Well will you look at that

I know someone who works at the intersection of federal funding and advanced medical research, and this is absolutely correct. We will never be able to quantify the amount of suffering and death inflicted by these people, but it will be with us for a long time.

This is right, plus if you actually hear Rogan’s “criticism” in full context it’s virtually always couched in terms of overall support (or otherwise forgotten / discarded the next minute)

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.

At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal

Finally caught up to this really good @jamellebouie.net Q&A with @ztameez.bsky.social, author of a superb biography of Charles Sumner

LA TIMES: "He was willing to testify against the cartel — but ICE got to him first" Javier Hernandez was ready to testify about a Southern California meth trafficking operation. But six months before the trial, ICE deported him without notifying federal prosecutors.

“Lawyers told me my position as a Senior Investigative Reporter likely wouldn’t have existed much longer anyway—the SPLC had become too wary of MAGA’s litigiousness and vengefulness to continue confronting the movement. Instead, they wanted to shift into a lane that attracted less attention.”

These doctors got their wish.

There is also such a no true Scotsman element to this (as you’ll see when he’s frantically defining his terms). I mean, Christianity is in many ways at the center of American life right now!

What’s extra sad about this is that the WashPost’s foreign staff did an excellent job reporting on the severe human toll of the USAID cuts. Then they were gutted

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

One of the many great things about Claire North’s “Slow Gods” is how they handle this issue

Medical tourism but where you go to countries that still believe in science

Sharp piece

I see the meaning of black swan has changed to “I, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, proved uniquely unable to predict this”

Israel saying all people of a certain specific background must leave

Another case of a bad Clearview AI facial recognition match and shoddy police work leading to an innocent person being imprisoned in a state she had never even been to. Is this something we're just going to accept from time to time because of an unregulated tech? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Notice how this just keeps happening again and again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Every trait of “No Kings” that’s presented here as a potential weakness—leaderless, calm and ordinary, non-specific in its goals, not backed by billionaires—are things that if the reverse were true, would each be presented as even bigger weaknesses

The thing is, the science IS settled on these matters. The absurdly simplistic claim that White and Black people have innately different levels of intelligence is not supported by genetic evidence. Claiming settled science is not settled is a “merchants of doubt” strategy

This seems very strange? Maybe Musk suggested solving Hormuz by transporting oil in little submersibles that he will be happy to design

If there’s one thing political historians always talk about it’s the wisdom of overestimating democratic resilience

I don't even know what to say about how bad this is. People have been denied due process by not being able to attend court hearings for fear of being kidnapped; other people HAVE been kidnapped for showing up to do the exact thing we say we want.

God doesn’t play dice, one spring breaker told the News at Eleven

I remember when back in the 90s the spring breakers they interviewed were never ignorant. They would debate interpretations of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Einstein’s refusal to recognize quantum mechanics.

Live your life so that there aren’t entire days on social media where people talk about you without uttering your name because it’s distasteful to say it out loud yet everyone knows who they’re talking about anyway

“Using accusations of antisemitism to attack academic freedom and free expression is reprehensible – and we want no part in it,” the letter reads.

Our current medical establishment opposes this.

Maybe a different way of saying the same thing but there’s an inherent reactionary impulse in “sensible centrist” pundits—which is to recoil at anything unfamiliar and new, and to deem it unpopular / unworkable. Some of those ideas later find acceptance despite this but no lessons are learned

the declarations that the war is over (even though it isn't) will continue until morale improves

Literally striking “humane” from guidelines on how to treat people

Chilling read by @kevinbaker.bsky.social about the industrialization of targeting, the reduction of friction in military decision-making, and the devastating effects — in Minab and elsewhere. Some first-rate analysis in here

it’s legitimately news that someone who believes in vaccines might lead the govt agency responsible for … preventing and controlling the spread of disease

On Gad Saad: www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

I keep seeing this framing like Bremmer's. It is wrong. Instead: 1. Iran was developing an ICBM when Khamenei imposed a 2,000-km range limit. 3. The programs shifted to space launch. 4. Khamenei lifted the restriction in October 2025 after the June attacks. 5. Now he's dead, and here we are.

Agree on both counts, precisely our cover leader this week

Grotesque

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

Not great that there appears to be a “the caning of Charles Sumner was very legal and cool” caucus in the senate.

Also need to know when Mamdani would tolerate making exceptions to the prime directive and when he would not

If only I had been born in the 19th century I wouldn’t have been burdened with introspection, which had not been invented yet

Yes he has long been insufferable but I did not realize just how much of a mark Taleb would reveal himself to be. You might say it was an outcome I did not expect or see coming

Interesting look at how Durald Arkapaw got to where she is, with some cool details on how she shot “Sinners”

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.