Pete Hegseth came to national prominence and to Trumpβs attention specifically for his defense of men accused of war crimes by their fellow American soldiers.
02.03.2026 15:49 β π 399 π 125 π¬ 7 π 2Chart of trends in recovered organs from circulatory deaths
The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years.
It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.
22.02.2026 20:48 β π 368 π 147 π¬ 10 π 2Iβm teaching a weeklong creative nonfiction seminar in Paris this coming spring. More info here : www.wice-paris.org/paris-writer...
21.02.2026 20:57 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0congrats to @ilyasomin.bsky.social , long my single counterexample to βthere are no consistent libertariansβ
20.02.2026 20:52 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
19.02.2026 22:21 β π 7607 π 1074 π¬ 47 π 133If you take two seconds to imagine the life of an individual undocumented immigrant in this country, it becomes clear that *voting illegally* would not be high on the to-do list
15.02.2026 15:51 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0The season of self-sabotage
11.02.2026 16:15 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Get in losers weβre doing central planning without the planning
11.02.2026 03:59 β π 2010 π 374 π¬ 38 π 13thinking about the bit in BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS, in which @kerryhowley.bsky.social writes that surveillance is made of dogs
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Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
donβt βare you surprised??β us Jim!
09.02.2026 16:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Didnβt they publish a piece where they all said who they voted for ? Might have been a good time to say which party is obviously more of a threat to liberty, and suggest voting for the only viable alternative ?
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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
Iβm looking forward to teaching a weeklong workshop in creative nonfiction this spring in Paris. Registration just opened. More here: wice-paris.org/paris-writer...
07.02.2026 20:52 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I see.
06.02.2026 17:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What is the narrative exactly ? A white house staffer who has unfettered access to the presidentβs account with no safeguards was casually watching videos in which the obamas are portrayed as apes, and then accidentally hit post?
06.02.2026 17:29 β π 242 π 61 π¬ 17 π 2New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
04.02.2026 14:07 β π 2046 π 650 π¬ 18 π 51This is the business in Uptown that got randomly tear-gassed by ICE a few weeks ago. Guess they didnβt like it
01.02.2026 21:29 β π 2104 π 394 π¬ 18 π 5The fact that competent people have too much dignity to do this work gives me as much hope as anything
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
perhaps a research assistant researching my instructive book on the development of βmoral
characterβ
Midwestern earnestness carries with it a real intransigence.
29.01.2026 18:10 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
28.01.2026 21:01 β π 102 π 46 π¬ 5 π 2congrats
28.01.2026 20:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response
25.01.2026 23:52 β π 5139 π 1127 π¬ 17 π 20Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
25.01.2026 15:47 β π 50088 π 16355 π¬ 1165 π 633whoa
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