much like CRT they avoid Feminist Theory & cannot understand their base belief of "hard choices = good leader" is rooted in a misogynistic mindset that props up dominance while calling empathy/caring weakness. Which all links to gender insecurity around being a part of the liberal (female) party.

American officials already talking about regime change in Cuba while Israeli officials talk about confronting Turkey. I'm sorry but you have to finish the war you started before you get another war.

This made me angry, because the reporter freely admits “I know the name, I just won’t burn a source to print it” and while not burning sources is usually the right call, there’s a point where the virtue of doing it outweighs getting a phone call answered later. We’re at that point.

From what I can see, the overwhelming majority of people who are angry about this do not actually live in Texas. I think the first people who should be asked if there should be a wholesale boycott of the state over transphobic policies should be the trans people who currently live there.

Also, for all the “Bam should’ve stopped at 81” rigamarole , you know who would’ve told him to break the record if he were still here? Kobe.

Feeding the content machine has made it so that in order to properly enjoy anything, you probably have to do it offline.

CentCom issues warning for Iranian civilians to avoid ports on the strait, implying that the US is about to start bombing them.

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed. Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

Adam actually lives in TX but this is such a funny race to do the "beta" insult with. Cornyn just abandoned his lifelong filibuster support to grovel for Trump's endorsement!

[Talarico shows up to church with 5 of his Insta follows] You were saying?

Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”

between "spider-man and spongebob are the only US heroes" and "get ready for $200 a barrel" i am drawing the conclusion iran at least rhetorically really has us figured out

Yesterday, the CSC said it was struggling to process deals from associated entities like NIL collectives. Why? Well, FOIAball has some of those deals. And when you compare them to legitimate endorsements, they fall apart pretty fast. www.foiaball.com/p/college-sp...

This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.

I don't go in for most media-bashing on here, but this new thing where Trump calls access reporters during trading hours and gives them the SCOOP that the war's about to end is pretty egregious.

The ruling class is in a permanent tax revolt, but not because its members fear higher taxes. They successfully evade taxes set at any level. What worries them is the proliferation of public goods, which tends to enhance the independence of the working classes.

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children."

Leaked documents show the US Border Patrol being remade in the image of Gregory Bovino. Example: last November "guidance was issued across the Border Patrol to clarify how to smash suspects’ car windows and extract them from vehicles while minimizing legal liability." prospect.org/2026/03/11/b...

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew But they did not launch an investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

This is where the real humiliation kink comes in. He asked. They lied out of vanity and we get to see how pathetic they all are.

We figured out under Biden one good way to manage an oil shock using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, while earning money besides. And Trump... well he forgot about it, @ryanlcooper.com explains. prospect.org/2026/03/11/i...

Pointing to the sign again (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

As I have said repeatedly, the only move the anti-trans side has is pretending that they've found a scandal, then describe the way medicine (or medical research) works in every other field but trans care in breathless, scandalized tones.

What I don’t understand is, if you’re changing your position to help your chances in a Texas primary, why place the op-ed in a New York publication nypost.com/2026/03/11/o...

Orange jumpsuits, Serbian music, the most hilarious player in college hoops… a behind-the-scenes look at the Balkan Four-and-a-half at Illinois. Free to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...

…believers. But that is not who won them the election

The elite gop keep grafting that misreading onto everything, even things that have nothing to do with race. They think normal people being upset with inflation and the cost of living meant they wanted to be as racist as Stephen miller Yes, that is true for a lot of people. Esp among their true…

…felt like they were being called racist all the time for essentially nothing. The elite right, which is now in power, took that to mean that these normal median voters think racism is Good policy, as the trump brass clearly does.

It’s just jarring. They are misreading the moment in ways I once thought unthinkable. I’m stealing this from Chapo trap house (y’all’s favorite show, I’m sure *smashes sarcasm button*) but: the “anti-woke” backlash among normies worked BECAUSE those people largely thought racism is bad, and they…

The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite — that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who don’t talk like normal people — is all that’s happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise — comms and policymakers

there are so many ways to do it. false flag posts (threats, hysterical exaggeration, etc) to discredit the opposition, coordinated harassment mobs on particular people, just stirring up divisive shit, etc etc bsky.app/profile/jerr...

people scoffed at "Russia bots are manipulating the discourse on social media" story in 2016 but on reflection I'm convinced that is totally possible for all kinds of actors, and with LLMs it has never been easier

remembering that plague of disagree bots that was all over the place on here awhile back. I tend to wonder if the "unable to read" repliers we're seeing now are actual humans

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small. www.datacenterwatch.org/report

This makes me livid. “After learning that the administration released 28 detainees but kept their cash, phones, driver’s licenses, passports, work permits, and more…”

The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.

Anyway, the answer is “that’s what the organizing is for.” “I don’t know how it will address fears that a small group of tech oligarchs are working feverishly to design a future in which many of the rest of us might be rendered functionally obsolete.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…

Freshmen JT Pettigrew & Rakim Chaney, along with sophomore Justus McNair all announced they'll be returning to Valpo next season. The Beacons could be a team to watch in the Missouri Valley Conference next season and it's...just March.

I can understand the Trump people, idiotically, not making a plan. But it’s unfathomable to me that CENTCOM didn’t have a plan in the files somewhere from a more competent era of American governance. What have generations of Pentagon war planners been doing?

It is kind of funny they found a state willing to sink to their level of public comms

UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km into Russian held territory on the

What could go wrong?

How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy "Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...