We need to end prediction markets for government action. NOW. This bone chilling story about a reporter’s life threatened bc he simply reported on Iran missile strikes: “After you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you.”

Hey everyone! Good news! Stomach is officially on the mend! I have been able to eat all day and the only thing I've had to do is pace myself to avoid some moderate discomfort! Bad news. Stomach is working again. Time to hit the gym 4 days a week. Tonight: Check.

we are going to win

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

This is not the first time this country does this to Latinos. They did it to my grandfather during the Bracero Program. This is torture. Abolish ICE.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Super duper enjoyable to sit here as a logistics specialist in a predominately trucking industry while all this happens. Not at all nerve-wracking or horrifying, no sir.

If you want better things, elect Democrats, keep electing Democrats, elect better Democrats, & reward them when they come through.

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Bad, dumb, and a massive green light for fraud.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Yes his rhetoric was alarmist, and turned out not to be true. But it was also racist? The population bomb was about gross Other people not controlling their animal fertility. All paths of birth rates talk lead to one place.

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

I personally think a future Dem Congress should create a subcommittee solely dedicated to making this guys life a living hell

no matter what kind of guilty secrets you hold, no matter what colossal unforgivable errors you may have made in your life that the mere passing memory of causes you pain, you never half assedly sort of started a war just for the heck of it and brought about the cataclysmic end of a human era

yeah honestly I think of the frontrunners either Kat or Biss will do a good job and, well, if you really believe in Primary Everyone she went out there and actually did it regardless of whether or not she wins this was a net positive campaign for her to run and I hope more folks follow suit

ME: (chastising myself) Careful. We can't just paint every billionaire as an evil NPC with no inner life. They're just people, and we need to understand that if we're ever going to improve society BILLIONAIRE: I'm an empty shell, man. No thoughts up here. I'm essentially a void made to suck up money

I generally really like what Hell Gate is doing, but this post is just flat wrong. I wrote about the problems with this "major new housing study" here: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...

One good reason to never have billionaire celebrities run a country is that they likely will have difficulty understanding basic social dynamics

a fundamental thing about trump is that other people literally do not exist to him. he does not perceive them to be real.

nobody in my lifetime has done more to end the myth of global US dominance than Donald Trump and his acolytes

I gotta say, I think turning everything into gambling is already ushering in more corruption and violence in ways that were entirely predictable but will make *everything* worse

One of the fascinating things about the Trump II administration is that they're corrupt in ways that I never even could have conceived of in November 2024. It was beyond the limits of my imagination that DOD officials would time foreign bombing campaigns based off of their bets in betting markets.

Two weeks into the war, this is the bottom line: The Strait of Hormuz has *become* the objective. Trump has lost control, to the point where the closure of the Strait & its global economic implications have overtaken all the boastful goals of regime change or destroying the Iranian missile arsenal

South Lebanon is under threat of total ethnic cleansing

Excellent @elienyc.bsky.social piece. Even when this SCOTUS sides against Trump, the Court's right-wing power center (not to be confused with centrists) led by Chief Justice Roberts insists on maintaining the presumption of regularity.

Get rekt pedo, but diplomatic like. Also telling the world it's an impossibility and he doesn't have a plan and is too stupid to come up with a plan is super German

Evil shit. Read this story if you can. This is why Minnesotans are fighting so fucking hard for our neighbors, to prevent anyone being taken to these concentration camps. Close the camps. Abolish ICE. Prosecute people for these atrocities. (Call your members of congress, folks. Keep calling.)

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Very good. I’ll just say that the liberal emphasis on the individual was not because they thought persons were atomized, but because they acutely saw how embedded persons were within social structures and dynamics of power. That’s how you can get from Constant to Douglass to Dewey.

Hey everyone. Stomach is getting better. 209 this morning which means I've managed to put on ~ 5 lbs since the week I went to the hospital. Very grateful for that as most of it is water weight and healthy digestive tract weight. Be good, all my love.

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Two things: This is generally good advice and while The Unsheathed Quill is dead and gone, I will have another site once I get my career out of stasis.

Hey hey hey! Not bad at all, 750 words of second pass editing / rewrites. Love seeing myself make some progress like that on a random one-off session. Every little bit helps, and if I keep feeling this much better and motivated, write nights will resume. Be good, all my love.

IT's a Sunday night and I'm... writing? What a strange time we live in. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Be good y'all, congrats to all the Oscar winners (especially Sinners), and let's make some words.

This is just going to continue escalating and getting worse. Trump's reaction to being cornered by events he cannot dismiss or control or make someone else's problem is to lash out with increasing violence. Remember, his reax to COVID was first to attempt to kill protesters, then the US Congress.

Book seven is Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint by David Annandale.

Hey everyone. I am reminded anew that writing raunchy adventure is a wonderful new world that I thoroughly enjoy working in. However, it is also incumbent upon me to remember that there are a lot of traumas involved with that aspect of our existence and I do not have the right to ignore them.

i’ve mostly refrained from commenting on platner and ultimately it’s up to the people of maine who they want to vote for but every new thing i learn about this guy sucks

This is going to keep cascading the longer this continues, and honestly I don't see any easy end in sight for the conflict. We're going to be mired in this for months if not the rest of the year.

Ah.

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Yes. And any trans person who doesn't think we're on the desert menu if we let red-brownism continue to spread is deluded.

this guy is defending an attack on a preschool event at a synagogue. i'm tired of these fucking sociopaths.

Gonna manage roughly a thousand calories across the last 8 hours. Hopefully it'll be enough. Dinner is probably right out.

Uh, not for long. Also, magnitudes…??!?!?

ICE just murdered a man who fought for us in Afghanistan because he's an Afghan and a Muslim.