"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026 "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut

The fuck kind of answer is this

my Dad had a client who stabbed her husband’s lover to death w/ sewing scissors. He got the charges down from murder to manslaughter bc he was a great lawyer. When she got out of jail he hired her to take care of his newborn daughter (me)

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

This is interesting. The coaches are realizing that culture war bullshit is making their lives more difficult! Hard to convince a talented Black kid to come to your school when you've shut down the African American Studies Program: standforcampusfreedom.org/coaches/

Yall is this real? Is the 😫emoji a sex thing? My 16yo says it is and that I shouldn’t use it anymore. I think he’s trolling.

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

I am back in D.C. to hear from cruel Kristi Noem on why she is complicit in the chaos happening at DHS, vote on a War Powers Resolution to rein Donald Trump in, and vote against a DHS funding bill that does nothing to address the reckless actions we’re seeing from ICE. The work continues.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

Polymarket doesn’t often balk at bets on violence and war. But it just pulled a market betting on nuclear war in 2026. Too dramatic? This comes as its CEO repeatedly called the site "the future of news" and continues to allow bets on war and death in Ukraine and Iran.

“Yet CPHE has never been independent. Created by an aggressively partisan politician, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, it is a political enterprise rather than one committed to academic excellence, which requires academic freedom and institutional autonomy for colleges and universities.”

a democratic ICE collaborator just lost to her not-a-nazi primary challenger by FORTY EIGHT POINTS

Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

(cartoon from 2003) open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human? As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”

Periodic reminder: Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

Epic hot flash in the middle of a school board meeting. Red face, sweat, the whole thing. It feels humiliating even though I can’t help it. Being a woman is just nonstop internal biological warfare.

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters

Trump, a former game show host who received five deferments during the Vietnam War, parties with millionaires as American troops die: www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

Q: There are a large amount of US service members that are in harm's way right now. What is your prayer for them? HEGSETH: My prayer for them is that I do pray for them. My wife prays for them. Our family prays for them. Our cabinet prays for them.

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The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood. These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

me in 2050: doctor my nutritional gummy gave me covid 4 doctorbot (alpha) via ZMAIL ver 3: Kill you are self

So say we all

The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

Definitely what the secretary of defense should be focusing on while war with Iran looms. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I was upset about this yesterday and I'm still upset about this today but then I remembered that in the Soviet Union people longed for music that wasn't just propaganda approved so much that they created a cottage industry of smuggling in music and copying them onto records made from old x-rays

For 15+ years in the classroom when I talk about the idea of neutrality in history I say that I'm not "objective." My bias is in favor of human freedom and dignity. I'm not on the side of Nazis. I'm not on the side of slaveowners. And I'm not the one who suddenly made those statements controversial.

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

DHS continues to act with disregard for basic standards and respect for civil and human rights. The heartbreaking story of Nurul Amin Shah Alam isn’t an isolated incident.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

That birds aren't real but were created by the CIA to form a giant surveillance network and the Covid lockdowns were necessary to change all the batteries.

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

She fucking nailed it. 😆