30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

Keep in mind the terrible irony that NM is the 2nd biggest crude oil producing state in the nation.

Apart from the profanity and planning to do some war crimes (civilian power plants are not generally valid military targets), if you had told folks that the President would be posting 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday, they'd assume we'd lost a war. And be right, I guess.

Can you imagine how apoplectic the right would be if Obama said "praise be to Allah", even if he said it exactly like DJT?

Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple. The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.

Stay for the end youtu.be/lf4ao1BWhDo?...

so our president is just a psychopath, got it

Never heard of a bigger paradox than “growing the workforce through AI”

yes, we have the most powerful navy in the world, but even we havent sent them there cuz we werent prepared, so our allies must be failing us cuz they arent prepared even tho we didnt even tell them we were going to war maybe he aint drinking these days, but he sure sounds like he's mid-binge

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."

Also, here's a great explainer from the AP that answers the questions from my original post last night and confirms everything I suspected about how poorly conceived and ill-advised seizing Kharg would be.

Contemplating the impermanence of life.

We are 100% going to send under-supplied troops into the line of fire to try and create a beachhead with half-assed planning. This is tragedy in the making. taskandpurpose.com/news/middle-...

This is the legislature fully and voluntarily relinquishing its constitutional power to the executive. You want dictatorships? Because that's how you get dictatorships.

The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

This

whoopsie daisy Or as Google translate says in Russian: Ой-ёй! youtu.be/Ao6h5kqIalQ?...

The US and Israel both have agency, and choose to be allies. Both want to cause regime change in Iran. Both have failed spectacularly to accomplish that through force of arms and death, so far. Both of them and Iran (it too has agency) are causing and will continue to cause misery on a global scale.

It will be years before international travel is as accessible as it was just a month ago.

🌍 The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN warned Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SLK9

Cleanest way this ends is Trump convinces himself that he's achieved some sort of victory (immaterial as to what) and withdraws forces. The strait moves from "peacefully open but contested" before the war to "Iran has permanent ability to close safe passage" but Trump can fake new normal is better.

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

folks,

so the problem with trying to make predictions about what is going to happen with respect to iran is that nobody, including the president, has the slightest idea we bounce between “mission accomplished” and threatening escalatory war crimes multiple times a day at this point also iran has a vote

The lack of basic human decency exhibited by the medical system and the entire judicial branch of Florida here is insane and reprehensible.

If our president tried to play Jenga all he would do is punch the middle of the tower and then scream like a baby at you for wrecking it

One candidate for city council in D.C.’s upcoming Democratic primary election says ranked-choice voting has changed the way she has been canvassing. “As a candidate, you have to be able to build a broad coalition to be able to win.”

Thank goodness someone is responding, because (speaking as someone who has been engaged with housing policy for 15+ years) Buchholz's position is crazypants

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse farmers for 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies. The standards governing those tech wouldn't be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry. This could give Big Tech immense power over farmers.

Hidden amidst the mound of putrid lies, sometimes you dig up a terrifying truth.

I was surprised by Larijani's political rehabilitation last year. But my understanding (perhaps outdated and mistaken) was that he could have been a figure able to shepherd some kind of face-saving ceasefire through Iran's competing power blocs. Targeting him was a choice.

This man claims to be an economist. Maybe he really does believe that consumers aren't important in a consumerist economy, and is in fact an idiot.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

This is what y'all get when you give Amazon all the data on your purchasing power by using Amazon constantly. You relinquish all ability to bargain, because you've already tipped your hand.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Every time we try to get policy that actually helps working people, Republicans say "it's too expensive." That lie has never been more clear. If they can find $1 billion a day to bomb schools overseas, it's not a budget problem. It's a priorities problem.

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.