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.

What’s wrong with your hand? Nothing! Fuck you! It’s from shaking hands, ok? Anyway, I heard this other poor schmuck was gonna be dead by June. Wanna know his name?

notice how Andreessen’s “I don’t dwell on the past” philosophy is built on an utterly false and at least vaguely antisemitic version of the history of western civilization that he seems to actually spend a lot of time thinking about

*looks around shiftily to make sure we’re not being overheard* Stealth oil tankers

Hopefully he spends most of his retirement in prison.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Make Jack Aubrey a commodore with that mission and give him almost no material support

His meteorology is as good as his manners.

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.

Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

There's also this: Netanyahu badly played Trump and now he's ignoring Trump's demands:

Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Freedom House is set to release its annual report this week. Will it downgrade the US to "partly free"? We don't know, but this piece lays out in gruesome detail why it's perfectly plausible: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

It's all falling apart: Republicans are privately furious with Trump for trying to force them to pass the SAVE Act. One GOP strategist warns the party is in trouble this fall: "I'm ringing the alarm." On the pod, @taraemcg.bsky.social and I share new details: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

All of a sudden Trump isn't so sure telling the rest of the world to screw off was such a good idea -->

Angry, ailing despot, his power slipping away, shrieks new round of threats at rest of the world, demanding their help cleaning up his fiasco after telling them he didn't need them because he'd "already won"

Yes, this Trump quote is real. Here it is in a clip from @atrupar.com: bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is getting genuinely pathetic

Israel's critics should not conflate it with Jews. And synagogues should not say "We stand with Israel," which encourages that conflation. It makes congregants less safe + it's immoral. It's like an Orthodox church after 2022 saying "We stand with Russia" peterbeinart.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

"Trump has a huge choice to make: either go all-in, or try to find some way to bug out and declare victory. But we can already see that one undoubted effect of the Iran war has been to drive a deeper wedge between the U.S. and pretty much all of its allies." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"One reason I worry Trump is willing to let this war go on is it’s a potential weapon against domestic opposition...They could try to silence the media further...and use national security authorities...A foreign war can be useful for domestic consolidation." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Two key factors in the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment are a collective amnesia about what these diseases were like, and a lack of trusted messengers in an era when trust in pretty much every traditional authority is in decline.

My experience, fwiw: When people in authority yell at you not to panic...panic.

Starmer, saying Britain can only go to war with a viable, well-thought out plan, says he’s not going to send Trump any ships. Tony Blair probably kicking a wall somewhere.

* GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS: WHAT DOES TRUMP EXPECT FROM A HANDFUL OF EUROPEAN FRIGATES THAT THE POWERFUL US NAVY CANNOT DO? THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, WE HAVE NOT STARTED IT @reuters.com

Department of WARWARWAR press release later today: Narnia, Freedonia, Lower Slobbovia, Westeros and Gondor report for duty.

🤔

I keep squinting at the news uncertain whether US Navy is, much like Europe, telling the Trump administration to go fuck itself.

Good idea. Except Ukraine sunk all ours with drones Donald says don't exist.

The dime design is indeed being changed for a year but the design was approved before Trump took office. This is one of those “confirms your biases so you don’t double check” things.

Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses

And the way that Johnson folds so easily under Trump's pressure into broadcasting a colleague's private medical information, and laughs along, shows what a spineless and servile bootlicker he is.

This was based in a rational calculation that Philadelphians are more dangerous than the Iranian state. It may not have worked out in practice but it was the right thing to do.

“You guys better help bail me out of the war I’ve already won, or else I’m gonna continue treating you like shit.” —our dumbass president

> @washingtonpost.com

You can call Delta’s customer service line at +1-800-455-2720 but IF YOU ARE A SKYMILES MEMBER (check your email if you ever flew Delta!) then you absolutely SHOULD call the SkyMiles dedicated number +1-800-323-2323 and tell them how deplorable this is. They *give a shit* about your view of this.

Just evil behavior from the US www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Tuesday’s Page One @financialtimes.com

Funny how they admit they’re losing but still won’t admit why. People can’t afford groceries, rent, or healthcare, and Republicans are out here passing tax breaks and culture war nonsense. Voters aren’t stupid. November’s coming.

Incredible

How do I know Trump is freaking the fuck out about Iran? Not one word about The Oscars.

In response to the Melania documentary's Oscar snub, MAGA actors Scott Baio, James Woods, Roseanne Barr, Kevin Sorbo, Tim Allen, Kristy Swanson, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Dean Cain, and Rob Schneider have offered to give the first lady their Academy Awards if they ever win them.

There’s still time to vote @julianastratton.bsky.socialnaStratton for U.S. Senate!

BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike. This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.

A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/a...

The estimated cost of the war against Iran has already surpassed $21,000,000,000.

New polling from Pew shows what Americans think about data centers: Only 6% think they're good for the quality of life for those nearby. Similarly, only 6% think data center have a good impact on home energy costs. And only 4% think they're good for the environment.

The Jeff Bezos Washington Post comes out against raising the minimum wage.

We talk a bit about Marc here: www.youtube.com/shorts/UK1Kh....