Washington ordered soldiers in the Continental Army to be inoculated against small pox in 1777, 11 years before the Constitution was ratified, so I'm not sure what he means by "restoring"

At our secondary school:

✅ School bus tickets? App.
✅ Pay for canteen food? App.
✅ Maths homework? App.
✅ Science? A different app.

So when (at times) I’ve had to threaten a week’s phone ban at home, the triumphant retort was “well how will I get to school, then?”

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

…and before that the steam train.

'Against the tide': More Israelis and Palestinians now choose to grieve together The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony Is Now in Its 21st Year. One of Its Organizers Says That People Are Now Joining Faster After the Loss of Their Loved Ones, Understanding 'They Can't...

"On both sides, there's this thought that 'the other side just wants to kill us.' Even if you know that the other side is human, when you meet someone with a story, it's a very meaningful process."

Tonight is the 21st joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

he probably fed his term papers into the AI

while @jamellebouie.net isn’t wrong to note that this sounds like warmed over David Duke ca 1990, it is also very much vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. these arguments were circulating in the debate over Stanford’s western culture program, a debate Thiel lost.

he’s been bent on vengeance ever since.

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Well worth a full read.

US Southern Command: On April 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered three more people in boats today

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a deca...

An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to the Trump administration's slashing of USAID.

Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but it still mainta...

The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool, according to new rules that were tucked into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

This is a far bigger fuel,fertilizer,food crisis for Asia & Europe than it is for US. That has been my argument since war began That weakest people will suffer most.Again, just as after Ukraine

20-30% SUPPLY is out.Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side reductions
tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

National Guard 'follows the Constitution,' general says of troops possibly deployed to polls • Nebraska Examiner The National Guard’s top general told Congress it would follow the Constitution and the law if President Donald Trump ordered troops to polling places.

NATIONAL GUARD: The National Guard’s top general told Congress it would follow the Constitution and law when asked about the possibility President Donald Trump might order troops to polling places.

From States Newsroom:

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The Roberts' SCOTUS seemed to act in haste to smack down Obama and Biden actions, an in the opposite way to endorse many Trump actions.

I hope more memos get leaked.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Great to know we have an objective jurist who focuses on the merits of the cases before him on the Court

“As of today?”

Sean Hannity left the Catholic Church in 2019.

So phony and performative

He's doing the 'turn it off and then on again trick' but with threatening war crimes

Remember when Stanford asked Peter Thiel to teach a class where he encouraged students to drop out of Stanford and then he helped crash a bank with his group chat and now his company is doing Mein Kampf while scoring government contract after contract

These people (Trump and his henchmen) have no idea what other levers of power they might have other than illicit violence.

Scientists looked back in time to find the first signs of human-caused global warming. It’s far earlier than previously thought | CNN The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even before the invention of modern cars, a new study says.

Humans were already changing the climate at the time of the US civil war

www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/c...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

As a Haverford College alum I just wanna say re Karp and Howard Lutnick… fuck, I dunno, sorry?

Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China - electrive.com In December 2025, 45,300 fully and partially electrified heavy-duty trucks were newly registered in China—accounting for 54 percent of total heavy-duty truck

Large BEV commercial trucks are now outselling diesel commercial trucks in China for the first time. While the world electrifies, the US is squandering resources to fight over expensive, dwindling, polluting, fossil fuels. 🧪💡🔌 ☀️💨💧🔋 www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...