Don Moynihan

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

Scenes from a personalist regime: it is the presidential vibes that determine when the opponent has surrendered and when the war is over, not any pesky observable facts

Sociology pulls back the curtain on power - how it's constructed, how it's maintained, and the (il)legitimacy of those in power - and that's why they're so afraid of it.

(It's also why Intro Soc is my favorite class to teach.)

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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Nashville Noticias' Estefany Rodríguez reportedly detained by ICE agents A reporter for Nashville Noticias was reportedly taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Thursday afternoon.

ICE arrested a journalist yesterday without a warrant.

She is an asylum seeker, has valid work permits, and is married to a U.S. citizen.

fox17.com/news/local/n...

if you're keeping score at home what's happening is this the department of war is running major combat operations in iran which may last just a few weeks maybe longer or maybe even forever and which are NOT a war but whose stated objective is unconditional surrender

This is sort of the Trump administration in a nutshell: ill-thought out policy, no Plan B. (see also, Iran war).

Doing my part by maintaining a 1940s physique (never working out, not eating enough)

Guys who won national bodybuilding competitions in the 30s and 40s would get trashed on fitness instagram for having mid physiques. Americans have never been more jacked than they are right now

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

Reporter: A gang of wild dogs just attacked your family!
Hassett *smiling*

Leo Messi at the White House in a suit, pictured with his Inter Miami teammates, with Trump

la pulga es un fascista

One general trait across time is that powerful people have justified systems that maintain and extend their power over others. They have use religion or science for those justifications (see the progressive eugenicists at the start of the 20th century) but the logic is depressingly consistent.

This is not good.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down

It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down

Opinion | Trump’s mini-me ambassadors are insulting and alienating U.S. allies Save the undiplomatic diplomats. The president does enough damage to America’s reputation all by himself.

After Mike Hukabee said "it would be fine" if Israel claimed most of the Mideast, Rubio instructed ambassadors in the region “to avoid all commentary on issues that could heighten tensions.” Yet the directive doesn’t seem to apply to Europe — a regular target of Trump's ire. wapo.st/3OQYwu8

Pitch: Threes Company reboot in South Dakota

learning what everyone who has ever done business with him learns

HUGE payrolls miss, wow

Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev

a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released today—overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year

That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

A military culture where the Secretary say he will ignore “stupid rules of engagement” leads to the US sinking what they likely knew was an unarmed ship, killing more than 80 sailors with 62 others still missing.

Did not see this story but has been doing this for a while and was with Project Veritas during the Biden admin

Welcome to the Clicktatorship

This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.

The unifying feature of Trump administration foreign and security "policy" is a failure to understand anything at all about strategy, like even at a conceptual level

congrats man!

a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box ALT: a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box

When Noem is finally fired and they gotta clean those planes

I assume if you are White House Chief of Staff you run up some chits with journalists. Is that what this is? Or that he is available?
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...