Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

Could they also be thinking Trumpism will lose, and future American leaders won't punish them later for humiliating Trump now?

Real MAGAism, you see, has never been tried...

By 2028 you won’t be able to find a single mention of Donald Trump at CPAC anywhere. Mark it.

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win

"Stability" as in a line I vaguely remember (from the Simpsons?): "The patient's condition has stabilized; he's dead."

Also of course Bush in 2000 campaigned against foreign wars, criticizing nation-building and excoriating Gore in a debate because the U.S. had troops in East Timor.

The paradox is if he doesn't actually TACO until it gets to 150 or whatever.

Maybe that's why it's staying at 100 instead of going back down to 60. 100 is the TACO price.

Traders individually think that high prices will cause Trump to end the war, which would make prices lower again, so they bid prices lower, so the prices never get high in the first place, which causes....

The war in Iran is giving me pre-Covid shut down vibes. It's like February 2020. Life is proceeding fairly normally, we're joking about using hand sanitizer. Everyone assumes this will just be a blip. It's really just a few pandemic-nerds that are freaking out because they know what's coming.

Maybe perceptions of Trump's declining health contributed to the war. Vance is less inclined to help Israel or start wars. So if Bibi thought Trump might not last, he saw his window to attack Iran with US support about to slam shut, possibly forever.

Same logic with Rubio/Cuba - it's now or never.

China's Strategic Multilateralism Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - China's Strategic Multilateralism

But this time it looks different. The US is the one more exposed to both the economic and military fallout. So although China wants Hormuz open, they will bet, correctly, they can pass the buck.

We wrote a book about this kind of US-China bargaining over global public goods.

Yes China has at times stepped up in order to head off the US flying off the handle - e.g. organizing the 6 party talks re North Korea, since that time they were more sensitive to risks than the US.

But...

Cumulative total issuances of F-1 student visas to the United States for each calendar year, by month.

August 2025 is the latest month available.

A wall against the brightest young people from around the world harms all Conservative & Liberal Americans, impoverishing our shared future.

This is my concern about Neo-Royalism as a systemic theory: Trump doesn't *stay* bought - each "successful" bribe just establishes the floor for the bidding war in the next round. Pure transactionalism is unstable; you need an institution that engenders loyalty.

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Give her a raise.

Not the worst part of this, but using fake negotiations as cover for a surprise attack - twice! - is also going to hurt in the long run.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Okay yeah that's no good then. Missed opportunity to let the scouts take over. (Half my job was to tell the parents to back off and let the kids run it.)

I think it's more entrepreneurial than that, possibly depending on how the adults set it up. The troop gets about a dollar per box sold, and we had the scouts decide and plan for themselves how the money would be spent. Maybe other troops (yours?) were less, like, empowering about it.

That's what I thought before I was my daughter's troop cookie manager. But actually having a bunch of 10-year olds doing accounting and sales with real money and actual stakes was super-educational for them.

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

German FA official wants 2026 World Cup boycott talks A German football association official believes it is time to consider a boycott of the 2026 World Cup in the wake of United States President Donald Trump's actions.

Do it. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Judge William Young, who invalidated Trump's policy of arresting & deporting students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, is 85-years old and was appointed to the bench by President Reagan 41 years ago. Here's how he concluded his "annotated judgment" in the case. knightcolumbia.org/documents/k4...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."