Cops are great

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

This is such embarrassing corruption - whoever becomes the next leader of Ohio State will need to take dramatic action to show their independence from this swampy self-dealing or they will be presumptively complicit and illegitimate

BREAKING: US minesweepers successfully removed mines in the Strait Of Hormuz that were never there after an oil tanker was escorted by a naval vessel that doesn't exist in an operation to obliterate a nuclear program that's already been obliterated in an escalating war that will be over shortly.

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

we basically need an administrative revolution comparable to DOGE in reverse, except competent; to punish those who tried to destroy the republic without escalating a cycle of reprisals; to create new durable institutions; and avoid thermostatic backlash from the public. Gl;hf

“Danielle Citron, a prominent privacy expert who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, topped the ‌ranking for ⁠the second time in as many years. This time she was joined by six other women in the top 10”

Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.

If Ellison finances his WBD deal w/billions from China & Arab states, "would CNN & CBS News have to disclose in all of their pieces that they are partly owned by nation-states with a vested interest in the conflicts?" asks @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. They'd have an ethical obligation to do so.

Ohio school board member resigns following our questions about his social media posts denying the Holocaust. Social media posts show a now-former Little Miami board member supporting Hitler before voting to remove anti-hate poster. ✏️ @bjodway.com via @reportforamerica.bsky.social

ICE OUT

Poor fella really wanted that Nobel peace prize. I’m sure he’ll be justly rewarded for his efforts in and around democracy one day.

“America is creating a laundry list of tactical successes in Iran without having any defined strategic objectives…This is what it means to be led by idiots and incompetents.”

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...

Our bill sends a clear message: Companies should maintain strong anti-corruption practices. Trump may be going easy on corporate crime right now, but foreign bribery will be investigated and prosecuted.

As ever, @annamerlan.bsky.social has written something timely and resonant. The quote from Dmytro Iarovyi had the odd effect of galvanizing me, by reminding me that my despair is not simply a defect, but is evoked by design.

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths from this recent Dorsey interview:

Sickening truth👇🏼🤮

Grok nicknaming Donald Trump the “Golden Shower Salesman” is hilarious. 🤣

⚠️ President of Iran: “The only way to end this war—ignited by the Zionist regime & US— is recognizing Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm int'l guarantees against future aggression.”

"it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield" - Orwell

This only reinforces how poorly the university manages its senior executives. They didn't enforce ethical controls that would have prevented misconduct, or even alert the Trustees that misconduct had occurred. Then they don't even enforce his resignation. Heads should roll.

A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files. The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.

Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

This piece is deep on specialized jargon, but worth contemplating nonetheless. The author objects to how "crisis appears as something that suspends public obligation rather than reinforcing it." We're trying to imagine the next political era, and that objection is a key to many locks.

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

Also if you had said "hey we're gonna bomb Iran" to any of the thousands of former or current sailors who have transited the Strait, down to a damn Boatswain's Mate we all would have said "what's the plan for the Strait of Hormuz?"

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

This is from 1975.

At times, I’m serious, brooding.

Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.

1/ GIFT LINK. Especially enjoy the role the Supreme Ct played. With no authority to do so and 'course no explanation of why it thought it had any, it overrode fed'l privacy laws and SSA's partitioned data structure & data-handling rules, effectively authorizing the system's breach. wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Judge: there are errors in multiple documents. I think the evidence contradicts your statement that this was not done intentionally. Candidly, I need you to give me a full explanation.

We just withdrew the last of the old Avenger-class minesweepers from the Persian Gulf in January: www.twz.com/sea/navys-av...

omfg

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

In 2025 Pam Bondi's brother ran for President of the DC bar and lost. Elections matter.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

This headline reminds me of October 2016 when candidate Trump said about Clinton that "some 2nd Amendment person" might have to take care of the situation if she got elected. Might have merited a headline that read "Trump Open to Clinton Being Killed if She Doesn't Cede to the NRA's Demands."

In January, Jeffries declined to whip against DHS funding. Then DHS murdered Alex Pretti, and Dems had to play catchup to the politics. Now Jeffries won't commit to whip against Trump's war. This isn't rocket science - unify Dems against bad and unpopular things! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Our Ohio House District 7 candidate forum is one week from today. House districts are drawn pretty chaotically by the GOP legislature these days, but there is an OK chance that you live in this district if you live in UA, Grandview, OSU Campus, the Short North area, or west Clintonville. Come out!

There are TWO strong Democratic candidates for Ogles' CD5 seat, which is the most flippable in Tennessee, especially given what happened in December's CD7 special election. Chaz Molder: chazmolder.com Mike Cortese: mikefortennessee.com

I've said it a thousand times already. Adults with unhealthy relationship to their own sexuality is the source of SO MUCH OF SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS.

this guy loves making down payments on future 9/11s with other people's money