Wait, whaaaaat???

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Two U.S. Embassy instructors who were participating in routine "training work." Checks out, no further questions here, thank you.

IF ya think I'm sexy AND you want my body...you might be a redneck.

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

It’s late; I’m not gonna do a whole thread about this (1/3, dammit) but “security clearance” and “classified” are executive-branch labels that should be understood to have exactly no purchase on the rest of the world, *especially* Congress.

Mallory Swanson, who is a Ballon d'Or nominee, of the best players in the world, makes $400k. Dansby Swanson, a fine shortstop but by no means the Mallory Swanson of shortstops, makes that about every 9 plate appearances.

I think this is a good reminder for all the, like, "elections don't defeat fascism" people. They can! They have, lots of times!

I mean, they might. There's supposed to be votes on both this week, right?

I'll stand in it as long as it takes.

I for one would like to appreciate a NWSL broadcast that's just a regular soccer broadcast. No ads during substitutions. No breaking away from the action to interview someone in the stands. Just soccer. It's not too much to ask!

I had other things I wanted to do today but someone had to do it:

A paragraph-by-paragraph takedown of why basically everything in this op-ed is wrong.

Kind of shocking how rudimentary the Editorial Board's errors are here (starting with using "messy" to refer to hundreds of thousands of deaths)

Very good oversight work from @repsummerlee.bsky.social, @repshontelbrown.bsky.social, and @repyassansari.bsky.social on the letter that prompted this admission. The ICE response left a lot more questions than answers.

As I previewed in my recent testimony before Senate Commerce, we need an approach to the online environment that addresses harms while protecting free speech -- structural reform centered on platform transparency, data privacy, & interoperability. More in @thehill.com at the link below:

Also, "I'm in the business of winning elections" as opposed to "I'm in the business of governing" is the whole thing right there.

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush are from that part of the country. Wondering if Slotkin means she should listen to them and their voters?

It's just a clean repurposing of "the war would end tomorrow if Hamas would xyz."

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

This is utterly extraordinary.

If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

Gets worse as you read it.

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I don't like the robo umps as a general rule, but yeesh.

Pitch location for the final at bat of the WBC semis, way low

That pitch missed by 4 inches

This is a predictable problem when certain accounts' entire engagement strategy is just to post short out-of-context outrage porn clips.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

New Lawsuit Challenges Rubio’s Threats Against Foreign Tech Regulators

"The administration has clearly found a hammer that it quite likes to suppress speech that it doesn’t like, and that is the threat of detention and deportation," says senior staff attorney @carriedecell.bsky.social. Article by @zjmontague.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.

""The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors"--@carriedecell.bsky.social on CITR v. Rubio, the case we filed this morning www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

18 U.S. Code § 2441 - War crimes

Also illegal under US domestic law. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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"Give us your bombers, sir, and you can have our baskets."

Just checking in on this.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

If a member of Congress thinks war with Iran is so great, they should introduce an AUMF, vote for it, and own that decision.

But simply allowing the executive to usurp Congress's war powers is a complete abdication of constitutional responsibility.

(War with Iran is a bad idea even if authorized.)

But the real key moral thing is that you should not want your Rep/Senator to be someone who will do cynical shit in order to get re-elected. You should not want them to pander to the racists in their districts. There is no functional difference between that and just being a racist yourself. Fin.