What must it be like to have as little object permanence as the markets do

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

This is *literally* how King Croesus bought it after misinterpreting the Oracle at Delphi

"If the DOGE cuts were like putting federal programs up for public executions, these days the abuses happen more like knives in a back alley." Important piece from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

My favorite recent example: bsky.app/profile/jame...

the way that quotes function in legal briefs/memos/opinions is so funny to me. like, you can grab an essentially random clause from a Supreme Court case, divorce it entirely from context, and as long as you slap a fancy citation on it? you're officially doing a Good Analysis.

it just really clicked for me how beautiful it is that Howard Ashman, a gay man, wrote the lyrics to “Gaston,” a satirical ode to toxic masculinity that uses camp to point out how everyone in town is swooning over a buffoonish jerk

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

There is at least one (1) very good thing today. Finally we have the technology to make “children do war crimes: the series” into something worth watching

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

It was the US that decided to limit the North Atlantic treaty to *defensive* obligations in *Europe and North America* because we didn't want to be drawn into imperial wars! The reasoning below could just as well be Anthony Eden shouting at Eisenhower in 1956.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card

She is just completely making this up. No such chair exists.

GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."

new from me: as the GOP was hammering Biden for record gas prices in 2022 i wrote that the “president does not, as [Republicans] would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices.” shoutout to Trump for managing to find the most damaging exception to that rule

Washington Post executives were troubled to learn that a single story could cost...thousands of dollars. Thank god they weren't around during the WaPo's coverage of Watergate, CIA dark prisons, or any of the many other stories that helped changed the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Devastating, in-depth indictment of Witkoff's handling of the Iran negotiations: "Witkoff did not have sufficient technical expertise or diplomatic experience to engage in effective diplomacy." www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03...

Thank God, Congress isn’t alive to see this

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...

Rick absolutely has the Tavern Brawler feat

new from me: as the GOP was hammering Biden for record gas prices in 2022 i wrote that the “president does not, as [Republicans] would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices.” shoutout to Trump for managing to find the most damaging exception to that rule

I hate how true this is, and how many times I think about this post every time I read the news.

Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement

I made a helpful guide for posting

OPINION by MS NOW writer @hayesbrown.bsky.social "While any drop off is encouraging, the danger in this moment is that the 'softer touch' Trump said his administration needed will be mistaken as a reversion to the norm." READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/step...

"Being fully fired might have been more of a kindness, as it would have freed her up to carve a new path — or at least write a tell-all book."

"Being fully fired might have been more of a kindness, as it would have freed her up to carve a new path — or at least write a tell-all book."

v low priority thought: i just think it's funny that trump has moved to rename precisely zero things after his wife and kids

I look away and come back and the war has gotten even dumber

the pentagon said it was about letting an outside company put restrictions on the military. but anthropic’s redlines show how the bar is low enough to be in hell for what counts as responsibility from an AI company

This is some next-level swiftboating

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There we go: bsky.app/profile/pass...

this timeline refuses to challenge the “dumbest dystopia” accusations

the pentagon said it was about letting an outside company put restrictions on the military. but anthropic’s redlines show how the bar is low enough to be in hell for what counts as responsibility from an AI company

hello. it me. www.thecut.com/article/surg...

just stumbled upon an antique shop named 'the past & the curious' which

Ultra-rich buyers are consolidating New York townhouse apartments into giant single-family homes. Some are buying two, even three adjacent townhomes to build a franken-house. Step inside a Manhattan mega-mansion, the latest status symbol in this second Gilded Age: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

"As much as Trump wants to present America as a utopia under his benevolent rule, there is no need for a dictator without a healthy dose of fear among the populace."

The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.

Trump brought a cheery monstrousness to his State of the Union address, smiling as he relished the gory details of horrific crimes — when he wasn't slandering Somalis and attacking Democrats as "sick" and "crazy." My take @ms.now.

we are losing our queer icons.

"As much as Trump wants to present America as a utopia under his benevolent rule, there is no need for a dictator without a healthy dose of fear among the populace."

‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS’ is joining The Criterion Collection. #KPopDemonHunters #CriterionCollection 🔗 variety.com/2026/film/ne...

looks like the one hangup from the liberals was the need to invoke the "major questions" doctrine since less weighted interpretations would've sufficed. but on the main substance all six agreed that the "emergency powers" use of tariffs doesn't fly

“[Trump] has not explained why he has chosen this moment to confront Iran instead of, for example, North Korea, which in the years after Mr. Trump’s failed negotiations in the first term has expanded its nuclear arsenal to 60 or more warheads” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...