That was indeed a wild ride - it didn’t end up where I thought it was headed, but I’m glad & encouraged it did.
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That was indeed a wild ride - it didn’t end up where I thought it was headed, but I’m glad & encouraged it did.
This is the third government shutdown since Trump took office.
TSA agents are unpaid, some sleeping in their cars, while his war is torching about $1 billion a day.
ICE detention is still draining around $10 million a day to run centers where people are disappearing into a broken system.
Another world crisis sparked by the war in Iran may be in the offing. Nearly a third of the global trade for nitrogen fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz, while almost half of the world’s sulfur, essential in producing phosphate fertilizers, also travels through the corridor.
this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people
there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue
The word "we" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
The number of Americans who benefit from oil industry profits is ... not large.
Covering sessions daily at the Commission on the Status of Women this week, one question keeps coming up for me: How can responsible media better amplify the institutions trying to address global crises? Too often we are not meeting the moment — we are being entertained by it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & @DrTed...• 6h Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.
This is Director of WHO. And that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make all day every day this week.
Because James Bond movie villain The Muskmelon evidently has POTUS securely in his pocket.
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
That’s consistent with the private behavior his closest former aides have described, what’s been reported about his behavior in public, & his frequent media pronouncements.
“Ugh” is right - last year the sidewalks on my post-parade Monday walk to work downtown were decorated with the contents of FAR too many revelers’ stomachs. Hoping for a strong Sunday rain to clean things up.
That’s bloody brilliant - a first ballot local news Hall of Famer.
It’s on my listening list! So many good podcasts, so little time…
Casey’s almost surely a spent force, but don’t count out Conor Lamb - he lost his primary to a pop-icon Fetterman who no longer exists, & would wipe the floor with the broken Sen. Hoodie in a rematch. I could see Summer Lee or Malcolm Kenyatta making a strong run at him, too.
Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead much in the manner that the Minutemen chanelled CCR and Van Halen, the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey ‘Huevos’ is one of the great guitar records. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isn’t Johnny Thunders, it’s JJ Cale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCH...
Too true. I don’t think he’d have a prayer in a Dem. primary, but could definitely be a spoiler as an independent.
Saw ‘em live in a small, sweaty WDC venue many moons ago - one of my all-time favorite shows. “I got a shirt that cost $1.25 / I know I’m the best dressed man alive / I put it on & head down to the local dive….” That song still makes me wanna shout along & pogo to this day.
What these fuckers refuse to understand (or understand all too well) is that if *everybody* doesn’t have due process, then *nobody* does - because it could be denied to any of us at any time, & we’d have no recourse or remedy.
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
Likewise: *long* lines for gas, odd & even numbered plates only on alternate days.
Connect the dots
Area dumbshit wonders when the wallet inspector will come back www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/area...
💯🎯 He’s a deeply damaged person, & the people closest to him have made that clear, repeatedly - but he selfishly clings to power nonetheless.
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
Writing is thinking made visible - the struggle to find the right words to convey what you mean is THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE!
I voted for Sen. Hoodie over the carpetbagging TV quack Dr. Oz in 2022 & paid close attention to that campaign. Fetterman was debilitated by his stroke, & he’s now a seriously damaged person. His warped views no longer even remotely align with those of the people who put him in office.
Reminded of a great @jgrantglover.bsky.social banger
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is demanding that the Peruvian government protect the isolated Kakataibo people and safeguard their 149,000-hectare reserve. Illegal logging and drug trafficking threaten the lives of these uncontacted groups.
By @aimeegabay.bsky.social.
Dems. Please.
Stop proposing and running on tax cuts.
I have no idea where this cursed trend came from, although I can guess. But your hypothesis on why to do this is wrong and you are badly missing where most Americans are at.
Short thread with sources, focus group sound, and data.
