I like the Messiahs who don’t get killed.

The press treats Trump like they know they're in the will.

Airman to special ops: Thank God you found me! Special ops: Hate to break it to you buddy but I placed a $100 million bet on Polymarket that you wouldn’t be returned alive

Why, no, I'm not going to argue strategy over the 25th or Impeachment because both are candy-land fantasies that will never happen and thus strategy is a dead concept

Unfortunately I have very little doubt at on how that is going to turn out. If there ever was anyone at that level prepared to burn down a career over illegal target selection, they got purged by Hegseth a while ago. The military will not save you from the voters' bad political decisions.

You can laugh at this all you want but this is precisely why any candidate whose plan is to engage usually low-engagement voters is almost always dead on arrival.

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He is talking about creating a humanitarian disaster, a clear war crime

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Tim Miller wrote an entire book about how the mainstream GOP coddled and stoked the crazies before they took over the party and how many of his friends (like Elise Stefanik) decided to embrace the crazy to gain power. AHEM.

The Trump administration presents its foreign policy as realist. But as @profpaulpoast.bsky.social writes, combining that with Hegseth’s Christian militarism is not Christian realism—it’s something far more dangerous.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.

For five weeks, people in Iran have been caught in the cross-fires of the intensifying war with the U.S. and Israel. Residents of Tehran said in interviews and messages that the capital city was weathering heavy bombardment. trib.al/qEJ8cVl

BlueSky scratches my social media itch. My personal steps to a good experience: (1) immediately block people I find rude or annoying (2) follow mostly news, media, and expert accounts; (3) otherwise follow people who are interesting and reasonable; and (4) stick to the "following" feed exclusively.

Firing Cabinet members and generals won’t make the Iran war go well. The reasons it’s going badly are structural and geographic. Not hard to see in advance, and widely warned about. But those warnings came from experts, and were dismissed by leaders who insist reality isn’t real if they say so.

Migrants in New York, never heard of such a thing. Why not just put up a welcoming statue and have done with it?

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Said many times, it’s a classic mob bustout.

Spain. France. Italy. Austria. @reuters.com

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

US leaders, a lot of media, and the stock market are acting like Trump can simply walk away from the Iran war, and I really don't think he can. He's saying the Strait of Hormuz isn't America's problem—maybe think that's a negotiating tactic—but that won't make it go away. I explore why in @ms.now:

Post below has description and link to new draft paper on the original meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction" as language was used in American legal discourse in the mid-nineteenth century. All evidence of pre-14th Amendment usage is clear and consistent with the conventional reading

Dear Yale Law students: If and when one of your professors urges you to abandon legal craft and hard work and to "change the subject" lest you legitimate the judiciary, go listen to Cecillia Wang's magnificent oral argument today. You'll realize straight off which model to follow.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

Does anyone believe that if Russia attacked a NATO country—Estonia? Poland?—that the US under Trump would rush to their aid? Or would he ape Russian propaganda, say Putin has a point, and find an excuse to let it slide? Trump’s threats to NATO mean little since he already threw away US credibility.

I grew up in the 1980s. It was the era of Reagan and Bush, and we watched far too much garbage TV. There were lots of other ways in which that period sucked. But I think that there were many benefits to growing up without the internet or social media.

As a baseball fan of many years, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I love it. Normalize giving your fellow humans hugs.

I wish people would stop using the word "cancel" when all they are referring to is the use of words to criticize somebody. (The same with language about "punching" up, down, right, or left.) There is nothing sinister or illegitimate, in itself, about using words to criticize somebody.

History is something everyone should study over the course of their lives because we can all benefit from continually extending, deepening, and qualifying our understanding of the human past. We will never complete our understanding how and why humans have behaved as they do.

“But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending…studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers &organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning”

EXCLUSIVE: Russia took satellite images of a U.S. air base days before Iran attacked the site and wounded Americans, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.

Obviously Lewis does not mean that literally, but the underlying premise — that Roe was overruled because supporters of reproductive freedom lost the battle of public opinion — is howlingly false. Dobbs is a countermajoritarian opinion, ex ante and ex post www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

"Net migration last year was substantially negative. That is more people left the country than came in... the first time that's happened in at least half a century." That's a huge economic shift.

"Trump punched Iran in the face for no reason so now oil is more expensive forever, btw remember to vote GOP in November"

Juries returned historic verdicts in a pair of high-profile lawsuits that accuse social media platforms of putting children and teens in harm's way. https://to.pbs.org/4s5DCWc

The Rigveda (c. 1500-1000 BCE) contains a hymn called "The Gambler's Lament," narrated by a man who has ruined his life by his addiction to gambling.

One big problem with the war is that, by all appearances, the Trump gang does not appear to have any real plan. It sure looks like a war that was launched and is being conducted on vibes and wishful thinking. Seems like a pretty stupid way to use the world's most powerful military!

Mueller did not know how to play the game, but he still compiled plenty of extremely damaging information the political press still could have chosen to cover accurately

really grateful for Emily Tucker (exec director @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social). I will be asking my students to read this, and I think I might have to write a similar letter myself since I keep saying this stuff to my students anyway. reject and resist genAI as and when you can. you are not alone!

How can this go on for another 3 years?

When I get angry about something, I am filled with righteous masculine fury. When you get angry about something, you are clutching your pearls or getting your panties in a twist.

Perhaps the only thing that could make me hate TSA even more would be if they joined forces with ICE.

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...

War goal: "creating the conditions for the potential fall of the Islamic republic." Sounds really vague and open ended.