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Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/harmeet-dhillon-doj-civil-rights/686758/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9ThginPcLfxSHvK_QnshKgGk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p66#a260413p66

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…

A look at Kari Lake's 11 months as US Agency for Global Media de facto head, as she wasted money and blocked work to bring reliable news to repressive countries (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

Fashion and leather hardware collide: I've been seeking this tiny Chicago screw for an Italian belt for a while now, and Moschino's repair services in London and Milan have both come up short. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful.
https://www.reddit.com/r…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/600-week-buys-freedom-fear/613972/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3v55Ifcy-zz6-SVLZ4NDiZw

$600 a Week Buys Freedom From Fear
An extra $600 a week buys freedom from fear.

Talks in ideas without referring to ideologies. The Lego sets have no blocks.

Very nice thread and worth the long read too on why UK electric prices are still influenced by gas.
https://mastodon.energy/@drsimevans/116222845147511874
drsimevans@mastodon.energy - NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?
Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-does-gas-set-the-price-of-electricity-and-is-there-an-alternative/
1/8

You shouldn't call plans 'plans'. You should just call them 'ideas'. You can't plan for shit.

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

I'm getting weird spam signups. They use nonsensical names, but email addresses with existing (if spammy) domains. They pass the captcha. And then they are registered and never do anything. Any ideas where these are coming from?

Be careful. "It's AI slop" is turning into a thought-terminating cliche.
Even though it's true often, the actual use of the phrase is starting to be a shortcut to dismissing things without using our brains.
And that is itself a kind of slop.
Learn to notice it because doing it consciously is exhausting, but knowing when you're being cognitively lazy is a step to being a bit more resistant to bad ideas and being manipulated.

Irish Books
Expert guests get to the heart of books you know and give you ideas of what contemporary Irish literature to read next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/irish-books/

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable -- If Viktor Orbšn can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too. (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32zuGE3vqLJtJTyIvvK-8_M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p4#a260413p4

Louis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:
7. Musical Reading
Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗
The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated
https://…

Louis Braille's Earlier Ideas, Ranked - The Squeaky Wheel
In 19th-century France, 15-year-old Louis Braille invented his famous tactile codex while still a student at a school for the blind, but Braille wasn’t the first thing he tried. These are our favorites of his earlier ideas: 8. Lickbooks Making all the letters of lickbooks (livres de la langue) taste different was too time-consuming. Plus, […]

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141563/call-abstracts-conference-old-ideas…

“Todos los humanos son emprendedores […] porque la voluntad de crear estš codificada en el ADN humano, y la creación es la esencia del espíritu emprendedor. ~ Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha“ — El mejor negocio eres tú
Suena a a publicidad pero no lo es, y escribo yo, Alex, petaqui, no es el mensaje copia y pega de una aplicación. Pero es verdad que #Headway ayuda a descubrir nuevas ideas y a desarrol…

How college students who study war view Trump’s Iran taunts
For Politics 226: "Introduction to Peace Studies"
this was a week when treaties, rules and theories slammed into the reality of a U.S. president who says he
“doesn’t need” international law,
doesn’t ask God for forgiveness
and is limited solely by his own ideas about morality.
Even for Trump, his Tuesday post casually threatening to level Iran,
in a way that seemed to suggest the …

How college students who study war view Trump’s Iran taunts
On campuses around the country, thoughtful debates about “just war” theory and morality collided with President Trump’s erratic approach to combat.

RE: #macOS #Apple

My favourite comment on Loops are from peoples who tell me they had no ideas but are now becoming J-Pop fans!

