Today's Substack Piece. Bertie Ahern Tells Us Who He Is open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

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Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

CMAT at the 9:30 Club last night was perfection.

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

This is a great essay. Read the whole thing.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Sydney Sweeney could give Gal Gadot a run for her money. #euphoria

One person a week. We have become so inured to deaths in custody in this country but we have to fight it. We have to make it painfully, unacceptably real to ourselves every single time. Every single life is precious. Every time our country kills someone it is keeping in a cage is an atrocity .

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

Magyar won with an emphasis on corruption and the rule of law. Good lessons. It wasn't just "we will improve the economy". It was "these people are stealing from you and we will put them in jail."

Has Trump said yet that he has no idea who Orban is and that he wasn’t really following the election?

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Me when those Harry Potter commercials come on HBO

When covid numbers made him look bad, he said stop testing. When jobs reports made him look bad, he changed the dept. of labor. When economic numbers made him look bad, he threatened the fed. Why would this be any different?

One of the top headlines of the day.

Platner talked excitedly about taking revenge for the deaths of his comrades in the Marines. Seems time that we heard from some of the people he served with. So far not a single person from his military days - no friends, no commanding officers - has come forward to endorse him. 2/

The U.S. presidency has reached peak Tony Montana.

This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠

Pádraig Lenihan’s comprehensive study of the human loss arising from this invasion estimates that the military conquest and occupation caused, directly and indirectly, the population of Ireland to fall by around 20 percent.

Look, we're just going to make this case about who gets impeached. If you vote against birthright citizenship, you get impeached. It's that simple. Democratic senators should be saying this loudly.

Today, we celebrate the achievements of transgender, Two-Spirit and non-binary people. Today is also a reminder that not everyone is free to live their lives safely. Many still face hate and discrimination, and struggle to access the life-saving health care and supports. (1/3)

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

A new low has been reached

“This U.S. president is setting the world on fire, and the rest of us are choking on the fumes.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth

Immediately pivoting to demanding everyone boycott the World Cup

A refreshing take on names and pronouns in school settings. The teacher that wrote this article is the anti-Enoch abd sees the issue for what it is: nothing more than basic respect for the individual. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Today's New Yorker cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers

A lot of people are going to break their #Wordle streaks tomorrow.

A picture I took on my morning commute. It’s kind of an upside-down version of Wilde’s, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”. #speirghorm

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

This all seems fine.

New GOP logo just dropped.

The Hibernian Society served as a meeting point for business elites and slave owners in the Irish community in South Carolina to make connections as they sought to enrich themselves via the racial slave system they adopted. One of its early presidents owned approx 400 slaves.

Stevie's Going Big Mac on Chump !

I see the church is attempting to lure me back with its approach to tech bros

james connolly eternally vindicated

My son came up with the best term for the DLSS 5 and other weird GenAI non improvement (at least the first time I've heard it): "Sloptimization". It's perfect. No notes.

The fact that $6 gas rather than his life of hate, assault and criminality is what will turn Trump’s base against him tells you all you need to know about Trump’s base.

Superb.

I am not in any sense a lawyer or legal expert of any kind, but my distinct impression is that, when the transcript of a real-life courtroom proceeding before a real judge reads like the climactic scene of a Grisham novel, your case probably isn't going too well.