Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

It's interesting how Trump, who's been saying since 2016 that he's going to fix health care, can just snap his fingers on Sunday and put thousands of ICE agents in the nation's airports on Monday at a cost of millions of dollars a day and yet health care...welll...that'll take time.

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

Nothing says "The OR GOP is the party of meritocracy" like a candidate posing for pictures in the lavish home of a 3rd gen timber baron who spent a $1 million to try to defeat a public education funding measure while giving lavishly to fund private schools. Also, that sheriff standing next to her...

Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

In 1976, the Republican platform enthusiastically endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment. (Left) In 2026, one of the Republican Party’s leading messengers is Handmaid’s Tale posting with glee. (Right)

Here's another photo of the year candidate from Getty contributor Megan Varner:

This is quite a story.

Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels at a Nevada golf tournament while his wife was home nursing their 4 month old son Baron.

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

3.20.2026. Cherry blossoms in Salem OR. Everything feels so shitty right now. And then there was this.

The Timbers aren’t having a stellar season so far, but at least we have Caesar, the no drama llama.

I would read the heck out of a book or article that explained why a disproportionate number of American fascists have been chiropractors. No shade on that entire category of practitioners, but it's definitely a theme that has emerged in my research on the US far right. Article is from 2001.

The first time I left the US I was 22, and the first airport I landed at was Singapore. I viscerally remember walking out of the gate and seeing soldiers strolling through the airport brandishing machine guns. As a naive American, I though to myself "Yikes, this is what authoritarianism looks like."

it's wild his full name was entertainment entertainment cummings

Louvre-worthy tweet by an InfoWars doofus. The Spaghetti Factory detail is [chef’s kiss].

Look, how was Trump supposed to know that the Straights of Hormuz are so goddamn crooked? He’s got some people looking into this very strongly and they will soon identify the stupid people responsible for giving it that name.

Did a big thread about this on Twitter a few years back, about how the Columbine shooters were steeped in nazi rhetoric, including eugenicist beliefs about killing disabled people, and just how much their neo-nazism wasn't just downplayed but omitted. Text from: schoolshooters.info/sites/defaul...

I think basic human decency is a value worth cultivating, but I have to grudgingly admit that there might be one or two situations where I’m likely to follow this advice from this odious troll.

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

David French makes a point in this conversation that clarified something for me about Trumpism. It’s a coalition of amoral cynics AND true believing dogmatists. This doubleness enables it to have a wider appeal than if it was just one or the other. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Oswald Mosley married Diana Mitford in 1936 at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. After the war he was the forerunner in what would become known as Holocaust denial. Only a modern-day neo-Nazi could say Mosley was “one of Britains Great War heroes”.

Tucker Carlson is now posting about how noble, patriotic British opposition politicians like Oswald Mosley were imprisoned during WWII, suggesting that the same thing might happen to "patriots" like Tucker who dare criticize the current war. www.thejc.com/news/world/t...

In 1960-61 there was a right wing influencer traveling from town to town in Montana giving speeches warning of the impending Communist takeover of the state via the labor unions and the Democratic Party. This is a pretty hilarious description of her M.O.

A good jumping off point could be explaining why Dukakis in a tank was career ending cringe while the right demands pictures like this from candidates as though they were a hazing initiation. Pictured: wannabe Oregon governor Christine Drazan.

It is deeply disturbing how quickly people latch onto straight up Nazi stuff because they think it’s catchy. Learn the history of “Zionist Occupied Government” folks! And if you were raised as/around evangelicals, you probably have a lot of latent anti-Jewish stuff to unpack

"Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity."

If things like universities, democracy, and the humanities exist in 30 years, there are going to be some fascinating dissertations written on the political culture of authoritarianism in 2020s America.

NEW: Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official overseeing disaster response previously said "bitch" Biden “deserves to die,” pushed election conspiracies — and claimed once he teleported to a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun...it was real.” More here: www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

RIP Chuck.

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

I've been tracking every ICE detention death under Trump and publishing the data publicly. Read the full breakdown, including the searchable table of all 42 deaths, at: austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predict...

A nomination for “best of Nextdoor.”

I’ve got a soft spot for small town west coast architecture. The building on the left is the tallest building between Sacramento and Portland.

I spotted a rare Pumpkin Spice Edition Cybertruck in the wild yesterday.

Did not have "leftmaxxing historian interviews Clavicular" on my 2026 bingo card...but that could be said for a lot of things I guess.

"The case is a very funny illustration of what can happen when cops, who as a general rule rarely face consequences for their actions, manage to cross a person with plenty of time, a sizable social media following, and a smooth baritone."

The GOP's mission to repeal the 20th century proceeds apace.

I spent several hours listening to interviews with the leading candidates in the OR GOP primary for governor, and was surprised that not a single one mentioned a) transgender people, b) "election integrity" or c) DEI. Several expressed empathy/support for law abiding undocumented people.

Where we are: Former DHS secretary’s sidepiece/unofficial staffer allegedly demanded bribes from for-profit prison operator for federal ethnic-cleansing contracts. Explosive (if not surprising) reporting from NBC

A notable question coming from the first President to invoke the Alien Enemies Act since the US incarcerated Japanese-Americans during WWII. Also, remind me, does the US military generally think of Pearl Harbor as the sort of thing that's cool for countries like us to emulate?

Next they need to open a firing range called The Polyarmory.

I have lived in Oregon for over 25 years and i have never cast a ballot at a voting booth in the state because all voting has been by mail this entire time. Passing this bill would completely upend the state’s voting system only months before an election. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

I’M SO MAD AT JOE BIDEN FOR DOING THIS!!!

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

In the early 1950s, when Donald Trump and other ~80 year olds were in elementary school, there were eight Southern states in which there is no record of even one Black child who attended a school where there were also white children. Not one. In 2024, Trump won all 8 of those states.

Not great that there appears to be a “the caning of Charles Sumner was very legal and cool” caucus in the senate.