here in MA people at a cafe were just griping about their first oil deliveries of the year. prices are 74% more expensive than last year.
2/n: Banning diesel exports would *temporarily* provide some price relief for most of the country, but not for New England. Because pipelines don't run that far north, PADD 1A has to import large amounts of diesel, which means it's competing with a (structurally short diesel) Europe for barrels
September 24, 2026 at 1:32 PM
here in MA people at a cafe were just griping about their first oil deliveries of the year. prices are 74% more expensive than last year.
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I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
September 1, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much
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"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize.
"Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
"Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
www.volkskrant.nl
June 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize.
"Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
"Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
this would work in the timothy zahn-iverse
Princess Leia, disgraced former head of state, leading a shoe-string band of war criminals/sandbaggers deniably funded by the new republic is actually a banger of an idea
May 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
this would work in the timothy zahn-iverse
finally we have a name for those 6 persons on the supreme court
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
https://bit.ly/44aNdkq
https://bit.ly/44aNdkq
May 21, 2026 at 5:24 PM
finally we have a name for those 6 persons on the supreme court
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Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
May 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
pass a law that explicitly lists the court’s bad VRA decisions and proclaims them null and no longer valid, makes their dissents valid law, and prescribes penalties to any government official who attempts to implement or enforce said bad law
May 5, 2026 at 1:52 AM
pass a law that explicitly lists the court’s bad VRA decisions and proclaims them null and no longer valid, makes their dissents valid law, and prescribes penalties to any government official who attempts to implement or enforce said bad law
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Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.
WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.
Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.
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a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case
www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
April 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case
www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
The fact that professors in math, chemistry, and biology are all 80-90% Democrats -- disciplines where the vast majority of research & teaching content is apolitical -- reinforces this point.
www.nas.org/wp-content/u...
(registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
www.nas.org/wp-content/u...
(registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
April 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The fact that professors in math, chemistry, and biology are all 80-90% Democrats -- disciplines where the vast majority of research & teaching content is apolitical -- reinforces this point.
www.nas.org/wp-content/u...
(registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
www.nas.org/wp-content/u...
(registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
The Mar 2026 CPI-U sure looks like a blip upward. at least for now (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAU...)
lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
April 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The Mar 2026 CPI-U sure looks like a blip upward. at least for now (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAU...)
lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
if any of the following were to happen, would it cause congressional republicans to remove trump? which ones, if any?
1. trump does nuclear strike on iran
2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba
3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
1. trump does nuclear strike on iran
2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba
3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
April 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
if any of the following were to happen, would it cause congressional republicans to remove trump? which ones, if any?
1. trump does nuclear strike on iran
2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba
3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
1. trump does nuclear strike on iran
2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba
3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
March 26, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
March 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
US not veering into a new, endless war, P̶e̶n̶t̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ my t-shirt says
US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says reut.rs/4ct4fAd
US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says
The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle East, even as officials declined to offer a timeline and cautioned they expected more U.S. casualties.
reut.rs
March 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
US not veering into a new, endless war, P̶e̶n̶t̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ my t-shirt says
best comment i've seen so far on how terrible dem leadership is on iran and war
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
March 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
best comment i've seen so far on how terrible dem leadership is on iran and war
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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another person congressional dems should question at public hearings. especially these private sector fascism enablers - they will look bad and be unable to defend their actions. the goal is to learn and show how bad they are and deter others.
February 27, 2026 at 3:22 AM
another person congressional dems should question at public hearings. especially these private sector fascism enablers - they will look bad and be unable to defend their actions. the goal is to learn and show how bad they are and deter others.
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NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
www.propublica.org
February 26, 2026 at 1:10 PM
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
with trump v us, john roberts is our own carl schmitt
Come for the speech recap, stay for the analysis of Trump’s Schmittian worldview www.vox.com/politics/480...
February 25, 2026 at 12:13 PM
with trump v us, john roberts is our own carl schmitt
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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Blackouts, gentrification, Trumpian corruption, Puerto Rican snow-cones, and other stuff you might have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spectacular.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
The Most American Halftime
Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters
theracket.news
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Blackouts, gentrification, Trumpian corruption, Puerto Rican snow-cones, and other stuff you might have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spectacular.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
