The Trump administration doesn’t know what to do. They don’t know how to win the war they started, and they don’t know how to wind it down. All they know is lying, posturing, berating others, and hoping the problem goes away. But it won’t.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Honestly, the imperial presidency is the defining problem of our republic. He is, at most, one third of our government, not the team captain, not the leader (also the branches are not 'co-equal;' congress is supreme).

Realized that PII scrubbing is no longer a nice to have, it's a must have for any AI app handling user data, protects both users and devs from unintended exposure

But even more than that, the voters who selected them, the voters who screamed "yes, we want the old hierarchies of race and sex and wealth back" also revealed they too are fundamentally unworthy of collective leadership - because they picked *these* fools to lead.

In this case, MAGA's effort to desperately recreate and reinforce the hierarchies they've chosen honestly has served to further discredit them: these folks - corrupt, incompetent, unimaginative, cruel and unvirtuous - are obviously, transparently unfit to lead.

Not a very original thought, but as all of the irrelevancies burn away, it really is obvious that the core of MAGA is a desperate attempt to reinforce crumbling hierarchies: power of the wealthy over the poor, men over women, whites over non-whites. Born out of seizing terror of a more equal world.

bilboification

The next Dem president needs to make someone from a freight company SecDef & a former supply clerk CJCoS.

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

Hegseth is employing the logic of a cargo cult—violence is a means to achieve victory, ergo using violence means you’re achieving victory.

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

"All this policy around keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them...But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go

U.S. foreign policy has been captured by dorks obsessed with the movie 300 and the only way to fix it is to put in power dorks obsessed with the movie Master and Commander.

a fatalistic tragicomedy of nominative determinism told in three acts

Forcing your senior partner into wars that aren't in their interest is a great strategy when you're attempting shenanigans in a PDX game. Not so great in real life

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

One thing I didn't put in here but is also at play: whatever markets predict, the opposite thing becomes more likely. If markets think Trump will cave and accept humiliation, oil trends lower, making him less likely to do so. If they think he'll fight, it goes up, making him more likely to cave.

Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early https://theonion.com/dad-suggests-arriving-at-airport-14-hours-early-1819573933/

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

god grant me the serenity to accept the bellies i cannot safely pat, the courage to pat the bellies i can, and the wisdom to know the difference

Notice how Mamdani specifically uses "Pesach" in his recent statement. I've seen this from him in other holiday statements before. It's obvious he puts effort into the small cultural details, making sure he speaks to New Yorkers in THEIR language and honors THEIR culture.

From other immigration perspectives - basically all H1Bs are being held hostage unless the visa holder pays the expedited fee. They don't get processed otherwise.

in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

1/ It's very hard to win a war with a strategy that is built on bullshit. This was one of the key lessons of World War II, thanks to the approach taken by Adolf Hitler, who launched the war in Europe. Here are some of the lessons from Hitler's Great European Bullshit War. ⬇️

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

ill never understand this need from both left and right for there to be some master manipulator behind everything. sometimes politicians are just really shitty and they arent being paid off or blackmailed to do so. they just suck.

wrote a little about the Afroman verdict, which hit the sweet spot of being important on principle and hilarious reason.com/2026/03/19/j...

New game theory:

I always enjoy @stnylan.bsky.social's not-an-American-lawyer-actually-not-a-lawyer-at-all dissections of American legal opinions.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

For the rich, being made fun of in public is the worst thing that's ever happened to them (at least since they became rich).

Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.

Oh my god - I'm familiar with this dude. Van Irion was a birther attorney - he lost an administrative law hearing in Georgia that tried to get Obama kicked off the ballot back in 2012.

they're doing it for gender, imo

I will give a shiny quarter to a reporter who asks, "Mr. President, can you tell us which *current* members of your administration you think you are doing a bad job, since you always say that you always thought that after they quit?"

I didn't believe this so I looked it up and holy shit, it's true. There is a literal pathway to life imprisonment if a trans person uses the bathroom 4 times in Idaho, if this bill fully passes.

The tl;dr: the Trump administration is pretending a plea agreement with a pedophile prevents them from bringing further charges for a bunch of additional CSAM, even though it doesn't.

Fellas, is it a bad idea to use chatgpt to draft an appeal of sanctions you got for using chatgpt, when you have another appeal of sanctions you got for using chatgpt in a separate case also pending with the same court?

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Made myself some rice and tuna for lunch. Left it unattended on my desk for a few minutes and came back to find a crime had been committed. But this lil guy said not to worry as he's a detective and is already investigating.

the emerging, precarious equilibrium in the Straight of Hormuz is pretty much precisely the single outcome that decades of US military and foreign policy in the Middle East sought to prevent sherwood.news/markets/iran...

working on stuff

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

The bad news is that they will not be good at lawyering. The good news is also that they will not be good at lawyering.