ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.” The facility when full would effectively triple the population of the area and ICE refuses to provide the local government with impact reports.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

On top of this, I feel like often the stream is presented so that the ultimate downstream destination--emergency care--is omitted so it becomes a model of efficiencies instead of a cautionary metaphor. I'm absolutely guilty of it!

"It's specifically focused on Jewish cultures and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture."

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

International Women's Day is a day of protest and collective action. 'Woman's Day' was first recognized in the US in 1910 following the 13 week long strike of 20,000 female garment workers. Four years later on this day in Russia, bread riots led by women fed directly into the 1917 revolution.

Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

awesome

Fun: Lawrence Kraus shares Bari Weiss' piece about me with Jeffrey Epstein.

More than 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 after Trump illegally froze family planning grants and banned Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion care like birth control PP Mar Monte in California is largest affiliate—more may offer botox, perimenopause care, IUD sedation to stay afloat

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

There are good kings and bad kings, the difference between the two matters, and you’d much rather live under a good king than a bad king. But ultimately the risk of the bad kings far outweighs the potential upside of a good one. Exact same principle applies here. Too much tail risk.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Oregon just experienced one of its hottest winters in ~130 years. Cutting down its last great forests for short-term profits is NOT forward thinking.

so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

this piece and their appallingly bad reaction to criticisms of it - which included just straightforwardly and deliberately *deceptive* translations such as leaving out the first half of sentences, as well as bad translation - really soured me on Propublica.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

the Black Panthers were right

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

I've been reading a book on color's cultural relevance through different time periods and I finally got to the chapter on white. I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of a hard read, but had this one line: "White is defined by what it excludes." And if that isn't the realest shit I've read in a while.

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

I can't remember whose memoir said it, but Motown Records existed because of the Detroit public school system and their commitment to musical arts through the 70s.

Feminists and specific women should aim, instead, not to achieve a reconciliation with men but to accumulate enough material power into our own hands so that men’s hatered no longer endangers our safety or constrains our prospects.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system

No field of study has had more predictive power for our current moment, and this of course is why they want to shutter it

Now: It is too early to speculate, and certainly there are many subtle nuances to this that strident identity-politics warriors such as myself cannot understand, but could this whole thing be... about gender????

This kind of shit doesn't even upset me anymore but it's wild because the US absolutely recognized the Armenian Genocide. But, because Biden did it, they can't accept that. So the official policy returns to Genocide denial explicitly to own the libs.

Chat, can fascism survive with 3:1 disapproval by young men?

For what it’s worth, some of the same ideas now emerging from Epstein’s rightwing defenders—that sex buying should be legal, that age of consent laws are oppressive to healthy adult sexuality, etc—have also been advanced on the left by sex radicals. See: www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Absolutely appalling human rights violation to withhold life saving treatment!!

Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...

we have an elite impunity problem (globally, but the US is certainly no exception) and nothing will get better until we deal with this

This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

I had high school teachers who messaged girls like the week following graduation. There were multiple relationships that followed. These guys were in their upper 30s. I graduated high school in 2006.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”