babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Speaking of "the same system of kill," the U.S. killed two more civilians in the Pacific yesterday. And they suspended the search for the shipwrecked civilian from April 11.

The death toll of these extrajudicial killings now exceeds 170.

I've updated my database of clerical naturalists to include 31 women who were both active naturalists and active in their church, including Margaret Gatty, pictured. They're all in the main list, but I've also created a separate page to highlight them. www.brycchancarey.com/naturalists/...

“.. Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years.”

@reason.com
reason.com/2026/03/31/1...

Approximately 1,000 US soldiers preparing to deploy to the Middle East to be available for Iran operations | CNN Politics Approximately 1,000 US soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are expecting to deploy in coming days to the Middle East, according to two sources familiar with the matter, adding to the growi...

Approximately 1,000 US soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are expecting to deploy to the Middle East, according to sources familiar with the matter, adding to the growing military firepower in the region as the Trump administration says it is in talks with Iran to end the conflict.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

This is utterly extraordinary.

If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

Gets worse as you read it.

1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

Democrat scores upset win in Trump’s backyard for Florida state house seat Emily Gregory won the special election to represent a district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home on Tuesday, the Associated Press projected.

wapo.st/4uGmKHQ

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Israeli police attack journalists in Jerusalem, fracturing wrist of CNN producer | CNN Israeli police attacked a group of journalists outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, including a CNN producer who suffered a fractured wrist in the violent incident.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/m...

And Sinclair Lewis

Well, since consumers are no longer part of the US economy, this makes sense.

Warming oceans and waterways threaten a key human protein source Fish are adapting to hotter temperatures in ways that are problematic for people.

Warming oceans and waterways threaten a key human protein source

By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.

The roof looks possibly ok? 🤞

Oh no! I am glad you are ok, and hope the roof is not badly compromised

Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health iss

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping.

The cruelty is endless.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals.

We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...

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I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Damn we were going to assign these for class in 2 weeks who has copies? Please dm!

I thought the goal was to put federal workers in trauma?

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Watch this clip.

Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

From the seeds, Grappa of Wrath

There have been some very bad developments today.