Cuts to scientific research. Damage to our world-class institutions. So MUCH greatness!

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

Ignorance, arrogance, venality: The place to China is taking a full load of these things. Nobody who knows anything about China, though. Lots of winning in the offing!

Utter corruption

With Commissioner Under Pressure, F.D.A. Opens Door to Flavored Vapes Addicting children to tobacco. That’s one hell of a way to make America healthy again. Also: can we call it open corruption instead of “a win to top donors”?

At what point does it sink in that no matter how irreplaceable you think you are, you are in fact making it likely your country will be taken over by a corrupt racist? The lack of imagination of modern moderate parties in a changing world is coming to feel pathological, not to say suicidal.

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

lovely to be read so well, thank you @johnattridge.bsky.social !!

No pretense.

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

Shameful, disgusting, cowardly.

Clearly only those who made a law should be able to determine when it is no longer germane. Legislation is literally what we have a legislature for.

FWIW

the lawsuit “puts the lives of the President, his family, and his staff at great risk.” There are not enough scare quotes in the world for the absurdity of the claim that a lawyer paid by our tax dollars has just made in support of yet another vain caprice by this despot.

Bad ideas that don’t work: why is the right not held to account for the absurd and damaging situations their dreamscapes create when they are allowed free play? Libertarian fabulists!

Congratulations to the U.S. for building an educational and economic powerhouse envied around the world and then dismantling it because colleges were so bold to give lip service to non-discrimination efforts. academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Ah, the patriotism of the populist!

You can see the problem right away when you read that “The statute requires that members be chosen ‘solely on the basis of established records of distinguished service.’”

I know that we reserve the charge of incompetence for reporting on Democratic administrations, and that the lying part might, in any case, take precedence, but will the American news media ever figure out how to address the fiasco in which government by corrupt ignorant imbeciles has resulted?

“There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air.” Conrad, _Heart of Darkness_

Oof

A brutal summary of where things stand, from Nancy A. Youssef. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.

Tyre? You want them to evacuate Tyre?! By what right?

We will be lied to at every phase of this war, as we have been up to this point. The idea that we are facing an enemy with equipment, training, tools, strategies, and commitments that might cause us problems is unacceptable.

It is difficult to focus on work when our president is threatening to unleash a horrific collective punishment on a modern nation of over 90 million people in the midst of a war one of the premises of which is that the majority of that population do not support the regime under which they live.

Baffling what becomes big news and what fades away. But the surrender of the American lead in research is one of the most shockingly under-reported and under-discussed stories of the second Trump term. "Oh yeah, support for science: we need less of that!" Where is the constituency for that idea?

He’s not saying anything more complicated than this, nor is the birthright citizenship case about anything else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“this long sought, and desperately needed, ballroom!” Marie-Antoinette at (law) court

Modest? One billion a day?! Modest? I look forward to the Post discussing possible costs for universal child care and Medicare for all when those come up.

Saying the loud part out loud. Your tax dollars are for our wars, America. That’s it.

Very relieved the war is almost over!

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/m... Don’t worry, though!

Terrible framing of an extraordinarily consequential issue. Major policy decisions the consequences of which we may well live with for generations should not be treated as parts of some television show called "Trump: The Presidency Years."

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

You know people have too much ready money when they can buy expensive things just to destroy them. Don’t like the news? Buy the network. Reason 1 billion and 1 it’s well past time to 1.Regulate media consolidation out of existence 2. Tax billionaires to the point they stop hurting the rest of us.

A technology the only clearly predictable economic effect of which at this point is a permanent mass increase in unemployment. A policy designed by and for Billionaires. What could go wrong?

I assume this is being done to protect the Gulf-state paymasters who do so much for Trump and his family.

FRENCH NATO GEN. YAKOVLEFF: “.. [Trump] wants to share the political risk, not the military risk. .. He’ll drop us the minute it suits him. .. This isn’t the time to buy a promo ticket on the Titanic.”

COHEN: The people you fired were experts on Iran, were they not? PATEL: I don't believe so COHEN: They worked in counterintelligence, did they not? PATEL: I'm taking you at your word COHEN: You're the director. I'm not. You should know the answer

Like most Americans, I cannot wait for the day when taxes are raised on our super wealthy

Because a real estate speculator from New York who inherited his wealth then played a wealthy man in TV can figure all things out about everything.

All corruption all the time: MAGA

Makes sense!

This is insane.

This war may well have been ordered up in the Gulf. The fact that the Gulf states are key employers of Trump and his family is one of those hide in plain sight stories the media somehow cannot quite cover.

Pleased to be quoted here. This is the first request for a conversation I've accepted from a journalist who emailed me abt AI bc the journalist, Kathryn Palmer, didn't approach me as a stenographer for industry but instead to provide visibility for a movement.We had a great substantive conversation

Following up on this. NYT reporting yesterday that the Trump administration is now spending millions of taxpayer dollars maintaining tankers they have seized because courts are raising these same questions: namely, you can't sell something you don't have title to.