At least VA & CA voters got to have a say. In Texas, the governor decided, not Texas voters.

Oversight Republicans are canceling hearings and hosting “round tables” where there are no rules; no motions or subpoenas allowed; and Democrats can’t call witnesses.

They’re scared that we’ll get to the truth in our Epstein investigation. Well, we won’t stop until we do.

Two U.S. embassy officials who died in Mexico as they returned from a counternarcotic operation worked for the CIA.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would investigate whether the operation broke any national security laws. https://wapo.st/48YZQlE

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The war is going so terribly they send out melania to talk about epstein.

AHA Files Lawsuit to Defend the Presidential Records Act - AHA The American Historical Association, in collaboration with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit last night challenging a recent memorandum from the Department of Justice declaring the Presidential Reco...

If you're wondering what discussions are happening at the White House today (and every other day during this presidency), the AHA has filed a lawsuit to protect the records of this administration for posterity, after DOJ declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional last week. 🗃️

looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states at the University of Toronto!

Charlottesville's new zoning code opened the door for intensified displacement & gentrification in historically Black neighborhoods. But we're fighting back.

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

Useful thread!

Agree!! At 10 hrs a week, that’s less than $16 an hour & without health insurance, sick pay, or retirement.

Texas Police Arrested This Journalist For Asking Questions. No Problem, Says the Supreme Court The justices’ decision sends a chilling message to journalists who report stories that powerful people do not like.

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.

A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

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

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
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a big set of Spirit 2K film scanners. they look cool as fuck. they're beautiful brushed stainless steel on the sides and a big glass view door to watch the film transport mechanims they're in a garage

so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners

does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners?

if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Missouri Advances Three Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban Bills In One Night “This is a make-or-break moment with what just happened in Kansas.”

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fucking genocidal

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox

They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender

They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more

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I'm going to talk about this again:

Republicans have been trying to destroy the USPS for DECADES now so they can privatize it for a profit. This is both a way to fuck with mail in voting and also make their doners happy.

Fuck this.

Wait I’m sorry, what is this argument? I can withdraw consent for vaccines after “doing my research” online but I can’t be trusted to give informed consent for birth control based on the existence of rare side effects literally every person with a uterus knows about?

1. @americanstudier.bsky.social puts some amazing lists together; @rauchway.bsky.social; @mkn.bsky.social;
2. This one is up there.
3. We doordashed bbq #HATM
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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Have you ever seen The Window? Unfortunately it’s on TCM’s schedule in the early morning hours tomorrow. Great film in part because acting ability of the lead, a kid named Bobby Driscoll. So talented but industry chewed him up & spit him out.

I believe I am being threatened with a good time.

Diversity Is Our Strength This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

Having to watch it too. Too good not to watch

Opinion | Trump Can’t Cancel Elections. He Could Undermine Them. Mr. Trump’s attempted election takeover is already underway.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

President Trump’s administration “has taken dozens of actions to undermine elections that, together, show that an attempted election ‘takeover’ may be underway,” Sean Morales-Doyle writes.