Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

The people tune in to see the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties – give them what they want

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Wow, you mean it wasn't a good idea for people who wanted to see their religion to grow and thrive to fuse it to crass, oppressive, and mean spirited authoritarian politics?

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

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Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.

The Capital One Bank Guy is the laziest, most insulting attempt at characterization I have ever seen

trump: prices are down. we're living deliciously. it's beautiful kilmeade: democrats say you met with black phillip-in essence the devil. can you squash that rumor? trump: i won't say who but we had a conversation that might be one of the most wonderful conversations in terms of the things we said

I would walk 500 miles, but that’s it (seems like that should be enough)

If the ownership group of an upmarket restaurant contains a local sports legend, that’s a red flag

[I turn on the TV and every channel is showing me being burned in effigy] This can't be good

Last night I was reading the part of Hilary Mantel's great French Revolution novel where Danton is violently freaking out, hitting and threatening people, trying to prevent the release of documents showing he was in the pay of the Brits and the Court the whole time

take a moment to ponder the greatness of Karma Chameleon

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

Is baby Harriet (7 months, 6 lbs) going to be too big and mature to ride on Dad's shoulder on the way to the vet? Not yet!

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

I wonder if they'll be able to place the charges correctly so that the ceremonial demolition of Trump's Mt. Rushmore head doesn't damage Lincoln and Washington too badly

The best literary analog to Trump 2 is Biff Tannen in the second Back to the Future movie. The best historical analog is Andronikos I Komnenos's reign in the eastern Roman Empire from 1183-1185 (look it up!).

I cry at no fewer than 9 points in the Fellowship of the Ring movie

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Halligan thing captures key essentials abt trumpism. Dark dark and will be implemented by a low rent insurance lawyer who’s comically out of her depth. Five days to indict fmr FBI director with case so weak grand jury cld easily just say no.

being a reasonable, pragmatic person with romantic sensibilities is the worst - lots of "is now the appropriate time, all things considered, to throw all caution to the wind?"

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

My crankiest pedagogical idea is to do an intro to philosophy class that's all about first millennium theological controversies (Donatism, Arianism, Manichaeism, Iconoclasm, predestination) and try to figure out what they were about, why people cared about them, what modern analogues might be, etc.

Damn @carolleonnig.bsky.social with a barn burner of a scoop www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

saying "I want to do a merger" sounds innocuous enough but apparently it means that you are a complete worm and a traitorous enemy of freedom

Charlotte Hornets have a "Sports Betting" theme night on March 17.

In Trump 1, world leaders seem to have been a little unsettled about what his election meant, even while most of the national security establishment was still in place. In Trump 2, the likes of Xi, Putin, Netanyahu have taken the measure of the man, know he has no stomach for great power competition

Trump, a psychopathic rule-ignorer, pushed to the top, nearly lost his life and his freedom, and then won. He feels invincible, nothing can get in his way; this has a euphoric effect on his toadies, who think they'll never face any music; institutional elites with weak values are bowled over

Not that anyone asked, but my very sincere advice for church leaders who want Christianity to have a vibrant future in America would be to try to ensure that young people don't associate Christian faith with mean-spirited, tawdry, corrupt authoritarian politics

I was going to complain about the latest from the John Roberts' MAGA SCOTUS, but then I looked again at my copy of the constitution, and I guess they do have a point.

We're surrounded by monsters these days, but RFK is really something special: someone who's had every benefit of elite status and education, he's used the status to indulge delusional, harmful beliefs without bearing consequences, and the education to spout horseshit with utter self-confidence

Please sir it would be such an honor for the country if you would please, it would mean so much to my little girl

The presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "THERE WILL BE TRIALS!" has my vote.

As J. Jackson points out, the Court is running a precedential shell game where unreasoned or barely rationalized emergency orders become the sole basis for later emergency orders. Whatever this is, it's not responsible or law-like.

I am a *lawyer who practices federal law.* Several times a week I see a headline that makes me think "there's no way the President can do that, right?" and I look into it and it turns out that maybe he can because Congress ceded some of its power in the What's the Worst That Could Happen Act of 1983

How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education? Let’s look to history Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions Hitler destroyed them How long did they take to recover? They haven’t

reporters: Mr. President, sir, are considering doing something exciting and awesome that will make the liberals clutch their pearls and that you don't actually have legal authority to do? president, getting into an SUV: we're looking at it very strongly, we have to stop the carnage. But we'll see

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

Happy b-day, bro! Can you believe how old we're getting? Pals who have tasted the dark nectar of forbidden pleasure share a bond that stretches beyond time and space! Timid men can't even think of the secrets that we know in each other's eyes. Hope you're having a good one!

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.