The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

Once again, for conservatives "freedom of speech" means freedom from being confronted with, in even the most trivial way, ideas they disagree with.

When people say "don't blame voters in X red state" and I say "I absolutely do" this is the stuff I'm talking about.

ICYMI — one of Elon’s DOGE guys Justin Fox saying a documentary is “DEI” if it’s about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because it’s “not for the betterment of humankind”

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

"where are the student protestors now" as if they were not expelled, arrested, threatened, derided, abandoned, and deported. as if we didn't systematically punish what could have been our own next generation of active political leaders. jfc.

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

AI bros are COOKED! I created this entire sequence with my camera, using human skills. Something like this would have cost dozens of dollars in prompting, but for me it was completely free.

I understand in some level what's being argued here, but it shows a distinct unwillingness to engage with the reality that if a paper publishes 5 conservative op-eds for every progressive op-ed, well, it might just have an editorial perspective supporting one side vs another.

“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.

“Wokeism“ (2026)

Imagine that your response to extremely fair criticism that you laughed at an obviously misogynistic joke was to send your mom on "Ellen" to defend you. What a bunch of real "tough guys". www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Wtf

Those "USA250" patches look absolutely dumb as heck live. #SEAvCOL

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

This is wild and near malpractice for an organization of the Galaxy's level

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

This is an IQ test. If you nod along with Sam, you failed it.

This is ludicrous. I doubt many people reading this are thinking of applying for this job but please don't.

One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.

Doyle is the most relevant voice talking about MLS. But the league’s short-sighted choice is fans’ gain as I’m sure Matt’s insight will only grow. This is the easiest subscription any MLS fan will make this year.

Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article... She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info

Is Chris Hayes....okay?

Please support Mr. Doyle, who has been one of the most important and intellectually curious American soccer writers for at least a decade.

During these 37 years here's the average job growth per year under the two parties: Democrats - 2,500,000 Republicans - 90,000 2/

eating lunch on pedophile island with my family but shaking my head so the children know i don't approve of the rape or lunch options

Our 2026 MLS previews are here and they start at the bottom: @mattbarger.bsky.social tells us about DCU trying to be the Union, and @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc argues regression for Atlanta and the expansion of a Cheese empire in Montreal www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/2/...

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

The New York Times has finally covered the Trump video of Obama as an ape — and they are still providing cover for him. Fuck the Times.

No major broadcast news network has a story on this right now and for some reason my mind goes back to the 1 billion stories about Joe Biden's health.

President Donald Trump went on a wild social media posting spree late Thursday night and into Friday morning, one that included a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

If you haven’t figured out by now that Trump is a racist piece of shit, and that’s what drives his base, then you’re never gonna figure it out. Just a note for any reporters who need to see it.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

We have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Huh. I guess these places aren't inviolate, eh?

The Constitution? Non starter. The Fourth Amendment particularly? Non starter. These people are unbelievably high on their own supply.

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

The ol' "free speech is mono directional" argument. Our founding fathers believed that bad ideas would literally be shouted out of the public square.

I have never read that column, and did not know until now that Klein wrote it. (I have a lot of stuff to keep up on.) And I couldn't care less: Shouting down speakers on campus is authoritarian bullshit and college students should never do it.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Before the Flyers game, NBCSP aired this tribute to @dhm.bsky.social

CC: the 8th Circuit.