The Romans told me the Carthaginians keep eating their armies so I asked how many armies they have and they said they just hold a levy and get a new army afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding armies to the Carthaginians and then Fabius Maximus started crying.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

"Roughly 50% of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against 12,300 military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments"

It's Easter. So it's our annual Christian values mass war crimes event.

The impact of the purging of officer corps (who might have had relevant experience) on the Iran war fiasco is an underexplored story.

Iran War Update

The failed politics of nostalgia www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/the-...

Wait Remmick from Sinners is played by the same guy as Jimmy from Bone Temple?

Hegseth is a war criminal who assumes he'll never be prosecuted. He's looking for a co-conspirator.

Star Trek needs more Space Jesuits.

Philippines Holds Talks With Iran on Safe Passage Through Strait of Hormuz thediplomat.com/2026/04/phil...

Hitler’s Edifice Complex www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You will not read a more comprehensive or informative blog on Space Toilets today. That's the Defector promise. defector.com/artemis-bold...

GCAP moves into full trilateral mode with GBP 686m contract for design of next-generation fighter jet for the UK, Italy and Japan. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/design-contract-for-next-generation-british-fighter-jet/

Emerson College/FOX 56 Poll shows increasing support for Barr, Booker in Senate race fox56news.com/news/kentuck...

Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Bone Temple is one fucked up movie.

Trump’s Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I would eat this at every meal.

well after it murdered all those people

Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz has already kept about half a billion barrels of oil from the market and pushed up prices by around 40% www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump's speech tonight won't matter because: 1. Whatever he says about what has happened will be a lie. 2. Whatever he says about what will happen will be unreliable. 3. Whatever he says in the prepared remarks will be contradicted by extemporaneous asides. Watch what he does, not what he says.

suspect this may be one of the things where they give a plan emphasizing the costs and risks in order that it doesn't get done; the problem is this president is Donald Trump

i think we can explain a lot of the polling re economy if we remember that many or even most americans don’t have firm memories of the 70s and early 80s, think low inflation is their birthright, and will likely eventually realize this is the new normal but only after multiple failed presidencies

Yes; “the economy is doing badly because my favorite restaurant can’t retain any workers” is something that I’ve heard a lot in these dark, dark times…

The Taney Revivalists www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/the-...

Americans are astonishingly wealthy and a deeply attached to the idea that they are increasingly impoverished.

Right. Part of why it's important to acknowledge what is happening here is that any future Dem president is going to be ground into a fine dust by the Perpetual Gloom Machine just the same as Biden and Trump. If people aren't responding to actual economic conditions you have no control over it.

There is some overarching mechanism at work, where people adopt "the economy is miserable" as their baseline viewpoint at all times, regardless of actual conditions. That's a much more straightforward answer. We don't know what that mechanism is, but it's clearly operating.

People, please stop coming up with cute excuses here, where voters have totally independent, different, valid reasons for thinking the economy is bad in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The entire country is not deciding the economy is bad for a different unrelated reason every six months.

Owning a home is part of the American dream; right now it feels out of reach for too many Kentuckians. Rep. @kydeservesmoore.bsky.social is fighting to change that with an amendment that would invest $123 million in affordable housing and make corporations wait before scooping up more properties.

Amphibious Warship USS Rushmore Sailing Through Strait of Malacca — USNI News news.usni.org/2026/04/01/a...

First, the #SAVEAct so they can disenfranchise women. Now, an attempt to restrict mail-in voting to disenfranchise our military, elderly folks, and college students. What do you do when you can't win on policy? Cheat. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/trump-mail-in-voting-executive-order.html

90% of the "overpopulation" discussion in my lifetime (sometimes promoted by people with otherwise strikingly left-of-center views!) Can be boiled down to rich white people driving SUVs telling poor people not to have kids or turn on their air condidtioners. That's mostly Ehrlich's fault.

Is the 14th amendment unconstitutional? Views differ

This is an unfortunate and unnecessary white-washing of Ehrlich's legacy, one that ignores his very real impact of discourses about immigration, sterilization, and population control.

Toshiro Mifune for Sapporo beer

Students and teachers are struggling to keep education alive in underground schools. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/27/u...

Air power is delivering results at scale, but its role in shaping the endgame is less straightforward. What it can achieve and what it cannot are not the same. (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...

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.

Damn right

I could be wrong, but I see someone in the White House, possibly Marco Rubio, desperately trying to find a way to talk Donald Trump out of some sort of invasion of Iran. The priority now is just to stop the escalation, don't worsen the Strait of Hormuz situation. 1/

The man who hired me at the Prospect, my friend and mentor Bob Kuttner, has a new memoir out, and he has a story up about it on our site today. But the book includes some parts of his life I didn't know: prospect.org/2026/03/31/n...

rather than stopping doing journalism on bluesky because bad-faith bullies use context collapse to create dogpiles, i think people with large followings should be judicious about turning off QTs. otherwise you're letting the trolls set the standard.

The air here is poisonous.

I have experienced similar pile-ons when my summary of a court's holding was mistaken for my personal view on the matter. This insistence on stripping a post of context then imputing bad faith is making BlueSky unusable for legal reporting. Today's incident shows that the problem is getting worse.

You ever think how weird it is that a sack of yellow goo turns into a whole bird in just 21 days?

yeah Vance has Russian Orthodox written all over him.