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One of the sad casualties of the Musk era is the demise of sports Twitter. People should be going nuts about the Knicks game right now but it’s dead silence

Wow. Both playoff games today were nuts.

Memphis is up 24 points and the announcers are calling it like they’re down 24 points

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

This is terrifying

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Something about the Bluesky algorithm is not good about dealing with news events like a global economic meltdown. Sadly, Twitter is still better for this, as much as I’m trying not to go there. I guess it just feeds off of anxiety, negativity, and frantic energy

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

THIS NIGHTMARE
WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

Global Times on X: "The #PLA Eastern Theater Command on Tuesday started joint exercises around Taiwan island. Shortly after, the command’s official WeChat account released a series of cartoons titled "Shell," depicting six major PLA weapons crossing the sea and encircling the Taiwan island. Military https://t.co/hxVnZTsPJi" / X The #PLA Eastern Theater Command on Tuesday started joint exercises around Taiwan island. Shortly after, the command’s official WeChat account released a series of cartoons titled "Shell," depicting six major PLA weapons crossing the sea and encircling the Taiwan island. Military https://t.co/hxVnZTsPJi

apologies for repost from the bad place, but PRC messaging around Taiwan-focused drills getting genuinely alarming. depicting the targets of military actions as insects or parasites a pretty classic precursor. x.com/globaltimesn...

The Wolves-Nuggets game 😮😮😮

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

As a Warriors fan, I think it’s great news the Celtics are being bought by PE guys

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services.

The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

The NSA's "Big Delete" Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

1. EXCLUSIVE

Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.

The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Tom Brady is not a good announcer.

I would say that this policy represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of indirect cost, and supporting scientific research in this country. This is the funding that provides the infrastructure in which scientific research is done. Without it the whole enterprise collapses. This represents government’s commitment to the scientific research endeavor designed to promote health. Industry can’t pick up the slack. No one gets their PhD training at the University of Pfizer

The NIH move to cut funding for “indirects” landed a few hours ago and my phone hasn’t stopped buzzing with messages from researchers, scientific leaders and others warning of dire consequences for academia and the biomedical enterprise.

Here’s a txt from someone who personally funds some research:

Again, as @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social demonstrate quite clearly in their book, Elon did this playbook at Twitter AND IT FAILED MISERABLY. But he and his fans convinced themselves it worked wonders. And now they're trying to do the same thing to the federal gov't.

Just saw the officer carrying the nuclear football and I wish I hadn’t had that reminder

I don’t know how this came to my timeline originally, but it’s been one of the delightful discoveries of Bluesky - quirky accounts like this that don’t get any play on other social media

People hyper-analyzing every innocuous trace this person left on different social media and other websites over their life makes me want to do a digital audit…

He’s the last holdout

Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

Also, Americans should be taking notes about how to respond to an authoritarian attempt.

Coups are fragile things early on and often collapse if opposed stoutly by other parts of the government or by the People.

The real Bluesky energy is when Dean became DNC chair after this blowup and orchestrated the 50-state strategy that made huge wins in 2006 and 2008…