Yes!

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

It will all be fine! The No Consequences Fairy will appear at all those damaged oil facilities and they will be good to go! She will also cast a Spell of Forgetting over the leaders of Iran to prevent them from remembering that they can set up toll booths on the Strait of Hormuz. Simple, really.

Gift link. “”I knew she didn’t have status,” he said. “We were doing everything the right way.” Or so they thought.” She has been in this country since she was 22 months old. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Oh my God, not a subtle but pointed statement with their attire! How will Trump survive???

The Hungarian election is hugely important in its own right and a litmus test for the billionaire fascism that the American Right has imported. This would be a great briefing for reporters and all of us to have!

Excited for yet another entirely normal week ahead

A Helium Atom Is Born

Awful www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

The reality is that foreign students are the ones investing in the US: they invest their money and their skills. That allows us to have stronger higher Ed, more slots for domestic students and a better economy.

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

I’m still amazed by this bit: “a sandy, austere airstrip inside Iran that Special Operations forces had previously developed for possible rescues or other contingencies.” For starters, do they have similar airstrips all over Iran, or did they just get lucky? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

New chicks, who dis? 🐣

I keep wondering whether he will try to make this true with export controls.

Today’s tweet was shocking and it needs to remain shocking. I can assure you it shocked a lot of people outside the USA

This will never stop infuriating me.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

Not a song, but I heard Monty Python’s penguin on the television skit and spent FIVE YEARS trying to track it down.

for some reason he is not threatening war crimes against the Danes

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Mood.

Ironically, Russians can pump as much oil as they like out of the ground, but it’s hard to export it when Ukraine has cleverly switched its targeting to the oil loading infrastructure of Russia’s two main export platforms on the Baltic and Black Sea. Putin is missing out on the high oil prices.

WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

If people actually want impeachment & removal to happen, then Thune, Johnson, Murkowski, Tiilis, & company need to not be able to appear in public without 24/7 pressure from the public & media to do this. Yelling at Chris Murphy & even Chuck Schumer is a category error. Murc’s Law on steroids.

This is the key question. All potential responses flow from the answer or answers to it.

Ok. This is only tangentially related to the same awful shit. Life would be much better if everyone in this country took ten minutes to think through what military force can do and what it can’t. Can it destroy a military base? Absolutely. Can good soldiers with a good plan seize territory? Yes.

This is incredible.

This is fully correct. But it probably doesn't even take that! A handful of senior Republicans could at any point actually denounce his crimes, and odds are he'd back down. A handful of backbench Republicans could force the issue. But instead they either ignore or encourage the madness.

The only thing I feel certain of is that this is the greatest strategic defeat in American history.

Every so often I think back to the time, around 2006, when I found myself being nostalgic for Reagan, which was such a shock that I asked myself: is it possible that someday I will be nostalgic for GW Bush? I thought hard and concluded that that was impossible. And yet here we are.

We are coming close to Trump visiting the Lincoln Memorial at dawn, people, this is not a drill: it’s the full Nixon

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

An added wrinkle to this pattern of mass disassociation is that the President is permanently disassociated...he can say "Mamdani is a terrorist who must deported" one day and then the next day have a chummy photo op with him in the White House. His words & his actions are totally unlinked.

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

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This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

Here’s a gift link to the article @joshtpm.bsky.social was just talking about www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Infrastructure week at last. Sorry; I am at a loss for words.

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We are already in the middle of it, and since it started with our invasion of Iraq, 23 years ago (!!), we’ll be very lucky if it only lasts 30 years.

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today! 🐰 Have a wonderful day. 📷 aprilmunday.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/t...

Also: a BASE in IRAN?

Can confirm.

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump and Washington Republicans refused to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits. Now that they’ve expired, many Americans are paying much higher premiums and delaying doctor’s visits – if they can afford health insurance at all.

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