Blender mögen sinnentleerte Phrasen. Jetzt auch wissenschaftlich belegt: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWRlF4clBEO/?igsh=MXc3YzgxbzZiejM5dA==

Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues

This has a lot of good issues and vision. You can probably get the core ideas after watching a short while (Though at the end he talks about some possible alternatives).
He does go on and on and probably could say everything with much less words. But the bottom line is he's probably right unless there is some radical new technology / technique that shows up. And if that happens, all the Big HyperScaler companies go bust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSgy2P2q790

99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
https://ift.tt/v6eSyd5
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

RE: #QGIS enhancement ideas to this year's grant programme:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/evangelicals-trump-national-prayer-breakfast/685908/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3j2xxOJGDWeh1CcTB3EHKnY

The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue
At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics.

from my link log —
1SubML: plan vs reality.
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2026/04/05/1subml-plan-vs-reality.html
saved 2026-04-08 htt…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Liiek:
🎵 Miserable Thoughts and Ideas
#Liiek
https://liiek.bandcamp.com/track/miserable-thoughts-ideas
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gjcMJE5DBYaMqo4OODNhy

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a70886045/apple-50th-ann…

Tim Cook (Still) Believes in Crazy Ideas
As Apple marks its 50th anniversary, Tim Cook reflects on Steve Jobs, Apple’s legacy, and why the company still pursues big, risky ideas.

Weathering the Cold, and Big Ideas on Death
From winter weather to podcasts, music, and essays that linger, this week moves from weather reports to deeper reflections. A powerful piece on death reminds me how easily the everyday can turn quietly profound.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com…

Weathering the Cold, and Big Ideas on Death – Bob Mueller
From Winter Storm Fern to music, podcasts, and a moving essay on death, a week of weather, culture, and reflection.

Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏
❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder.
…
People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞
https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260

NASA just dropped a hi-res image from the beginning of the eclipse #ArtemisII experienced at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55197506830/ - it's dominated by a broad corona streamer bundle sitting on top of the zodiacal light pyramid. (In https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-9-april-2026/#Apr09 I have rotated it so that it matches the SOHO LASCO C2 view which in https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164990866429808 is matched to the well-known eclipse end picture.) But south of the streamers sits something bright at the lunar limb that baffles me: what can be so bright - and even colorful - at this location when the Sun is already well behind the Moon? Is this astrophysics or rather selenophysics? Ideas?

Testing some ideas in case my next linear algebra publication needs a photo
(... or category theory?) 🐈

Every year at TNC, ideas big and small take the stage, sparking collaboration and creativity.
#TNC26 Programme Committee is now looking for contributions that showcase bold ideas & lessons learned.
Here are 3 ways you could make it on the programme:
🔹 Present a Lightning Talk
🔹 Lead a Bird of a Feather (BoF) session
🔹 Host a Community Hub session

🎤 Submit …

As International Women’s Day approaches, we examine how agentic AI is automating and amplifying gender bias in business workflows, often reinforcing systemic inequalities, and provide some ideas for what can be done to change course.

Agentic AI is automating gender bias – here’s how to stop it
As International Women’s Day approaches, we examine how agentic AI is automating and amplifying gender bias in business workflows, often reinforcing systemic inequalities, and provide some ideas for what can be done to change course.

Как некоторые уже знают, в #Mastodon будут копировать Started Packs из #Bluesky — это такие списки пользователей, которыми можно поделиться с другими и разом подписаться. (См.

Our ideas about Packs
Sharing our thoughts and plans behind sharing collections of accounts in the Fediverse.

Postmodernism and Christianity
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may view it as a problem, but it can be a resource for Christian philosophy, Christian mysticism, Christian apologetics, and even for the understanding of the Bible.

Postmodernism and Christianity | David Boles, Blogs
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may vi…

What to cook for the Super Bowl: Recipes and ideas from The Athletic staff https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7011252/2026/02/01/super-bowl-recipes-2026-the-pulse/

Ex-Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Maxx Crosby’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-mayock-maxx-crosby-comments-future/

Even the Bay Area has deluded, self-important cultists.
Read how these 'pro-billionaire' protester's hilariously formed 'rationalist' ideas crumble under pressure.
☑️ San Francisco’s 'March for Billionaires' was a big bust - Mission Local
https://missionlocal.org/20…

San Francisco’s billionaire bacchanal a big bust
Only a couple dozen pro-billionaire agitators actually showed for an apparently earnest “March for Billionaires” at Alta Plaza Park.

