I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
Bluesky hits Capitol Hill (and Jimmy Kimmel)
It was never just about kids. Their goal is to eliminate trans people entirely. We won’t let them get away with it. We will have trans folks’ backs.
Bobby Pulido for Congress with three young women celebrating quinceañeras in the background
INBOX: Latin Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bobby Pulido, who is running as the Democratic candidate for #TX15, is offering to sing at any quinceañera in his district by request, after his Republican opponent remarked that he “only belong[s] at Quinceañeras":
pulidoevents.com/quince
Experiencing synchronized and instant mitochondrial death across my entire body as I accidentally remind myself that the full line was “nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen, but with Tylenol, don’t take it”
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
Zack on stage at wembley.
Trans rights are human rights.
Thank you, Wembley.
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Tweet screenshot showing a Fox News post about Senator John Fetterman telling Bill Maher that a near-death experience “freed” him to speak out and that progressivism “left him.” Below it, another tweet sarcastically comments, “Brain damage made me conservative.”
Perhaps his fear center in the amygdala was activated while his reasoning center in the prefrontal cortex was impaired? Or maybe he just became mean and weird.
Photo of George C. Marshall, as Secretary of Defense, versus a rabid and ranting Pete Hegseth.
With departure of Noem, Hegseth now leads the cabinet in cosplaying.
He is in a snit because people are using "unflattering" pictures.
Here's one I used two days ago, matching him with a SecDef who actually took the job seriously. (Original images via Getty. fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga... )
Yesterday, a lot of folks clocked this as market manipulation by screenshot and backspace.
Looks like someone in the White House made billions.
This escalated fast, in a good way.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
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.
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
I almost missed that in a video where the former Chancellor of the Exchequer talks about "Institutional Credibility", the video misspells the word "credibility", which kind of sums this whole thing up
The Trump DOJ gave Ticketmaster a sweetheart deal that keeps their monopoly intact & does nothing to stop their ridiculously high prices & fees.
The deal was so good, their stock price jumped 6.2% after the news broke.
Once again: Trump's putting corporations over consumers.
Denmark’s rise is gonna be due to Ozempic.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Schrödinger's war
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
I love the symmetry of it, but I just wish his numbers were more accurate. Undocumented population in 2023 was 14M, 4%. www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u... Trans population is .8%, which is close enough. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...
This 37% zone where Trump has settled is close to the percentage of people who are authoritarian (about 1 in 3, per social science studies)
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
