Sam Bagenstos

My God.

Congrats!

His lack of scientific background is one of several concerning aspects of his candidacy.

A clear “NO” on confirmation.

“There are, increasingly, only two teams—a progressive liberal one, and a far-right one, with little in between and everyone else forced to pick a side.”

It Wasn't Fascism All Along Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.

This is a really smart @polphilpod.bsky.social piece. I agree with a lot of it, and it’s very much worth engaging with.

www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...

This is utterly unacceptable.

The very existence of commercially available glasses with Internet-connected cameras sold by Meta, a company built entirely on hiding the costs of services in negative privacy externalities, is an indictment of U.S. tech law and policy. This is an unfixable product from a fundamentally bad company.

I hate it.

I’m trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteran’s forearm, which appears to be what happens here.

One was a farmer who didn't have the opportunity to go to college and who eventually opened a meat locker in his tiny Iowa town. The other was a doctor just outside NYC who wrote science fiction books and stories, as well as nonfiction books, in his spare time.

This is a really good piece.

Trump is leading an ongoing and relentless campaign to convert the federal spending power into a tool for coercion, retaliation, and political favoritism.

This is one the clearest themes to emerge from the first year of this administration.

And see: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Really important.

USPSTF Meeting Pushed Back for Third Time in a Row Meeting will be 'rescheduled in the coming months,' according to HHS

The meeting of the United States Preventative Services Task Force has been canceled again—another attack on public health by RFK Jr.

This is an independent group that reviews scientific research for things like cancer screenings. Their recommendations must be covered by insurance.

MAHA!

Excellent thread.

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil.

I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm older than you!

Wow this is something.

Rubio not getting a sarcastic running joke by *George HW Bush* of all people and taking it completely straight is a nice demonstration of the decline in the Republican party in all that time.

At least he came by it honestly as a Cold War CIA Director and Ambassador to China. And he was being preppy-facetious.

"Angelina Farella, a Texas-based pediatrician and self-described 'frontline viral doctor,' has baselessly claimed that mRNA vaccines can cause 'some kind of unusual hepatitis in children,' labeled the RSV vaccine an 'utter failure' and repeatedly made calls on social media to '#stoptheshots.'"

RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee Appointee Has Called to ‘#StopTheShots’ Angelina Farella, a Texas-based pediatrician, has also called the RSV vaccine an “utter failure.”

Trump's folks desperately want us to think they've moved away from their anti-vax policies, but they keep making appointments like this. www.notus.org/health-scien...

As predicted Trump's Medicaid cuts are already starting to have a terrible effect on disabled people and their families.

Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

No president in the modern era has launched more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump, including more individual strikes in 2025 than Biden ordered in all four years. @zacharybasu www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

“A squirter”

Are you fucking kidding me

We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc

All I feel is derision from the top US defense official