Don Moynihan

the greatness of america is embodied in don, an irishman at michigan, fully embracing ohio state hate

Incredible if he just did a disappearing trick and never came back

NATO but for the countries with no army to fight for the US after we insulted all of the actual NATO allies who did

The Minneapolis rapid responders humbly request that Congress require ICE to use their ostentatiously branded vehicles for all official business

garbage in garbage out

🧵 Some personal news:

My new book, ON COURAGE – with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com – is available for pre-order NOW (out June 30).

It’s a deeply reported manual with sixteen lessons for how each of us can defy authoritarianism.

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This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

Scenes from a personalist regime

Sex and Dissent: Stories of Feminist Resistance in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain by Meaghan Beatley. Wednesday, March 11, 3PM Eastern, Noon Pacific.

This Wednesday, 3/11! I'll be speaking to journalist Meaghan Beatley about her forthcoming book SEX AND DISSENT, an investigation into the past decade of feminism in the Hispanic world. 3 PM Eastern, Noon Pacific; free and online. Join us! stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

thanks!!

Could be Ben strategically released the browmaxxed version so the originals now look comparatively reasonable and sane.
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Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules "The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on Saturday that the Trump administration effort to install Kari Lake as the “acting CEO“ of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization of the Voice of America, was unconstitutional and violated federal law.

At Law Dork, I dive in:

Is this the same video? Eyebrows are clearly larger in one, but also super manicured in the other.

grouchomarxxing

WTF is going on? Are the Marx brothers doing his brows? This is a real video x.com/FarroYossi/s...

Eyebrowmaxxing

DEI for conservatives is working out so great that we can't tell you how great it is working out.

"German style Kosch Ale"

I can't believe that Matt Stoller coddled MAGA pseudo-populist authoritarians weren't serious about antitrust reform

(episode 7,000)

Giving government agencies tens of billions in new resources without a clear sense of how to use the money is a recipe for actual waste, fraud and corruption

Kobach has spent much of his career adding real administrative burdens to deal with imaginary threats. He was a pioneer of the policy of adding citizenship documentation requirements to voting that we see in the SAVE Act.

I know her well!

I'm not one of those "this is important" guys but guys, this is important. Thinking holistically about where things are in the two places that have decided to fully dominate us - government and tech oligopolies - is more valuable than all of our hot takes.

Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:

Just another normal morning where the President of the United States shares completely false claims from a conspiracy theory site. I’ve confirmed with election officials in Maricopa County that this is 100% BS.

Bills to limit Iowa governor’s authority seen by Democrats as preemptive strike ahead of 2026 election Republicans are running bills that would restrict the Iowa governor’s authority; Democrats see them as an attempt to hamstring a future Democratic governor

Are Iowa Republicans worried about losing this year's open-seat race for governor? Democrats say that new GOP bills are trying to weaken the power of the governorship—something Republicans elsewhere have done when faced with a loss of the governor's mansion.

Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

There’s a lot here, but mostly it requires undoing 30ish years of contracting out large portions of the federal government, DOD mostly (largely due to the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 that placed caps on federal FTEs). That’s no small process.

NEW piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on the disastrous consequences of Trump and Rubio dismantling U.S. diplomacy. Managing the Iran War will be much harder; so will picking up the pieces. Diplomacy is a tool of war AND of peace.

(Loosely based on thread below.)
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