Jen

the whole point of globally intertwined economies is it’s an even better deterrent than nukes!

until you elect a giant pack of coddled, know-nothing fuckwit narcissists

i now estimate the chance of the average price of diesel reaching $5/gal in the next month at 85%

In accepting his WGA award, Stephen Colbert named and said something funny about each of his 20 writers so they’d be hired when his show ends 🥹

@wgaeast.bsky.social
#WGAAwards

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"

Iran's leadership has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei, the previous leader's son and aide, as the new supreme leader. So President Trump's war has succeed inreplacing one Supreme Leader Khamenei with another who is younger, healthier, just as hardline and has close ties to the IRGC.

Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed

“People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads”

One of the worst war crimes in modern history.

It was a school—not an IRGC base.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

If you don’t have an HEB near you, I just feel sorry for you.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.

Sorry bud, I just can't give you your $175B. Left it in my other jeans.

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “War-a-Lago,” by Barry Blitt. #NewYorkerCovers

So immigrants were “taking our jobs”…

but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs?

The math on their propaganda never works.

a graph of year-on-year change in US Blue Collar Employment

The US continues losing blue-collar jobs—year-on-year job losses have hit 238k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace, while growth in construction remains low

The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:

Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

I sense twice as many Gen Z dudes will not be getting anywhere near a woman anytime soon

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Let’s hope it’s last rites.

Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

‘We Are in a Crisis’: Why Louisville’s Leaders Are Proposing a Cap on Sports Spending The university says it’s struggling to cover the growing costs of competition, and the government needs to act quickly before sports are shuttered nationwide.

The University of Louisville deserves credit for being the first Power Four athletic program to propose a cap on athletics spending. It's also strategic as they fall farther behind the SEC and Big Ten in terms of resources.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-02) 1-8-18 (Member of Energy/Commmerce Sub-Health Committee) Q: Where does Rep. stand on CHIP? A: Wants CHIP Reauthorized. Q: Would Rep. sign clean CHIP bill? A:Supports CHIP bill w/off-sets. Supported every repeal of healthcare. Doesn't believe an ACA fix such as Collins proposal would be approved in the House. Feels focus should be on DACA and infrastructure. Was a no on Medicare extension deal.

My meeting with Congressman Markwayne Mullin on 1-8-18. I ALWAYS take notes. SHARE EVERYWHERE! A Mullin appointment will be devastating to us ALL!

He wasted no time...

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.

Video incoming. This is big

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.