Dave C- Resist! ICE out of Minnesota Now!

Opinion | James Comer: DOJ in 2019 “asked New Mexico to stop” Epstein ranch probe The House Oversight Committee chairman hinted at a cover-up by the Justice Department without noting that the president in 2019 was Donald Trump.

“Rather conveniently, Comer made no mention of who was president in 2019: Donald Trump. Nor did he mention that Trump appointee Bill Barr was leading the Department of Justice when this purported chicanery took place.” www.ms.now/news/james-c...

THE ENTROPIC FORTRESS How China Engineered the First Compound Competitive Moat That Widens Under Crisis, and Why the Contradictions Beneath It May Determine the Next Decade of Global Capital Allocation

He's updated the argument, semi-pay walled, but I believe the assertion is that China is successfully playing the war driven economic crisis: shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-entrop...

Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300% Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve

Although this piece is mostly about oil, I highly recommend it. In short, shipping is financialized. Its complicated, but very likely that international oil prices will not return to pre-war levels for a long time: shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/actuarial-...

Blips and Gyrations: The Market Thinking of Trump's Incompetent Advisors - emptywheel The damage that Trump's flailing and his advisors' ignorance are doing to the rest of the world will forever change how US power is viewed.

Blips and Gyrations: The Market Thinking of Trump's Incompetent Advisors

emptywheel.net/2026/03/11/b...

This is a terrible idea. Public comment: www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ... thru April 6

All the above in mind, it would be a step in the right direction for US to stop bombing Iran

"It is the honor of my lifetime to be endorsed and the only candidate in this special uh election to be endorsed by President Trump." - Clayton Fuller Georgia: House 14 special election CANDIDATE Shawn Harris • Democratic PERCENT 37.3% VOTES 43,241 2,853 ahead Clayton Fuller • Republican 34.9% 40,388 "We're ready for someone who fights for US, not Trump. See you on April 7!" - GA14 DU- 0D1Z2YWOmaT

The Epstein class will be pouring massive amounts of 💵 to the felon’s candidate. #ItTakesAVillage to defeat that!

Please go to shawnforgeorgia.com & donate what you’re able. Let’s get @shawnforcongress.bsky.social across the finish line on April 7th!

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country t...

not to say that there aren't efficiency improvements had through automation, but terrible people layering half-cooked automation onto already broken workflows full of people obsessed with appearing productive in a country obsessed with artifice is going to have some curious outcomes

Ban Congressional stock ownership. @neguse.house.gov neguse.house.gov/media/press-...

@doctorow.pluralistic.net is on Bluesky!

Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape. Image: Jakub Hałun (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Square,_New_York_City,_20231006_1916_2338.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en -- Myotus (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandal_dome_style_security_camera_in_parking_garage.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Lewis Clarke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiverton_,_CCTV_Camera_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7103690.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/i...

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The largest mass suicide to ever take place inside the U.S. was the Heaven's Gate cult in 1997. All 39 bodies were found wearing the same Nike shoes.

There must be accountability.

Ukraine Ministry of Defence is pissed.

Its only gotten 600 Patriot missiles over 4 yrs and the US used 800 in the first 3 days of the Iran war.

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Impeach RFKJr!

The military budget is $217 billion higher than it was a decade ago (after adjusting for inflation).

A significant chunk of that money comes from OBBBA & is still unused and earmarked for things Trump is likely to ask for in the supp. For the rest, there's flexibility to move some funds around.

Boycott Grammerly. Its grift

Trump should end the war ASAP, but @tparsi.bsky.social may be right, Iran has control on when the war ends

The Inspector General for NSF must launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to sell-off parts of NCAR — immediately!

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'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

In timely memory of Country Joe Macdonald: digbysblog.net/2026/03/08/1...

Good piece, dark times. I do think mass protest in the US has value, but obviously it needs to be much bigger than its been to date to alarm "implicated parties who have the means to ensure they’re the last person in the room"

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war We don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

There must be accountability.

And every single dime of Noem’s outrageous $220 million ad campaign — using taxpayers money — must be returned.

We are eight months from the midterm elections. It is time to start shedding the vote suppressors, doomers and bots. Come at me with anything but let's elect some Democrats and put this country back on track and out the airlock you go. 💙☠️💙☠️💙 Ride Or Die!

Panasonic LUMIX TZ/ZS99 Just getting started with it, but regretting the lack of a view finder - although the folding screen allows waist height composition, which hopefully I'll get better at. Outside on snow at eye level, reflections (of my face & glasses) on the view screen are a problem.