As stated, would seem to mean the military officers currently in the middle of PhD programs at these schools will have to drop out or transfer. PhD transfers are not easy, and application deadlines for next academic year were months ago.

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

This should simply spell the end of the organization, which has demonstrated it has no values other than the primacy of its own existence. (Hegseth, obviously, needs to be unemployed and in several forms of therapy.)

Daniel N. Rosen should stop whining about having to work so hard defending the indefensible. Just do the right thing and quit, like half of your staff already has. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

They’re also going to produce plenty of right-wing slop (and “both sides are equally bad” slop), but yeah, the biggest problem in the short term is all the unemployed journalists who will have no mainstream platform (or salary). Great news for tech companies’ comms teams, though.

I’d like to hear a post-2028 plan from progressives on how to unwind every corrupt merger Trump has facilitated for his pals. (And I’d like to hear some states’ and foreign countries’ plans to subject the Paramount/WB deal to rigorous antitrust scrutiny, given that it’s blatantly anticompetitive.)

Worst possible outcome for everyone but a handful of executives. Hooray.

This is incredibly crappy, let’s at least make sure “low information voters” understand that Donald Trump is presiding over the destruction of every piece of the American economy. www.theverge.com/tech/885710/ja…

I’m getting “insanely racist” vibes

I expect to see a lot more stories like this as rich, successful people convince themselves that they are smarter than everyone else on prediction markets (gambling apps), find themselves way underwater, triple down, lose it all, and resort to fraud and tax evasion. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/tom-go…

Does Apple still not have any official accounts on Bluesky (or Mastodon)? Are they really still using X as their primary (only?) text-based social media platform? www.macrumors.com/2026/02/26/a...

Personally, I would not sign up to turn my television into a node in a shadowy network of bots scraping the web for AI training data, but your mileage may vary. www.theverge.com/column/885244/…

Screw it, we’re doing 7 crosswords www.theverge.com/games/884848/a…

I guess this is a nice story about a guy who could have, but in this case didn’t, lose his entire life savings? Still seems bad to me, overall. techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/an-…

This is a good idea that seems more helpful for larger screened devices. techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/sam…

For what it’s worth, during a functional democracy they’re just stately.

Trump taking credit for the accomplishments of an America he’s dismantling brick by brick is… not good television.

Trump forcing the GOP to stand and clap for this insane, unpopular, hateful crap is the cherry on top of the disgusting election year sundae that is his presidency. Good luck in November, fellas.

Did the Washington Post Opinions Section write this SOTU?

This seems right. But there’s still a decent chance Trump forgets about it entirely and yaks for an extra 45 minutes about how the Arch Deluxe almost bankrupted McDonalds because it was woke.

Naturally, despite Trump doing everything he can do destabilize foreign relations and kick off great powers conflict that puts Taiwan in danger, the Trump admin gets credit for the work done by the Biden administration to try to deal with it. www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/tim…

Reading this on my M1 MBP is like reading a story in the Sunday paper about a new website, called Craigslist. www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/tou…

Counterpoint: this would free up more time for exercise and catching up on great works of literature www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/tec…

I cannot pick just one Skankin’ Pickle album.

He seems to have enjoyed it, but it must have been a deeply weird experience being the other guitar player in Dire Straits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9…

Idea for a new law: Every streaming service must put “continue watching” on the top and then do all its growth-hacking engagement bait below that. Fines start at $1B and proceeds are distributed equally to all subscribers.

Heading to the grocery store to prompt some ingredients for a delicious pesto. Gonna vibe code it tonight with some penne, if I still have enough tokens left.

Sheesh. Just impeach the guy already!

Bizarre to claim that you’ve received antitrust clearance for a deal that hasn’t been executed with terms that haven’t been agreed, but kudos to Paramount for spinning this as meaningful deadline.com/2026/02/para...

Oh, it turns out that the creator of Andor isn’t a huge fan of the Trump administration. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…

This would be a funny opportunity to institute an “equal time” policy. www.theverge.com/policy/882250/…

I’m sure they have contingency plans that will somehow be even worse than the previous tariffs regime, but at least we know he’s enraged and embarrassed today!

Same dude happily signs off on executing people for their incompetent lawyer checking the wrong box.

Will be “interesting” to see if he and other justices take this pragmatic approach to the possible imposition of national voter ID requirements, or the elimination of birthright citizenship.

Not getting “of the people, by the people, for the people” vibes here.

I realize the Constitution is dead and buried these days, but what Congressional authority does Trump have to wage this war?

I think almost everyone knows that Starship Troopers is a better film than book, but it’s important to note that Starship Troopers the book is not just worse, it’s fascist trash.

This calls for another court order!

Good to see this, but it's kind of dispiriting that a "huge victory" these days is a court ordering a government agency to follow the very clear law that already exists. slate.com/news-and-pol...

@jamellebouie.net Where’s that herringbone blazer from???

Well, what do you know? The Trump administration’s favored oligarch is back in the mix for WB. www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Construction idea: build the whole house out of studs.

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If you see an exclamation point in a court’s decision, someone’s messed up real bad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

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