Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy
At 3:39 AM last here’s Musk
He’s a very sick person.
Earnestness is the counter to this awful historical moment. It’s the way out.
Unabashedly caring about others, about community and ideas, speaking the truth, standing for values.
People want to believe in something more than a group sneer that looks down at others.
@aselrod.bsky.social nails it.
The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.
Ooh, good stuff here from @permitpower.bsky.social: a scorecard that ranks all 50 states on how easy it is to install solar, how smooth they've made permitting & interconnection, etc.
What to call this corruption other than a wholesale looting of the federal treasury by the President to benefit his supporters using a DOJ that is run out of his White House — but gussied up with the language and procedural flourishes of a normal settlement of a legitimate legal dispute.
A retired Major General told America that Pete Hegseth’s words are “absolutely the words of potential war criminals.” The Secretary of Defense. Of the United States.
absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?
Perhaps this is too obvious to say, but: "they are corrupting the purity of our native population by bringing in diseases from abroad" is bog-standard fascist rhetoric.
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
Sounds amazing tbh
So I guess no one knows what ICE is even doing at airports. They’ve certainly been terrorizing people they randomly pick out!
Who knew that #Iran would retaliate against its Gulf neighbors and Israel, and blockade the Strait of Hormuz? Only everyone who ever studied Iran - except, of course, the incompetent POTUS.
Great discussion with @mattduss.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social.
Wow. Looks like Trump just lost Amazon Web Services its contract with Finland for cloud-based management of election information. No price given. But would be interesting to know how soon European digital sovereignty might start to mean something to US hyperscalers' bottom lines.
two ICE officers who look like they’re about 16
two ICE officers standing by a wall
two ICE officers pacing
two ICE officers, both masked, walking the length of the TSA line
counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.
"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
My commitment to the sandwich community is iron-clad.
My commitment to the sandwich community is iron-clad.
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, the world’s most credible democracy watchdog, warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy:
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
I hate to be the sandwich literalist in the room, and I realize this isn't the main point, but was "distortion sandwich on truth" ever considered as a name for this phenomenon? Guess it's probably too late to change it now.
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Not now, sanctioned Russian tanker! Can't you see we've got our hands full here!?
"Predatory delay thrives on obscurity and complexity — wonky terminology, arcane rules, disputed data... Each obstruction feels like a minor skirmish. But added together, they form a coordinated strategy."
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/16/o...
The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of Jan. 6. Their entry's capstone was a mammoth feature titled "The Attack," featuring reporting by 26 journalists.
By my count, 8 of them are still at the paper. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The Orbanification of the United States of America continues.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019.
Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate.
Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes.
Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
Value collapse doesn’t have to look like the Subprime Crisis ... It doesn’t actually even have to be clear (or even identifiable) to the people involved.
Most people losing wealth to the planetary crisis don’t even really see what's happening to them...
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
This is very good and you should read it.
