Appropriations levels are law and Trump is violating the constitution by not taking care that they be faithfully executed and he has been since the day he began executing the powers of the presidency in 2025.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

NYT: young people at CPAC are "J-pilled," defined as slang for "skepticism of Israeli influence" Then a few grafs later they quote a groyper who says "at least 60 percent of the young people here" are fans of Nick Fuentes, who wants to deport all Jews from America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

Yes, Trumpism’s view of geopolitics is essentially “what if the Soviets were correct” - nobody has agency outside the superpowers, everyone acts due to cynical material interests, America is a hive of racist reaction, human rights is basically a fiction, capitalism is intrinsically corrupt.

LLMs have uses and won't disappear, but when the bubble of Venture-funded hyper-cheap consumer access to LLMs pops — and that could be starting now — a lot of people are going to be unable to do their jobs or manage their lives anymore.

100% of the people who claim to be “defending Western civilization” think Western civilization is Christian ethnonationalism

a very funny thing is that there are still DC right-wing policy types gunning for a place in a Rubio administration that will never happen

I think this is a faultline that runs throughout the administration: They have no theory of mind, and are completely baffled by any motivation more complicated than immediate material gain.

I know this is just his gibberish, mangled regurgitation of talking points somebody else gave him, but still... slavery was already abolished before the 14th Amendment. 13 comes before 14. There were no "babies of slaves" being born in 1868.

This is "Iran says I always try to calm the markets on Monday morning, so if I do the opposite then they'll think we're really serious".

One thing we have come to expect is that Trump will say stupid stuff like this and then reverse himself in a few hours.

It’s a “fun” trailer for the post-2029 election commentary, in which “the economic consequences of the war in Iran” will feature essentially not at all.

"Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on February 28th. It may be pummelled on the battlefield, but the regime is winning the energy war." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

shadow IT LLM usage is never a good idea, if you allow it, it means that confidential information from your company is going into the *personal* accounts of your employees, and is subject to discovery if and when litigation eventuates. don't mix the context windows. just don't.

Etymology: it’s never an acronym

In the last 2 years, dozens of Israelis have been caught spying for Iran. There's a pattern: 1. They're recruited via messaging apps, usually Telegram 2. They're paid in crypto 3. They're given a series of escalating 'challenge' tasks, starting small (eg graffiti) and getting bigger (murder).

occured to me today that the Iran War was as unplanned and incompetent as it is partially because, if Trump was killed by a strike from an opponent with devastating airpower, every member of his team would be scrambling to make a deal with the enemy and take power

Conceal, don't feel.

Has anyone asked Homan why the ICE agents are armed when TSA agents are not?

Shortest Tudor reign since Lady Jane Grey

Good thread. Aiui from the Israeli cases it's also a pattern of basically targeting and grooming those on the margins on society - a convicted pedophile, a recent migrant, a failed businessman with debts, a teenager with schizophrenia etc

if you really hate someone, teach them to recognize LLM-generated text

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

made me think of @sarahz.bsky.social

Niles: It wasn‘t really your finest hour, was it? Fraiser: I thought it was a novel idea for treatment. How was I meant to recognise the great clown Pagliacci without makeup?

Important to remember that many people got used to the National Guard posted up in DC very quickly, and folks outside of DC largely forgot it’s even happening. It doesn’t take long at all for it to be seen as normal.

They got long prism sentences

not a big Hillary Clinton fan but the way the media is protecting the public from the details of Kash fucking Patel's personal emails is impossible to ignore

The North Vietnamese?

In the current US war against Iran, America is facing its most militarily capable opponent since.... Iraq in the Gulf War, armed to the teeth but a paper tiger in combat? North Korea after China joined the war in late 1950?

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

This is an enemy of the Constitution bragging about its destruction

Yeah and it just attracts more body Thetans.

Here's Reuters' story about Iran hacking a 2010-2019 email account of Kash Patel. www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...

In Hebrew, Vance is transliterated as ואנס, which could be read as "and raped" or "and rapist". I keep reading articles and double-taking as my brain translates them as "The Vice President and rapist said..."

Brent up about $1.50 this morning and at almost at $110 again. About 12 hours after the latest Truth Social signalled deescalation. The half life of these posts is falling.

I've done the number crunching and looked at the occupational maps of Labour's 100 most marginal seats. It's all about carers, retail workers, managers, salespeople, logistics, tradespeople, teachers.... And yet our politics of work is about one or two "hero" classes and occupations.

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

I believe the kids call this "aura farming"

clavicular suffers massive cortisol spike after being lawmogged by misdemeanormaxxing police

Feel like he runs for congress in 2028.

"You're looking for the red-winged blackbird, eh? Who's askin'? That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. Let me tell you a story...."

In my school we got to skip lessons to go to the school counsellor. A bunch of us invented a whole storyline involving hard drugs, unprotected sex and gang violence that we'd tell her, knowing full well she repeated it to the rest of the teachers.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

“Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Only at CPAC can you buy a "make America godly again" bumper sticker before listening to a speech from a guy who paid a 17yr old for sex

"shows he can handle opposition" by taking one of his potential opponents off the board? Hmm.

Truly extraordinary that a country famed for a constitution of checks and balances turned out to be so exposed to a leadership personality cult.