And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?
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And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
I woke up at 4am to walk for two hours. I’m currently watching a man dressed like Ronald McDonald try to dance a jig to the German Irish folk band we’re watching. Praying for death
Morgen 15 maart is de internationale dag tegen islamofobie. Het Collectief Tegen Islamofobie en Discriminatie (CTID) komt met een oproep aan overheid en politici. wp.me/p4VMMx-3Hk
ICYMI — one of Elon’s DOGE guys Justin Fox saying a documentary is “DEI” if it’s about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because it’s “not for the betterment of humankind”
internet nazis when you tell them the future of the white race depends on them getting a girlfriend
I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.
Reporters with The Marshall Project and across the nation routinely request public records to illuminate systemic failings, abuse and corruption across all levels of government.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
Democracy Dies In Algorithmic Privacy Violations
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
In this week's newsletter, I answer some questions:
- Where do losing presidential candidates' votes come from?
- Do Senate primaries predict the general?
- Who worked for DOGE?
- Does history forecast an inflation surge?
And more! All for free. Right here: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-...
It’s basically criminology 101 that arrest quotas destroy civil liberties
Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and Jenin Younes’ New Civil Liberties Alliance gloated about their depositions and posted them online to get civil servants harassed but the DOGE boys are delicate flowers and rules dont apply.
The hotel includes a richly researched museum. It has helped inspire many people to make art on the wall. It's an incredible place.
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
I'd normally be annoyed at Reuters for doing a fake out where they focus on Rob from Massive Attack, before explaining that Banksy is actually the guy the Daily Mail named years ago, but it's so well written and richly reported I didn't care www.reuters.com/investigates...
Yeah, it's definitely a "Middle East" problem, and not colonial intervention and violence, genocide, ecocide, exploitation of resources, dispensational premillennialism, absurd Sykes-Picot land borders, the fossil fuel lobby, or anything else. It's just us. We're the problem.
An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky
How the Hell Did We End Up Here?
From the failed ethno-nationalist revolt in the early 1990s to the triumph of MAGA extremism - A history of the Republican Party, Part II.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Jared Kushner holds no government position at all. He is not a Senate-confirmed political appointee & his "special peace envoy" job is completely fake. This is wildly illegal & unconstitutional nepotistic corruption. Stop normalizing it in the papers.
It says a hell of a lot that first the Vice President and now top military brass are planting stories in the press in an effort to absolve themselves of responsibility for the calamity that is the Iran War two weeks into the damn mission. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
This is a truly excellent piece on why low birth rates are simply not a problem, and why pronatalism is clearly being promoted for political, not scientific and not practical, reasons
"Faster than a speeding bullet."
I love watching border collies work.
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
A patient and diplomatic response to the Guardian’s hurt-seeking rhetorical journalism about museums & human remains. Certain campaigners may disdain respect & decency, museums don’t
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
