We are doing double tap strikes now?

No surprise there. Remember that Trump thinks veterans are “losers and suckers.”

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Story this am fr NYT Vivian Yee about women who support biblical patriarchy --and household voting. And a study from UNLV about views of men who support tradwife phenom linked to higher rates of sexism. All of a piece, & why I write about 18thc family history 1/ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

"A government can survive one round of politically motivated departures. What it cannot easily survive is a culture in which its most talented officers conclude that honest analysis is futile, and that advancement depends on ideological compliance."

HEADS UP Plains states- you've been enjoying low #gasprices but you could see a price hike soon. My suggestion is prepare for gas price jumps in: MN, ND, SD, NE, IA, KS, MO, OK, AR. More details available to my subs on X- thanks for the support

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

guys never let someone tell u that ur too much of a freak. Kate Bush's record company tried to get her to release something other than Wuthering Heights as her debut single. they said it was too weird & wouldn't chart well. but she didn't listen to them & now she's Kate Bush. never stop being weird

"This review is over" -- Todd Blanche says DOJ is done with the Epstein files

BREAKING: An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran, appearing to engage in a “casualty cover-up." trib.al/0BdA1lY

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

Just over a month in, the Pentagon is already demanding an additional $200,000,000,000 from taxpayers to wage an illegal war against Iran. That is $1,500 per household. Tell Congress to vote NO at aclu.org/war-on-iran-

John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company” Good www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

You gotta be kidding me

hmm

ICYMI: A majority of white voters—men and women alike—made a choice about what they were willing to tolerate, what they were willing to excuse, and what they were willing to prioritize.

The president's former personal lawyer taking over in a position he views as his personal lawyer.

Lee Zeldin has already destroyed the EPA. If he becomes the next AG, he'll continue in the fine Bondi tradition of destroying the DOJ.

A few facts that continually get overlooked: Trump inherited a great and thriving economy from Obama Trump destroyed it Biden inherited a destroyed economy from Trump Biden shepherded America through the pandemic and left Trump an economy that was beginning to thrive Trump has destroyed it

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

Historian @katemasur.bsky.social on the Trump admin's attacks on birthright citizenship: "Efforts to undermine birthright citizenship" are "almost always highly political and driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, not by any legitimate understanding of the 14th Amendment." (For more on Kate's work ⬇️)

make incompetence shameful again

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

They used your tax money to buy a fuck jet

This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the DSCC, DNC, DCCC, DGA, and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries, we have filed a lawsuit to block Trump latest illegal and unconstitutional executive order targeting voting. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

For a time, the virulence of the backlash against the New Deal obscured that it has often been of a piece with the attempt to undo Reconstruction as well.

I would argue (well, have argued) that originalism is a big part of this the conservative legal movement cooked up a "theory" designed to nullify the vision of Reconstruction those of us who give a damn about democracy must champion that vision instead www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Trump announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs a year ago today & his presidency never recovered. The only reason things didn't fall apart for him sooner in 1st term was the economy was good. But tariffs wrecked that & undermined his appeal w/low info voters who've been sour on the economy ever since

I wrote last winter about the return of the r-word. I'm so mad. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

while I think folks generally understand how Trump's birthright citizenship order threatens a ton of newborns now, I don't think it's fully appreciated how it also threatens everyone bc if he can arbitrarily revoke citizenship from them, why not from you? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

This is your reminder that Mariah Carey was 18 years old when Tommy Mottola “discovered” her. He was twenty-one years older, and married her five years later when she was just 23.

Vance's release date is June 16! Also searching communion by bell hooks or communion book hooks, etc. is a fun and free way to keep hooks near the top of search results.

here’s my review of the president’s address newrepublic.com/post/204003/...

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

Clearly, he's not a student of history. Because if he was, he'd know that the one time the federal government did "take care of daycare," they did it *because of a war* and used defense funding to pay for it. 1/🧵

Wives used to be on a pedestal—precarious but protected. What the devastating case of Collien Fernandes shows is that that is quickly changing—husbands are increasingly getting off on treating their Madonna figure like a whore

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

Throwback to 1979

New in PN: DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough "Maybe the plan is to normalize theft, getting the public used to watching the president dole out taxpayer money to his supporters so that we’ll hardly notice when he hands himself almost a quarter billion dollars."

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

Imagine that…

some bell hooks and some hell books

Someone sent me this.

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.