“go bigger to end this once and for all” is what people say when things aren’t going well and they’re frustrated and desperate
it’s what gamblers say at a roulette table
zeteo.com/p/trump-send...
Men who don’t think can discover fascism very quickly without ever perceiving themselves as political
Old enough to remember when conservatives would have lost their minds at ANYONE showing up a ceremony for the military dead wearing a baseball cap. Not long ago, people would've caught hands for that disrespect.
To see a President doing it, to protect his precious combover, & getting 0 pushback?
I wrote almost exactly this word for word in January: www.wired.com/story/donald...
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.
Though given my home is already dominated by precariously tall stacks of books that won’t fit on my shelves, my partner has attempted (with mixed success) to get me to adhere to a one-in-one-out rule for physical books, so I lean heavily toward digital these days.
There are a handful of books I really love I’ll get in both print and digital, sure.
Penguin Classics hardcover of Paradise Lost
I am an absolute sucker for the Penguin Classics hardcover series.
It’s not like these are ideas that might have been successful in principle but Trump fucked up the implementation, though he also did that. The ideas are bad. There is no version of them put into practice that most people are actually going to like, even if they ignorantly imagine they will.
Was this ever plausible? If you know what the effects of broad tariffs are and what a mass deportation campaign actually entails, I think it was pretty inevitable that many folks who liked the idea in principle would sour once they saw the policies in action.
my god. this has to stop, this all has to stop. we are in the clutches of actual monsters.
Not sure about that one. Other than Hannity the first 5-10 right-wing commentators who spring to mind are all college grads, and I’m not sure that’s a good proxy for “being a kid” anyway.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Recall Nikki Haley back in 2023: “Do you remember when you were growing up, do you remember how simple life was, how easy it felt? It was about faith, family, and country. We can have that again, but to do that, we must vote Joe Biden out.“
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
Amazing how these guys will be all like look, we're going over there to liberate the Iranian people, and then a minute later talk about murdering anyone and everyone in the country we're supposedly liberating.
I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”
Perversely, if a crap history article by a history PhD somehow slips by the specialist historian reviewers, probably no serious harm results. But a lawyer sneaking crap history past a 2L can swing a SCOTUS case.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Seems particularly dodgy when a lot of legal scholarship now consists of JDs cosplaying as historians. And, as the birthright citizenship business shows, often in ways actual historians find laughably inept.
Long custom sort of numbs folks to how bizarre the arrangement is. I can’t think of any other discipline where students in their early 20s are the arbiters of what merits publication in the most prestigious scholarly journals.
It shouldn’t take a genius to understand that but apparently it still needs to be said so the people in office hear it.
When the people with the experience and institutional knowledge are removed, the country loses the relationships, training, and judgment that keep the system working.
It can’t change. Like, it’s conceptually impossible. It’s not some engineering problem we might eventually solve.
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
You can’t “test” for consciousness.
How Donald Trump is pushing the Supreme Court to weaken federal judges reut.rs/4b9YO6V
“Trump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the Economy”
The president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode.
Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead
