I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

I’m not convinced Trump’s rewriting of the horrible bombing of a girls school won’t be Russia hoaxed, election rigged, and Chinese bioweaponed into Trumpist canon.

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste

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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

let's see if I've got this straight the war is over, pretty much except if we want to bomb iran some more, or israel does or if iran decides to keep the strait closed also the regime didn't change and we didn't accomplish anything but blowing up a bunch of kids and poisoning tehran ok good work

I mean, on January 7, 2021 the headline should have read "Trump was Open to Mike Pence and Congressional Leaders Being Killed for not Ceding to his Demands."

This headline reminds me of October 2016 when candidate Trump said about Clinton that "some 2nd Amendment person" might have to take care of the situation if she got elected. Might have merited a headline that read "Trump Open to Clinton Being Killed if She Doesn't Cede to the NRA's Demands."

That is the logic of anti-dei reactionary colorblindness. Acknowledging discrimination against a particular group is inherently discriminatory. bsky.app/profile/bren...

This was the point:

New study finds even when people can tell a political deepfake is fake, it still makes them think worse of the politician being attacked. Fact-checks can help people spot the deception, but they can't undo the damage to that politician's reputation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Homeland Security helped nab an 80-year-old man for paying a sex worker. Do you feel safer yet? The arrest was part of yet another federal investigation into potential prostitution at a massage business reason.com/2026/03/09/h...

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Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are merging their publicly traded golf-course holding company with Powerus, a Florida-based drone company, with the goal of filling the gaps left by the Trump administration’s ban on Chinese drones. trib.al/XtKzBRi

Shoe sizes don't care about your feelings

a man really wrote the words “devising ever more intricate beverages, we knock one more chunk from society's foundation.” and they put it in the newspaper.

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Democrats still get grief for a decade-old “deplorable” comment whereas Republicans acting like the Klan barely hits the news. Bigotry is a career strategy for them.

Teaching Windsor & Obergefell tmw & it's nausea-inducing to read Scalia/Alito/Roberts/Thomas's overwrought handwringing about judicial despotism when it's stunningly obvious they have & happily do wield the iron scepter of judicial supremacy when they have the votes. Just hypocrisy all the way down.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

a propos earlier convs about how some readers insist books must be first person, I was just checking something on Goodreads and someone's left a comment on one of my reviews saying "may I ask before I purchase - is the book in 1st person?" It's a scholarly biography of Edward I.

Trump speaking after markets close is usually a sign he’ll say something bad for the economy, and the White House communications team doesn’t want a graph with the line going down and blaring red numbers with a minus sign on the screen with him when he does.

Here is one Democrat already saying the very easy and obvious thing to say in response to comments like Ogles' bsky.app/profile/whip...

F.B.I. Subpoenas Records in Arizona in Expansion of 2020 Voting Inquiry www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Having Pete Hegseth in charge of the DOD has always felt like an insanely risky proposition. He's deeply unqualified, and is concerned with projecting dominance to the detriment of actual leadership. Now though...feels like this could be a catastrophic failure of leadership.

A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media. n.pr/4be42ye

oh for god's sake

This is what happens when you replace actual analysts with 4Chan lurking incel meme lords who don’t read, speak other languages, or know anything about history, geography, economics, or politics.

"You can just solve every problem with brute force" -- dumb guy who has never in his life had to do that bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Listening to interviews with a bunch of tech policy people and apparently the term AI now means basically anything a computer does without close supervision by a human. Because AI is just a marketing term that tech companies say means whatever they want.

An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers. This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.

Outsourcing their what now?

I think you can always tell whose had a manual/physical job (or one without regulsr hours) and who hasnt. Because those who have would normally do a lot to avoid going back - and dont do the weird fetishisation of them. Because their often painful and shit.

I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."

Along with being fascist criminals:

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

People did argue Eliza was self-aware. And it was just about 200 lines of code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA#R...

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including: 6,668 civilian structures 5,535 homes 14 hospitals 65 schools

Seems bad that these two guys who have the ear of the US president are out here promoting Richard Butler-style white nationalism.

This administration is already a world-historic bringer of death, and they're still ramping up.

It's hard to imagine a revived draft has more than minimal support in the US. Trump voters might like the guy, but sending their kids to Iran to die for him is a bridge too far for many.

Dow futures tumble 900 points as U.S. oil tops $100 a barrel to begin the week's trading www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/s...

The political movement that can’t stop talking about “goyslop” and “goonbait” is somehow struggling with messaging

This should for all intents and purposes be treated as a straight up lie and misinformation on the part of the US until proven otherwise