I really miss Uncle Joe!

@malcolmnance.bsky.social fyi border-line-war.longlead.com

@halsparks.com @ittnerphilip.bsky.social fyi border-line-war.longlead.com

I learned much of what I know about international macro from @pkrugman.bsky.social. So it was a thrill and honor to talk with him about what’s now priced into oil and how realistic it is for prices to go to $150 or $200. Huge thank you for the great discussion! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Literally vice chair of the DNC. There’s a huge difference between “no one is saying it” and “I never hear about it”

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

Let's be clear-eyed here. Dem AGs have been a firewall against so many of MAGA's attempts to remake things at the state and federal levels. Conversely, we see the damage that Republican AGs have wrought. Eyes on your states. apnews.com/article/atto...

Take NOTHING for granted. THIRTY races. 2/3 of Attorneys General. Before we weigh in on an "exciting" race in a state we don't live in, we need to focus on the states we DO live in.

Here are the AG races in play this year: www.naag.org/news-resourc...

Found a fantastic one-volume history of interurbans in Canada and the US. The exhaustive appendix lists every system—and there were a lot of them!

@deardean22.bsky.social @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social @ektashahmd.bsky.social this is a pretty good AI interview www.instagram.com/reel/DV_3kIA...

If you've ever spent time in DC the idea that qatar, UAE, Saudi don't expend vast sums in US politics is crazy. Do you remember that just a few weeks ago we learned the top emir in UAE bought half trump's company for a vast payday?

I am a long long long time critic of aipac. But there money comes overwhelmingly, I suspect exclusively from us citizens. Money from Qatar and use are from there

I long for the day when people learn the names of the other influential PACs and lobby groups. You would think AIPAC is the only PAC that ever existed. NRA still has the GOP in a chokehold, Qatar has been flooding the zone with slush fund money, but y’all are fixated on AIPAC.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Yes. Great thread. Here is how we got here: Bc our nation is drowning in lies that persuade voters to elect con artists. And we do almost nothing to change that. bsky.app/profile/upin...

Honda just gave up trying to make this car in the US. EVs are made of steel, aluminum, and copper. If Honda ran a factory in the US, hired US workers, paid US taxes, and built the cars here? They'd pay 50% tariff on those raw materials.🤦🏿‍♂️ But if they made cars in Japan, then imported to US? 15%. 🙂🙃

The myth that MAGAs still have some legitimate grievance is nonsense. Most informed people share the same grievances about what is happening to our country but the people MAGAs support have been the direct causes of our inability to do jack about it. Republicans are now proving every single day …

oh this is why Hegseth was so big mad at CNN this morning "Trump’s national security team failed to fully account for the potential consequences of what some officials have described as a worst-case scenario now facing the administration, the sources said." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social fyi i feel the need to post about LBJ post presidency

@deardean22.bsky.social @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social @ektashahmd.bsky.social This was the last interview of LBJ at 22:17 he talks about appointing Thurgood Marshall to the SOCTUS. The most interesting part of this interview for me starts at 29:38: m.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtW...

@jbf1755.bsky.social fyi www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/11/b...

Trenton, N.J., high school students recently created a project that honors the role African Americans played in the founding of the United States with a multimedia exhibit that recognizes African American Revolutionary War soldiers.

Before our very eyes, a Temple in West Bloomfield is under attack. Like many of you, I am getting reports in real time. To everyone in Michigan’s 11th district, continue to follow the guidance of local law enforcement. To the Jewish American community in Michigan and beyond, we stand with you.

Contra Mundum podcast — “Number one Christian nationalist podcast in the world” according to them relocated to rural Jackson County TN in hopes of building their own “aligned community” where, as they envisioned it, most people would look and think like them. open.substack.com/pub/hatecome...

They want an America as it existed before the civil rights movement, in their words, “ruined everything." Me: Project 2025 Vision

How it’s playing in France. 🤡

Huge relief to hear nobody was lost. *SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP *NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP

He's 29. Dropped out of college after one year (IU) and likely got on the tech boyz radar because he started an IP company called Brainbase in college. He ended up on Forbes 30 under 30 showing again that that list is cursed.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social fyi orbisbooks.com/products/the...?

Yeaaaah riiight!!! 🙄 Did @kaitlancollins.bsky.social remind this guy that these were the same GOP voters who were mad that they had to wear masks during the pandemic, mad about vaccine mandates, mad about lockdowns, mad that restaurants were closed or they had to wear a mask while dining?

McLaughlin really making the difference here. Barnsley's finest!

Extraordinary and yet another example why archives are so important: “Nick Davis, a 23-year-old master’s student at Cambridge University” discovered the overlooked letters while conducting research in the archives.

@malcolmnance.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

@halsparks.com fyi www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

As a congressman, Markwayne Mullin made not one but two solo trips to Afghanistan, ignoring State Department warnings so he could play action hero. He’s a former amateur MMA fighter, not a veteran. If he’d been captured or injured, American troops would’ve had to risk their lives to bail him out.

@emptywheel.bsky.social @nicolesandler.bsky.social Marcy talked about chess last week. This is what came up on my web search www.tehrantimes.com/news/399868/...

I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

@halsparks.com in think this person might make for a good guest for you re: AI rebekahtweed1.substack.com/p/augmentati...

It’s way past time for universal health care.

It’s astonishing to me that white ppl think gas prices is the main issue not the fascism and WWIII they freely voted for. You aren’t off the hook and you never will be. Just know that.

@emptywheel.bsky.social fyi theconversation.com/persian-gulf...?