BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program. A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."

They are gutting this, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, pandemic preparedness, and epidemiology. They want us to be vulnerable to EVERY catastrophe.

The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.

Other countries (who DIDN'T start this idiotic war) are suffering far more than just higher prices www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

I still miss Ukraine twitter though.

The top right picture is especially amazing.

Yet another school board race in four days you should know about: A member of the school board in TULSA said immigrant children are threatening the safety of other children. She faces a Dem-backed challenger on Tuesday. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

‼️ Holy smoke: "After 5 weeks of military bombardment from the US and Israel, roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers & thousands of one-way attack drones are still intact." This destroys the *public* boasting of Trump & Whiskey Pete: our intel shows they're lying. 🧾 newrepublic.com/post/208593/...

Lololololololololololololololol they changed it

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

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Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

lol

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04... NYT: “Videos posted to social media on Friday morning and verified by The Times show a C-130 aircraft and military helicopters flying at a low altitude through southwest Iran.”

Has Iranian state TV paid a $787 million settlement for spreading lies about an election?

Thank God. But neither the pilot nor the rescuers would be at risk without this stupid, stupid war.

Me too, and I loathe Nixon.

This too. Republicans LOVE bureaucracies so long as they are aimed at (they assume) people other than themselves.

I’ve always liked Robert Paul Wolff’s image of struggling with texts, ‘to wrestle with it like Jacob with the angel’. It’s how I sometimes feel when I’m trying to think with someone across time who is much smarter than me.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

I do actually wish everything were not in fact gender.

I can’t think of one reason that House Democrats would not be preparing Articles of Impeachment for Hegseth.

Also, we interpret the Constitution based on what its words mean, not on the particular things the Founders had in mind when they wrote it. This is why we take freedom of the press to apply to radio and TV, even though the Founders didn’t have them in mind when they wrote the first amendment.

One of many, many reasons why you don’t start stupid wars is that you might find yourself needing to rescue a pilot somewhere in Iran. What could possibly go wrong?

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This is insane.

Hegseth seems to have spent the whole day trying to underscore my thesis that he doesn’t know anything about what makes a military effective — he’s a frustrated mid-level officer from the glory days of the GWOT lashing out at all those he thinks failed him: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

Now that at least one U.S. air crew member is alive on the ground in Iran, it's worth revisiting Pete Hegseth's commitment to "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies." This is the scenario he was warned about.

Ok but look how competently DoD is run now that black people and women are being purged from the higher ranks and merit is the only criteria bsky.app/profile/empt...

We have an army for a reason. There is a job they need to do, namely defending the country, and while I hope they are never needed, it’s really important that they be able to do that job well if they are. Every officer fired for being Black or female, or for refusing to fire them, makes us weaker.

We are doing double tap strikes now?

Thank God Hegseth is not running NASA.

So I decided to reread The Best And The Brightest, and I keep thinking of how much effort it took to get Vietnam as badly wrong as we did, when Trump JUST TWEETED IT OUT.

Hah. Some of us even huddled around a radio during a sleepover at summer camp so that we could listen to the first moon landing.

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

Jesus. Think of the number of people who genuinely need asylum. Refugees from the war in Sudan, for instance. The Rohinga. They get nothing. We get white South Africans. This is truly disgraceful.

This is outrageous. And personally depressing. People over 65 and those with chronic conditions will get sick and die. Just because the younger healthy people don't fear COVID anymore doesn't mean everyone else has nothing to fear. And just because MAHA is stupid and insane that should not happen.

Whee!

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

There's a certain poetic justice to the idea of Bondi's reputation being ruined by the Epstein files.

Person who wrote a book here. If for some reason you choose to read someone’s book, it’s presumably because you think they are good at writing books. (Or else because you’re Michael Hobbes.) If so, why do you think their decision to write a Prologue or Epilogue is an exception?

Imagine being willing to sell your soul for one year of constant humiliation.

Jonathan is alive! Also: can I no longer trust the BBC?!

Mood.

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for issuing secret guidance instructing immigration agents to enter homes without a warrant. Sending masked, federal agents with military rifles and no judicial warrant to invade homes is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."