@maddow.bsky.social it's no surprise how blatantly corrupt the cabinet officials are in this administration.
Remember in Trump 1 when the EPA boss, Pruitt had staffers driving around for lotion and cookies - while Ben Carson bought a 20k furniture set for himself?

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

Impasta syndrome

Stunning

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

I am so happy this show is back

It's team Papal vs team PayPal in the world today

Preemptively announcing you are going to pardon your staff isn’t just rewarding criminals for their crimes—it’s encouraging them to commit new ones.

How is a ballroom national security?
The east wing wasn't at any risk before this I'll conceived vanity project that is wasting our tax dollars and is a portal for corruption

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

The Leaf Sheep is one of my favorites because it looks like how Gary Larson drew sheep/cows in his Far Side comics

Why? It's not law

GOPers ignore election officials’ warnings, leaving Georgia little time for paper ballots switch The rushed system switch risks compromising election security and will complicate ballot counting, delay reporting results and create “widespread confusion” for voters and election administrators, cou...

Georgia election officials have less than three months to convert the state’s entire voting system from touchscreen machines to paper ballots, after the state Senate failed to vote Friday on legislation that would have delayed the conversion until 2028. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Russell Vought, Jay Bhattacharya,
Matthew Memoli and Jon Lorsch are the 4 horsemen of the biomedical apocalypse. They are hell-bent on the destruction of NIH. Never ever forget what they have done, are doing.

White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact science and the ISS.

Trump admin proposed a 23% cut in NASA's budget, right as its new Moon mission kicks off.

Science programs would be hit especially hard -- almost cut in half.

spacenews.com/white-house-...

Foreign investors are selling US bonds.

Investors are buying Chinese bonds as a safe haven.

Trump inherited an extraordinary patrimony:

-the world’s safest asset
-the world’s reserve currency
-the deepest, safest capital markets

He’s destroying all 3.

America Last.

H/T @adamtooze.bsky.social

A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees The General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage.

NEW: A year after major DOGE cuts, GSA plans to rehire hundreds of employees.

Because nothing says full, determined dismantling of the federal government like admitting you were so very wrong.

Great work @nasaartemis.bsky.social marvelous launch

Key USAF E-3 AWACS Aircraft Damaged in Iranian Attack An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS plane was damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attackon a base in Saudi Arabia.

This ought to be a bigger news story, and yet there's no mention of it in the mainstream media. "U.S. E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was destroyed in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia." www.airandspaceforces.com/key-e-3-awac...

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…
What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

USDA cancels $300 million program to help farmers buy land amid anti-DEI push The Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program, funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, awarded roughly $300 million to roughly 50 projects for five-year contracts beginning in 2023.

USDA cancels $300 million program to help farmers buy land amid anti-DEI push

Cost Of ‘Everything’—Beginning With Groceries— Will Likely Rise As Diesel Nears $5 Per Gallon The price of Diesel is up almost 40% from one month ago—and the cost spike is likely to have a ripple effect.

The price of Diesel is up almost 40% from one month ago—and the cost spike is likely to have a ripple effect.

Breaking News: UCAR files federal lawsuit to stop dismantling of National Center for Atmospheric Research Lawsuit lists NSF, NOAA, DOC, OMB and their directors as defendents

BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Extortion, mafia government

The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog The agency is considering hundreds of changes to exhibits at parks. It’s been an overwhelming task.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Can we get real adults in charge of things again?

On today’s episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign We’re the Baddies: they’re taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace

This is just so bad on so many levels

It's astonishing and embarrassing that every mechanism we have been taught that would prevent a president like Trump would fail because those who are elected and appointed to hold the line have failed to do so.
What a farce of a nation.