Sarah Palmer 🇺🇦

It's always really funny and really interesting to see who has literally never ever seen a cargo ship

Ana Marie Cox on the societal scourge of prediction markets "This is the illusion of participating in society."

New in PN: @anamariecox.bsky.social on the societal scourge of prediction markets

"You’re betting on bombings, conflicts, whether or not a US civil war breaks out before the end of this year. Who’s gonna win that bet? It’s like betting on Russian Roulette. It’s corrosive in so many ways.”

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

When you know that one reason American Soldiers are dying, being maimed and wounded to protect Jared's investment cash flow.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

So he wrote Mein Kampf into a bill. The Nazis called this Umsiedlung.

These little fucking Nazis

Chris Hayes: "We don't know anything - this is not under FEC regulations and we're just at the beginning."

Brandy Zadrozny: "The amount of Dark Money that's happening right now is massive and it's important to pay attention to the online creator space."

Brigadier Gen. (Ret.) Steve M. Anderson in response to Pete Hegseth’s Thursday rant about “no quarter“ said that instead of being called Secretary of War by Trump’s fake renaming of the department, he should be titled Secretary of War Crimes.

Five Air Force Refueling Planes Hit in Iranian Strike on Saudi Arabia Five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials. The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile st...

Somehow I don't think this was part of the "Venezuela Model" POTUS had in mind for Iran.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Wow….

I don't think I've seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa got access to a time machine ;)

Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant
Etruscan
3rd–2nd century BCE

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

An astounding statement from a federal judge about the executive branch, generally; the Justice Department, more particularly; and these subpoenas, specifically.

The largest mass suicide to ever take place inside the U.S. was the Heaven's Gate cult in 1997. All 39 bodies were found wearing the same Nike shoes.

I *love* science fiction, and I blocked this company on my media feeds a while back. They are just awful, and this job ad lays that bare.

Thursday March 12 2026 reminder that not a single Epstein client has been arrested

#EPSTEIN
#EPSTEINFILES
#TRUMPANDEPSTEIN

Like everything else in our timeline, our version of "callow young white boys blithely fuck everything up, never appreciate the damage they did, and face zero accountability" is just so f'ing ham-handed & over-the-top. Not believable. Terrible writing.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Connect the dots

the year 2006

MLB is creating an international baseball tournament, but not enough countries play baseball to fill out the field

a voice pipes up. "what if we let a bunch of Italian-American guys play as Team Italy?"

he has no idea the power of the force he has unleashed on the world

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

Philip Ahn - Wikipedia

In my research of early Asian actors in Hollywood, I recently learned of Philip Ahn. Born in LA in 1905, his parents were among the earliest Korean immigrants to the US. He was a childhood friend of Anna May Wong.

I thought I was prepared... 😱

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War

NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Reupping this one more time, because, truly, I do not want any interested parties to miss it.

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Judge orders release of Marlborough 14-year-old detained by Homeland Security State lawmakers said she was being used as “bait.” Federal officials claimed they were rescuing her from gang members.

“It’s extremely unusual for a 14-year-old child to essentially be abducted by federal agents with zero explanation and then taken in the middle of the night to New York. I think the question remains: Why?”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The US is a lawless gangster nation run by criminal idiots of world historic proportions -
Trump’s pronouncement Steve witcoff - a real estate grifter lackey and his moronic son in law - told him Iran was going to attack him
Is the dumbest reason
In earth history for starting a world war

The researchers also note that 25% of active-duty US Marines developed Long Covid "after mostly mild or asymptomatic infection."

Trivia: it got referred to as the "Spanish Flu" b/c only Spain talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic: Western wartime censorship prevented discussion of the disease.