What’s not to love about Albanian immunity? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/n...

Trump: Cave or we kill you all. Iran: no Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you Iran: um ok Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon Lebanon: wtf Iran: wtf Vance: nobody mentioned you Pakistan: they were literally in the text Trump: … I totally won Iran: u ok?

It’s like being on a runaway train, heading for a disastrous collision, and being unable to get to the locomotive. And there are armed guards preventing anyone from trying to stop the wreck.

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

He’s just gonna grab Cuba by the pussy.

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Who benefits, you ask? 🧐 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

State's current directions for Americans stranded in Trump's illegal war of choice, compared to the current FlightRadar map. emptywheel.net/the-catastro...

Paging George Orwell…

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Nailed it. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

My favorite headline of the week. Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

🚨 Declassified FBI memo reveals Trump “compromised by Israel” and that Kushner was running a parallel State Department. Epstein and Dershowitz likely co-opted Mossad agents. Plus more Russian interference and sketchy ties www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Anyway, it’s oligarchs all the way down. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Who now are the guardians of liberty?

After today’s shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order. We need swift action to protect our city.

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

It dawned on me today that what ICE is doing in MN is just a drawn out January 6th but the insurrectionists are handed a gun and paycheck by the executive this time

It’s the “Bored of Peace,” silly autocorrect .

NPR and NYT earnestly asking John Bolton's opinion is kinda amusing.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Apparently, stimulating terrorism is an all-purpose international and domestic strategy for the current administration.

The headline says it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...

Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russia, spoke at Trump's impeachment hearing about a touted 'arrangement'between Russia & USA which would 'give' the US Venezuela if they let Russia take Ukraine :

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Guess it’s time for a new season of Occupied.

The actual decimation of institutions is more distressing than the nostalgic, glossy, and highly generalized veneration of same by previous critics, but sometimes I waver.

“Declaration of Vengeance” — it’s a technical term, bro.

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

If you don’t smoke, how do you know which way the wind is blowing?

Funny how the coverage of people losing their SNAP benefits doesn’t juxtapose that with how much tax those same people pay to the government that’s screwing them.

Notifying people that you’re doing a covert operation is not a covert operation. Unless you’re exceptionally devious.

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

The State of the Union is Grim open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Magical Thinking 101 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively wins a tense parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims.

Call me naive but I think Spencer Cox is doing the right thing on 60 Minutes tonight.

What percentage of our GDP is now based on hate-generation?

“Periodic reviews of the central bank” isnt exactly a potent rallying cry, but still… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

A short rant about culture wars; of course no paywalls. medium.com/@mladabee/wh...

Below, a video I’ve shared on TikTok showing the scale of unrest unleashed in Kathmandu over the last 2 days. Anger at government corruption turned into a revolution when all social media apps were banned. The government has been figuratively and literally burnt to the ground. (Take notes 🇺🇸)

Culture wars are lose-lose. Cultural collaboration is win-win. Both by definition, if you think about it.