Shorter Bret Stephens: the US should do piracy on the high seas

there are two genders

Australia’s “two-party system” looks uncertain, and in SA it would be fair to say it has ceased to exist altogether with the far-right minor party, One Nation, winning more votes and about as many seats as the Liberal Opposition. On @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Australia is a Westminster democracy, but our parliaments don't need (and haven't always had) a "two-party system". Labor began as crossbench "balance of power" upstart. Most successful "party" of last 100 yrs is the Coalition. Independents have formed Govt, and Opposition.

we live in dumb times

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

Truck drivers at the depot I’m meeting at speaking very derisively about Trump trying to pass off Hormuz issue. Another data point

So CENTCOM is really just working out fifty years of frustration now, huh.

There’s also a non-zero chance that Trump shows up with Roberts’ brother or nephew or some shit, the way Michael showed up to Frankie Five Angels Senate testimony with his brother.

Roberts and the Republican justices deserve every bit of this fucking circus since this case should never even be here.

Dave Weigel really is a hacky piece of shit. One of the best examples of the cynical, smug rot at the heart of much of our political news media

Twin Peaks: A half-heart necklace on a mound of dirt at the rail-car crime scene. A scrap of paper with the words FIRE WALK WITH ME scrawled on it.

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This is definitely the quietest of all leaks made for the purpose of being able to say you said it later.

The entire TOS is bananas. It boils down to telling the users they are nothing but rubes.

The government that's attacking universities for their supposed antisemitism now has legal authority to collect lists of Jews on campus. Because, you know, they just want to protect us.

Ngl I think about this quote a lot when it comes to how I handle my masculinity

* Lightners! I haven't seen many of you recently. * If you didn't know, an evil ruler is taking over this world. * I don't really like politics, so I have no opinion on this.

BREAKING Drone attack targets Kuwait airport, fuel tanks on fire, aviation authority

i listen to a podcast where one of the hosts informed the rest of the hosts that if any of them played the jelly roll world cup song in any context at any point during any recording he would immediately leave the recording call and not return, as the cold open. and he was right to do it

"jelly roll world cup song" is a phrase thats gonna roll around in my head like a loose marble for at least a month

Instead of owning up to it they are claiming the Iranians are actually using their rather accurate cruise missiles to pinpoint erase a whole building next to their own bases so that they can what???

I cannot overstate how bad things are. The amount of illegal orders being carried out without even so much as a thought for what comes after is insane. CENTCOM is sending out a press release calling what is an obvious PrSM strike on a civilian target false.

Much has been made of whether LLMs can or have gained sentience, but a truly underrated development is the apparent emerging sentience among investment reporters

To all those that believed it couldn't possibly get any worse, you were very wrong. It can get so much worse.

On Twitter, this post is followed by the usual assortment of Trump supporters asking grok if it’s true, followed by them getting mad at grok for telling them it’s not true

Jet ski rider riot imminent.

RFK Jr type ad

Treasury Dept. thinks it's likely prices will remain above $100/barrel for some time, but the admin sees that number as “a baseline,” and isn’t ruling out the possibility of prices rising as high as $200/barrel.-Politico/Dasha Burns on X

WH senior staff and admin officials are discussing the possibility that oil prices climb to a record $150 or more per barrel.

‘separation of powers nonsense’ ah yes the Republican party

Whatever he's supposed to say, he's going to end up incoherently rambling off-topic about things that aren't true. The media will pretend this is meaningful.

I wonder what this next cycle is shaping up to be about and what the op-ed industrial complex are telling us to do about it

Since 9/11 there have been 12 federal elections, only 3 mainly about something other than foreign policy, yet we sit through an endless haze of podcasters telling us to forget foreign policy and instead focus on steel mills that closed 50 years ago or trans people in sports or whatever dumb shit

Anyway

Totally reasonable way to run an economy. www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/i...

The irony is that internet access gives you the furry ‘tism and you also have to go to the boring office job

The reason the CA gov top two situation worries me a little is that both GOP candidates are nuts. Like these are not Romney or Vermont type republicans that would suck but wouldn’t be a total disaster. They’re both lunatics.

Especially considering that it was in fact extremely about something, namely the three massive wars that broke out that spring/summer, but for maintaining the press’s hobbies reasons we remain having to pretend that No One Cares About Foreign Policy

Social media is destroying people's brains again

If you stop killing me, I'll pay you 200G.

falls to my knees heisenberg style

You know this is important to Trump because there is literally nothing he values more than Being On The Teevee

yep. the scotus vacancy binds the republican party to trump in a critical way

This case is only happening because a racist president created an ultraconservative Supreme Court, and a handful of extremely thirsty law professors are trying to get the racist president’s attention for an appeals court judgeship. It’s all very stupid and embarrassing, and also *really might work*.

ban all gamers from every site regardless of gender or political affiliation, imo

UKMTO WARNING 030-26

All the serious people will feel they have to watch this in case he gives some key insight into our strategy policy but odds are he’ll get distracted and talk about the danger of trans windmills

I know I'm a broken record on this (and with this article, originally in Politico, but, you know) but I urge anyone reporting, posting, or talking about Trump's "library" to read this, from 2021. You're all being waaaay too credulous with this grifter. lastcampaign.substack.com/p/will-there...

Trump is basically telling Tehran that if they hold out for 3 more weeks they’ll get to own the Strait of Hormuz and renegotiate safe passage with the entire world on their own terms. This is an enormous strategic win for Iran. More than they could have hoped. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...