Gullible, Cynical America (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/cynical-gullible-american-man/686079/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8JR2s_y5pH5bL_qSLl5Pavc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p54#a260309p54

ISM and YDS alumni Alexandra Barylski and Samuel Loncar are reshaping public scholarship through their leadership of Marginalia Review of Books.
https://ism.yale.edu/posts/2026-01-28-building-a-global-home-for-ideas-yal…

Why the US attack on Iran is unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/02/massive-us-attacks-iran-unlikely-produce-regime-change-tehran/411787/

I have a test case for libscopehal that has recently started failing in the GitHub CI environment with a SIGSEGV.
The same test, run on any of my machines, passes even when run under asan.
Anybody have ideas on how to debug? The limited visibility into the CI environment is annoying, I can't like ssh in and run gdb or something.

I'd love to have a doctor friend, so I could talk about all my interesting observations about my own symptoms and ideas about possible explanations, and that's why I don't have a doctor friend.

The most important thing to understand about the “madman theory” of foreign policy
is that it was designed by losers for losers.
The world first heard of the madman theoryfrom a 1978 memoir by Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff H. R. Haldeman.
According to Haldeman, Nixon said:
“I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.”
Faced with an otherwise hopeless war in Vietnam, Nixon would pretend to be cra…

Trump’s Desperate Madman Ploy
Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much.

It's been three years since I last went for a jog. But after my bike ride this morning, I hit the road for a 5k run because I promised myself I'd run a race tomorrow. I usually think impulsive ideas are the best, but I might regret this one. I can already feel the stiffness setting in!
#europe #running

Ugh 🤦🤦🤦
Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
When politicians start attacking the parties closest to them, instead of the ones that are far away (and to the right) is when you know for sure that they're in it not for the ideas, but just for themselv…

Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday

«AI has little reason not to exude confidence. If AI gives you wrong advice, nothing happens to it. There’s no social cost, no loss of standing, no hesitation the next time it speaks.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/ai-confidence-tr…

The First AI Crisis Is Psychological
The economic shocks may well be coming, but we have already entered an age of profound uncertainty about ourselves and the world around us.

It's wild to me how funding in our country works. Untold billions (if not trillions) for police and ICE. Billions in funding for the dumbest of AI ideas. But basic science? My wife is scrambling to get less than a million dollars of funding to do studies on heat waves that could help save millions of lives.
Remember heat waves? The kind of thing that will only become more frequent and deadly as we fail to curb our carbon emissions?

Sometimes I have these ideas. For example, I realize that I have a white T-shirt that I wear rarely. So I decide to wear it, and the very next day I have a white T-shirt with black fur.

Oh, shiny, now I found something else I want! 😁
#FreeCAD

Our pal @… looks at AI in the hands of “good people” and what it can do…
https://makerblock.com/2026/03/not-team-ai/

Not Team AI | MakerBlock
Look, I hate AI slop as much as the next person. My kiddo has been taking a college class where they've been delving to the ideas swirling around AI/LLM's and from what I gather, the class is nearly incomprehensible. Just like my toaster, oven, toaster oven, fridge, and dryer don't need wifi - neither does

Another interesting video from John Green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVPgELGG48
The Vlogsbrothers channel has long provided me endless (well English is weird not really endless...) happiness and thoughts and ideas.
200 million neurons in our guts; I did not know that. Lots…

Free link. A Very Stable War - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-rubio-vance-war/686219/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3i5QFnBC8yFo-JaTWdjAtMs "After the president of peace, a …

A Very Stable War
J. D. Vance says this Middle East entanglement can’t be dumb—because Trump is smart.

