I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

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Chapeau bien bas, Cory Booker.
Un peu plus de 24 heures, debout et à la défense du bien, du meilleur.

The words Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States superimposed on a statue of justice with her back turned

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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.

Following Trump admin's orders, Arlington cemetery's website removed references to:

-Gen. Colin Powell
-the Tuskegee Airmen
-Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient
-Black regiments in Union army
-Justice Thurgood Marshall
-RGB (buried along her veteran husband)

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Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

We are where we are because of a vast right-wing media ecosystem funded by ideologues (plutocrats, theocrats, and the KGB) who have no profit incentive - only persuasion. Maybe pro-democracy countries should get in the game and fund some pro-democracy media.

Guerre en Ukraine | La trahison américaine Volodymyr Zelensky était venu négocier avec le président des États-Unis. Il s’est retrouvé devant le Chœur de l’Armée rouge.

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Good Foreign Policy Is Invisible Successful foreign policy is largely invisible. It often means paying up front for benefits that are hard to see until you lose them.

I’m sticking with the argument @profsaunders.bsky.social and I made in @foreignaffairs.com 8 years ago: good foreign policy is invisible. www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/uni...
Today was a lot of things. It wasn’t good foreign policy.

The absolute smugness and the absolute ignorance.

What a combo.

National Archives head resigns as Trump takes control of records Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements.

WTF.

Mother Jones reporting Deputy Archivist to step down on Tuesday, pushed out by Nixon Foundation head Jim Byron. Keep reading, it gets worse.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

Steve Harvey is aghast

I am so sorry. Lorenzo brought joy and beauty in this world.

Andrei Markov | Le timide retour d’un grand timide C’est samedi soir que ça se passe. Sept ans après que le Canadien l’eut froidement laissé partir, Andrei Markov remettra les pieds au Centre Bell pour une première fois.

Le timide retour d’un grand timide

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Je me disais la même chose...

Consumer confidence chart showing Republicans and Democrats changing their views post-election

Partisanship: still a helluva drug