They ran into a more complete team.

U.S. Stocks Have Their Biggest Drop Since Start of Iran War The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end.

In the midst of a couple of humanitarian and economic disasters, I‘m reminded that we were told voting for a bigot was the logical outcome of “economic anxiety.”

When they start putting Trump’s signature on paper money I will be cashless or pay exclusively in coins…

Community-driven care cuts risk of child deaths in Togo by nearly a third For just US$ 10 a year per person, an integrated primary health care approach led by community health workers has proven to be highly effective at saving lives.

Free healthcare is saving children’s lives in Togo. A large trial has cut the risk of death before age five by 29% by combining door-to-door visits with free healthcare and better funded rural health centres. Gavi buff.ly/cjVSfFk
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The AI push in health care is deepening medicine’s trust crisis Health care’s adoption of AI should move at the speed of trust, not investment, writes Oni Blackstock.

🗣️In my new @statnews.com op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on tech in the public interest with The OpEd Project, I write about how AI’s push into health care and its rapid adoption, without rigorous testing or patient and community involvement in decision-making, is deepening a crisis of trust.

Ms. Rachel Says ‘I Am Political’ as She Fights to Close ICE Facility in Texas That’s Detaining Children: ‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’ Ms. Rachel is fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where ICE is detaining children and their parents.

Apart from being simply right on a moral and ethical level, Ms. Rachel is a content creator par excellence in the digital era/Trump era—for both children and adults—when we seem obsessed with ~ influencing ~ but rarely talk about the people who are really the fuck doing it right.

Tons of aid flows into Cuba as humanitarian convoy arrives on the struggling island Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations have started arriving in Cuba as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a sev...

We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba.

This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island.

Food is spoiling.
Water supply is compromised.
Healthcare services are disrupted.

End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!

The United States and Israel truly a cancer to the ENTIRE world

“The goal of this project is nothing less than the erasure of the scholarly and institutional gains made by Black studies over the last 60 years.”

This is not conservatism. This is authoritarianism.

F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage

Well past the danger zone you guys
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Writing is thinking.

This paragraph, by Carole McGranahan, encapsulates my main beef with LLMs and writing.

“Writing is a commitment to people”, says Jason DeLeon, quoted by McGranahan. Why, then, are we so eager to outsource this commitment to a piece of software?

It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

I’d put Steve Chen up there. That whole YouTube thing and all. 😁

Donate to Support for James Van Der Beek's Family, organized by Jason K James Van Der Beek was a beloved husband, father, and friend who touched the lives of … Jason K needs your support for Support for James Van Der Beek's Family

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially

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jesus this is absolutely horrifying

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

This news is just beyond wonderful.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Donate to Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention, organized by Norma Herrera My husband, Oliver Hilario Aguillon, has recently been detained by ICE, and our… Norma Herrera needs your support for Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention

HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE!

Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.

Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!

lol. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8HXPY8S/

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

APPLY NOW: PEER Center Summer Scholars Program — PEER Center June 3-5, 2026 | Apply by March 1 The Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center invites early- and mid-career academics conducting higher education policy research to apply to pa...

Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1.

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“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”