basic

I have never seen the layer of fish in the dark depths, but the next time I find myself struggling at work I will remind myself that there is a giant layer of fish is down there believing in me.

This guy needs to get on the phone with Zohran Mamdani and hope it rubs off on him.

This is like that old Twilight Zone where the person is waiting in the hospital for surgery and it turns out the problem is that she doesn't look like a lizard/fish person.

The Dems pretty much have to do this, but I have doubts they can lift this load. They have spent the past quarter century plus denying this stuff was a problem, how can they come back to voters now and say it's a crisis? Fuck's sake Trump tried to kill Pence and no investigation?

This wasn't some random mistake: both the State Department and USAID called the contraceptives 'abortion'. And when international groups tried to buy the stockpile so it wouldn’t be destroyed, the administration refused, citing the Global Gag Rule. A policy that prevents U.S. funding FOR ABORTION

It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception: It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

Ending the war between the US and Iran will be hard, experts say, due to the difficulty of negotiating with a weak, erratic head of state.

Operation Firefly was organized by the US Forest Service to fight fires started by Japanese Balloon Bombs. This was no hoax, the bombs were a real threat in the forest of the Pacific Northwest. The 555th was to pioneer what would later be termed Smokejumper tactics.

we talk a lot about the information diet of the median american voter, but if this is even close to accurate, our median american voter looks like a model informed citizen by comparison

“Wars tend to be won through careful planning more than by anything else.” - Belisarius, before invading Persia

BREAKING: The Big Galoot Society of America will vote on a motion to expel John Fetterman at their annual convention

So it's clear that BA.3.2 preferentially infects children, something we have never seen before in a SARS-CoV-2 variant. Why? The question's baffled me, but after a suggestion from @darrenmartin.bsky.social, I think I have an explanation that makes sense. 1/16

Gift link for the jazzcats out there.

Trump can't explain the goal, because he truth is that what he learned from Venezuela is that he can install a puppet government and grab a cut of everything for himself. The real danger is that Trump succeeds. If he does, Greenland, Mexico, Nigeria, and perhaps Canada will follow.

"Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

So the US wasn't dependent on middle eastern Aluminum until Trump dropped huge tariffs on Canadian imports last year. And now that we are dependent on imports from the UAE, Trump starts a war that in entirely predictable manner shuts the strait of Hormuz. What a fool. (gift link in alt)

If the other side killed our top leaders we’d be flailing less too!

Bye bye ambitious multi-center scientific collaborations 👋. grants.nih.gov/news-events/... Sounds reasonable at face value? It's not - because it makes planning completely impossible. And for complex, collaborative, and ambitious research, planning is everything. A few thoughts 👇

Shit.

Seriously what is going on with octopuses Get a job and stop bumming rides from other organisms! www.popsci.com/environment/...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Just for the record, these were Sean Duffy's stated priorities:

Finchelstein says left and right support the state monopoly on violence (Weber), and agree that it is more useful when unused. Fascism believes state violence has no value unless deployed and made real.

Finchelstein 3/23/2026 on populism vs fascism: - the difference with Peron style populism is that Peron knew voters would repudiate men with guns in public life - the function of aesthetics is the early stage of making them real 1/2 www.youtube.com/live/1hGPwdX...

I thought I knew all the google search modifiers but discovered a few useful new ones like intitle

“In addition, we have ordered an acceleration in the destruction of Lebanese homes in contact-line villages" :- Katz. Netanyahu & Katz are not hiding their intentions whatsoever.

A European colleague came to the US recently for an academic meeting On arrival at JFK, she was whisked off by immigration officers into a windowless office, which had a giant picture of Trump, & relentlessly & aggressively questioned for hours They let her go—but she ain’t coming back to the US

So Trump seems to have given Iran a monopoly on oil and natural gas exports in the Persian Gulf.

I saw my first butterfly of spring yesterday, a California tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica). They overwinter as adults. When the wings are folded, they look like a dead leaf or tree bark. This one saw me and was doing exactly that. The upperside wings are orange and brown ...

THEY ARE COMING FOR THE BURRITO TAXIS

Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great moments in hat history

Man, if I wanted to spend my day blocking antisemites I wouldn't have left Twitter