lol the countdown begins www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

In case you missed it. Like, as in, you‘ve been sleeping under a rock for a year or so. laist.com/news/ice-arr...

Sometimes Passover wishes you the best. May those fuckers stop warmongering in our names.

Today’s Least Surprising News of the Day. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

It's not fashionable to say this, but basically Schumer, Jeffries and the Democratic Caucuses forced Trump, Johnson and Thune to tap out. They didn't give an inch and now Republicans are going to have to go through the meat grinder that is a SECOND reconciliation bill.

Johnson and Thune agree to Trump's plan to do a dual-track funding plan on Homeland Security via appropriations and reconciliation. Trump called for a bill to be on his desk by June 1 It's hard to read this as anything but the Democrats won the DHS funding fight.

Credit where it's due. I choose to believe all our yelling at them has finally sunk in.

Third Way, January 2025: No more litmus tests! Democrats must "reject the pledges!" Third Way, March 2026: Here's a litmus test!

lmao Justice Kavanaugh: So this could be a short opinion where we just say Wong Kim Ark was right, this is affirmed? Cecilia Wang: ...Yes. Audience: [laughter] The Trump administration's argument against birthright citizenship is literally laughable

Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.

"Ontology, a term popularized by Palantir," I want to fucking kms

Penn officials should take on jail time and contempt before handing over anything.

Two thoughts about this: • This almost certainly does not win him points with any justice, and, if anything, will be seen as a negative. • Because that is so clear, I almost think this is a move because the Trump admin knows this is a legal loser, so they best they can do is some politics.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

SCOTUS in U.S. v. Skrmetti on state laws banning youth gender-affirming care: yes, states can regulate medical care for youth SCOTUS in Chiles v. Salazar on state laws banning conversion therapy: oh, no... not like that. And on trans day of visibility no less... what a disgrace.

What's crazy about a rapid change like this is that it makes a great opportunity for graft! In the U.S. we have A-class artisans in graft! Let's do it! Let's do this but even have massive corruption! I'll be quite happy to see it!

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Astronomy is an art, not a science. Not only should no two datasets be—or ought to be—processed/reduced the same way, but data do not usually even point to unique interpretations that would lead to coherent, deterministic hypotheses as uniquely explanatory.

But Christianity has a competing religious tradition in America Racism

The 77 million people that did vote for Donald Trump are overwhelmingly Christian … which means they have a shared moral covenant

Astronomy is an art, not a science. Not only should no two datasets be—or ought to be—processed/reduced the same way, but data do not usually even point to unique interpretations that would lead to coherent, deterministic hypotheses as uniquely explanatory.

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

the American public education system is affordable childcare before anything else, and ill equipped to meet the needs of the children it serves. your teachers would love to teach important things, but instead they are handling trauma and special needs without the tools to do so effectively.

There's the world before John Wyndham and the world after.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Happy 58th birthday to Lucy Lawless, who has always understood the assignment.

There's a word for this

Precisely. I don’t care how many of them wore tricorn hats and had teabags dangling from their earlobes. They were outnumbered by the monkeys and bananas on the posters, and the cracks about using welfare money (“Obama Bucks”) to buy watermelon and fried chicken. F these monsters.

Because the purpose of "The Law" is to constrain the powerless within the constructs of the powerful and never stopped being so.

OPSEC IS CLEAN

Assassinations of people for political disagreements are absolutely unacceptable and I am very glad this was stopped.

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

The "Originalism" scholarship of the past year on Birthright Citizenship is akin to people shitting in their underwear and then pointing out that, you know—it isn't commonly understood—we didn't used to wear clothes—don't you know—and people would just shit wherever look at my dazzling intellect.

Wait til they hear those Oberlin kids bring out the big guns: hegemony.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

I guess in truth we just wanted to be able to call our own dollar A Loony.

And overnight the USD will be worth 70% of Canadian dollar.

This gives more (and quite interesting) details about why this would be insanely dangerous, extremely unlikely to succeed, and in every other way stupid beyond belief.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

One of the most interesting discussions I've ever heard was between a bunch of Israeli men and women in 1993 about peace with Egypt. The women complained that it was a cold peace, and the men, who would have been in combat units, said they didn't care. Forty-seven years today of no war.

Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

Lincoln’s hands are so huge lol also wtf is the great American state fair

That was where Mr Abrego-Garcia said he was willing to go. So now what happens...

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.