If you were only reading the headlines, you weren't getting much out of your subscription anyway.

I tell every student to read their writing out loud. The brain processes it differently--if you have to form the words with your mouth, it's closer to reading it like someone other than yourself. It doesn't allow your brain to skip over mistakes/unclear parts with a subliminal "I know what I mean"

"There is a special providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." - Bismarck

Let's hope so.

So, they've already "apologized and surrendered," but the US is still going to "hit [them] very hard" today? And specifically, we're going to hit "areas and groups of people" not previously considered threats?

The growing use of "AI detectors" is making more people turn to use AI... and it's making everyone write worse.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

One thing that’s always been wild to me is there inability to recognize who the bad guy is. Jessup, Patrick Bateman, Jordan Belfort. These guys consistently idolize the obvious villain.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Ali Velshi and Tom Nichols on "The Last Word" on MSNOW.

"Trump has this thing where he kind of wishes things into being - 'Well, if I just do it, people will support it, Iran will surrender, and things will work out somehow' - but that's not how a war of this size goes." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

James Talarico tonight:

"It doesn't matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we're running against: The billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system. Not any one politician ... We are running against the broken system and the powerful people who broke it."

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

CNN just called it a “very tight race” between Talarico and Crockett.

7+ points is not a tight race.

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

NEW: John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are heading to a runoff in May for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

No candidate hit the 50% vote threshold needed to win outright, according to the AP.l

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.

When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

I am surprised at Talarico. He ran a good campaign, but it was a general election campaign. If he won a primary like this, the other side has something to sweat about.

I've seen enough: James Talarico (D) wins the #TXSEN Dem primary.

I was so distressed by the unnecessary comma in "December, 2022," and the unnecessarily capitalized "Presidential," and I might throw in the immediately following unnecessary hyphen, that I didn't, till my third read, see the Main Event.

Oh gosh you have to stick around for the Air Quotes of Death. Totally worth your time.

I know it's shouting into the wind, but fwiw in Newport we do teach, at length, Clausewitz, logistics, combined arms maneuver (esp. if one includes fleet operations as part of that), and great-power competition. But I've learned posting syllabi to these guys is pointless

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"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

Bullshit from Trump bragging about how many munitions the US has, with a sweaty and nervous undertone.

My 'we are not running out of interceptors' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?

He’s currently suing The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, his DOJ seized devices from a Washington Post reporter, he’s said that the broadcast nets should lose their licenses and called for the firings of various journalists, what are we doing here?