Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.
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Since his trip is next week, I just sent over the recs. Stephen, tell the people how I did!
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JFC.
Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.
Oops, I didn't get the ad free. Oh well. Maybe it's still worth a small tip for my trip in a few days?
Not the first, sadly, but done.
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
I feel bad sometimes for just sitting around and thinking about my next meal, but then I realize this is the main activity of almost every animal.
Today the rat's mouth; tomorrow the nation!
Stop this. Taxes are necessary. I don't want to vote for Democrats who talk like Republicans.
A side note, but I think part of the push to standardize all curriculum is a push to deprofessionalize the field of teaching. People have long wanted to replace the specialized knowledge and skills of great teachers with a set formula that can used by anyone (ideally someone who is paid a lot less).
Why hasn't Trump received a "rally around the flag" bump in his approval rating?
I made every presidential approval chart you could ever want to explain www.gelliottmorris.com/p/i-graphed-...
Trump on Muslim immigrants to Brian Kilmeade:
“The genetics are not exactly… your genetic[s].”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
I think when universities are accepting only the top .1% of students, a very large number of As are to be expected.
Grade inflation certainly exists, but as someone who teaches as a very non-elite institution, my hunch is that the elite schools are not the main problem.
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
BREAKING: scientists discover leopard eating its own face
Trump Women's Month speech: "I didn't read-- I can't prepa-- if I prepare my speeches I won't time to get things done. You ever hear that? I cannot prepare. So I didn't know who the hell I was speaking to, but I walked in and I saw this beautiful woman with the blonde hair."
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library.
Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money.
Three guesses on where it's gone.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
That's exactly why I don't want it to happen until the collapse of the party. I want him to stand as a warning to any party who embraces an authoritarian.
I want him to live to be credited for the collapse. Let his myth evaporate in his failure and fraud. Let his legacy be a generational defeat for the party that embraced him.
"we kill random people because it's fun!" is one of those go-to statements you can use to make it crystal clear that we are, in fact, the baddies. our enemies do not talk like this. only we talk like this
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
From the most Hispanic precincts in tonight’s #GA14 primary:
Look at those 40-50 point swings!
Republicans may be on the precipice of a total wipeout with Hispanic voters.
A new Republican poll shows Sherrod Brown ahead of the incumbent GOP candidate in the Ohio Senate race:
🔵 Sherrod Brown, 47%
🔴 Jon Husted, 45%
Wow. I am perpetually out of touch with popular culture, so it shouldn't be a surprise. But yet it is.
