You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

My recent podcasts: Amicus: slate.com/podcasts/ami... 2 Complicated 4 History: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

this is so profoundly dishonorable

lfg

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

great training opportunity for anyone planning fieldwork in a violence-affected context

there are nearly 13 million lawful permanent residents in the United States, and they generally have the right to leave and return to the U.S. as they please on Wednesday, the Trump admin will ask the Supreme Court to change that read up about Blanche v. Lau 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/blanc...

I said it before, but Indian chillies will come over to borrow salt, get chatting, stay for dinner and then hold you up at gunpoint after dessert, mexican chillies will smash your door down, grab you by the collar and haul you outside for a solid beating

here's an Indian food hack that will change your life- stop trying to make it "authentically spicy" and go buy this thing called kashmiri red chilly powder and just use that

Omggggg

Bachelet’s pitch is the cause of urgent hope in a time that demands it. She is moving between UN languages—she’s old hat in these big multilateral settings, and she’s explicitly drawing on her experience as someone who’s lived through the violence of state repression

All four official candidates for the next UN Secretary General will be holding televised three-hour interactive dialogues with the UN diplomats today and tomorrow—Michelle Bachelet, 10-1 today; Rafael Grossi, 3-6 today; Rebeca Grynspan and Macky Sall at those times tomorrow. webtv.un.org/en

There's something very interesting about sending Mike Waltz out to do these morning shows regularly. He doesn't have a cabinet post & the admin's own line is that he's not to be trusted with cabinet-level authority. I have to assume they're banking on him seeming more normal than their modal ghoul.

Another tell from Trump administration officials is the invocation of WWII allied bombing as “precedent” to defend atrocities or potential atrocities. The law of war rules governing the conduct of hostilities (eg aerial bombing) have developed quite a bit since WWII.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

🚨🚨Bun Bun Bun Everybody bun now 🚨🚨

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this

there's no virtue to not checking a bag! check a bag if you need to, you weirdos!

These have gone up all over our area. A heartbreaking memorial to those people stolen from our community.

personally while "force majeure" was on the bingo cards I wasn't expecting to see phrases like "piracy" or "letters of marque" in contemporary discourse quite this much. maybe there's still hope for me to try out a swashbuckling era as a privateer

you also do not need a phd to know that flying to Islamabad to negotiate with Iran when the Iranian government says it will not be there is unlikely to produce peace www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...

it is literally politicians' jobs to translate technical jargon from different expert sectors into easily accessible and resonant language, and if you can't do that, then the problem is actually yours! if you insist the problem is the language existing at all, you're just doing sparkling Sarah Palin

Ah yes, that famous gesture of opposition: waving the white pocket square

In 2022, when Georgetown was about to break ground on a building for its downtown campus, there were about 20 people experiencing homelessness living around the site. The university's response could be a model for how developers respond to homelessness. https://bit.ly/4teTzuq

"h3 told Street Sense the partnership had a significant impact on people experiencing homelessness living in the area, some of whom the organization is still in touch with. Some encampment residents started new jobs or got into housing with h3’s help" streetsensemedia.org/article/as-u...

Meenu Batra is the only Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu court interpreter in Texas. She had spent most of her life in Texas, working and raising her kids. ICE detained her despite having humanitarian protection.

I appreciate that news organizations have to send out news alerts with concrete claims in them but 'who knows what's actually happening' would probably have been more accurate push notifications

who knew she even had enough dignity left to lose a little more

OK y'all, I'm making a proposal. The theme for 2026 is Hot Human Summer. This summer, we human. We celebrate each other. We sing, we dance, we make art and music. We stop the data centers. We smash the clankers. We deactivate the chatbots. Hot. Human. Summer. Who's in?

is this the case? Waltz's position isn't cabinet level

I am 103 years old, you people cannot make me learn who streamers are, no matter how much you talk about their politics

Yassamin Ansari: “I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering US service members and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.”

“This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter, a deliberate destruction of prospects for peace, and an affront to multilateralism and the UN-based international order” UN human rights experts condemn Israel’s attack on Lebanon www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

if this guy ran through an ICU turning off machines he’d get tackled by an orderly, but he gets away with doing the same thing from a distance at scale

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

The next president's Attorney General needs to act with urgency to investigate and prosecute the crimes being committed to effectuate the mass deportation agenda.

Oh my god

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Here she is at the March on Washington wearing her Resistance medals, incredible flex

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I try not to brag but almost nothing makes me feel prouder than when a student has learned enough to do this with confidence

somewhere, the ghost of Hans Morgenthau is having a cluster migraine

The sequel we deserve

again, I have a lot of criticisms of Ds in general, but D elected's reaction to the Swalwell allegations has been uniformly to take them seriously and call for his effective expulsion from the party. His resignation from gov race and congress reflects that.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

*SWALWELL RESIGNS FROM CONGRESS

its good to see this happening somewhere and it needs to be happening everywhere

I'm grateful for all the pictures of my book out there in the wild from readers who bought but especially loving the ones with pets. (Hopefully the book passes the sniff test with Daisy.)

As good a guide to the current state of US foreign policy as you will find