Bullitt and Grogu.

Nine is JJ McCarthy? I thought it was the name of a rogue secunit. Either way, that's just nuts.

My Uncle loved to talk about his vasectomy because he got it on September 20th, 1973, the day of the King-Riggs "battle of the sexes." He never stopped thinking that was hilarious.

From my cold, dead hands, Bobby. From my cold, dead hands.

Trump has really made nationalizing industry a low-key pillar of his policy dreams. I feel like we've settled the "is it fascism" debate. Can we move on to "is it Stalinism?"

Whenever I am reminded of this, it makes me proud. Both as a Californian, and a UCSD alum.

Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?

This is absolutely insane framing. Whether Leo is soft-spoken or not, he's the head of a global institution that (supposedly) embodies, among other things, the ethos of responding to aggression with compassion and love. Punching is not in the job description.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Does it come with Lewandowski?

Jesus knows how to hit the crossing route.

Negotiations with Iran is the new infrastructure week.

When I think of Trump, I think of a man who possesses an intuitive mastery of Hegelian dialectics.

Between this and "we can't fund medicare" and "fuck your gas prices" I'm starting to wonder whether Trump is deliberately trying to destroy the GOP in the midterms. To be clear, I don't think he is, but if he were, would he do anything differently?

"He has an able team of lawyers." Does he though?

Hegseth is dumber than a box of rocks. It's always been this way. When I was in the Army in the fucking 1980s we weren't allowed to keep personal weapons on post. A bunch of us went in on storage locker off post, and when we wanted to go hunting or whatever, we had to go get them.

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Thoughftul piece about a great but complicated man thebulletin.org/2026/03/unde...

Dave Winfield

The ADHD presidency...

There are some really great examples of historical work in which scientists have collaborated. Our knowledge of plague, for example, is exponentially greater than when I was in grad school. Climate history is another. But you need scientists and historians working together, or you get this slop.

From my cold, dead hands.

I've got a history joke. But it needs revision.

Uber

When you definitely didn't do the reading.

I have a non-hoopty 2008 Fit. Am I emperor now?

Prerdered my copy. Preorder yours.

That's not true, but Napoleon retreated from Moscow rather than sit for an interview with Chotiner.

I'm 99% sure those are the rules.

I was bitten by a shark in the Straits of Hormuz.

Machinist for the department of the Navy. Died of cancer he probably got breaking up the mothballed ships used in the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests The other one was a Firefighter.

Eh, whatever.

Today would be a good day for it to happen.

Larry Moe Curly Shemp

Yes. That's how we ended up with the world's dumbest reform to our core curriculum while the guy responsible headed on down to Tiger Town.

These are crimes against humanity. We're going to need bigger courtrooms.

I don't have a personal stake in any of this, but as an early modern historian I just want to say it's been too long since there's been a good schism.

Watching the ice floes go upstream on the Hudson is fun. You don't usually get to see the effect of the tides.

The first option is the only way if we want to save the republic. And it has to involve real consequences for all of these assholes.

Not quite ready to walk over to Manhattan, but we're getting close.

Raze it and salt the earth. It's the only way to be sure.

He's absolutely going to have it demolished.

This one feels almost cruel. The "our job is to make the subject look good" part was magnificent.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. The History of Mathematics in 20 Proofs Silver Age Latin Poetry The History of Genetics Accounting Augustine (City of God and Confessions).

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

So has Bari Weiss said anything about the arrest of a CBS journalist? Ha, ha. Just kidding.

Is it cold in NYC this fine sunny morning? Why yes, yes it is.

This is why we are going to need a Nuremberg style tribunal if we get to the other side of this. This can't be a Truth and Reconciliation process, or even worse "let's just look forward." Looking forward is going to require that people who committed crimes against humanity pay for it.

An open movement, that’s huge and universal, will be more effective than a closed movement that is tiny and paranoid. If we let a fed spy into rapid response, who cares? For every one of them we get 300 neighbors. All they can do is listen as we swarm them.