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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

She’s a serious candidate; at this point I think most people dismissing her seriousness are at least partially motivated by misogyny; and this is a clearer articulation of a progressive foreign policy than I’ve seen anyone else running for office make

Another forever war because people can’t bring themselves to vote for women…

This is genuinely one of the best reasoned pieces of writing on US-Taiwan relations by anyone running for Congress I’ve seen in recent years. Even as someone who believes that strategic ambiguity has value in 2026.

Everyone, go check out @katmabu.bsky.social!

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

We are going to need Nuremberg Trials when this is all over.

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an agg...

This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA.

States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.

Maura Quint’s State of the Union Recap State Of The Union February 24, 2026 Washington, DC 8:52 PM: The State of the Union is opened by House Majority Leader Mike Johnson, who has been r...

Good morning. I watched the State of the Union so you didn't have to. I'm barely hanging on.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mau...

NASA Officially Classifies Boeing Starliner Failure As A Maximum-Level Type A Mishap - Jalopnik Despite it all, NASA doesn't want to give up on Boeing, and the Starliner project is moving ahead in a reduced capacity.

NASA officially classifies the 2024 Boeing Starliner failure as a Type A mishap, its highest level of mission disaster. A new report citing "design compromises" and "unprofessional conduct" reveals the agency narrowly avoided a catastrophic collision with the International Space Station.

re: the Stancil Verge piece - I think that the endless rounds of Stancil Discourse, which have been going on basically as long as I have been on this site, are easily the most tedious thing on here and we very much do not need to expand that into article form

it should not have been a profile

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Colbert and Kimmel have met the moment under our slide into fascism in a way that institutions, press, and the Democratic Party haven’t

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

To the good people of the United States of America...keep squashing those proposed detention centers. They. Cannot. Be. Built. They cannot.

If a klansman is ranking in your cities top ten most powerful people that should be enough of a problem to have to address than thinking of tier lists

I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.

Rick Steves and the Defense of American Democracy Rick Steves recently delivered a powerful address in defense of American democracy in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington.  We’ve all been thinking and reading about this topic a lot, but I think Rick...

My friend @ricksteves.bsky.social calls out MAGA’s lies and policies that are eroding democratic norms, including how federal budget choices are shifting wealth from working people to the rich.

Watch in the link below.

#EndPoverty #PovertyAbolitionists #DefendDemocracy

Nazi camps were called "concentration camps" because they were designed to "concentrate" enemies of the state—political opponents, Jews, and others into guarded, isolated locations, forcing them to live outside the rule of law under harsh, often fatal conditions without trials.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Doing art badly is good and sacred

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.

Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Musk is a white supremacist, friend of our enemies, a liar, a lunatic and a threat to the US. No company owned or controlled by him should be permitted to do business with the US government.

Particularly hilarious is his claim that 'nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"' when in fact a lot of US propaganda during WWII stressed that the nation is a multicultural melting pot. That was how we were going to defeat the master race...the one Musk is pining for.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Glad you brought this up - this Mexican is the first and only in this sport, and everyone was impressed by her determination - the USA gold medalists were so sweet, she removed her skis and hugged her dearly. The MSNBC cut out all of it. Why? That's the best of the #Olympics! empathy and love.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions