This is grim reading. Even if you dislike aspects of higher education, declines in academic freedom often accompany authoritarianism.

New: The Pentagon has indicated that NYT journalists will be given press credentials tomorrow, Status has learned, after a judge ruled the department’s media restrictions unconstitutional

This isn't "Bob takes a long time to read something" This is "Bob literally cannot understand that the villain of a story is doing bad things unless the villain stops and says 'I am doing bad things right now btw'"

This explains so much.

Likely also illegal as a violation of the Antideficiency Act. In the last shutdown Trump moved money within DOD to pay soldiers, which was pretty dodgy, but no equivalent effort to move some of the DHS mountain of cash to pay TSA officials.

From the people currently pretending to be concerned about TSA funding.

‘Like we did in Gaza’: Israeli defense minister says IDF ordered to flatten homes in Lebanese border villages www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

still amazing that trump bragged about oil prices being low less than a month ago at the state of the union and pam bondi bragged about the dow being 50k in mid february, and now gas prices are up a third and the dow's down 10 percent

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

*golden age intensifies*: the thread (To be added to periodically as intensification continues)

BRENNAN: Doesn't this benefit Putin? MARK RUTTE: I know the president and his team -- Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio -- they are constantly working to put maximum pressure on the Russians to come to a deal BRENNAN: This isn't maximum pressure

This is literally their demand: that Trump’s word is law but he’s not responsible for anything

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"Unchecked" is going to be the main title for SO many pop-academic histories of 2025-2027, at least.

EU leaders regard Orban as a literal Russian spy while US leaders celebrate him.

Sources in the FBI tell me that there has been no internal statement made to agents and employees regarding Mueller’s passing. Utterly disgraceful, but at least sets a useful precedent.

AFP: “French prosecutors said Saturday they had alerted US authorities to a suspicion that tech tycoon Elon Musk had encouraged the controversy over sexualised deepfakes on X to "artificially" increase the value of his company.”

Robert Mueller was one of the last well-dressed men in Washington. Soft shouldered suits with white button-down collar and foulard ties. Wore his watch on the underside of his wrist, as a holdover from his military training. One of the last to carry that classic American look.

Simmons: The president hasn't done anything to ask of his friends to put in the pot. They're only asking the American people to pay more at the gas station. Lyman: He’s giving up his salary Mockler: Trump doesn't take his salary, but he's made $4 billion on cryptocurrency..

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led a sprawling investigation into Russian election interference, has died. He was 81.

Great job here by Pete Kegseth. Thought he was posting an active duty Marine Sgt. Major talking about deploying to the Middle East for Iran. Not quite.

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam. RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf

interesting to see one of vancouver’s more prominent online digital publications lean fully into anonymously written government propaganda

Boom!! My latest on #VWFC @cansoccerdaily.bsky.social talking all things with the one and only Brian White. canadiansoccerdaily.com/2026/03/21/m... #USMNT #VANvSJ #MLS

What a waste of taxpayer dollars. The report I released with @SenGaryPeters found that the National Guard’s deployment in DC does little to combat violent crime and costs over $1 million per day. That’s because this is just another power play by Donald Trump.

Honestly, Donald Trump is probably more racist than George Wallace ever was. Wallace was an opportunist who embraced racist politics because it played well with his electorate. Trump is a true believer in racism who keeps saying racist things despite the political blowback.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Really great read from Tyson, who chatted with Zeev Buium.

This senior pup was spotted all snuggled up for a snooze. The walker in the background suggests their human might also be a senior, and we can't stop thinking about how they still kindly laid out a blanket for their pup. So glad they have each other in their golden years. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.

“True Christianity is represented by the party, and the German people are now called by the party and especially by the Fuehrer to a real Christianity…The Fuehrer is the herald of a new revelation.” - Nazi politician Hans Kerrl, quoted in Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 392.

TSA currently employs about 50,000 screening agents. ICE currently employs about 22,000 agents. This threat won’t solve the TSA funding issue, and it would also come at the expense of further degrading his already unpopular & incompetent immigration program

The Pentagon doesn’t have much on its plate right now so it makes sense

Several people (including me) have been sent similar links to deleted Canadaland pages that apparently all have these IP trackers. What the fuck is going on over at Canadaland with Jesse Brown???

How to say you are using a paramilitary force without admitting it's a paramilitary force.

i think we can all agree that if this TSA nightmare was happening when a Democrat was president, the entire media ecosystem would explode with outrage at the sight of a Transportation Secty doing partisan media instead of anything remotely related to his day job.

Trump is now threatening to have ICE run airport security.

The British government confirmed today that Iran launched an unsuccessful attack on Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.

Surprised that guy who does a puppet show of himself with world leaders might not be the expert he proclaims himself to be

The absolute worst human being.

“Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

So we’re paying Iran to give us oil to reduce the increase in oil prices caused by us going to war with Iran. Got it.

We could have told them that.

There's always a tweet. Or retruth, or whatever.

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.