RE: the whole "literature" that is now furiously being manufactured by a handful of law professors on birthright citizenship to backstop the unconstitutional EO, anyone can do historical analysis, but it take training + time to do it properly. There are standards of historical accuracy. See 👇 1/

This is just so flatly immoral, so obviously unjustifiable. www.ft.com/content/83ab...

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

It doesn’t mean that on the whole the Republican party is immune to pressure. Far from it. But it does mean that some of the most influential people will make decisions that seem irrational. But in fact make sense given their goals.

"Republicans have a persistent fantasy of finding a way to circumvent the role of the teacher and instead download literacy, math and other basic skills into students, without teaching them all the analytical skills that provoke independent thought." www.salon.com/2026/03/30/w...

I really don’t want something that treats all past versions of me as a single entity. Those guys? Even the one from two weeks ago? They’re dead.

It is in keeping with the NYT’s ideological approach to journalism on trans issues that medical associations that support trans rights must not be trusted to offer an accurate account of their own policies. Only an unbiased authority can determine the AMA’s true orientation on trans healthcare.

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

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It DID NOT correct “merting” to “meeting” in my notes app tho.

My intitial understanding of this headline was that it was saying the government was forbidding the public from knowing what politicians received donations from crypto companies. We are so poisoned from norms of corruption now in US

“Heston pad” (???) instead of my correctly typed “heating pad” today

I was going to say some stuff about this but Nicole says it all in the thread. I'll just echo: I really think power -- economic power but also cultural power -- fucks people up, makes them less happy, and makes it harder for them to have real friendships.

Autocorrect on iOS, Facebook messenger, and other places is worse now right?

ICE agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he dropped his kids off at school in September. Minn officials launched investigations into Pretti & Good's killings. Cook County has not done the same for Villegas Gonzalez. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/23/i... ✍️ @mollydevore.bsky.social

Dems: we love to accept negative framing set by our opponents

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

"There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution." - John Adams, 1780

The thing about journalism that even people in the industry don't always understand is that the only hard part is having ethics, and that part is very hard indeed.

God, I wish the New York Times had this level of courageous reporting in regards to white men.

All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

In HS, I worked hard on a parody I wrote about Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. was really proud of it. My teacher left a comment on it at the end that clearly showed she did not read it. Totally demoralizing to me at the time. What’s our writing for when we discourage its reading?

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.

This is important & should be reflected in the news coverage & pundit chatter:

fun fact: it's common these days, post publication of James Q. Whitman's oft-cited work, that the Nazis modeled their regime in part off of the example of the US. but the first half of Whitman's "Hitler's American Model" focuses on the US as a “global leader in racist immigration law”

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

So many of my Jewish friends in urban areas tell me that they need security at their synagogues because of the constant undercurrent of threats and violence, most of which never make it to the news. You should not need a security guard to go to your place of worship.

This has always been something that I have disagreed with Zohran on. His campaign promise was that we can do free things by simply taxing the wealthy and I'd have much preferred "we're going to make every New Yorker pay their fair share to keep the city going". I live in a society, I will pay too.

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside. And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The abuse inflicted on Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman prison — including the murder of a Palestinian doctor — was inhumane. This one case, brought because the abuse was *caught on camera*, was a small sign that rule of law in Israel still worked. The Israeli government has dropped the case.

Some of the ICE money is going to a team of consultants called Lil’ McKinsey, staffed entirely by 9 year old boys.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Never fall in love with any specific social media platform. They will all betray you or fizzle out (and most likely both). Have some fun. Make some friends. Share some ideas. Do some good. But never forget that they're all impermanent.

So excited that this piece I wrote for @compstudiesjrnl.bsky.social's Fen Blog is out today! Thanks so much to Emily Brier and Daniel Libertz (@dlib24.bsky.social) for being such thoughtful and fantastic editors.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

My hottest mental health take: A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

GOP advantage here has always been based on lying, misinformation and a complicit media. Since those things haven't changed, this is--at best--a blip. Dems can't count on any of this lasting. We can't just move on to business as usual. There has to be hearings and prosecutions for crimes this time.

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before. And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians. At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

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