Testimony in a December hearing in the case provided a remarkable acknowledgment by an ICE officer of how daily target arrest numbers played out at the local level, and appeared to contradict the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials’ repeated claims that officers didn’t have quotas.
Manuel de Rossi
Deep in their bones they are anti-American, opposed to the very idea of a nation explicitly dedicated to liberty and equality and the rule of law and electoral democracy. Not just failing to live up to that creed, we've always had a lot of that of course. But affirmatively, ideologically against it.
Starting to think the Times is putting out these explainers to help Hegseth and Republicans in Congress get up to speed
Kaja Kallas: "What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don't like the European Union"
I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper
Breaking:
Four service members have died after a U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq on Thursday while supporting Trump's war in Iran.
Rescue efforts are still underway for the remaining two crew members after an apparent mid-air accident between two KC-135 tanker aircraft.
looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles
Starting to see reports of countries — like India and Turkey — engaging with Iran.
@cnbc.com @bloomberg.com
The US already has a dearth of healthcare workers in most major metros and a dwindling flow of newly trained to replace the large swath that will be imminently retiring.
The Trump regime’s war on public health (and pogrom of ethnic cleansing) will only worsen the shortage over the next decade.
So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.
A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.
They thought this would be Venezuela: Round 2 and then got stuck in the mud
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But it was all worth it for a military spectacle that amused POTUS, right?
Cosplay crusaders. Weak, fragile AF teacups.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
bsky.app/profile/henk...
I think the rising generation of young republicans is...something even the current republican party is not ready for, as evidenced by these recent clashes on Heritage, Tucker, etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
I have suspected for awhile that we are already seeing the violence that runs downstream of (mostly) privileged (mostly) men with gambling addictions. And it will only get worse.
Everything will, in the end, have been about crypto and fossil fuels and we are mostly just casualties. Sigh.
SCOOP: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/john-s...
Never gonna be able to buy an apartment is a depressing thought yet here we are — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.
if only america had a recent president who spent billions expanding our electric vehicle infrastructure and capacity to build electric cars right here in america. ah well that never happened.
US oil prices extend gains to +10% on the day, rising above $96.50/barrel. Once again, it appears shorts are being squeeze as markets reassess the Iran war.
More cars is never ever the answer. If someone is trying to sell you how safe they are, they've already lost the argument. They're not safe; they're just adding more cars to the road.
White supremacy as policy nationally and internationally
It’s the end of the world as we know it
This is really something. New Marist poll has Trump underwater with noncollege whites and even noncollege white *men.*
It looks like Global Civilizational Total War isn't doing it for them (see below).
