The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:
Important legislation in Illinois. Many of these approaches have been implemented elsewhere and have worked.
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
There's a chance this goes to penalties. My lord.
About time. What a stain on Virginia this had been.
This black and white photo shows a bearded man sitting and wearing a Civil War Union brigadier general’s uniform.
“I am glad we are defeated at Sumter. It will rouse the people…Better to lose a million men in battle than allow the government to be overthrown. The war will soon assume the shape of Slavery and Freedom… .”
~James A. Garfield, Apr. 14, 1861 (two days after CSA attack on Fort Sumter).
Image: LOC.
🧵 Thread of European leaders reacting to Péter Magyar's victory and Viktor Orbán's defeat.
Ursula von der Leyen: "Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger."
“I should like to know, if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop?” Lincoln had asked in 1858.
This resonates right now.
We’re going to take underdeveloped state-owned land near Metro or light rail stations and turn it into housing so people can live near transit and get to wherever they need to go.
It’s a plan that’ll help lower housing costs, increase ridership, and bring in nearly $1.4 billion in tax revenue.
Very interesting book. Highly recommend it.
Well, that was awful. Guessing Bono gets a shot and maybe Pirani sits v NE.
Absolute dishonesty by Sauer here. Sen. Conness' remarks and responses to colleagues' questions clearly favor the current view on birthright citizenship.
A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.
(i) Proposed provisions specifying that all outbound ballot mail must be mailed in an envelope that: (A) is marked as Official Election Mail, including through designated markings provided by USPS for this purpose, such as the Official Election Mail logo, as necessary and appropriate; (B) is automation-compatible and bears a unique Intelligent Mail barcode, or successor USPS technology, that facilitates tracking and is consistent with the other requirements of this section; and (C) has undergone a mail envelope design review by the USPS to ensure compliance with USPS mailing standards, including barcode placement. (ii) Proposed provisions specifying that, no fewer than 90 days prior to a Federal election, any State may choose to notify the USPS if it intends to allow for mail-in or absentee ballots to be transmitted by the USPS. As part of that notification, any notifying State should further indicate whether it intends to submit to the USPS, no fewer than 60 days before the election, a list of voters eligible to vote in a Federal election in such State to whom the State intends to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot to be transmitted via the USPS. (iii) Proposed provisions specifying that the USPS shall not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from any individual unless those individuals have been enrolled on a State-specific list described in subsection (b)(iv) of this section with the USPS pursuant to this subsection.
This is what we call an "easy case" for a lawsuit; the idea that the President can order the Post Office to adopt rules refusing to carry mail-in ballots that don't conform to the President's preferred design.
Laughably, obviously unconstitutional if USPS tries to go forward with it.
here i'm thinking of programs that allow low-income families to use housing vouchers to rent in middle-class neighborhoods
Smart planning🚨: Moving train station from a highway interchange to downtown, doing quality TOD, making a bunch of pedestrian improvements, adding bike infrastructure and rolling out viable bus transit service with 20 minute headways 7 days a week to the airport through the dense part of the town 💪
This!
And also, as popped up right on cue midway thru the comments, NOT this.
Everyone thinks our prisons are full of people in for possession, when the actual number is ~0.
Cedar waxwings. Fantastic.
"A White House spokeswoman called the protests 'Trump derangement therapy sessions.'"
The people I met at No Kings were sane and well-adjusted. The people suffering from Trump derangement syndrome are those who work for him, who bow to him, who slavishly praise him.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
NEW: In the birthright citizenship case, Trump cites an 1884 Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to a Native American man.
But experts on Native American law tell NBC News that argument is flawed, betraying an ignorance of the subject matter.
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Man driving a motor scooter with a dog in his lap and smoke from bombs rising in the sky behind them
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran.
(Photo by Pooria Hatami)
Here is Otis, a 15 year old rat terrier, min pin, chihuahua off to bed.
Here's Otis, wrapping up another #seniorpupsaturday.
🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today.
That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings
Scrappy the marbled black and white cat for #Caturday
Scrappy was a black cat, whose coat started getting white at the age of 7, due to vitiligo, which is a genetic mutation causing skin or fur to lose its natural pigment.
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
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Our 50th anniversary celebration this morning at Metro Center was PURE GOLD! 🤩 We danced our hearts out starting at 8:30 a.m. 🤗 at “Club Metro”! 🎶 Thank you to all who came out and grabbed a commemorative pennant! ✨ Here’s to many more memories!
Every I.C.E. victim in these clips is a U.S. citizen.
These are the Kavanaugh Stops™️ that that human frat paddle assured us would last only momentarily and cause only minor, if any, inconvenience. All lies.
Rule of Law is dead and buried. There is no coming back from this. Sorry, folks.
