A Pew survey found that 53% of American adults describe the morality and ethics of our fellow citizens as “bad.” Meanwhile, in Canada, 92% say their fellow Canadians are good while just 7% say they’re bad.
Why are we Americans so down on our fellow citizens?
The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B | Paul Rogers
The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020. n.pr/3OTXX2R
It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
Mounting rubbish in Gaza brings health risks to residents – video report
Democratic candidate Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for QAnon terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep red House seat, a district the orange felon won by 37 points. With 98% of votes in, Harris leads by 37.3% to the MAGA opponent’s 34.9%.
Go Harris! 💙👊
Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution
TSA lines at airports nationwide are about to get a whole lot worse
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
JD Vance and Stephen Miller have both threatened to deploy ICE agents to World Cup stadiums, an act that would likely generate considerable backlash, if not protest, violence, and mass arrests.trib.al/ZrnYCIe
If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July 2025)
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.
The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
“They’re using facial recognition, every advanced tool that they have to try and identify protesters and squash what we’re doing.”
The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on protestors.
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Most Americans say Iran's leader should be chosen by the Iranian people, not by the U.S. government." The chart's sub-headline is: "Who should decide who leads Iran? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "other" and "not sure" are not shown."
NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9
% who say [the Iranian people | the U.S. government] should decide who leads Iran
U.S. adult citizens 76% | 6%
Democrats 85% | 4%
Independents 75% | 5%
Republicans 69% | 10%
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“.. The advice signals a recalibration by the White House — and reflects growing concern among some Republicans that Democrats are successfully framing Trump's immigration policy as overly sweeping and indiscriminate.”
@axios.com
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"If Senate Republicans believe that they could lose their majority in the Senate, they will in a nanosecond change their rules to jam through the SAVE Act so that their voter suppression can guarantee them a victory even when the vast majority of voters are opposed to them." trib.al/X4OHyA4
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
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Asked Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., about the bombing of the girls' school in Iran. "It was terrible. We made a mistake," he said. "Other countries do that sort of thing intentionally, like Russia. We would never do that intentionally. I think the department is investigating it now, and I'm sorry."
missed yesterday’s so I’m doing two at once and they’re really fucking dark. 42yo Honduran dad dies of what ICE calls liver failure due to alcoholism (family calls bullshit). 39yo DACA kid from Mexico dies of sudden illness, mom says no prior health probs & explicitly calls it “medical negligence”
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Before Trump didn't give a shit about COVID, Republicans didn't give a shit about AIDS
Before Trump and the brutalization of brown people, Republicans brutalized black people.
Before Trump fucked around with our elections, Republicans took one to the Supreme Court
Before Trump in Iran, you get it
Trump is spending $1 billion a day waging war on Iran. Meanwhile...
Trump's sons are investing in a drone company that could soon receive Pentagon contracts.
And of course Trump's Big Oil donors stand to gain windfall profits as the price of oil skyrockets.
War is a racket.
My "there's no reason to panic" shirt is raising lots of questions answered by my shirt nypost.com/2026/03/09/u...
