Jeff, do you know @elisaslow.bsky.social? You two would dig each other!!

Thanks for calling us “essential viewing!”

Hey, enjoyed the conversation!

It was terrifying to make. @nicolenewnham.bsky.social and I can attest.

Sorry ‘bout that.

Three-quarters of Evangelicals concerned about Trump's foreign aid cuts, plans for Medicaid: poll Three‑quarters of Evangelical Christian voters say they are concerned about the Trump administration's planned cuts to foreign assistance, as a nationwide survey released this week suggests that reduc...

"Fewer than half of all Christians surveyed — and just 55% of Evangelicals — felt the administration's first 100 days reflected Christian values."

YES.

A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government A startup founder told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with emojis of clowns and a man licking a boot.

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

You’re an amazing photographer.

Animating too much absolutely sensible outrage at Trumpism is an appeal to parental figures who aren’t there. “He should not be allowed”; “He should be arrested”; “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” It’s an appeal to an order that has already broken.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It’s America. Speak English.

(jk, in case anyone thinks I’m serious.)

≥ NBC NEWS GUNS IN AMERICA FSU shooting suspect's complex past comes to light - yet motive remains a mystery In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It's unclear if that had any tie to the violence.

American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Project 2025 calls for abolishing the Fed.

Not Today, Motherfuckers Listen and make your own on Suno.

I wrote a Disney Princess Anti-Fascism Fight Song. #doyouheartheprincesssing ht @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

suno.com/song/60891f8...

Every retailer in America should display the original price of an item along with the new tariffed price.

Let it sink in for the slowest in the herd.

Tariffs are a tax.

You're paying for them.

I’m definitely going with the non-fascist mullet.

My hair is dangerously close to this, except with bangs. I’m Southern. Now I have to really push my stylist for the full mullet.

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

Also of note as Feds & even Democratic governors are pushing mask bans: 5 of the 6 plainclothes government agents are masked.

This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

You better shop around…

I don’t understand why Vance’s wife would go to Greenland. It’s really just an opportunity for Greenlanders to protest her, and could expose her to an attack by an inflamed nationalist, providing a pretext for counter-action by US forces…oh. Archduke Usha. (NOT a call for violence. Just pondering.)

Julia Louis Dreyfus: “So they just ADD him on the chat?…no…too stupid. Rewrite it.”

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.

The Bonus Army had been deeply integrated.
Black and white veterans camped together, marched together, held the line together. The photos are stunning.
But in the end, state-level loopholes were used to deny many Black veterans their bonuses.

That horror finally moved Congress.
In 1936, they passed the Adjusted Compensation Act, overriding FDR’s veto.
The Bonus Army finally got their money.
MOST of them.

Bodies were loaded onto trains in pieces.

Some were never identified.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a blistering essay:
“Veterans… died like dogs for no good reason at all.”