Like this guy is an actual boiler maker. He makes and repairs boilers. He drives a Ford Transit van.
Straightforward case of where the interests of journalists and the public do not align. Yes, Trump is accessible. And journalists like him for that. But he is also a terrible President. Doing impromptu pressers does not make him better at the job, and has Trump shows, does not increase transparency.
No point in wasting money
Welp.
College student? This guy has a mortgage, two kids and a job he hates
The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame.
We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.
Afghan man dies in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal was legally evacuated out of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul and had served with US forces for ten years.
He leaves behind six children, one of whom is a US citizen.
WaPo Deputy Opinion Editor is just straight up lying about Mamdani's estate tax proposal (in both tweets and an op-ed).
The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption, exempts retirement accounts, and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million.
New Substack post: this year’s Oscar nominees are about either absent fathers, and democratic backsliding. So I thought: why not do the annual Oscars roundup about the two themes? This is part two, about the "crisis of fathers".
someunpleasant.substack.com/p/fatherless...
Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
New study finds people tend to overestimate how negatively their political group will react if they change their mind, which makes them stay silent more often than necessary. Reminding people of their past loyalty to the group reduces this fear and encourages more open disagreement.
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The Silver Shirts in good standing were kept abreast of the current threat level thanks to the newsletter mailed to them, weekly, from the national headquarters of the Silver Legion, somewhere in North Carolina.
"Oh, we've known for a long time that the Jews are plotting to seize the United States government," one earnest and inflamed silver Shirt told Sevareid, "They want to run the whole world and tell us what to do. Just look at Russia the Jews certainly got Russia,
didn't they?"
Sevareid began sketching out what would become a five-part series on the Silver Shirts, running early drafts up the flagpole to his editors. "Hate and fear bind the members together," Sevareid had written. "Anti-Semitism is the outstanding feature of the Silver Shirts. Absurd as it may seem, to them the [first] World war, the present war in Spain (from where the Jews were expelled in
1492) and all the wars of the world were deliberately inspired by Jews. ... In the minds of [the Silver Shirts] all Jews are Communists and all Communists are Jews. If one points out certain known Communists are definitely Nordic, their answer is-'Well, he must have a Jewish mind.'"
Sevareid had a good look at the "anti-Semitic poison" they were trafficking in and feared it was already spreading well beyond the membership. He knew the Silver Shirts in Minneapolis were passing around something called the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion and handing out their already-read copies of the weekly newsletter to uninitiated friends and neighbors so they too would learn that the time might soon come when they would need to be courageous enough to treat the Jews "dras-tically" The Silver Legion newsletter also offered the occasional vocabulary lesson: "Pogrom, lest there be any among us unfamiliar with the word, is a wholesale slaughter of Jews merely because they are Jews."
Arnold Sevareid took the Silver Shirts at their word, and he ok them seriously. The hard-boiled city ed…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreic7jjxv5fwnygwvw4cvjlx33wmeqmagpmwouxjuj2zthgcnvng7we)
Here's how Rachel Maddow talks about Sevareid's experience in the 1930s. Note how his editor is like "dude, you've got to be making this up. There aren't any fascists in Minneapolis." And then the editor goes to a meeting himself and is like "fuck man, give me a drink. What did I just see?"
Make Aaron Rodgers a Supreme Court clerk in the offseason.
Could he BE any sicker of this question?
Got mad in the newsletter about a lot of things this week. But all of the things are really just the same thing:
We can have nice things, or we can have comfortable billionaires. This should not be a hard choice.
Bullet Points: How government ought to work
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*Loomer can now land these international gigs? Her whole thing is that she hates Muslims
*The guy is angry but still apologetic for calling her a racist. We don't see her response, but presumably it would be something like "yes, thats my bag. i post racism every day."
In an apparently shortsighted move, just one month before the Iran conflict began, the four Avenger-class minesweeper vessels left their home port of Bahrain to be decommissioned and scrapped in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. www.justsecurity.org/133996/legal...
“No for-profit company could possibly withstand all the false leads required by that process,” he recalled telling them, “all the weird, random science that never panned out.”
Super grateful for this piece highlighting the threats to this country’s biomedical research infrastructure
Part of me thinks, OK, given the sophistication of gerrymandering, there have been carefully applied simulations that estimate vote share gain for Republicans from the SAVE Act.
But they might just assume any voter suppression is good and are hostage to some really radical worldviews.
I have not see any really substantive analysis that support's Lee's claim: the SAVE Act will target women, who lean Democratic, but especially married women who have changed their names, who lean Republican.
But it is telling that this is clearly the motive.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term
If you need a few laughs amidst this hellscape:
Good explainer of the gendered administrative burdens embedded into the SAVE Act by @pamherd.bsky.social
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
Former Fox colleagues are all fighting about Israel and this spat appears to be escalating
bsky.app/profile/seth...
NEWS: The Trump administration is reviewing DACA renewals so slowly that the delays are causing people to lose their jobs, licenses, and deportation protection. It’s happening across the country. Our Sunday story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/d...
And would add to this, when progressive writers are engaged from heartland spaces - my first big op-ed was as a college professor in the midwest warning about right-wing threats to speech - they are easily caricatured as out-of-touch, unlike, say, Ross Douthat.
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I see this pathology in a couple of ways:
*Writers/editors in these spaces have to deal with actual liberals, who like all people, are annoying!
*They don't deal with real MAGA, but a professional class of right wing punditry who want individual benefits rather than structural change.
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Having spent the first 30 years of my life in the Northeast Corridor, including a decade in the Ivy League, & now 20 years in Wisconsin, I have come to view this deep “flyover country” parochialism at the heart of the Fourth Estate as one of the central pathologies threatening 🇺🇸 democracy.
