This sort of sale of indulgences for antisemitism is how the Israeli right relates to historically antisemitic European far-right parties, too: Support Israel's war in Gaza and the Occupation, and Likud will kosher your party while you revise the history of the Holocaust in your own European nation.

Perhaps interesting to note that previously Podhoretz took a much more permissive attitude toward flagrant antisemitism on the right.

Be curious to see if Weiss and the Ellisons stand by this hire the way they did with Peter Attia... www.axios.com/2026/03/12/c...

this is a radical position but I believe that if you are a person of integrity you should not be using far right wing propaganda websites owned by sociopaths

Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

Female defectors say the MAGA movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and now demands submission while ‘advertising it will be cruel and fickle.’

"It’s almost as if Trump felt that, as a would-be dictator, he had to have his own nihilistic war, just like his idol Vlad Putin. But Trump’s 'excursion' against Iran is nothing like Putin’s years long 'special military operation' against Ukraine — it’s actually more stupid." — @davidrlurie.com

EGAN-JONES: “.. Israel and the U.S. have succeeded in antagonizing and further radicalizing a state they have no possibility of defeating.”

I feel like people talk a lot about fascism, but in practice they don't really understand how it works. fascism's whole appeal is exactly this; it packages traditional bigotries as innovative and edgy. 1

What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

The most consistent definition of 'capitalist business model' over the last 400 years is enclosure. Enclosure of fields, monopoly charters, no-bid contracts, now this.

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans. Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump fund that capitulating media outlets paid their settlements to has been dissolved and it is unclear where the money went. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Maybe his adm. guys stumbling around in their too-big Trump loyalty shoes are feeding him fake AI "news" videos. Or maybe it's his brain. Or both. What's clear is 1) his adm. people are too chickenshit to 25th Amendment him, and 2) Congress & the Senate are too chickenshit to stop him as well.

It's instructive to view this Karp sound bite alongside Rep. Andy Ogles's recent tweet calling pluralism "a lie." The folks in power right now want a white, Christian nation that excels at killing people. That's their vision for the U.S.

This is not just a design patent issue; it also implicates First Amendment concerns. That's not just a hypothetical. In our public comments, we discussed a case in which the KKK tried to use design patents to silence a critical movie: www.regulations.gov/comment/PTO-...

Oh, for Pete's sake. The USPTO just "reinterpreted" design patentable subject matter to include disembodied designs.

This is an actual post from the official White House account. We’re being trolled by fifteen-year-old boys playing computer games.

There is no climate policy that both the US Oil and Gas Association and the Trump Administration want. Come on, people. Don't be dumb about permitting reform. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

AP: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said leverage of closing Strait of Hormuz should be used and that Iran’s attacks on Gulf Arab neighbors will continue. His 1st statement since his appointment was read on state television by a news anchor.

1. Trump was told a war could trigger oil shocks, especially at home, where the affordability issue is rapidly eating the heart out of his presidency. But risks were “downplayed,” the Times said, in favor of a plan to “decapitate” Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

This is true, but Rogan is still very much a Trump guy. He spent 5-10 minutes on Iran in his last few pods, in which he also promoted the SAVE act, said Minneapolis ICE resisters are paid protesters, and suggested there’s no difference between a king and a president www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

It’s become obvious that the Trump administration gave zero thought to how this war would play out. Even now, though, I don’t think they quite appreciate how locked in they are to a complete and total clusterfuck. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-sick-an...

ECONOMY: SHAMBLES OIL: $300 PER BARREL COUNTRY: ON FIRE REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

one of the things that sucks about this website is we can't sarcastically suggest that we build a big tunnel under the strait of hormuz and then have elon musk unironically advocate for it

in these challenging times it's so inspiring to know that Elon Musk has been able to upgrade his Gulfstream G650 to a brand new G800, which goes Mach .935 instead of a mere Mach .925

Former Rep. Bob Good (far-right/Tea Party R-VA05) is correct here..."Trump IS the problem...you would literally do better by using Trump's endorsement to know who NOT to vote for" bluevirginia.us/2026/03/thur...

The WaPo's descent into a giant suck-up-to-Trump operation continues. Today's edition features former Trump AG Bill Barr w laughable claims of a controversy over climate science & evidence-free attacks on the authors of the Federal Judicial Council's climate manual for deceiving the courts.

I made the thread a substack post so you can share it with your boomer dad open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Redditors have sung its praises, with one commenter encouraging people to use the app to “know your money is staying local vs going to big faceless corps who share only a tiny bit with the drivers.” https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/11/park-city-app-takes-uber-lyft-utah 

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

The dude witnessed Trump's first term and then promoted him right before the election. The Epstein stuff and Iran war mongering wasn't new. He respects his audience so little that he wants them to believe he accidentally got pedo Hitler elected

Every once in a while, I throw research queries into AI to test it against what I know. It fabricated a quote and attributed it to a DEA official in Colorado. When I called it out, it apologized for the "imprecision." I pushed back again and this was the response. Wild.

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

So here we have the president deeming a lawmaker who has been mildly critical of him a traitor to the country. Once again, just imagine Obama or Biden declaring some random congressman "disloyal to the United States of America," and the round-the-clock media freakout you would have seen.

Here's my bottom line: Much of what they are doing is bad. Much of what they are doing is unpopular. Pushback is working. We are winning. Keep fighting. Be creative. Push for what you'd want. Allow for insiders and outsiders. Realize that change takes time. Reduce harm in the meantime.

I just can't stop thinking about the sheer narcissism in this administration people.com/kristi-noem-...

Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...

“.. One official said the Strait of Hormuz could become an Iranian ‘kill box’ if ships start trying to pass through. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Fetterman doesn’t even give a shit about the kids in Iran. Let that in for a second.

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory has been sending public alerts for two weeks, so let's rewind to night one. Meet the first newly changing source reported by Rubin!🐣 This alert flagged something that hadn't been seen changing before. We call it 170054916194172951. Catchy, right? 🔭🧪

Money well spent. 🤡 @financialtimes.com #$INTC www.ft.com/content/5506...

$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.