Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.
Put some goddamn respect on their names.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
05.03.2026 02:45 — 👍 828 🔁 370 💬 1 📌 5
Trump won NC-11 by 10 points in 2024. Yet with equally kinda-competitive primaries, Dems turned out at a clearly higher rate: 76k to 68k.
LFG Jamie Ager to victory in November!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
01.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 372 🔁 279 💬 3 📌 35
In countries where students spent a lot of time using devices for leisure during the school day, test scores plummeted between 2012 and 2022. In countries where they spent less time, test scores merely slid. Thus there was a significantly larger decline in scores in the countries where students spent more time using devices for fun during school hours (see Figure 1). 505 500 495 performance mean 490 485 480 475 470 465 460 455 d • Science, less device use • Math, less device use Reading, less device use Science, more device use Reading, more device use Math, more device use 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Figure 1: Scores on standardized tests of math, reading, and science for 15- and 16-year-olds in 36 countries, by low or high use of electronic devices for leisure during the school day. Note: Controlled for GDP per capita. Source: Twenge (2025) using data from PISA.
The global decline in test scores since ~2012 is highly correlated with smartphone penetration
www.generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-...
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
28.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 17215 🔁 3597 💬 181 📌 218Happy Birthday, Dean Smith
28.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 415 🔁 69 💬 11 📌 0Facts
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NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran.
In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack.
So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera].
The US has just committed a war crime.
(🎥 Ary Jeay)
Good morning. The US & Israel attacked Iran overnight. Israel says “dozens” of targets. The President did a video announcement encouraging Iranians to revolt and announcing the targeting of missile capabilities + navy. Response from Iran directed at Israel + US assets in Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE.
28.02.2026 10:56 — 👍 349 🔁 56 💬 6 📌 14I think this result is just endogenous to candidates. Using the ANES panel instead of pooling, a basic vote choice model shows anti-system folks in 2016 were not more likely to support Trump over Harris in 2024. But if you use contemporaneous values in 2024 and 2016 you get associations.
18.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 48 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 2
Dr. Catharine Young: We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.
27.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 730 🔁 347 💬 29 📌 26
No, it's proving that he can moderate on issues. He's showing how you can be a fighter and moderate at the same time!
Put another way: diff strats for diff issues: Fight against Trump, fight on economic issues, moderate on social issues -- that'll lead to many victories!
Police, schools, homeless population
27.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gallego! (Also MGP)
bsky.app/profile/aaro...
Absolutely. His strategy is 100% fine in safe seats, and the tent is plenty big for safe seat Dems, blue dog Dems, DSA members etc. Dems are good!
But I'm trying to win tough races, so I need to follow the evidence on how to win votes in tough races.
Yeah, I agree with Matt's SB, not that tweet
27.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't have time to do all of them, so just the 1st: Swalwell 2024. He's the incumbent, has a massive $$ advantage and yet still wins by exact same margin--35.4%--as Harris (who had the inflation albatross)
The crux: If Swalwell can't win more votes against a nobody, why valorize his strategy?
1) Maybe President Whitmer runs ICE like Obama and Biden did?
2) Assuming Trump still wins, popularists are huge fans of non-violent protests (one was fired for advocating loudly for such!) so... the same thing that happened in our timeline?
Yeah, voters think we're weak -- hence all my positive examples of strength.
Who in our caucus do you think others should emulate, out of curiosity? I want to understand your argument better.
Don't be rude -- tag him! @mattyglesias.bsky.social -- I searched, and all I can find is Yglesias telling politicians to take clear stances on issues.
So maybe it was your imagination? But maybe Matt can help.
Somehow, in the minds of leftists, popularism's "Take clear stances on the popular sides of issues to win more votes" became "squishy centrism".
No one is arguing that Sinema has the answers!
Go yell at Ruben Gallego, dude.
27.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Look, ma, a strong moderate!"
Sick and tired of false choices on this site. The over-performers, like Sen Gallego, show us the way.
www.semafor.com/article/02/2...
Yeah, I've never run for office. That's why I cited over-performers -- the experts. They show how to be a strong moderate. If you have issue with how they win more votes than baseline partisanship, take it up with them!
27.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
For that matter, Mamdani has moderated on a ton of issues: police, schools, most recently homeless encampments? Does that make him weak? Not in my book -- he still has Trump wrapped around his finger after all!
27.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
When the June 2024 debate proved that Biden--after an incredibly impressive career--was no longer able to lead our party, who was strong enough to speak the plain truth to Americans? Many moderates!
Some progressives too, but the progressive leaders were riding the "Biden or Bust" train off a cliff
When Rep. Chuy Garcia subverted democracy and denied his own constituents the power to choose their next representative in Congress, who spoke truth the power? Not the Leftists!
27.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What is this disease that has infected our side that moderation and strength are automatically anti-correlated?
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