Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

38% of airline passengers vote to open plane door midflight because that bitch stewardess said not to

"Eliminating independence at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has condemned scores of Americans to death," Richard L. Trumka, former CPSC Commissioner, argues in a recent essay. www.theregreview.org/2026/03/05/t...

America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: “another war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.

Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15

I have a new open access article in Geoforum, looking at how abrasive online “finfluencers” promise riches through buying cheap properties to rent to Housing Choice Voucher (“Section 8”) holders, using outdated spatial arbitrage strategies and AI automation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

noem's dog looking down from heaven

TFW when you log off for an hour and you come back and all of the Noem jokes are taken.

Noem did the one unforgivable thing: She embarrassed him and made him look bad. She's been on the bubble ever since Bovino got tossed. What happened in MN was a tragedy and obscene. But now - you're seeing consequences. That's good. Take the W.

The NJSPL at #Rutgers & SPIA in NJ at @princeton.edu are excited to announce the third annual Policy Collaboratory at the Heldrich Center on Wednesday, March 25th. This collaborative event, sponsored by the Rutgers Democracy Lab, will welcome graduate students interested in #education policy:

Born too late to watch Star Trek TOS in first run Born too early to see warp drive Born just in time for the Eugenics Wars

It took me three states before I could find one to give me a drivers license.

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This episode is one of my favorites.

MAGA Unreality vs the World The U.S. government is in the hands of people who are fully detached from reality. That is a major weakness for the regime – but also a source of further radicalization. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵 steady.page/en/democracy...

Spare a thought for Crockett and her people tonight: losing an election you thought you could win is one of the most extraordinarily painful and crushing things that most people will never experience. With that in mind, with regards to that pro-ICE Dem who lost in NC: hahahahahahahahahaha

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Everyone loves "authentic" politicians until they say or do something they disagree with.

This is what we mean when we say DOGE lives on through Russell Vought. A right-wing ideologue is single-handedly imposing a deadly austerity regime.

The politics are important and all but also a LOT of people have died

⚖️ The #NJ Senate advanced 5 of Gov. Sherrill's cabinet nominees; 📚 a bill has been introduced that would prohibit publishers from marking up #ebooks sold to #libraries; 👩 the Senate also advanced a bill to require public colleges to provide free access to menstrual products. Read more:

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

This is a sub tweet, but I think y'all REALLY assume liberal American Jews are far more fond of the settlers than they are. Speaking personally I wouldn't be particularly aggrieved to see them sent back to Israeli territory if they're unwilling to live under sovereign Palestinian rule.

"Tell me how this ends...." —What Ike asked about Laos, Suez —What JFK was reportedly ready to ask about US troops in Indochina —What GWHBush asked, in deciding to limit Gulf War to Kuwait —What GWBush did *not* ask, when going into Iraq —What seems not to have occurred to Trump, Hegseth et al

Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.

Seems crystal clear that neither Netanyahu nor Trump want an actual democracy in Iran, they want a regime they can manage/work with like the gulf states.

Check out the latest R/ECON economic forecast!

President Trump’s Iran strikes are unconstitutional. Congress must act. bit.ly/4aYZgop

R/ECON's #economic forecast for #NJ at the beginning of 2026 is a mixed bag. The state's #job market continues to show a weakening outlook for the coming year, with the current forecast anticipating a small employment decline of 0.1%: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

That's not a plan, that's a hope.

From @njpolicylab.bsky.social The winter forecast for the New Jersey economy is live (and there are still a few more weeks of winter!). policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/... @starledger.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org @johnreitmeyer.bsky.social

No, we would not have launched unprovoked wars with no explanation against Venezuela and Iran if Kamala were in charge. Trump is much worse than Kamala. Trump is much worse than even the despicable Cheney/Bush war machine. What's wrong with you people?

1/When you deliberately degrade the “administrative law of defense” you end up with bad advice as you make difficult decisions. I am pretty sure that only person that can really tell you the difference between the Venezuelan regime and the Iranian regime is Dan Caine.

We’ve gone from the totally legitimate argument that criticism of Israel is not the same as antisemitism (it isn’t!) to a lot of people using “AIPAC” and “Zionist” in ways that sure sound like slurs.

“The Nazi tattoo guy who retweets white supremacists and goes on antisemitic podcasts and says both parties are the same will be a reliable democratic vote, don’t worry” I mean LISTEN TO YOURSELVES

FIFA has officially issued President Trump a yellow card. If he assassinates another world leader, it’ll become an automatic red card and he won’t be eligible for another FIFA Peace Prize for 4 years.

One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective

Platner's an example of the white left's antisemitism. It's a serious problem on the left just as it is on the right. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

you want to here an unpopular take? the iranian regime sucks. the venezuelan regime sucks. THE TRUMP REGIME SUCKS. as liberals we need to dig out heads out of the paper bag and remember what our principles really are

The King is mad

The War Powers Resolution needs a complete overhaul because it's obviously failed, but at the end of the day, there's no procedural trick around having a Congress that's willing to stand back and watch a president flagrantly break the law and the Constitution and do absolutely nothing about it.

Please remember you are likely to see even anti-war and anti-intervention Iranians celebrate Khamenei’s death (if confirmed) as he has been a source of death, tyranny, destruction, and has held Iran back.

It would not surprise me at all if Trump shuts it down, and tells Netanyahu to do the same, in the event they did actually get Khamenei. He doesn't care about the outcome, he just wants to say he did something no one else had the guts to, and got away with it.

"This is not late Cold War I with its well-defined blocs and ossified rules of the game. Rather, we are in a situation more like the interwar period: a trans-national ideological brawl with battle lines that run straight through domestic politics." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...

I've made a new starter pack of people to follow for news and commentary on Iran. Got the idea from a request by @kakape.bsky.social

On a semi-related note, Iran qualified to participate in the 2026 World Cup set to take place in the United States in just over 3 months

Props to the people who told me that if I voted for Kamala Harris, we would be in a war in the Middle East.

I see real, actual elected Democrats reacting with appropriate horror and fury at Trump’s attack on Iran. I see leftists on here stating with zero evidence that Democrats will silenly acquiesce and support it. Epistemic closure is not unique to any political faction.

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.