Adam Serwer coins a new word for the "mixture of gullibility and cynicism prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements" identified by Hannah Arendt. He calls it 'gullicism.' This is a thought-provoking piece about snake oil salesmen and why even smart people fall prey to them.. Gift link.

Alabama Senator Tuberville posted today that Muslims are the enemy. Please read this piece about how his state of Alabama is treating Muslim prisoners. boltsmag.org/alabama-exec...

In fairness to Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio, it was UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE to predict that Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz causing financial devastation to the world's economy after we assassinated their leadership, insulted and threatened them incessantly, and bombed them relentlessly.

You can't understand deportations without understanding immigration courts. And right now, those courts are in crisis with new rule changes that could make things significantly worse. 🧵

Trump bails out Putin. An excellent graphic.

Is it weird that we aren't just repeating this hour after hour, minute after minute that the government murdered a school of girls for no fucking reason? I know if anything Obama or Biden did would have gotten a worse treatment I get it. But this seems like a fucking low.

No president in American history has done more to demean women, damage their lives, undermine their freedoms...to actively abuse them and then to attack his victims...than Donald Trump. And she has enabled it, defended it, cashed in on it.The Trumps are active, undeniable enemies of women and girls.

Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

NEW: CA grows more food than any state 🍊🍓🍅🥑🌽🥬 Now @governor.ca.gov is investing $23M to help more of it reach Californians who need it most — expanding access to CA-grown fruits and vegetables for families using CalFresh, WIC, and senior nutrition programs while supporting local farmers.

NEW: A sharp warning in an ordinary news release: "President Trump’s Justice Department.” Attorney General Pam Bondi has made clear since day one her view that DOJ's lawyers are "his lawyers." On Thursday, DOJ went further, claiming it's "Trump's Justice Department." Today, at Law Dork:

Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

In January, I joined 100s of Marylanders in Hagerstown who made clear they did not want an ICE detention facility near their community.     While Trump’s lawless ICE operation continues to ignore public sentiment, this is an important ruling.   The fight continues.

A key figure is "Juan O. Savin," AKA Wayne Willott, a QAnon influencer who is the subject of a conspiracy theory that he is actually JFK Jr. living under an assumed identity. Savin has said he convened a coalition of legal minds and election experts to draft the 17-page proposed executive order.

The decision to snub the offer is now being discussed as one of the biggest miscalculations thus far in the Iran war. “If there’s a tactical error or a mistake we made leading up to this [war in Iran], this was it,” a U.S. official told Axios Tuesday. trib.al/A9xoQzM

"What books would you have read that would have informed your decision on what grants to cancel based on DEI?" "There were no books."

NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections. @mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...

This is the best campaign video I’ve ever seen.

Just re-upping this post from NIH/CDC “Director” and right-wing podcast staple Jay Bhattacharya, who seems to think that he is a more “trustworthy source to comment on reforms in public health” than the Lancet. He traded science for politics to gain Twitter fame, and has not altered course since.

I meant to put a bit of commentary in this repost. Dr. Berg has been doing yeoman’s work on tracking NIH funding. As you can see here, funding for new scientific research has been severely reduced by The Regime so far this year. This harms all of us.

Cavanaugh, the cofounder with Fox of Special, a company focused on using technology in senior care, is the guy smirking his way through lies and contradictions in the other 404-Media video. These two should be nowhere near seniors. bsky.app/profile/404m...

AI may be giving teens bad nutrition advice www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-t... “They were too low in calories and carbs and too heavy on proteins and fats...” No surprise. AI mirrors biases & (science-free) trends?

We have a book about all the different train lines and he gets a kick out of reading it while we ride. The few times we've ridden it when there weren't any seats, somebody has given us one every time.

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans. Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👉 Participants were less sensitive to social norms when interacting with AI than when interacting with human partners. 👉 They were worse at predicting AI behavior. 👉 When AI was framed as intentional & goal-directed, people predicted AI behavior more accurately and the cooperation gap was reduced.

NEW: We sent a letter to Congress in partnership with more than 250 organizations urging them to block any bill that would give the Pentagon more money to continue this illegal war against Iran. Our tax dollars must not be used to pay for this unconstitutional and unpopular war.

The Netherlands has filed a Declaration of Intervention in the ICJ genocide case against Israel. As a non-party, they are submitting a legal interpretation arguing that forced displacement, starvation, and acts against children can prove specific genocidal intent. icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Minnesota Republicans introduce bill that promotes reproductive health junk science https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/03/12/minnesota-republicans-introduce-bill-that-promotes-reproductive-health-junk-science/

"This fault lies directly on Trump and Hegseth" -- Sen. Andy Kim points out that the Trump administration gutted the budget for the DoD's "civilian protection center," which could've helped Hegseth and company not bomb an elementary school in Iran

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We must protect Virginia’s voice and defend our democracy in the 2026 midterm elections. Vote YES by April 21st to level the playing field. Early voting is happening now: IWillVote.com

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written. Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

I dissect Pete Hegseth's claim on 60 Minutes that his DoD "never target[s] civilians."⤵️ False: Think of the 156 people killed on boats in Caribbean. And for deeper dive on Hegseth's deflection on elementary girls' school bombing, my substack newsletter: ryangoodmanlaw.substack.com/p/unpacking-...

Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Complex wars against well armed, complex autocracies are always really short. On the plus side, maybe we get clean energy growing again. But we could have paid for leading science, tech, healthcare education and housing. And art.

Strange how every “America First” move somehow ends up helping Moscow. What a coincidence.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

“Typically, people familiar with [DHS] say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations. According to LinkedIn..Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club”

This is why Iran's apparent strategy of a disciplined counter-sensor campaign makes a lot of sense. The US doesn't have a bunch of spare AN/TPY-2 radars laying around (at $300M a pop), never mind the far more expensive fixed installation AN/FPS-132 sites at like $2 billion each.

When the President decides photojournalists can’t take pictures at Sec’y Hegseth’s Iran briefings, it’s not a small thing. We’re connecting the dots to the larger efforts to erode our 1st Amendment rights, just when we need them the most. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I don’t know fam it feels like giving the government guardianship over unhoused veterans and forcing them into institutions might be bad. Thanks to @heritagehunter.bsky.social for the heads up.

A good read. Since WW2, the #NIH has operated as a decentralized entity. Priorities were set by Congress, but independently executed by experts. This led to its success. Now, political appointees have unprecedented control over what research gets funded, harming science. 🧪 go.nature.com/4bCwTNh

I guess I feel a little better

Trump officials moving onto military bases is a ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate thing, and the NYT story that credulously credited claimed threats as justifying such a move is also ridiculous.

the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war

real alpha male stuff here

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132