The Avi Lewis AMA on Reddit this afternoon was interesting. He didn't answer my question, and I'll eventually get over it, but he was swinging for the fences with his ideas. His responses would resonate I think with MastoCanucks as they pretty much call for the government to get more involved in providing real solutions. Including building 1M public homes, tackling U.S. ownership of our media, getting rid of FPTP with electoral reform, guaranteed income programs, publicly owned options for major business categories (banks, grocery, phones, etc). Those big ideas could wake up and excite voters while at the same time facing huge opposition from big businesses and wealthy Canadians who would face a new wealth tax.
I hope he wins the leadership. At the very least he'll push the Liberals to be bolder, and maybe even lead a minority government that could bring some of his ideas to fruition.
#CanPoli #NDP
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/fwKRmDPSvd

Worth reading:
"Trump Had No Plan B for Iran.
And it shows." TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war/686470/?utm_source=feed

Trump Had No Plan B for Iran
And it shows.

Hey #fediverse #developers
I am happy to bring this update for my pet project #GitRaven. It's a Git management tool built in C and Qt as a learning experience.
Give it a…

@…
Noch eine gute Nachricht. Auch das Handle für die https://blog.watzmann.social auf der du schreibst, funktioniert inzwischen. Wenn du also @…

BLOG.WATZMANN.SOCIAL
Thoughts, stories and ideas.

Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump's Fed nominee (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/02/05/untangling-the-ideas-of-donald-trumps-fed-nominee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p101#a260205p101

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

We weathered Winter Storm Fern just fine, but the week ended somewhere deeper: podcasts, music, and an essay that made me pause and think about death and belief. Sometimes the quiet pieces linger longest.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/weathering-the-cold-and-b…

Weathering the Cold, and Big Ideas on Death – Bob Mueller
From Winter Storm Fern to music, podcasts, and a moving essay on death, a week of weather, culture, and reflection.

People come to the Fediverse to connect with others around communities and topics of interest.
We’ve seen people enjoy their time on Mastodon the most, when they can follow and engage with individuals and organisations that have interesting things to share.
We want to help those who are new to the Fediverse discover these communities more easily.
Back in October 2025, we shared our initial ideas about a new feature that’s coming in Mastodon 4.6, that we’re calling "Coll…

Designing Collections
A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

The Seahawks didn't just win the Super Bowl. They did something even more challenging https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7033901/2026/02/10/the-seahawks-didnt-just-win-the-super-bowl-they-did-something-even-…

Connecting With Your Kids
Join Andy McNeilly and Ash Morphet as they share insights and straightforward ideas that can be implemented at home to foster a more connected and engaged family environment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/connec

The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/us-iran-war-air-strikes/686228/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3vvUj4Y1d1mUGAwGpcCnkok Free link.

The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran
The United States has only so many expensive munitions to send after Iran’s cheap and plentiful arms.

I've had ideas rattling around in my head for a while but not quite hitting coherence.
What does a "rich terminal" mean to you as a developer? We're in a really weird place right now with regards to UI and UX, with chat as a normal mode of operation being everywhere, yet we're constrained to two major paradigms: the terminal user interface, and the instant message. Both come with really weird limits to their affordances.
And there's prior art here — light table, jupyter notebooks, observable hq, rich REPLs — but they're usually this weird hybrid of not quite transcript not quite live program that I find somewhere between unsettling and frustrating.
I do however think it's well past time we abandoned monospaced type as the core way we think about source code, and at the same time, built better user interfaces than that allows, without going full "this is a program with its own interface”
It's weird uncharted territory.

Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran? (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-truthsocial-destruction-iran/686716/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweOZ2ACsYtzYQB-Clgym7_50&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p102#a260407p102

Sportswriters at WaPo say they spent the last two years seeking guidance for reinvention from top editors, but never saw leaders support visionary ideas (Bryan Curtis/The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-sports-department-d…

Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change

HR Leader Podcast Network
Connects you to the brightest and best in HR and people leadership, exploring new ideas so you can deliver more value for your business...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hr-leader/

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-to-know-a

​​​​​​​The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3jsxohg4Ck6b1qDZPaMLcZU

​​​​​​​The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

My ideas:
- Peer to peer sync, no server required.
- A small one-binary component you could run on your own server or as a service and pair with your "account" to make it work without another browser peer online.
- Take the ideas from container tabs and use that to create personal contexts within which to sync. Basically: sub-accounts, where you can select what's inherited from global settings and when. (tough to design good UI for. this is the most ambitious idea.)

