Stephanie Burt

This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

Sandy Sandilands, the UK Defence Attaché to the United Arab Emirates

Sorry, but I just learned about the UK defence attaché to the United Arab Emirates, then I had to spend ages verifying that instance of nominative determinism

Portland State is opening our comics writing class to the public for this special event in celebration of Will Eisner week. join us from anywhere in the world. It is free. It is celebratory. If you love comics and their history, this is a must.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Warfighters NEED fruit basket stands! 🇺🇸 newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.

Consider the Rattle In a state that still hosts grisly “rattlesnake roundups,” human Texans should learn to see something of themselves in their ancient, slithering kin.

"It would be easy, and not wholly incorrect, to call me a diamondback partisan. If I am, it’s because I like rattlesnakes as they are."

For @texasobserver.org, I wrote about the rattlesnakes I've known, including the one I (accidentally!) almost grabbed upon first moving back to Austin

Just walked by a colleague's classroom after my class finished and he was talking about Elvis, getting blank stares and so he had to ask "Does anyone know who Elvis Presley is?"

It's rough out here on these teaching streets.

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

incredible

30 countries use mail voting

This is why I’ve said time and time again that working in comics as a creator full time is unsustainable. My quality of life immediately improved when I got a full-time job and only took on comics/freelance projects I wanted to take on and not taking all jobs out of necessity.

When Trump said this strike was "done by Iran," he was lying, just as he lied about keeping America out of wars.

He & Sec. Hegseth are responsible for the killing of these 175 people, most of them children. They must be held accountable.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

I just saw a TikTok video that referred to the band Bikini Kill as "Bikini Unalive," and it's like, what are we even doing at this point?

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10.

stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If Edmund Burke were around today he'd have a lot of thoughts. None would concern vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew. One of them might well be "Juan Linz was right."

I know several ship captains with Master Unlimited licenses who have piloted the largest vessels on the oceans and they are—to the man—the most risk-adverse people on Earth. They are responsible for dozens of lives and hundreds of millions in assets. 0% chance any sail through Hormuz for a while.

These guys get a full meteorological report before they so much as go to the grocery store. The idea they'd pilot a 300,000 ton vessel FULL OF OIL directly into the middle of a hot war zone because the US government asks them to is laughable

Yes, the acronym is FAFO. Perfection.

Genuinely wishing them luck and strength — and as always, I’m grateful to @taniel.bsky.social and the journalists of @boltsmag.org who cover the stories many are ignoring, and doing it with depth, precision and purpose. We’re all better for it.

forming mutual defense orgs is a good way for institutions to resist federal overreach from an authoritarian like Trump enabled by a spineless GOP. we saw what happened to individual colleges, legal firms & tech companies when individually targeted, just the reality of surviving an unfair fight…

It's Town Meeting in almost every town in New Hampshire this Tuesday.

Not sure about where/when? Call your clerk!

Not registered to vote? No problem - we have same-day registration, so bring your paperwork and get registered on the spot.

School meetings may be separate! Ask!

Illinois (and Pritzker) score points

News today: Wisconsin Justice Ziegler, a conservative up for reelection NEXT spring, just announced she won’t seek reelection.

That means that if liberals win a seat next month, they’ll then have a golden opportunity to pick ANOTHER seat next spring and go up… 6-1!

Is he leaving the R caucus, or just doing an Angus King?

How about @michiganquarterly.bsky.social ? New thoughtful editors trying to cover next-gen lit

Does it have to pay decently and can it be US-based?

“You can’t have your Cuba until you finish your Iran!”

I honestly don't think Europeans can grasp this without getting a sense of like, daily scale in large parts of the United States. it's a big place!

Because of my daughter's developmental disabilities, I've come into contact with lots of parents of children with developmental disabilities. It's *astonishing* how many of them are searching for any answer as to why their kids are the way they are and latching on to "vaccines" because it's easy.