NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

Hegseth Fires Three Generals, Including the Army Chief of Staff open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

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“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

My favorite Perry Mason moment from the new Acting Attorney General: "You went on TikTok and called me a 'crying little shit,' didn't you?"

“So we’re gonna win the war?” “War, whatever, I’m busy reinstalling the whites-only water fountains.”

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

I can’t even begin to tell you how bad this is.

Paging Dr. Chekhov!

Blanche “used the 2-day interview to test whether and if so how Ghislaine would implicate various famous ppl, including Trump. After she declined to do that, even w/testimony that directly conflicted w/piles of records Blanche had in his possession, he rewarded her with … a transfer to Club Fed.”

She's not even actually Jewish?????????? Her mom was Episcopalian and she's gone to services 4-5 times total as an adult? Get the actual fuck out of here.

Click thru to the pdf with a list of all the degrees now eliminates like for example women's studies and exceptional needs early childhood education and journalism and architecture and visual arts and political science and foreign language teacher ed and African & African American studies and

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

It’s easy to forget how much land used to be…wet. Like very wet. #Wetlands were the OG way to store/filter #water, while also sustaining #biodiversity & huge #ecosystems. But, like many great things, we killed it. New long-form essay: Killing the Sponge 👇🏞️ tnature.substack.com/p/killing-th...

There is a predictable way that this ends and Hegseth owns it

A drone maker backed by Don Jr. and Eric Trump is trying to sell their merch to Gulf countries under attack by Iran and while dependent on the U.S. military led by their father. apnews.com/article/trum...

Pam Bondi is a symptom of a problem that emanates from the Oval Office; shuffling deck chairs is a meaningless distraction if the policies and practices at DOJ go unaltered

"Don't block the box!"

Most people say you shouldn't kill and eat your neighbors. Jeffrey Dahmer disagrees. Is this just a question of perspective? Our ironically detached reporter with crippling daddy issues writes about it.

We should be more scared about what Hegseth is doing to the military — and what he believes — than we are: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline

"Randy George" is the perfect name for a pub in Dublin.

Whiskey Pete believed the Iranians would only offer performative resistance to an existential threat. Far right white men NEVER take responsibility for their own epic fuckups. Never. time.com/article/2026...

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

You gotta be kidding me

BORTAC and BORSTAR’s uses of force in Chicago included punching and kicking protesters, throwing tear gas, macing civilians, firing pepperballs and 40mm foam rounds into crowds, shocking people with tasers, unleashing dogs, and shooting unarmed civilians, killing at least one of them.

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

The most wholesome April fool joke

Sorry no insulin for Grandma, we are busy giving Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s more extremist son control of the Strait of Hormuz

The greatest mathematician of the space age made Artemis possible.

new york times live blog says Houston is known as "Rocket City," which is not correct (it's Space City, come on man)

It’s honestly a fair question

Bread O’ Affliction! – Sure, we wanted to use real bread, but who has the time?! Hillel Sandwich – Made from the old Rebbe’s secret recipe! Where’s Elijah when ya need him?! Burn Bush Burn! – Our spiciest ice cream peppered with Red Hots! You’ll never quite consume it!

The Republican Congress is the reason that Hegseth was allowed to start an unwinnable war. The Republican Congress is the reason we are having the worst measles outbreak in decades. The Republican Congress is the reason that people are being terrorized by ICE.

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Pete Hegseth — the most unqualified Defense Secretary in modern history — blocked the promotion of two Black & two women Army officers. These are servicemembers who earned their rank, served with distinction, and put their lives on the line for this country — & they deserve better than this mess.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

The State Department’s X Directive and the End of Platform Independence www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

“By naming the film The Mandalorian And Grogu, Disney is leaving money on the table from consumers who have no idea who Grogu is but would immediately take out their phones and buy a ticket for any movie of any genre with ‘Baby Yoda’ in its title,” said report author Heather Flynn

Leopards and their spots.