A novel pathogen could do the funniest thing right now. (I know, probably too dark.)

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

31 March 1900 | A Polish Jew, Josef Landau, was born. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34732 He perished in the camp on 12 May 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

I have seriously seen people on X -- people with graduate STEM degrees -- say that we will simply ask All Mighty AGI how to make carbon-free energy and it will tell us about some new technology we had never even imagined. They seriously think we're about to create God

Trying to imagine being so bent that I gave BlackRock concerns

🌱 Scenes from around the greenhouse today:

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

IDF directed to focus on war crimes

Apartheid state www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Me and the boys down at the lab have been working on a way to easily dislocate infantry in prepared earthworks. Give us a few thousand more years, we’re on the verge of a breakthrough.

Also Mamdani is running multiple campaigns to fix thousands of NYC potholes and shovel everyone’s snow and shit while Slotkin supported Cuomo, who was like “I hate NYC and hate you and will do nothing for you but steal tax money to pay victims of my sexual harassment lawsuits.”

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...

PROTECT GIRLS SPORTS!!!!!

As far as I can tell, the average Wall Street bro thinks global commodities are delivered by vast flocks of storks.

It’s ok. I’m sure we don’t use aluminum in much stuff.

this group broke away from dsa for not being as self-destructive as they are, in this instance, for example, expressing full solidarity with someone who is doing holocaust denial and endorsing violence against diaspora jews on main

This is what happens when you hang out on X all morning, do an afternoon Fox News hit, go to dinner with your Republican "friend," then hold an evening call with your rich crypto donor. Last thing you see before bed is an email from Searchlight with links to Ezra Klein and Lakshya Jain articles.

Oh. www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/pub...

Israel's parliament is expected to vote on a bill today that would make the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military court of killing Israelis, a measure that Israel's European allies say would unfairly target Palestinians under military occupation

"Soldiers in the unit expressed shock at what they described as collective punishment." Ah-MAY-zing. www.dw.com/en/israel-su...

Pretty clearly in the category of order that is both unlawful to give AND unlawful to carry out

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

Going great! www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Iran described US proposals to end a month of war in the Middle East as "unrealistic, illogical and excessive" and unleashed more missiles on Israel, as oil prices rose further after Yemen's Houthis entered the conflict

Political science research on thermostatic politics suggests that the best strategy for the midterms is being not-Trump. This is *especially* true given Trump's abysmal approval ratings and the state of the economy.

You really don’t have to be this credulous, but then again: This is The Daily.

wurman, basically: “just because you can find a bunch of ideological white supremacists trying to redefine the 14th amendment to write ideological racism into its substance doesn’t mean you can’t rely in their arguments to, uh, advance the interests of ideological racists”

Two idiots embarassing their families.

Meanwhile, the state of Georgia has paused collection of its gas tax to make sure people can keep driving.

For those keeping score at home: Venezuela: kidnap leader and replace with his deputy from family of notorious hardliners Iran: kill leader, replace with more hardline son Cuba: drive out nominal leader, replace with hardline Castro nepobaby

The Politico piece about Rahm Emanuel raping a salad reminded me of the legendary Washington Post profile of another egregious douche, Tom Clancy. The difference is the Clancy profile was intended to be funny.

This is how Rahm Emanuel brushes his teeth: He tears the cap off the toothpaste tube, squeezing with both strong, muscular hands. He grabs the toothbrush. He gushes paste across its head. Then he picks up the brush and attacks his mouth with intense ferocity that forces the paste throughout

30 March 1901 | A Czech Jew, Josef Simara, was born in Vsetín. A farmer. In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942. No. 36017 He perished in the camp on 26 July 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Same-day temperature records set today in San Francisco (83), Oakland (86) and San Jose (86). At San Francisco International Airport, the high of 83 degrees is the tenth same-day temperature record set this March (period of record 1946-2026).

Somewhere, Nick Leeson is having a Kobe Earthquake flashback.

“Trump said: ‘To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.’” www.ft.com/content/3bd9...

President Deals is on the case Most American voters wanted this and I hope they get it good and hard.

that he thinks he’s new shows he’s old and out of touch

By George I think they've got it.

Israel Moves Closer to Creating a Special Class of People Subject to Execution Just don't call it apartheid. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 Million This is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

On March 12, Israeli drone attacks killed Dr. Hussein Bazzi Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University’s Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, and Dr. Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the same institution. See MESA letter: mesana.org/advocacy/com...

"We've gone to war to stop savage and oppressive religious fanatics. Now please put your hands together for my good friend Mohamed bin Salman, The Bonesaw King!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Perhaps sinking trillions of dollars into counter-insurgency campaigns in the Middle East and Central Asia was not the best way for the U.S. allocate ginormous defense budgets? Just saying.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

"Over 1,000 Diaspora Jews are petitioning Israeli President Isaac Herzog to intervene against settler violence in the West Bank, saying that the settlers are threatening Israeli security."

The NYT quotes a young conservative operative without identifying him as such. On the left, the NYT quotes him wondering why anyone would think Trump is different from any other president. And then on the right, is that kid's Substack insisting that Trump is different from any other president.

More bad news for climate monitoring. Much like the fiasco with satellite derived sea ice info last summer, the very short notice of termination of a product that’s been available for decades has real world consequences. #Arctic #SeaIce