A truly great series.

I watched Survivor from season 1 until mid-43 when I got bored of the show, after it was my favorite show for years. I'm going back to Season 41, and... the first episode is rough.

Cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Today's book rec: "takes elements of familiar story lines -- a deal with the Devil, aliens living among us, and the all-too-real struggles of a young trans woman -- and combines them into something completely new, jarring, unexpected and beautiful." My full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

This is the kind of reporting we need on the judiciary. Treating it like the other branches of government.

Happy birthday, Juka!

Glad to hear you're doing well, my friend.

I really can't shake that DoorDash-to-the-Oval stunt yesterday. DoorDash represents everything that has gone wrong in the American economy and labor market. It should never be celebrated by a president as a success. It's a glaring problem looking to the Oval Office for solutions, not attaboys.

"Jews promote race-mixing among everyone else, to undermine the white race, while protecting their own racial purity" is a quite longtime fascist view about the Jews. It's literally part of Nazi ideology.

Pre-ordered two new fantasy books that released last week. Both seemed interesting. Both were... mediocre to bad. Bleh
I like being able to rave about books I loved that aren't getting attention

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Wout!

US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of ⁠Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had ⁠paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

It is incredible how much of a disservice NBC/Peacock do to cycling fans with the truly horrible coverage.

Three National Guardsmen in Chinatown outside the metro.

Periodic reminder: D.C. remains patrolled all over the city by armed members of the National Guard deployed to do so by President Trump.

i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own

Purple Rain (Live From Minneapolis) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce the band perform "Purple Rain" in honor of "The Maestro" Prince for the opening night of the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 31, 2026.

Filmed by Chris Hilson
Edited by Thom Zimny & Sam Shapiro
Recorded by John Cooper
Mixed by Jon Altschiller

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

so, he should still be removed from office as soon as humanly possible

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office.

Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

UCLA is destroying South Carolina. I thought it would be a good game, but this is just a blowout.

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

The E Street Band is coming your way!

I don't want to know do I?

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats

Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

the average business traveler has never encountered an ICE agent in the flesh. if anyone in the administration had half the sense god gave a goat, they’d be desperate to keep it that way.

“But it is to say that in our efforts to create a safer American environment for Jews, we must reckon with the ways in which our community may have inadvertently helped make it easier for these ideas to spread. At the same time that concerns among Americans about Israel’s conduct toward Palestinians have soared, space in which to rationally discuss those concerns has shrunk. When a student can face the threat of deportation for writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed; when American Jewish institutions suggest that merely considering the possibility that Israel’s actions in Gaza could be called genocidal is antisemitic; when universities are taken to court for allowing pro-Palestinian protests, public debate is stifled. And so instead of debate, we have declarations in spaces that are less beholden to civic norms. That is to say, among extremists.”

For @forward.com, I wrote about Joe Kent and why just going shh isn’t working forward.com/opinion/8140...

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

Tweet from the American Jewish Committee: "Mayor Mamdani’s repeated use of the “genocide” accusation against Israel is not just wrong - it’s dangerous. It distorts reality and fuels antisemitism at a moment when Jews are already under threat.

Leaders who claim to stand for human rights should not use rhetoric that puts Jewish communities at risk."

There is a lot of real and rising antisemitism in the US today. Which makes the position of the AJC that it is inherently antisemitic to accuse Israel of genocide - when the leading Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights agree - both dangerous and counterproductive.

Pretty much no matter how this turns out, aside from Iran's unconditional surrender, we're getting some version of a stabbed-in-the-back myth

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:

The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...