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A tiresome man, whose fake down home idioms indicate his contempt for the people who elected him and for the rest of us, was probably tasked by the White House with providing an excuse for firing that did not address her failures in FEMA or our murderous secret police.
“The outsized influence of larger, richer, and stronger nations is a timeless truth of international relations. This reality sometimes entails working with partners to thwart ambitions that threaten our joint interests.”
#USPOL
They are all failed celebrities who think the job is being a celebrity, exemplified by kash patel who thinks his job is having government jets fly him and his girlfriend from one event to another bsky.app/profile/jkar...
My government has a real “we didn’t know starting a war would cause a war“ vibe going on which I realize I should be outraged about in the abstract but find myself mainly nonplussed by at this point.
The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
If you want to stop being surprised at the terrible things our government is doing and saying abroad, or if you are interested in the relationship between a dreadful prose style and unconscionable policies, this new piece may be of interest.
Also: the Trump regime on "civilization"!
@prisonculture.bsky.social justice wanted to make sure you knew about this — lots of library folks, including Carla Hayden: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...
One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.
Perhaps the Constitution can help them out.
“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives”
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises . . . .
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations . . .”
Just a thought!
Anthropic told defense officials that it did not want its A.I. used for mass surveillance of Americans or deployed in autonomous weapons that had no humans in the loop
Mr. Hegseth and others in the Pentagon were furious that Anthropic would resist the military’s using A.I. as it saw fit.
Glad to see a forthcoming piece of mine being hyped at Public Books. Stay tuned!
"On the Horizon
Jonah Siegel looks at the _National Security Strategy of the United States of America_, arguing that bad faith will always manifest in terrible prose."
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
Note from New York calling bullshit on this idea.
This bizarre article came through my media feed today, suggesting the astonishingly rapid decline of the Post. There is nothing here aside from vague MAHA-shaped claims about diet and chemicals. Apparently the prevention they have in mind involves a 3-year cleanse of both parents before conception!
archive.is/2026.02.22-1...
(No exception for tape, incest, or non-viability)
“I don’t mean to be hard with it,” says the gubernatorial candidate supporting the bill.
“When the state reaches out and “When masked, unidentifiable agents emerge from an unmarked vehicle and take hold of a person on an American highway, the seizure does not announce itself as the people’s authority. It announces only power.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
So weird that tourism to the U.S. has seen such a massive decline.
Inexplicable!
Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You busy April 9-10? There's going to be an amazing conference at Rutgers celebrating the (beta) rollout of the Black Bibliography Project database. Here's the agenda: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
Registration can be found here: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...
The chess: it’s 5-dimensional!
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/s...
Wow.
DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Our government protecting us.
Seems like a good idea!
Yale Daily News Masthead with Headline: English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings Amid the rise of artificial intelligence and concerns about distraction, more English professors are turning to no-technology policies that prioritize physical books and reading packets.
“The English classroom is increasingly a kind of special place where it’s still possible to converse without the screen.” —Nancy Yousef
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