Once again, free passes for the minyan of Republicans who are the only people in DC who can stop the runaway Mad King. And yet, tomorrow, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tills, John Thune, & Susan Collins will continue to be able to appear in public without facing any questions about enabling fascism.

why is he proud of inventing a stupid phrase that doesn't actually mean anything

If we're going this route, I was assigned Richard Nixon in our 5th-grade "reports on presidents" unit, & I read pieces of All The President's Men at 10 😂😬

Everyone's out here with V.C. Andrews, Stephen King, & Jean Auel, but the real answer is The Giving Tree.

There isn't one

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Was thinking a little more about AI and pedagogy. People liken genAI to tools such as calculators, but we’d never say students don’t have to learn how to add because calculators exist. I worry a lot that the heavy use of genAI for research will be doing the equivalent: skipping skill acquisition.

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

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“No quarter”

you have to understand that shitty Ezra Klein take in this context too; he was attempting to climb onboard what he believed to be a cultural bandwagon.

If Biden were trotting out Janet Yellen every week to talk about Afghanistan & every single other non-direct finance/economy issue, the Sunday Show hosts would demand why they didn’t have access to the Defense Secretary & the National Security Advisor & other relevant senior security policy staff.

“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.” (via @barchart.com)

Why is the *checks notes* treasury secretary out there talking about this stuff? I feel like we're watching the Weberian state being dismantled before our eyes?

The @nytimes.com Editorial Board is on it, wisely calling out the GOP for denying political reality & not offering moderate policy solutions. Wait, what’s that I’m hearing, this is from 2021, when Joe Biden was president during a global pandemic & Democrats narrowly lost the VA gubernatorial race?

I tell you again, folks. Donald Trump is truly the greatest 🇨🇦 Liberal since Wilfrid Laurier 🧐

Mark Rutte continues to Rutte harder than anyone has ever Rutted before. Look, though, the thing you have to grant is that he does understand the very (sad, pathetic, futile) assignment he was hired to do at NATO: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Rather than using sanctions as tools to uphold international law, this administration uses sanctions to punish those seeking to uphold it.

Periodic reminder that all this Dear Leader BS is batshit crazy.

Yes, this is a JCPOA Plus, basically. No idea why Iran would sign this, given our totally inability to make credible commitments or comply with international treaties & agreements right now, & our unilateral trashing of the original JCPOA. Master strategists, we are.

Verily, he is a “Renaissance man” with deep credibility as Treasury Secretary & “a real understanding of the global economy.” But look, at least he went to the right East Coast elite schools & cocktail parties with the Wall Street guys & Barack Obama’s economic policy advisors. So there’s that.

What fresh hells await us this week on the Sunday sh- Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t host lying liars to performatively lie on the teevee shows. If you’ve screwed up - <yet again> - & done that anyway, immediately end the interviews when they lie. What is journalism, anyway?

Well, they will have to declare victory and quit or continue shooting themselves in the knees. The problem with the former is they will have to give Iran credible assurances after much murder, bombing, and abuse.

👇🎯 Again, the platform must be institutional reform & it must be ready to go right away in January 2029: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Absolutely this. They need to rein in the executive and reorganize the judiciary as well.

Publicly announcing the intention to do war crimes should immediately end American presidencies

It would be better to post nothing than to post your tawdry, takedown (from 2019) of a public servant on the day he died.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Caroline Harvey is the 2026 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner. The Wisconsin senior is a three-time All-American as of today, Olympic MVP, gold medalist, two-time national champion and is now the 7th winner of the Patty Kaz from the Badgers.

The most sacred clause in the Constitution may be the war making clause. Our founding fathers are turning in their grave watching this Republican Congress allow one man lead us into a disastrous, incompetently run war.

Yes, but ~15 times a night in Wisconsin, on every TV channel & streaming service, from September to November 2024, voters heard that Kamala wanted free trans surgery for prisoners. And the mainstream media played right along.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

NARRATOR: The EU was not prepared

A normal pro-democracy political party, with governing majorities in both chambers of the parliament, would simply adopt a budget & fund the government, rather than allowing the chief executive to send armed paramilitaries into the country’s airports.

Honestly, Donald Trump is probably more racist than George Wallace ever was. Wallace was an opportunist who embraced racist politics because it played well with his electorate. Trump is a true believer in racism who keeps saying racist things despite the political blowback.

"Outlast the f---ery!" is a good rallying cry for a lot of things these days. washingtonian.com/2026/03/19/w...

On the list of people who can take a victory lap, the gender theorists are way up there. For a different recent example, here:

50 years later & they never learn. Le sigh.

Donald Trump continues to be the greatest 🇨🇦 Liberal since Wilfrid Laurier

👇🎯 Yes, yes, that is an excellent point. But have you considered that we must continue to Do A Mercantilism because Democrats still cannot figure out How To Talk About International Trade & also China Is Very Scary? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

it is in fact time for some game theory

Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.

Trump pissing on Robert Mueller’s grave is like Trump threatening to conquer our closest NATO allies. It is so far beyond anything we ever tolerated for anyone else & it should end his presidency today.

I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today: 1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...

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Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

There are people who will lose their jobs when they say this about Trump when he dies

I keep seeing this framing like Bremmer's. It is wrong. Instead: 1. Iran was developing an ICBM when Khamenei imposed a 2,000-km range limit. 3. The programs shifted to space launch. 4. Khamenei lifted the restriction in October 2025 after the June attacks. 5. Now he's dead, and here we are.

"That's one hell of an act you've got there. What do you call it?" "The Kakistocrats!"