Kinda weird no one's calling this World War Trump. He's just exploding shit all throughout the world with no care for second order effects. It really is just him vs. everybody, and you'll only be spared if you seed intimidating shirtless AI pictures of your own country's dictator onto TruthSocial.

We're excited to announce the world premiere of The Wedding Banquet in 2027! Composed by Huang Ruo with libretto by James Schamus, the opera is inspired by the beloved 1993 film and the reimagined version that debuted earlier this year. Learn more at seattleopera.org/weddingbanquet

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Excited and grateful to at last be able to share the news about Kitty Green’s next project, to star Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

Trailer dropped! So honored to have been a writer and small part of the creative team behind this wonderful show, hatched from the brilliant minds of Will Matthews and Jeffrey Addis, two of the kindest and most generous show runners you could ever ask for. youtu.be/cL-HUAbenBk?...

Israel has a constitutional definition for "Jewish State": it's the 2018 "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People", which was condemned as dangerously illiberal by mainstream diaspora orgs - even the ADL. But that's the legal definition, anchored in legislation and policy.

"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."

Israel is systematically targeting centers for ambulances. According to the ministry of health, at least 52 ambulances and medical vehicles have been hit, 19 medical and ambulatory centers damaged, and emergency services targeted in 79 separate attacks. Video: Alex Crawford via X (@AlexCrawfordSky)

Some morning Columbia thoughts... cu-standsup.org/specter/post...

In which we learn that Kid Rock lives in a suburb called, of course, Whites Creek

This just about sums it up

I have followed @attackerman.bsky.social's hard-hitting War on Terror journalism for almost 2 decades. But the tenderness of this piece of reporting on Gaza's hospitals is both beautiful and heart-breaking.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

Oh man, who knows where this will lead, but at the least we may get to read some VERY interesting emails from and to Columbia's oligarchic trustees and their lieutenants: Court Finds Columbia May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

i'm not saying that this is how he got rich. but if you asked me how much money it would take for me to tell on myself like this the numbers that come to mind are in the general vicinity of this guy's net worth

Corrupting young minds at any opportunity rhetoric.berkeley.edu/news/james-s...

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

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As the Writers Guild commences contract negotiations, a reminder that AI is a labor issue, and as we fight for a fair contract here we must center and lift connected struggles www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

The “Iran strikes” version of the Democrats who are now acting contrite over having supported Trump’s deportation agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Matt is a treasure. So is the bookstore. Avail yourselves!

A voice from inside the American gulag: open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

So excited at last to be able to publicly share my eternal gratitude to Gerardo Naranjo, the best cast and crew ever, the entire Netflix Lat Am team, and the Fábula family for this crazy, sad, joyful, angry, funny, real, surreal thing we did! variety.com/2026/film/gl...

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

So to be clear, "Free Palestine" is not suitable to air, but the n-word is...

Highly recommend: www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Ok, this tracks...

Oh...

so about the relationship between the state and capital

Exactly three years ago: www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/o...

Yesterday, after being hospitalized for more than 72 hours following a seizure, Leqaa Kordia was discharged and returned to ICE detention.

Note: Just like Mohsen Mahdawi, ICE snatched Leqaa at what she thought was a routine immigration check-in, after she protested Israel’s genocide of Gaza. They then took her from New Jersey to Texas—where she’s been detained for nearly a year. Now she’s hospitalized and her whereabouts are unknown.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

“The claim that Republican anti-trans ads and rhetoric are winning over Democratic and independent voters is simply not true. Moreover, the assumption that abandoning trans rights will have no negative ramifications for Democrats is mistaken.” @juliaserano.bsky.social

The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.