When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
I teach an entire ten week graduate seminar on how money is political and they just ... minted it out.
I should be pleased Mr Trump took over Mar-a-Lago," Leslie said, "I think we should all be pleased, because we certainly didn't want it to turn into Miss Havisham's wedding cake out there, but to be honest with you, I think a place must be just a little déclassé if Donald Trump has even heard of it.
Also this: As Trump has descended into utter incoherence and is now nothing more than an assortment of adolescent (and frequently violent) urges, the US government has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his wants and desires no matter how absurd or nihilistic they may be.
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.
Of course she did quite well for herself, but I do, when I think about it, feel sorry for the shade of Marjorie Merriweather Post, having her beloved Mar-a-Lago now ineradicably associated with that vulgar shit from Queens.
There’s a passage in one of the later Parker novels in which some old-money dame laments about such a crass buffoon buying his way into Mar-a-Lago society.
Oh hey, this Sunday is the Ides of March.
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.
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
how is "mayor chooses his words carefully" a NYT story but "president chooses his words like a haunted magic 8 ball on meth" not
Quite the regional war POTUS kicked off on a whim.
girl are you the Straight of Hormuz because I see a lot of men greatly overestimating their chances of getting their ship into your channel
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
he means Jews and Catholics too, he just doesn’t feel as empowered to say it
not to mention even the most Evangelical-churchgoing Black and brown people
According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.
Trump's a genocidal lying fascist who is also an incompetent dolt. You cannot go wrong by simply opposing everything he does.
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
11. I dunno if it was the best idea to read the first book of a Jemisin trilogy and then immediately start reading an entirely different Jemisin trilogy, but I dug it anyway. This intricate fantasy involves a floating city, captive gods, and a young woman uncovering buried secrets. #booksky
10. Despite the title, this pleasantly convoluted novel doesn't spend all that much time in San Francisco. It follows several characters all over the place--wandering gamblers, thieves, academics and poets--from a Northern California farm to literary France and Nevada gambling dens. #booksky
I read this for a class in college in my teens, setting me up for a lifetime of gender confusion every time I see that fresco.
Real answer: This way it’s smaller and harder to read.
Living in the Bay Area, my first thought seeing that picture was wow, that’s like it was here last week! It had already gone up a lot recently, and this week of course it’s much worse.
USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.
