Sam Bagenstos

The basic boorishness of Trump is one thing...but, his white house (who endlessly lectures on protecting kids) posts DAILY KILL VIDEOS, usually with hype songs

Kids are on social media, good lord, do they need to see celebratory kill videos every single day?

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.

We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.

Everything is for sale.

I'm so pleased to have reached the point in the submission cycle where I can close my Scholastica tab. I'm happy with the result, but the process utterly sucks.

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

Well, f-u-c-k. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Wherein @martylederman.bsky.social is right about this @sbagen.bsky.social article:

You guys are very nice!

Trump, Iran, Nuclear Weapons An unfortunate topic that Congress and the American people should be discussing

Jack Goldsmith is right. We really need to be talking now about Trump’s basically unilateral ability to use nuclear weapons.

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Obviously, people should get services and care in their own homes and communities if possible, but in a system that relies so heavily on nursing homes, we need to make sure they have sufficient staff and aren’t cutting corners.

State Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Mandates: Increased Staff Levels, Minimal Impact On Finances And Closures, 2010–23 | Health Affairs Journal Higher levels of direct care staffing in nursing homes improve resident outcomes, yet concerns persist that minimum staffing mandates could strain facility finances or lead to closures. Using longitud...

An important new counterweight to the catastrophizing from the nursing home industry—staffing mandates mean more folks are there to provide care, without threatening the viability of the homes.

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Far from the worst thing Trump has done—this illegal, misguided war itself is way worse—but imagine the reaction if Barack Obama had worn a baseball cap to a dignified transfer. The incitement from the right (and the tut-tutting from centrist Dems) would have been intense.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Really important.

A bunch of people sitting in a room listening to a speaker.

Great turnout at the Washtenaw County Dems today, notwithstanding the steady rain.

I already have tickets to see Billy twice this year. With any luck, I'll find a way to add a third show. His concerts are always just the inspiration and community I need.

I've found their coverage to be consistently strong.

I was so anxious about this I wrote "just now" twice!

So many thanks to the Delta flight attendant who saved my touchas just now by finding the hearing aid I had lost on my ATL-DTW flight just now.

gotta love the 4D chess of this administration removing the $7500 subsidy for EVs (and doing away with various regulations meant to push us away from ICE cars) and then catastrophically raising the price of gas lmao

Summary of recent HHS departures:

-Unqualified weirdo Jim O’Neill out as CDC Director

-“Measles outbreaks are the cost of doing business” Ralph Abraham out as his Dumbass Deputy

-Venomous podcaster Vinay Prasad out at FDA.

Yet human cassowary and denim enthusiast RFK Jr. remains.

YouTube video by chariotdrvr14 Jimmy Durante 'Did You Ever Have the Feeling '

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Vinay Prasad, key Makary ally and a focus of controversy at the FDA, is leaving the agency Prasad has been involved in several controversial decisions related to rare disease treatments.

The FDA is essential to protecting the public's health and, for all its flaws, has long set a standard for public health worldwide. Trump has turned it into a fucking soap opera.

www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/f...

Extraordinary use of the word extraordinary.

Getting some expert advice on how to wage an illegal war over imaginary WMDs

The red "wasted" visual in the White House video game graphic is just beyond vile. This involves real human beings. They know civilians are being killed. They're reveling in it.

In case you were wondering, this is how a normal FDA responds when it feels it needs to clarify a company's public statements about an investigational product.

www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

Yes. This is about Prasad.

insane and patently illegal

Maybe stop sabotaging EV adoption and gutting fuel economy standards?

No, they would never.

Thread. You can’t trust the Trump/RFK/Bhattacharya regime, even when they make representations to courts.