This is like doing a story on prospects in an upcoming presidential election that quotes only Lyndon Larouche,* a couple of his supporters, & someone who doesn’t support him but is sympathetic. This isn’t a serious or defensible position. It’s malpractice to frame it as if it is. *Who is dead.

Also, of course, is continuing to regularly platform & quote Professor Torture Memos in article after article without ever mentioning what he was doing 25 years ago.

“The other 500 law professors we didn’t ask and who aren’t lying about the history or the plain meaning of words in the 14th Amendment were not immediately available for comment” This stuff is a deliberate choice. Other, more serious choices were right there & remain so, readily available. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

John Yoo Ilan Wurman Michael McConnell Michael Ramsay The sum total of law professors quoted in this article. This is the legal equivalent of diner journalism with 12 angry Trump voters. Other choices, as always, were readily available.

This data is not actually available to the public. There 𝙝𝙖𝙨 been a significant increase in support requests to an independent nonprofit that helps conscientious objector.

If we held Kharg Island, we'd be driving the global price of oil up even higher. It's basically a gas station and Iran can turn off the spigot. The US is de-sanctioning Iranian oil in a desperate attempt to keep supply up. Taking Kharg Island would be the opposite of that.

The only reason to take Kharg Island would be if we wanted to stay there and deny it to the Iranians. Taking Kharg Island to raise the flag and then going home would be asking American soldiers to die for a meme.

What a joke. None of the boots on the strategies proposed would be a dramatic final blow to Iran. If we seized Kharg Island, we'd have to hold it. And cutting off 90% of Iran's oil exports would hurt economically, but it wouldn't cause immediate collapse.

Republicans want you to pay more for your healthcare in order to fund their pointless war with Iran.

🔴 President Zelenskyy confirms allies are asking Ukraine to reduce strikes on Russian oil facilities.

It's kinda interesting/bonkers how the No Kings protests, which brought out 8 million people across the country, has already been pushed out of the 'news cycle', just a day or so later. If 8 million people came out for the third time in a year to protest Obama or Biden, it'd still be the top story

Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, if a deal to end the war with Tehran is not reached “shortly”.

Religious appeals are commonplace in the context of wartime, but Hegseth is doing something different entirely. He's expressing open contempt for limits on the military while also claiming God's sanction for *maximum violence and killing.* 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Hegseth appears to be a devotee of Christian Reconstructionism. As one religious scholar notes, this posits that "all authority belongs to God," which renders the state’s authority wholly subordinate to a "higher category of Biblical law." This explains a lot. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

In his prayer, Hegseth asked for divine assistance in unleashing "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy." By now it's become unmistakable that Hegseth is practically oozing with bloodlust. There are many examples of this. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Pete Hegseth just held a prayer service in which he appealed for God's help in killing our "enemies" with maximal violence and brutality. Hegseth's bloodlust and sadism are drawing sustenance from his particular brand of far-right Christianity. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Bullfrog* of the day! Sunday, 29 Mar 2026 *One of my favorites 😍

A state senator representing Jersey City says civilian oversight boards need to be granted investigatory powers to make real change. “My goal at the state level is to establish a clear framework that guides their work,” she said in a written statement.

There are aliens here on Earth for those who seek them. Life is a special kind of magic.

A group of people expressing racist views who want to make it harder for immigrants to come to the US. They can find law school faculty to add a patina of legitimacy to their instincts by recycling similarly racist views from the past, in the hope that a group of Federalist Society judges will agree

The fact that the assault on birthright citizenship has gotten this far, despite the plain text of the constitution, is astonishing. It also reveals some flawed assumptions about intellectual diversity, which sometimes involves resuscitating a dead and discredited idea b/c powerful people want to.

This is my new motto: "how Shelley eats a salad is how they do anything and everything: with intent and with verve and without mercy." 🙄

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1614, presumed to be Anne Fettiplace aka Mrs Henry Jones I (National Trust, Chastleton House) Lots of lace, giant ruff, tasteful black & white ribbons, a watch (?), she's got it all going on.

My brother’s dog a few yrs ago. Found her pic while looking for a different one. Reminds me of the old joke about a guest being reassured the dishes he was eating from were as “clean as cold water“ can get them - punchline host’s dog is named Coldwater

Morning. 🖼️ Jeremy Paul

Book Cover of the Day:

Wren of the Day: Black-throated Wren-Babbler Near Threatened 📷 Suebsawat Sawat-chuto

Brown is the Owl, Valerie Greeley. #OwlishMonday

Hello Monday. British Library, Harley MS 3244, folio 59r.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

So many calamities

And a reminder that Rowling has engaged in Holocaust denialism. Trans ppl were early targets of the Nazis. She says no, don’t believe history, don’t believe the truth. The nyt obsessively defends this denialist

Transphobes have picked up these tactics directly from the Klan and neo-Nazis. Trump has said they are “fine people” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_t...

here is an important message for you today:

Great Horned Owlet joining Dad in the nest for a meal... #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

It was 9 million. 2.5% of the population. This isn't "Let's Go Brandon." This is vastly bigger.

9 million, tens of thousands-the geniuses at @meetthepress.com don't know or care.

Just heard Meet the Press say “tens of thousands across the country take to the streets” about No Kings

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the new expanded work requirements start June 1 and will apply to people who were previously exempt, including veterans, the homeless, and former foster youth. Again, if you can help your local food bank, they’re going to need it more than ever in the coming months.

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

“…the weapon features, explosions and damage are consistent with a short-range ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM (pronounced like ‘prism’), which is designed to detonate just above its target and blast small tungsten pellets outward.”

So this was 100% right

WSJ: “Battle damage and replacement of [U.S. military equipment] losses over the first three weeks of the war likely costs roughly $1.4 billion to $2.9 billion…”

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There are now 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East.  FIFTY THOUSAND And Iran is warning that American universities with campuses in the Middle East will be considered legitimate targets. JFC!

“.. Disney executives, many of whom learned about the decision less than an hour before it was announced, were shocked. What they didn’t know was that Sora had quietly turned into a liability .. “.. Sora now looks like an expensive strategic miscalculation ..” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

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