This week, something broke.
Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present,
but other people do.
They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain,
the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones.
They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem.
They can also hear the president lashing out,

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

The IP Australia Podcast - Empowering Your Great Ideas
The official podcast by IP Australia, discover real stories and practical insights to help start-ups and small business navigate IP (intellectual property)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ip-aus

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-ice/685849/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3hqhdsGKnuvgTwb-3Ps--Po

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone
The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

Trump Opens the Pandora's Box of Assassination (Tim Naftali/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/khamenei-assassination-precedent/686215/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQWCisA23rxrHDj14QNX3Go
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p38#a260303p38

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3g6aEnNPodYnVVupuUG0p34

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack
When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world.

The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/24/the-graveyard-of-destructive-ideas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p82#a260224p82

Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation
and explain why the country is at war.
For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East;
his prime-time address this evening was,
one assumes,
aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.
Maybe he’d have been better off not trying.
Trump’s criti…

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NyKNl7k7IcEmPXCTFQ_b-E&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p97#a260202p97

Trump's Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/birthright-citizenship-barbara-trump-supreme-court/686644/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TimNRVIfGmiZHVf8kGDClTY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p120#a260401p120

The United States has gone to war against Iran.
America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation
(the Arab states of the Gulf, which fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack),
and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about “imminent” threats that require “preemptive” strikes.
But we should dispense with such statements:
Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
E…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation,
without Congress,
without even an attempt to build public support.
Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people,
and without a plan to let them decide how to build a legitimate Iranian state.
This lack of coherence has plagued the Trump administration’s policy for many weeks.
On at least eight occasions during Iran’s nationwide uprising in early Jan…

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People
The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_q5_fxBXpe0k7IQYKZ32co
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p70#a260228p70

The Paradox of Trump's Iran Attack (David Frum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f-SZCUsrR2sPQ6O0PZiPtx4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p29#a260228p29

Trump's Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-iran-regime-change-attack-gamble/686190/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweJw09eKM0IFLE27PjNviuec&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p20#a260228p20

MAGA's War on Empathy (Hillary Rodham Clinton/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/war-empathy-hillary-clinton/685809/?gift=HoRfrgrF5SCKopc-hfobxMOywIq9w6UJ4366olDJeKk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p1#a260130p1

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8ImCAJzfV2R8UlH_eHGQVjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p49#a260226p49

Whatever This Is, It Is Not Strategy -- Defending the nation will take more than sycophancy, slurs, and slop. (Eliot A. Cohen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/unserious-national-defense-strategy/685784/?gift=uknf6XP0NWAxCOSANNYObRx9HosyqhA7HBjYHRleMp8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p47#a260129p47

ICE's No. 1 Ally -- The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents ... (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/ice-trump-minnesota-justice-department/685788/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TvzRmBocVP69WUVJpNdI0Z0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p80#a260128p80

Donald Trump Can Be Stopped (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-retreats-minneapolis-natcons/685776/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p144#a260127p144

The First Post-Reality Political Campaign (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/hungary-first-post-reality-political-campaign/686565/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-efMFd7lJ81M13YabdRGno&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p139#a260327p139

Yes, It's Fascism (Jonathan Rauch/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfkcmlWcc1rtoivHvxtVB5E
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p34#a260125p34

What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/maga-second-amendment-minneapolis/685752/?gift=hES2-gYGuMNFzvFJOo-72S0YJG7GuCk-_wMdbXDj2e4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p43#a260125p43

Where Are All the Campus Protests? -- Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/campus-protests-trump-iran/686518/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pM0125U17irlZaTpnssACq4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p105#a260325p105

How the Supreme Court Spared America (Ilya Somin/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/tariffs-trump-supreme-court/686093/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p45#a260221p45