The journalists doing this want to be able to look their grandchildren in the eye and say they did everything possible to fight fascism short of anything that would get them disinvited from next year’s gala

Lest we forget, this war started because Trump attacked Iran unprovoked in the middle of negotiations to reinstate a deal that Trump himself reneged on in his first term, and his opening shot was to kill all the leaders of Iran in a massive surprise strike. Criminal rogue state lunacy

A lot of Trump’s appeal is that this is also the barstool moron’s view of domestic policy: If you only get a Strong Leader who’s willing to ram through the Obvious Simple Answer, all problems are easy to solve!

They honestly do seem to believe, as Adam says, that savagery, disregard for human rights, and contempt for international law are a kind of cheat code. It’s the barstool moron’s worldview that everything is easy if you just stop being a pussy and unleash enough brute force.

there are a lot of reasons why elon is the worst poster alive but the fact that he has spent much of his posting life going “mooooom, people are being mean to me on the internet” is near the top of the list

Games with placeable design items have only 2 of 4 possible perspectives choosable. So it is impossible to do something as predictable as place chairs around a table because they only point two directions so you have to have them awkwardly turned away. Similar issue with buildings not facing roads.

fucking incredible how a core principal of MAGA is asking "why aren't we just defecting in this prisoner's dilemma?"

This is an egregious misapplication of the Penile Code

But dealing with the small number of people who simply DO NOT CARE about social costs or understand that they SHOULD care is kind of a permanent human problem. It's HARD for any system to deal with.

So painful to read Federalist 76, which is about the president's appointment power, in 2025. Hamilton's like, no president would be so degenerate as to appoint only those "personally allied to him," esp since Senate confirmation would 'silently operate' as an "excellent check" on such attempts

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

People who work at this magazine think it's interesting or counterintuitive or whatever to blame the left for what the right is doing, but when *every single article* posits the same thesis you're not challenging your readers, you are coddling them.

The news needs to stop mincing words about what Hegseth is doing: restoring racial segregation to the US military by preventing anyone but white men from advancing

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

* wants to plop his house on 5 whole acres of untouched nature * appreciates nature so much he wants to destroy protections for all our most endangered species including the jay that makes those woods its home Guarantee techbro looks at beauty the same in people; valuing only to possess and control

* wants to plop his house on 5 whole acres of untouched nature * appreciates nature so much he wants to destroy protections for all our most endangered species including the jay that makes those woods its home Guarantee he looks at women the same way, only valuing beauty he can possess and control.

More on the lawsuit. If successful, it could strip federal protection from more than 1200 threatened or endangered species nationwide. floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/26/l...

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

The labs will be destroyed, 6 months from now the courts will order the Forest Service reinstated but the labs will be gone. The regime knows this: break every law, destroy everything, by the time the courts do anything the destruction can't be reversed. In effect, they get away with *everything*.

Marines scramble to reassure families after report of ICE at boot camp graduation ceremonies, assuring them that ICE will instead detain them at churches, emergency rooms and elementary schools like the rest of America.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

A moomerang trip.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

We are ruled by morons and it makes me want to light my law degree on fire

43/ pro tip: "you have a number of hurdles here" is a very funny way for a judge to say "you have the shittiest case I have ever seen"

everyone raise your hand if you’ve done this yes, even you, I see you over there pretending you haven’t done this, get your hand up

Lack of white collar crime enforcement is how we got here, so the Trump admin isn’t very motivated to suppress it.

Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.

literally all the arguments Trump is making in the birthright citizenship case are arguments that Congress and the Supreme Court already rejected over a century ago we've been here before as a nation and decided we didn't wanna be here, so get out my face ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

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See, I am kind of glad this is playing out in public. Because Israel Is *not* the only country in his ear. Even though that's to conversation driver on here, those Gulf states and Israel are on the same wavelength. Pay attention

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

the times does not like when you point this out ime bsky.app/profile/lamp...

Exactly this. We’re not seeing the stories on this platform due to its relative lack of international reach and the obsequious nature of US reporting, but entire residential blocks are being flattened in Tehran and other cities in Iran.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

They're not even claiming that their reporting is accurate to the AMA's past statements, they're claiming that their reporting is accurate to their STANCE! "The AMA is currently lying to you about their position, per our own reporting(us interpreting their past statements)." - New York Times

I just fundamentally side against ideologies that say "where you're born is where you must stay, your family owns you, you belong to a piece of land and if you leave where you're from you're oppressing people wherever you move"

I have benefited so much in my career from having made some assorted positive impressions early on. It has since astonished me how far people will go to fit any set of facts into those impressions and give me an unasked for benefit of the doubt when they can’t. I’ve also seen the opposite absolutely

ICE murdered this man just as surely as they murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

This story convinces me that Platner 100% knew he was getting a Nazi tattoo in Croatia, and did it for the same reason he wore a Blackwater baseball cap - as a troll, "just to get a rise" out of people.

Despite their best efforts, I'm pretty sure that this means that the credibility ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe, charted new reefs and shoals in three oceans, returned, and been decommissioned and converted into a museum.

There is absolutely nothing preventing a candidate from just soliciting donations for an actual charity that knows what it's doing and is operating legally rather than trying to stupidly trying to mingle campaign operations with food distribution.

Genuine problem that we don't have a good catchy accessible term for rent seeking that people can use to campaign against it. Back in the day "special interests" was more focused on it, but that got watered down and overused to the point that it doesn't really work anymore.