Evan Procknow

Again just kind of struck by how mamdani is apparently the only politician in America willing to grapple with the institutions as they are and therefore able to strategize about them

Going to spend the rest of the evening writing a 3000-word Substack essay on how I asked a flagship AI model to overlay the lines of imperial partition on a map of the 1950s Polish rail network and it invented East-Central Grussia.

The moral position would be to not hold the World Cup in the U.S. at this point. But the moral position would also have been to not have Russia or Qatar host. FIFA doesn’t care and has never really cared.

But I do think we should be ready for things to go sideways this summer

a whole mini drama here about the role of the archive and the democratization of information for good and ill

Doing systemic racism to eliminate research on systemic racism to make systemic racism easier to hide and deny.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Brent Bozell is following Trump’s script in South Africa The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa is finding that many U.S. priorities are unpopular in his first weeks on the job.

In his first few days on the job, the new US Ambassador to South Africa has already floated major job creation initiatives AND been formally called to account for criticisms of South Africa’s racial redress policies.

My latest in @goodauth.bsky.social, out now!

goodauthority.org/news/brent-b...

Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

The Lebenswelt of Alex Karp

I think the proper transcription is “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters.”

“There were no books”

Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.

My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon.

Not Hezbollah. Lebanon.

www.972mag.com/israels-rene...

Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social

ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims...

NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.

It’s one banana, San Francisco. What could it cost? Ten dollars. And you can get it dipped in chocolate from Go Bananas in Dolores Park on a sunny day.

Congratulations to San Francisco for inventing the long-prophesied banana that costs ten dollars sfstandard.com/2026/03/11/g...

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

eat, and I can’t emphasize this enough, shit jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

Missing Odegaard bad

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

The Bombing of Iran’s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israel’s Gaza Script Israel has long targeted sport facilities and athletes in Gaza. Now with US help, it’s doing the same thing in Iran.

ESPN isn't covering the bombing of one the most famous stadiums on earth so.... my latest piece @thenation.com "The Razing of Iran’s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israel’s Gaza Script" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Fun fact: less than six months ago, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the head of Binance, for money laundering as a part of the dirty deal for NVIDIA chips sent to the UAE that netted the Trump family $500 million.

MLB Network conducted the most significant/newsworthy interview in WBC history. They had a manager saying his team had advanced when they hadn't. And they took that video down as soon as they realized its significance and newsworthiness.

You cease, we fire

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Any ship can be a minesweeper just once

This shouldn't shock anyone, but a moron

This dude hasn’t clearly never read a book…he should be relentlessly shammed

This week the Senate is going to vote on Joshua Rudd to be Director of the NSA. He's a dangerous nominee to lead an agency with a history of abusing domestic surveillance capabilities. Here's why:

The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

"Comically unqualified, intensely partisan, & unflaggingly devoted to whatever ridiculous thing bubbled out of Trump’s mouth 5 minutes ago, as the next DHS secretary, Mullin will fit right in what will undoubtedly be regarded as the worst presidential cabinet in history." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social