The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.

The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.

Priorities.

$50 million worth of solar panels headed for 'highly visible' state lands - Maryland Matters About $50 million worth of solar panels will appear on Maryland Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields in coming years, paid for with money from a state renewable energy fund that h...

Maryland will install $50 million worth of solar panels over its Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields this year. marylandmatters.org/2026/03/01/s...

Report urges Ohio lawmakers to nix data center tax breaks and require them to build their own power • Ohio Capital Journal Progressive research and advocacy nonprofit Innovation Ohio is urging state lawmakers to take a harder line with data centers. A new report calls for an end to tax breaks and new protections ensuring…

Report urges Ohio lawmakers to nix data center tax breaks and require them to build their own power ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/16/r...

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."

A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

FACT SHEET: How Much Is the War in Iran Costing American Taxpayers? - Institute for Policy Studies FACT SHEET: How Much Is the War in Iran Costing American Taxpayers?

NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war.

That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million.

From @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:

Gun violence costs the United States an estimated $557 billion every year.

That is about 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or more than $1,600 per person, every year.

This cost is higher than what the federal government spends annually on education.

‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice

Justice Department slashes funding for child sex trafficking

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

Is it too much to ask that the NYT list the other states?? At least the biggest ones? Something? Instead of the singular focus on Florida?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

A notable footnote from Justice Kagan, pointing out that if the court is so into parental rights why didn't it take up the claim brought by parents of transgender kids who want them to get gender-affirming care?

"If this Court’s grasping reach extends even to a nonfinal decision of a state trial court, then every decision from any court is now fair game. By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country, even as many States redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election. It also invites parties searching for a sympathetic ear to file emergency applications directly with this Court, without even bothering to ask the state courts first. There is much reason to question whether the majority will exercise its newfound authority wisely, but there is no reason to question this: If you build it, they will come"

More Sotomayor:

"By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country... There is much reason to question whether the majority will exercise its newfound authority wisely." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Nail polish remover (acetone) unglued my fingers (superglue craft incident) and this is why a science education matters kids 😭 #MedSky

Minute Maid discontinues frozen juice concentrate after 80 years The process to make juice concentrate was invented by the research team C.D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell in the 1940s.

Scene from the movie trading places

My God, we’re ruined.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.

Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025.

Here’s the full story from @alexckaufman.bsky.social for The Fight:

heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN?
*Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election
*Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models
What else?

Freedom House was “a casualty of its own success,” in another piece. No, I think it was just institutional racism, friend.

Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter ID Bill

what kind of reporting is this that doesn’t actually name the bill in question??

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

"...about volunteers who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.”"

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

The CNBC article also makes clear that the airlines immediately complained and referenced the $6B loss from the shutdown just a few months ago.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech