The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.
A deep love of football, a belief in the power of club & community.
From the mountains to the coast, our faith persists. New England remembers. Here’s to the Open Cup.
The official match poster for Vermont Green FC vs Portland Hearts of Pine in the US Open Cup. Designed in BTV by Tyler Littwin.
[fin] Contact your Congresspeople & tell them to oppose the SAVE America Act:
Use @5calls.org to call your Senators & Reps or call the US Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121
Use @resist.bot to write to them if that's more your thing.
Make sure they know that We the People do not want this bill.
[10/x] The SAVE America Act is deliberately designed to make it difficulty to impossible for anyone who has had their name changed—for whatever reason—to get the documents they would need to vote. It is designed not to root out fraud, but to keep us, especially us women, from voting.
🧵 re: SAVE Act. Upshot, good luck jumping through all the hoops to vote if you have had a name change any time in your life.
DOJ is now just another political lackey for the president, with no respect for the rule of law. We will have a lot of work to do to restore its independence.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Sources to @NFLonCBS : The NFL is reviving its Accelerator Program after a one-year hiatus, but the league will now invite non-diverse participants into the program originally created to increase and advance minority talent at the highest levels of teams. Story to come.
Here's the NFL capitulating to the most unpopular president of all time.
Many following this story must be wondering why young, successful, good-looking young men would have to resort to drugging women for sex. | Editorial
Can he name them?
Schumer on the SAVE America Act: "It is not about showing ID when you show up to vote. It's about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in an algorithm but together by DOGE and Musk -- it's an outrage"
Billions of dollars spent on the War in Iran, but we don’t have enough money for the things that help Americans here at home?
Health care.
Food stamps.
Housing.
Tariff relief.
Lot of things we could do with billions of dollars.
Warren: "It is still the case that the Trump admin cannot explain the reasons we entered this war, the goals we're trying to accomplish. The only part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15m Americans who lost their healthcare, there's a billion a day to spent on bombing Iran."
Eligible voters of Illinois:
There's less than a week left to register in person to vote in the statewide primary election. You can sign up at election offices through March 17, the last day of primary voting.
You can find more information at npr.org/vote
Like watching open heart surgery without a heart present.
All the fees to apply to music school and they reject your kid's PREaudition! We should get half that back, at least!
My latest @npr.org story: The Republican push to alter the #2030Census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don’t take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults
www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
Here's a little gosling inspo for all who need it.
Which
I guess uhh
is everyone right now.
Probably. 🪶 🐣
Wisconsin specific PSA: deadline to register to vote in the Supreme Court race is coming up mid-March.
1. Even if you think you’re registered, verify.
2. If you plan to register by mail: the deadline is 3/18 but *MAKE SURE TO DO IT DAYS EARLY* because new USPS rules: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...
Welcome to a new episode #SistersInLaw with talk of the evidence of a young teen’s uncorroborated allegations against Trump, (il)legality of Trump’s war on Iran & his latest attempt to impose tariffs (raise prices) should fail. Click below or on your fave site.
www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people.
If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate.
Senate Democrats will not help pass the SAVE Act under any circumstances.
I'm so sorry. Thanks to you and your wife for sharing. 💔 Cole Garland
Thank you!
One of the reaso DOJ is refusing to investigate Renee Good’s death is it would bring to light the government’s attack on the free speech rights of those recording law enforcement.
Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
