Yup. This is bad.

Happens all the time in the West Bank. All of this thanks to our taxpayer dollars and elected officials. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

If someone yelled "9/11 was bad" at my wife while she's wearing a hijab, our being angry about that would not mean we co-signed 9/11. If you cannot understand that an anodyne (or even correct!) moral sentiment can be weaponized by racist assholes, your brain is cheese.

you know how we've spent literal decades wagging our fingers at the middle east and arguing that their religious governments intermingled faith with war and terrorism? anyhow.

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

I have never seen a cross-examination go so badly

It's depressing that the "Principles for Teaching" section in my university's newly published "Faculty Roles and Expectations" guide is an excrescence of vapid corporate jargon.

The entire tech industry is about making the rich richer by lighting the non-rich and democratic institutions on fire. It’s ruined education. It’s *weakening* security. An elaborate con game that’s eating us alive because it’s all…so…what’s the opposite of “thoughtfully and rigorously regulated?”

People want Alex Garland and Paul Thomas Anderson to be able to explain things but their failure is that they’re kind of smart. If you want to explain 2026 you needed to give 200 cans of Mountain Dew to Uwe Boll in 2007 and instruct him to direct an adaptation of Catch 22 but not to read it first

I keep scrolling back to watch this because... BECAUSE

Post of the week.

Smart. Her campaign waited until after the filing deadline yesterday to make sure there were no last-minute surprise entries.

Yep, there is also the related phenomena where only bad people can do bad things and only good people do good things that also fucks up the discourse.

When your dissertation on the Stoics and the Victorians suddenly becomes relevant.

When you choose the movie and everyone hates it

Frankenstein director @realgdt.bsky.social in Jan 2026 on politics in storytelling, expressing better than I can what’s basically my religious beliefs

👇🏻👇🏻

when the 100+million dollar movie from Warner Bros with one of the biggest movie stars in the world doesn’t properly espouse the goals of the left and instead crafts an enjoyable highly entertaining story that nods to the world around us

[Sade voice 🎵]

A number of people here seem to be road-testing the question "Just how overtly antisemitic can I get away with being on Bluesky?" right now. When you see it--especially in the name of leftism--name, shame, and block.

why did they interview him in front of the high school picture day wall though

The thing about Zohran doing this is that he may not get immediate credit from Jewish organizations, but telling these psychos to fuck off and thus polarizing his own broad left-wing coalition against them is in and of itself beneficial.

Some of the attacks on the state of Israel are rooted in antisemitism. Some are based on policies the state is pursuing or military campaigns it is waging in the region. It is offensive to compare attacks on the state of Israel to attacks on synagogues, which are always rooted in antisemitism.

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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...

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

this is unspeakable

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

...other than, I don't know, appearing on an hour-long white supremacist's podcast who he said he's a "long-time fan of" LESS THAN 6 WEEKS AGO? Then again, at this point I suppose you could begin to argue that that counts as "LEFTIST stuff." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It’s gonna be Kid Rock

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Trying to write books for everyone seems to me a surefire way of writing bad books. I’m not interested in writing books for twats. I write books for the cool and nice people whose company I know I’d enjoy if I met them in real life. I’m entirely comfortable with twats hating my books. Bring it on.

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

Much more of this, please.

mark teixeira once tried to get bees to stop swarming at a spring training game by bringing a plastic bear honey bottle out of the clubhouse, he will be the republican party’s top scientific mind in congress

10/10 No notes.

Why am I catching strays here

I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down

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At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.

He looks like a divorced meerkat

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

“A popular vet podcast” is a terribly euphemistic way to describe “conspiratorial neo-Nazi podcast.” I would almost respect it more if they would just be honest and admit they don’t find Nazi associations to be disqualifying.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

This scares me a lot more about Platner than the possibility of him turning out to be centrist like Fetterman. That would be disappointing but survivable. Far more dangerous if he creates a populist lane in the Democratic Party for left-wing crossover with the far-right against the “establishment.”

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Again begging Maine Democrats not to vote for Nazi Lorax.