GRRM is so good at naming characters that I'm stealing his names for NPCs in our D&D game. There's a Tall Paul. Instead of Harma Dogshead, I've got Darna Defthands. Instead of Cleftjaw, I've got Crookjaw. Nimble Dick will arrive soon. And a dozen more. Martin is just really good at fantasy names.

Remember when conservatives said Obama was a narcissist because he used the word "I" a lot in speeches

I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.

Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist. They don’t care about protecting women, they care about controlling us. Transphobia is a threat to all women’s rights.

Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

It. Is. In. The. Fourteenth. Amendment. It. Is. A. Right.

You really can't exaggerate how squarely contrary this rhetoric is to the basic foundational precepts of this country. These people *hate* the actually existing United States.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Man those $7500/ electric vehicle tax breaks would have been a nice thing to keep around.

6) But stop whining about how our boys have been robbed by brainy girls and educated people with darker complexions. Hell, even bullet-headed Rogan is gagging over the mind-f*cking hypocrisy.

5) If you want men to be role models, elevate those who deserve to be called men. Not steroidal whack jobs like RFKII, or cosplay Strangeloves like Hegseth, or bug-eyed Goebbels clones like Miller and Mullin.

1) Oh, how old it gets. All the wearying chatter about "the sorry state of manhood" in America invariably focuses on (yawn) the disenfranchised pool of pale young men who didn't get their share of participation ribbons. Somehow, left behind. To sulk, sneer, act out, or implode (see "Adolescence").

They already did! Several times! aas.princeton.edu/news/when-sl...

Powerful. “Resist Dance” performed on President’s Day by First Amendment Troop, honoring Renée Good and Alex Pretti. Music: We Could Fly and Follow the North Star by Rhiannon Giddens bsky.app/profile/nash...

Visited the store, one piece of merch is a TRUMP 2028 hat. Part of the description says "Rewrite the rules." Guess that's all we need to throw out the Constitution is a tagline in a piece of marketing? 🤷‍♀️

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Imagine telling everyone on the internet you're soft as hell while believing it makes you look tough.

He still has no idea how badly he fucked up. But then again, he has no idea how badly he fucked up with Covid. And he got away with that.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

This is some third world nonsense. ⚖️👇🏾

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

Oh look - Rep Ogles was 1 of 5 Republicans who met with Russia’s Duma delegation after Trump lifted sanctions to let them in. 🤷🏼 Another Trump gift to Putin, and Ogles in the middle of it. What a surprise! (As they continue to attack Ukraine) More: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.

Pege Hegseth's chief of staff tried to block the promotion of a black female combat veteran because, as the article notes, "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" in Washington DC

It's not merely that Pete Hegseth behaves as a racist and war criminal, it's that he's also speedrunning the Stalinist military leadership purges *and* the inevitable next war that exposes why you maybe don't want to ideologically purge your military leadership

I mean look, at the end of the day Democrats turned a potential whole government shutdown into a DHS shutdown and turned that into an ICE/CBP shutdown (plus or minus the deplorable funding for those from OBBBA). This is genuinely no mean feat!

New in PN: What do you do when you can't trust the govt? "Trump contradicts himself so often that we’ve become accustomed to disregarding it as nothing but background noise, conveying nothing meaningful. At root, this is the core project of his second administration: to undermine any shared truth."

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

The “b(5)” stamped on the text box indicates that DHS meant to redact this quote – even though legally, they were obligated to release it. This raises serious questions about what else DHS has inappropriately redacted, instead of releasing.

NEW: We uncovered an email in which a top CBP official said National Guard troops deployed by Trump to LA to counter protesters should have “just started hitting” them. And CBP planned to hide it from the public. americanoversight.org/top-cbp-offi...

Very obvious that Trump only imagines himself to be a leader a part of America in a fight against the rest of America. This is his only political ability.

Dem leadership should be telling everyone that this is the talking point.

Dude who is putting himself on the money isn’t beating the No Kings rap

Trump is now adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president's signature will go on paper currency. Historically, paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary and the treasurer.

4/ If Trump is able to get away with ignoring that, with arrogating the entire power of the purse to himself, then Congress has pretty much no way of checking him.

3/ From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress.

2/ These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

The SAVE Act is being framed as a simple voter ID bill. It is not. Under this proposal, a standard driver license would not be enough to register to vote or update your registration in most states. That includes Florida. Instead, the bill requires documentary proof of citizenship such as:

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Democrats introduced 8 bills to pay TSA and Trump told Congress he wouldn't sign them without the SAVE Act, but ok

Driver’s licenses in 45 states are NOT usable for voter registration under the SAVE America Act AP Only Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington — issue enhanced driver’s licenses which are REAL ID-compliant AND prove citizenship as well as identity which is needed bit.ly/4lWML1I

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