been working on this story for a (very) long time. there’s been a ton of change at sxsw, now owned out of california, over the past year. lot of people who left the company think it’s doomed. current staff insist it’s about to enter a renaissance. i tried to understand how they can both think that.

Truly a perfect news alert

Honestly the more I look into GLP-1 compounding and the peptide stuff the more I'm convinced if you want people to get vaccinated just tell them vaccines make you skinny.

One would expect the Secretary of Defense to understand what "conventional missiles" are, such that they would recognize that the statement quoted below is paradoxical, but that is not the world in which we live.

*Amazing* how many academics are out there saying "It's me! I'm the problem! I'm the dead wood!"

Not going to suggest that people refrain from engaging in Discourse, because a lot of people (not Kevin) are on here mainly to fight with strangers on the internet, but we are seeing seeing a lot of ops / bot accounts and that's going to increase substantially as we approach the midterms.

TIL Trump didn't bother to refill the strategic petroleum reserve last year when oil was dirt cheap. what can you even say www.ft.com/content/d546...

Trump on healthcare: "We can own the issue! For the first time ever Republicans can own that issue."

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Tom Edsall on the smash-and-grab presidency of Donald Trump: "So far, the war on Iran falls into a larger pattern of Trump policies leaving wanton destruction in their wake. Perhaps the most devastating of these was the administration’s decision to gut the US Agency for International Development"

Ftw

Nothing bad ever happened after a government demanded a list like this, right?

KEY: When it comes to restoring trust in higher education, "I always want to know whose trust," said @bakerdphd.bsky.social, an associate prof of education and public policy at U Delaware. "Whose trust do you think is broken, and whose trust are you trying to fix?" www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Day 10: A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon. A fantastic history written with humor and wit. I’d never given much thought to early Christianity and the cultural shift from community-centric polytheism toward individual salvation.

We are at The London Book Fair! Come by our stand to meet some of the team and check out our books (we're at booth 7C40, right next to @independentpublishersguild.com 😊📚) #LondonBookFair #LBF #publishingcommunity

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote? I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Facing constitutional headwinds, the strategy pivoted. If they could not legislate the curriculum, they would capture the institutions...partisan loyalists to boards of trustees and threatened budget vetoes to infiltrate colleges and universities. www.theeduledger.com/opinion/arti...

This is the Republican endgame for higher ed: unaccountable rw taxpayer funded institutes as incubators for rw snitches

Iran's Foreign Minister says in an exclusive with “Meet the Press” that Russia and Iran have a “very good partnership” and Russia is helping Iran “in many different directions.” NBC News has reported that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on the location of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right. But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

Outsourcing their what now?

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

the whole point of globally intertwined economies is it’s an even better deterrent than nukes! until you elect a giant pack of coddled, know-nothing fuckwit narcissists

i now estimate the chance of the average price of diesel reaching $5/gal in the next month at 85%

In accepting his WGA award, Stephen Colbert named and said something funny about each of his 20 writers so they’d be hired when his show ends 🥹 @wgaeast.bsky.social #WGAAwards

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function: "A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"

Iran's leadership has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei, the previous leader's son and aide, as the new supreme leader. So President Trump's war has succeed inreplacing one Supreme Leader Khamenei with another who is younger, healthier, just as hardline and has close ties to the IRGC.

Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed “People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads” One of the worst war crimes in modern history. It was a school—not an IRGC base.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

If you don’t have an HEB near you, I just feel sorry for you.

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.

Sorry bud, I just can't give you your $175B. Left it in my other jeans.

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “War-a-Lago,” by Barry Blitt. #NewYorkerCovers

So immigrants were “taking our jobs”… but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs? The math on their propaganda never works.

The US continues losing blue-collar jobs—year-on-year job losses have hit 238k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace, while growth in construction remains low

The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:

Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I sense twice as many Gen Z dudes will not be getting anywhere near a woman anytime soon www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Let’s hope it’s last rites.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem. (Published Nov. 2025)

The University of Louisville deserves credit for being the first Power Four athletic program to propose a cap on athletics spending. It's also strategic as they fall farther behind the SEC and Big Ten in terms of resources.

My meeting with Congressman Markwayne Mullin on 1-8-18. I ALWAYS take notes. SHARE EVERYWHERE! A Mullin appointment will be devastating to us ALL!

He wasted no time...

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online. Video incoming. This is big