I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

The more Trump moves towards leaving NATO, the more Europe and Canada accept that the Western alliance is effectively dead and increase their own capacity accordingly. In that sense, yes, it's a positive. The alternative of telling themselves NATO is ok and the US will be there if needed is worse.

Conservative parents’ advocacy groups are using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries (the books aren't actually pornographic) www.404media.co/blockade-the...

We don’t fear for our lives when crossing Delancey St. anymore. When I had to take a car to Newark airport the other day in the middle of the day, it took *22 minutes*. The air is noticeably cleaner. Big government overreach absolutely fucking rocks.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

“The Republican effort to undermine the 2026 midterm elections is neither theoretical nor exaggerated,” writes Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Let’s do a billionaire war tax now.

America First was against the most popular war and America First started the least. Imagine that.

New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy. When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.

Sigh

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

I think a lot of writers would do well to admit themselves, embrace JLC's dictum that 'the writer is a natural spy' - it's uncomfortable but you have to wrestle with it if you want to write things that last

Today was an important day for the opposition movement. The law firms that stood up against Donald Trump threats won. Those that capitulated and collaborated with Trump will need to explain to their families, clients and future generations why when democracy was at stake they were such cowards.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

THIS.

Commit acts of journalism.

…the united states had a vibrant ecosystem of local, regional and alternative press sources. in a real sense — and this has been true since the start — the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen, with both of those categories broadly defined…

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Fun fact I just noticed: The U.S. had about half as much total job growth in 2025 (total) as during an average *month* during the Biden administration. 181k net jobs added over the entire course of 2025, versus average of 329k each month from 2021-2024.

this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE

Well done @radosh.bsky.social

I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.

Nice of Trump to build a federal gun owner’s facial database for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Agreed.

Our idea that legislation could preserve privacy was the mistake.

This is Susan Collins’ America. www.foxnews.com/media/don-le...

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.

Time for Europe to read this from @himself.bsky.social and act accordingly. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Dementia has a devastating impact on affected families' finances. Beginning about six years prior to clinically recognizable dementia, affected families net worth starts to crater. We should treat dementia risk not just as a medical issue, but as a predictable financial shock.

Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/o...

Luke Littler is on the path to greatness: ‘I’ll be around for a very long time’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

The briefing with Hegseth and Rubio only reaffirmed what we already knew: the Trump Administration is in clear violation of domestic and international law—and our own Constitution.

One of my weird hobbyhorses is that a standard university education is almost always going to make this, the correct view of history, unthinkably distasteful.

There are a dozen Billy Joel songs that aren’t terrible.

This is the correct take. USBC in general. The EU exists for stuff like this.

Exaggerating the importance and impact of advisory memos is a key part of the cult of authority. Don’t join it.

What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Moving the goalposts into an alternate dimension is certainly one response to a country that filmed itself showing no quarter to drowning civilians. www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/the-...

I don’t care what Maj. Cotton says. I’d like to decide for myself. Release the video.

American school kids should read about Heinz-Wilhelm Eck.

"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥." -DoD Law of War manual