One of the most frustrating things about Trump and everyone like him is that they approach the most intense and unspeakable of human experiences like poker chips on green felt tables.
I see your Gender Studies and raise you Religious Studies
The reaction of oil markets in early March 2026 to the prospect of a closure of the Straits Of Hormuz will likely go down in the books as an example of an Eminently Knowable Yet Somehow Unknown Known.
Heard the siren call of spring in this morning's breeze, so I decided to plant old potatoes in our garden with my 1yo son, which means I am on the way to Wegmans for weekend veggies in jeans covered with dark soil mixed with Virginia red clay.
Tldr I find there are things worth smiling about still.
This is a bad decision. If I had to guess which guy trying to leverage a job in order to start his own consultation firm, it would be this man.
He doesn't seem to possess any kind of intellectual insight or moral anchor. Both opportunistic and parasitic upon the actions of a fascist dictator.
I hope they share a cell someday
tbh car dealership owners should be automatically part of the Epstein Class based purely on vibes, but also other things as well
"Is your entire platform ELIMINATE THE EPSTEIN CLASS?" Voter
Have you seen these claims from the Trump admin saying US-born workers gained 2.5M jobs in 2025?
Well, they were wrong—updated population estimates released today knocked native-born employment by 2.5M.
I have become a single issue voter in 2026.
I have become a single issue voter in 2026.
I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
This job does not come with benefits. I don't get vacation time. I pay health care coverage, but I don't seek out care and likely never will because I won't be able to afford it. This job also does not come with assistance. I don't want anyone to work for free and so far I don't have nearly enough money coming in to guarantee. I have some ideas, but ideas take time to implement and every day there's another story to break. The job is incredibly fulfilling as sometimes it feels like a character in a 21st Century Graham Greene novel, a foreign correspondent in a place of intrigue. I don't have family here and I seem to resist the idea of fitting in. I bore people mostly, so I stick to myself. If you're not a paid subscriber, you now have another option. You can make a charitable contribution to support my journalism and my hope at some point is to begin to use this to fundraise to hire people. I'm not there yet, but for nearly six years I have sought to implement my vision. I plan to continue doing that, because despite my perpetual sense of being an outsider, I've been doing this work a long time and I'll never find anything as fulfilling.
sitting outside and catching up on stuff tonight, most definitely including a few recent Sean Tubbs newsletters. constantly amazed at how lucky we are to have this wonderful man doing his thing here. if you’re not already giving him a reliable monthly donation, I really encourage you to start!
The Onion could never...
The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.
Perfect night.
Post an iconic horror movie image.
'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call
if there's anything the American voter loves, it's the price of car sauce going up
Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality.
Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.
They think every single political or military or social crisis is a personal test of their masculinity, to see whether they’re willing to escalate, get even tougher, hit even harder. They think the solution is more brutality and the obstacle is the feminized moral scruples society wants them to have
As I was saying: A great night to consider running for office.
For the folks who wait every year for the AAR deadline to be extended so they can be incredibly relieved yet again like clockwork, like the sun rises and sets, like the seasons come and go, and on and on, past and future always ever the present:
The deadline for AAR proposals has been extended.
Blue & white "Indivisible Charlottesville" logo with light blue outline of the state of VA, red star where Charlottesville is, and "ALL HANDS MEETING, MAR 7"
ALL HANDS - This Saturday, March 7, 10 AM - NOON, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville, 717 Rugby Road. Child care available! Help shape our work, and find your place in the collective effort to fight authoritarianism, strengthen our democracy, and keep our community safe.
Totally seems like a good time for so many colleges and universities to gut their Religious Studies programs.
I was a rare books assistant at the UChicago library and an entire shelf in the archives was Playboy. I would be sent down there to check on them every now and then, because inevitably they go missing once in a while. 😂
But definitely a premium slice of culture!
Attacking people makes them far less defensive, hostile, and reactionary, duh, it's just human psychology.
*checks PSY101 notes* Wait.
The same thing could be said of Playboy.
