no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

America learns about "personalist regimes" the hard way Truth Social posts are no way to run a country (or war).

"In 24 hours, Trump seesawed from being prepared to enact a literal genocide on the Iranian people to deciding the Iranian govt was his business partner. This reversal makes sense in his head & nowhere else, but since there’s no guardrails, everyone has to treat this as rational behavior & move on."

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has:

-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies
-Cracked down on predatory landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets

This is what leadership looks like.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

The first edition of the newly reborn Easterner student newspaper is LIVE!

Opinion: iran war will lower energy prices by Peter Navarro

The Wall Street Journal published this one week ago.

Presidents typically get too much blame/credit for the economy because they have very few levers

But of the few levers he has, Trump is pulling all of them in the bad direction:
-higher gas prices from an immoral war
-higher costs from tariffs
-less health care and food assistance from OBBBA cuts

Joe Kent: "There was no intelligence that said, 'Hey, on March 1, the Iranians are gonna launch this big sneak attack.' There was none of that intelligence."

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

Super excited for tomorrow: the first collab between @boltsmag.org and the great folks at @51st.news!

the mental fragility of maga he-men is incredible to behold bsky.app/profile/scot...

Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’ Jeremy Carl faced tough questions from lawmakers during a Senate confirmation hearing last month.

just putting this in the 'bring back shame' files

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Strike on Girls’ School Kills at Least 175, Iranian State Media Says

I just sent my daughter off to her elementary school. I don't have words for the absolute horror of my watching my own government carry out such a monstrous act. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

@51st.news in DC.

Never "AI will be installed in grills, signal when meat is done" or "AI added to fountain drink dispenser, detects when cleaning required."

When they dream of person-approximating helper technologies, somehow it always circles back to policing or punishing employees.

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

When Bezos fires, @51st.news hires.

We're up to $3171 ($2537 donations, 634 follows), which means it's time for me to cut another check. Keep it up and make me send a third.

The overall fundraiser is at $215,736‼️

trump says we'll replace income taxes w/ tariffs. not possible. tariffs have a max amount they can bring in bcuz, if we tax imports too high, we won't ever buy anything made overseas, so no tariff revenue. the max amount we can bring in is nowhere close to what we bring in through income taxes

just an an addendum to this, last storm he offered $19/hour with a possible increase to $28/hour after a certain amount of time worked, but i imagine that number wasn’t attractive enough so this time he was just like, $30 for everyone. adaptability!

What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.

Wait they are literally hitting themselves in the face with hammers. Why is everything so stupid. www.gq.com/story/what-i...

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.

The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

They said it. We’re all thinking it.