PITTSBURGH. I expected another hollowed out rust belt relic. But it was beautiful and vibrant.

An Angry Man.

imagining the scene in casablanca where they all defiantly sing la marseillaise despite being surrounded by nazis but it’s us and the song is born in the USA

This dude seems righteous.

What’s really annoying is that this is a great line, and Roberts knows it’ll hit its target.

One good reason for in-person protests like #NoKings is it makes visible that the right-wing unreality is a lie There is a vast community of people who do not agree with what is happening but they are hidden from each other by the sheer weight of narrative about authoritarian populism

What this tells me is that there are basically no interesting personal details about Rahm Emanuel so writers are forced to act like opening a salad container is revelatory.

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Neoliberalism doesn’t lead to fascism, you’re just watching fascists try to tear down whatever happens to be in place and backfilling explanations for what’s going on to allow you to get mad at the people you’ve decided are the real enemy, the people you get mad at on the Internet

JJ WETHERHOLT WALKS IT OFF!

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

Former Cardinal.

OTOH, those very election results are really telling of the parochialism of Illinois voters.

THAT’S A REDBIRD WINNER!

One thing you’re seeing here is that Platner remains a relative unknown (yes, even given that we’re obsessed with him). People are willing to project their dreams on him a bit. No idea what happens when all of his blanks are filled in.

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

Woman in Cambridge, MD hired some contractors and then called ICE on them just before they finished so she wouldn't have to pay them the $10k she owes them. She even provides ICE a ladder to help them get the contractors.

Pete Hegseth called them “narco terrorists” and the official statement from the Trump administration called it a training camp for drug traffickers. It was a dairy farm. They murdered Ecuadorian farmers. With our money. The War on Drugs has always been a fascist plot to kill Black and Brown people

Bro didnt even suspend the election in his own state house seat

mar a lago has gone WOKE

I think this is right and you should command an extremely high price for supporting Platner, one he hasn’t met yet. But I will say, Platner has, so far, expressed firmer ideological and policy commitments than Fetterman did.

And you need to keep track of things like this. Otherwise it feels like the culture is lost, and there's no way to counter the endless tide. Well, there is. The beast is not invulnerable.

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

ZVONOMIR FUCKING IVISIC

Zvonimir Ivisic poster slam, as called on Croatian TV:

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I’m too lazy to argue about it, but it’s *extremely* funny to see Europeans claim that the United States has less majestic scenery and wilderness than their own. if the U.S. has such lame natural wonders, why do Germans keep insisting on visiting them and dying in easily preventable ways?

Cool, gets ICE off our streets.

Congratulations, Margaret Croke on winning the Democratic primary for Illinois Comptroller! She knows how to get things done, and I know she will hit the ground running on day one fighting for Illinois families.

Uh would we be *lifting sanctions on Iran* if we were winning

contrary to being *terrifying* these numbers speak to the fact that Trump admin hacks are still the significant minority in the federal government and/or Trump I hacks have been negatively polarized against Trump II

Yesterday, on the eve of the Iranian New Year,Iran's regime hanged 5 teenagers who had been detained during the January protests in the cities of Qom &Ilam.Today, 18-year-old Melika Azizi from the city of Rasht,who was arrested for burning regime symbols during the protests, faces imminent execution

This feels like it *must* be making a joke. If not...I think the effort is noble, and while I question the execution...what the fuck do I know? I'm 42.

Uuuuuhhhh given the demographics at play here, this is actually really gross?

prime example of why “but they’re married to/in a relationship with someone of a different ethnicity so they can’t be racist” is complete horseshit humanity is always conditional to these people

Death spiral.

Writing process: (1) “I have the best argument in the world”; (2) start writing, think “oh no, this is a terrible argument, I’m going to lose”; (3) keep writing, think “this is pretty good, I think we have a good chance”; (4) proofread multiple times; (5) file; (6) find typo.

It’s like how Agatha Christie didn’t know who the killer was until Poirot said it.

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.

The slurs are more than bad enough, but this racist piece of trash is trying to pop off without knowing the first thing about IL politics.

Lotta folks going with some variant of "Pritzker just won the primary for Stratton" today, and it's both incorrect and kinda gross.

Thank you, Illinois. Tonight’s message is clear – we’re ready to take our democracy back into our own hands.

I think this is right bc everyone should have RCV, but also this was basically once-in-a-generation turnover. Our primaries aren’t always this crowded.

very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

What an unpleasant account.

It's hilarious that we're calling Daniel Biss, who did everything but beg for Bernie's approval in 2018, a "liberal/centrist". The revolution will swallow its own.

I can’t believe this clip doesn’t get used more in Platner discourse. youtu.be/obZ7_c4BrDc?...

The other thing is, Biss was kind of a shitty mathematician in the first place, lol.