All the little birdies on America Street
Love to hear the canaries go tweet tweet tweet
10.03.2026 15:43
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All the little birdies on America Street
Love to hear the canaries go tweet tweet tweet
Screenshot from the NPR interview: SANGER: Well, first of all, if the military did have those concerns, they would go out of their way to avoid discussing it, even internally, because they have a pretty good idea it would leak. I've spent a number of hours with President Trump in the past couple of months. And, you know, I know I hear from a lot of people, oh, he, you know - I'm sure he can't know, operate the way he once did. I know that he's impetuous and all that. Well, Donald Trump is Donald Trump. But I didn't see any evidence, in the course of our encounters, that he was substantially different from when I dealt with him in the first term. And I think that in military operations, he's got to have in the back of his mind the recognition that if one of these goes bad in a big way, that that will be the defining characteristic of his second term. It is interesting, Terry, that the countries that he picks fights with are countries that really can't fight back in a significant way. Venezuela would be a good example of this. The more modest military operations he's had in Syria, mostly against terror groups, or in Nigeria or other places where he has just made a show of U.S. air power. He is very reluctant to put troops on the ground. And that's because of the MAGA fear in his base that we're going to get into new forever wars. And he got elected on the thought that we're not doing this anymore. And so there's a lot of the base that is pretty concerned that he's spending too much time on foreign affairs, but also that he is risking getting the U.S. into quagmires that he can't emerge from. And I think that's one of the biggest limits on him.
Sanger based his belief that Trump would avoid anything rash with Iran because in his own encounters with Trump, he didn't seem "substantially different" from his first term. But in terms of bellicosity and military posturing, Trump has *actually* been very different in his 2nd term.
Just a mind bogglingly off-base interview where the NYT's top White House and NatSec correspondent makes confident statements about how the negotiations between the US and Iran would unfold based on nothing but hopes and dreams that Trump would be rational/normal.
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I will never, ever get over the fact that 2 days before the US and Israel started a war with Iran, David Sanger of the NYT did an interview with NPR where he declared Witkoff a "true dealmaker" and stated confidently that Kushner and Witkoff were "looking for a compromise".
No, Canvas is a "learning management system" for education.
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
The Trump admin tried to use emergency rulemaking to erase the Board of Immigration Appeals, requiring that basically all appeals (which cost $1,000 to file!) be summarily dismissed without any review.
Thanks to our @immcouncil.org legal team and others, the rule is now BLOCKED!
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
"When the erasure enthusiasts were done, they had deleted more than 400 pages from a textbook that originally had 667, a slew of examples about how women have experienced gender discrimination and almost all references to racism."
www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
“At some point, the family said, they lost Naqvi's location that was being shared from her phone. Relatives said federal agents continued to tell them that Naqvi was not in custody, despite her location previously showing her at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
I have curly hair, but it's so fine normally it falls out of a cast pretty quickly no matter the product usage or how low and slow I go diffusing it.
It's been raining, though, so today? I've tried shaking the cast out twice. It keep shrinking back up into sausage curls.
Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
This is real. Jarrod Agen, of Trump's newly formed National Energy Dominance Council, said this in an interview on Fox Business.
Wise choice.
I don't understand why we can't end the biannual nightmare that is the time change.
They're perfect with a hot cup of tea on a rainy afternoon.
Sooo much better!
My kid is in an ABC Bakers troop, but I had a cousin in a Little Brownie Bakers (the baker I grew up with) troop last year, so I bought from both and made my whole family do a blind taste test on all the main cookies to prove Little Brownie superiority. Now everyone is sad we have ABC.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
Floor of the US House Chyron: on motion to suspend the rules and agree H Res 1099 Republican: Yea, 215, Nay 0, Pres 0, NV 3 Democratic: Yea, 157. Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 2 Totals: Yea, 372, Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 5
157 Democratic members of the House just voted yea for a resolution that confirms they agree with the Trump administration's reasoning for starting with a war with Iran.
It passes 372-53-2
First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.
In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that most of the people applying to the Texas school voucher program [who have disclosed their income, because we don't know how many have/haven't] aren't poor.
www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...
you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .
Even here, I have deep concerns about how vibe coding can be maintained in the long term or the tech debt we might be accumulating. I've been doing this too long to have any faith in the long term vision of "AI will do the coding, the QA, the monitoring and the fixes". Sounds like a mess.
Ohio Dem US Rep. Greg Landsman joined many Ohio Republicans in defending President Trump’s decision to join Israel’s attack on Iran while GOP US Rep. Warren Davidson joined several Ohio Democrats criticizing Trump for not seeking congressional authority. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/04/o...
