George Washington mandated vaccines in the Continental Army which provided them a key advantage over the Royal Army. Hegseth knows that, right? It's very important to me that he knows that.

This administration pretends to honor the 250th, but brazenly dismisses its most profound legacies. 250 years ago this month, Washington’s surgeon general John Morgan wrote that government must “provide for the safety of its members by rendering the practice of inoculation as universal as possible.”

He's a great coach. It's too bad he wasn't able to achieve great things with the Bulls. It felt close a few times, but they never got the right transformative players.

THE FELICITY GENERATION By Rebecca Brenner Graham Imprint: St. Martin's Author of DEAR MISS PERKINS Rebecca Brenner Graham's THE FELICITY GENERATION: FROM AMERICAN GIRL TO HAMILTON, HOW POP CULTURE REWROTE THE REVOLUTION, following how pop culture shaped millennials' understanding of the American Revolution, exploring how national myths were constructed and commercialized, and interpreting what these stories reveal about American identity, nostalgia, and civic imagination, to Brigitte Dale at St. Martin's, in an exclusive submission, by Dani Segelbaum at Arc Literary Management (world).

author Courtney Maum facetiously called one of the genres of book deal announcements the Oscar’s speech (1/8)

pope leo please do the funny and excommunicate the cheese

Reference: bsky.app/profile/atru...

...I had to settle for desperate messages with Duckworth and Durbin. ...The status quo cannot hold. /2

Update: I just called my 3 reps (House and Senate) to urge them to work, in every way possible, with every colleague possible to invoke the 25th amendment. Rep. Jan Schakowsky's representative indicated that they are receiving *numerous* calls about that very topic this morning. ..../1

So, sure, I'll just make-believe my way through the day--supplying my own answers to these questions in the face of a dishonest, untrustworthy leadership. /4 & fin

- Are these words just to play the markets a certain way, for the profit of a few oligarchs?
- Are words meaningless?
- Am I supposed to be on edge like this every day, empathizing with innocents who are facing these maybe-real/maybe-not threats?
... /3

- Are we now raising an army to march through, village by village, town by town, and city by city, to just kill people and destroy things?
- What's the plan?
- Am I supposed to assume this is just the 'rhetoric' of negotiation?
... /2

So, I'm supposed to just go about my business, like normal, when the leadership of my country is threatening to annihilate an entire civilization. All I have are questions:

- Are nuclear weapons going to be used? Firebombs?
... /1

I assume these experiences were either positive or neutral.

from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

And from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Also from Pope Leo XIV.

And this one:

From Pope Leo XIV.

From the leader of the U.S.

Life is best known by its contrasts.

But they're all laughing all the way to the bank.

Wait, Bluesky is dying? I see fresh content on here all the time. In a polarized world, it makes sense that platforms lean in various polarized directions. I'm not on TruthSocial and don't ever want to be. X is a place where ethics are secondary to clicks. Mastodon is low energy but still works.

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

...Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
In the final seconds who's gonna save you?

Oh, alive and kicking
Stay until your love is, love is, alive and kicking /2 & fin

A favorite song from your teen years that still moves you.

I'll go. Simple Minds, "Alive and Kicking"
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What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the Love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up? ... /1

The world is a mess, but the Cubs have started their first 4 games respectably.

Marx Prestige, Episode 1: The Civil War and American Capitalism w/ @andrewhartman.bsky.social

No regular episode today, but we have premiered the first episode of our "Marx Prestige" series on the public feed (and the first two episodes on the paid subscriber feed)!

Link in the replies!

Every thing---every single thing---has a history.

Hurray!

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

NTT Faculty Detail Frustration Over University ‘real estate empire’ | The Loyola Phoenix NTT faculty criticize Loyola’s real estate spending as contract negotiations stall and bargaining requests remain pending.

A university morality tale: The theme is putting land over people.

loyolaphoenix.com/2026/03/ntt-...

Border Patrol agents ignored orders to end car chase before gassing Chicago neighborhood DHS claimed federal agents intentionally hit a fleeing vehicle to try to stop the driver in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood last October—but videos of the 18-minute high-speed pursuit show they actua...

NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side.

I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.

This is now the 42nd WSJ editorial on school vouchers since Jan 2022—ed board, in-house columnist, or outside lobby group byline.

That’s 1 pro-voucher piece every 4-5 weeks for 4 straight years.

And the 3rd in just the last 3 weeks.

There is nothing grassroots about vouchers.