Will Trubshaw

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Opinion | How Far Gone Are We? (Gift Article) A typology of constitutional crises and constitutional rot.

anyway, you can read my latest bit of woke illiberalism, which is on the notion of "constitutional rot"

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics... then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

A sure sign that you're carrying out the will of the people is when you hide from them.

How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters…

Federal funding cuts have forced wildland firefighters to cancel prescribed burns, which help prevent wildfires.

“We will be more vulnerable to a catastrophic fire in the future as a result,” one firefighter said.

The Country That Was Here Is Gone | Defector Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. When I lived in…

The United States is no longer trying to operate as a great power—even a cynical great power—but only as whatever feels epic to Musk or gratifying to Trump in the moment.

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

This

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

"What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States. It is blatantly unconstitutional," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says of Trump's OMB halting all federal grants.

"If this stands, then Congress may as well adjourn."

every single bills-chiefs game

Wow, it's almost like Trump is enacting a radical, incredibly unpopular agenda that he never mentioned or explicitly denied during the campaign, and the Democrats and press are so mentally committed to servile accommodationism that they're pretending he has a sweeping mandate for that agenda!

I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.

from olivia vidal on twitter

"Ice hockey on Canal St., anyone?? 🤣
On a serious note— this is what the streets will be like tonight and tomorrow. VERY TREACHEROUS. #NewOrleans
@FOX8NOLA"

I can just feel the price of eggs dropping. Can’t you?

SOURCES: The Chicago Bears are hiring Ben Johnson as their new head coach, @diannarussini.bsky.social reports.

one reason i am adamant that we should not treat the constitution as purely or exclusively a form of law is that it cedes the field to clever lawyers. “oh, well if some chuds in trump’s white house says birthright citizenship doesn’t exist then i guess it doesn’t exist.” but

They will lie, bullshit, and distract, so it's very important for all of us to say what we see with our own eyes. The fascist Co-President threw a defiant Nazi salute on inauguraton day.

I return to Bluesky to say that Matt Eberflus needs to be fired directly in to the sun

SEC losses vs. IU losses, the HR workplace meme

Getting Indiana into the College Football Playoff

SEC Media spent two full weeks bashing Indiana only to see three top-15 SEC teams lose to 5-5 Florida, 5-5 Oklahoma and 4-6 Auburn.

Winning is hard!

Shared this elsewhere but feel very strong about it:

The SI layoffs are so extremely depressing. That magazine was everything to me and so many others growing up.

This cycle of corporate greed coming in and destroying cultural pillars like SI is so troubling and destructive in more ways than one