If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.

@aje.bsky.social, yes! The founders expected 30,000 people per district. Mine has 770,000. I love the amazing diversity of it, but there is no mistaking that with smaller districts, representatives would be closer to their voters - and less driven by campaign finance.

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

Sitting here as a Black person, thinking about how I am not allowed to say “I told you so” in a few years when the guy with the SS tattoo turns out not to be a key ally for multiracial democracy

Every basin has below-normal snowpack. Some have melted out almost entirely. That's not unheard of for low elevations in mid-March, but what highly unusual is the lack of snow at middle and high elevations across such a broad region. Winters like are becoming increasingly common.

I also have a joke about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and I can tell you where it is or where it’s going but not both.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

Trumpism in a nutshell: I want other people to be more miserable than me.

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Francis Fukuyama on Trump: "The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ backyard and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it."

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Jessie was amazing as Agnes Shakespeare. I felt her connection with the 16th 17th century where nature, magic, medicine were connected in a mother's love.

Where’s Wallace? He’s on stage accepting his flowers.

I was going to lose it if the Academy didn't give it to Michael B Jordan for playing 2 amazing characters on the screen at the same time

Wasting time as a silly bit with Adrian Brody when they could have given more time to the Golden winners is not a great choice.

"They should fire the rude person who told them to interrupt the Golden speech" — my 7-year-old daughter

Many professors of constitutional law have been utterly delusional about what courts do. This is a decades-long trend noted in the New York Times piece I referenced in the episode. It's actually disturbing to read their naivety. web.archive.org/web/20240226...

Daniel Radcliffe has read How to Hide an Empire, and used it in his defense of Bad Bunny at the superbowl. That is all.

what i want to see out of future democratic party leaders is a recognition that federal spending is legitimately good, that we should do more of it, and that doing so will require collective contribution that many, many people are going to scream absolute bloody murder about

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Time to start laying the legal groundwork for rejecting the legitimacy of pardons granted for official crimes as part of a conspiracy of which the president is a part

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

People who are running for office against Republicans need to declare: if the President gives pardons for Federal crimes, those individuals will be turned over to an authority who will prosecute them: a state, international war crimes tribunal, & countries where the crimes were committed.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Sen. Rick Scott in 2022: “The buck stops with one person. Joe Biden made your gas prices go up. He did it. He actually did it.” Scott today, 14 months after Trump took over: "Unfortunately, [gasoline] prices are gonna be up for a while."

ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.

look at this fucking dipshit.

You know who DO believe in generational projects of cultural transmission though? Fascists

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

I mean one of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's big takeaways from years of writing the Revolutions pod is that the Great Man Theory of Historical Change is overrated but the Great Idiot Theory holds considerable explanatory power

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

AI is a snake eating itself. It relies on uncompensated labor to "learn", then economically displaces the people doing that labor. Which means that there is no one left for AI to steal from, causing it to stagnate, frozen in time based on old training data.

Listening to this you wonder "Is there anything he hates more than judges?"

I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.

Listening to this you wonder "Is there anything he hates more than judges?"

One of the reasons Stephen Miller's voice sounds so petulent and annoying is that he upspeaks--he ends sentences at a higher tone than he started. The combination of feminine-coded upspeaking with constant attempts to signal hypermasculinity just make him sound pathetic and vaguely unhinged

hey look a fun history lesson!

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator. The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be. Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt #IranWar

The fog of war: living through a historical event, you can't know or predict the outcome. When my classes were discussing Iran, we talked about what happened with U.S. operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, & the likelihoods of failure to change the state's regime or a failed state.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I like the “we’ve been at war with iran for 40 years” talking point because by implication surviving members of the reagan bush natsec team should be tried for treason

yeah so the 2024 election was narrowly won by a guy running on a platform of cheaper prices and no new wars who then immediately decided to raise everybody's prices and start the biggest new war of the past twenty years

Look how successful Trump was: the Epstein files story got pushed below the fold. That's what the real goal was for these strikes.

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world, my own government.” -Martin Luther King www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...