the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

It's scary to have a President this divorced from reality.

Trumps kids are being pulled into all sorts of schemes on the assumption that the government will provide favorable treatment, which could be loans or regulatory treatment. Jr is also an advisor for both Kalshi and Polymarket which are barely being regulated open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

Hershey to shift back to classic recipe for all Reese's products after criticism

Tired: Omg the Claude Code leak is a bunch of vibe coded garbage Wired: Vibe coded garbage can get you to $2.5 billion annualized recurring revenue in under a year if the product market fit is there

You’ve got to be able to hold a few different thoughts in your head simultaneously! À la @dorfonlaw.bsky.social (1) this had to play out this way (2) Trump will lose this time (3) they’re shifting the Overton window (4) we’re bolstering the same institution that’s going to be our undoing.

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

originalism, i am told, is supposed to respect popular sovereignty. but here we have two “originalists” who insist that their language games — and that is what this is, a language game meant to extract meaning where it does not exist — ought to control over a sovereign act of the people.

One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.

Solicitor General Sauer just said birthright citizenship “demeans the priceless and profound gift of American citizenship” which is hilarious since Trump has literally proposed selling citizenship for $5 million a pop like we have an actual price www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...

but then barnett and wurman and the rest are not actually doing scholarship, they are doing hack work for a political cause. they would strip citizenship from millions to advance their careers and standing. they are beneath contempt. i would respect them more if they owned up to it.

Did you know - the Portland Frog is not my first Passover-themed illustration? I made "The Midwives of Israel" after SCOTUS overturned Roe. Miriam, Shifra, and Puah guide the way through the split sea, buttressed by Jewish texts that support and indeed prescribe abortion. More info in the alt.

I hate the ballroom and this is clearly the correct result. With that said, it’s a perfect example of how fucking broken this country is that he was able to tear down the East Wing without interference from anyone or anything but he can’t build anything in its place due to a court order.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

BREAKING: Gov. Brad Little signed the measure. As of July 1, it will be a felony for trans people to use the restroom repeatedly in Idaho at public facilities and private businesses with public restrooms. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

The contradiction between what Wurman put in his scholarly writing, versus what he put in a court document, where he is under penalties of perjury, is enough, IMO, to initiate tenure review at any self-respecting academic institution.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Very important thread on the erosion of the civil rights of trans people under the current administration. The Othering of trans people is offensive in its own right but also a Trojan Horse for all kinds of authoritarian bullshit: the fight is doubly important for that reason. No compromise! ✊

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Please spread if you can. I have a limited time to make this happen and I DESPERATELY don't want to lose my boy 😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿

14th death under ICE custody that we know of. We will update this story as soon as we get more details. We reached out to ICE and DHS on Wednesday night and have received no response.

"Lawyers for convicted defendants in the landmark Prairieland ICE protest case filed motions...to overturn verdicts...lawyers claimed the government failed to enter evidence that supported a conviction..." Latest from @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social prairielanddefendants.com/press-releas...

I'm a conservative former Republican-turned-independent, and if they tear down the f-ing ballroom, they have my vote.

People are going to need so much help in the rebuilding. Right now, we have to focus on as much harm reduction as possible.

just remembered this and started crying again ty @jonbois.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKC...

NYT: young people at CPAC are "J-pilled," defined as slang for "skepticism of Israeli influence" Then a few grafs later they quote a groyper who says "at least 60 percent of the young people here" are fans of Nick Fuentes, who wants to deport all Jews from America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

It's pretty shocking to me that the NYT is reading "J-pilled" as anything other than "hates the Jews and believes the conspiracy theories about them". If Mamdani's staffers were using "J-pilled" it would rightly be front page news. But it's cool when Republicans do it, apparently.

Oil just ticked up on this:

Iran has no interest in cheap oil nor (due to decades of isolating economic sanctions) a need for a well-functioning global economy, so its control of the Strait will be exclusively for its domestic interests. What a fucking self-own.

israel's information environment is fucknig cooked dawg

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

In which Ilan Wurman endorses using white supremacists' writing to interpret the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. He says that complaints about his [and the government's] lack of source criticism deploy a "classic logical fallacy." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

As @jamellebouie.net noted, these white supremacists' arguments were shot down by the same Supreme Court that enshrined racial segregation in Plessy v Ferguson. We don't need "originalists" badly playing amateur historians to figure this one out. This idea was roundly dismissed at the time.

"I'm the last person who deserved x" is just the main motivating force behind all of American politics. Ladder pulling at every level.

"...the way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace."

Three Lebanese journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a clearly marked press vehicle. We are up to what? 189 journalists killed by Israeli forces at this point?

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

I present: Liam Gallagher and a child

Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

The New York Times is such a piece of shit rag

We are in the midst of an industrial revolution based almost entirely on solar and battery tech. If there's any single reason to have hope for global sustainability it's shit like this. Solar and battery tech is becoming so affordable that it's saving lives at scale by offering affordable cooling.

Federal agents are completely, absolutely immune from all liability. As far as the feds are concerned you have no constitutional rights and no one can say otherwise.

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"