Karolyn

Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.

How do you think this all ends, folks?

Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

Washingtonians found a way to get Flock surveillance data: public records requests. 6 cities, including Mt. Vernon, responded by turning off their cameras. Now the legislature just voted to close that loophole entirely

Yesterday, Mt. Vernon voted to keep Flock turned on

what happened here is pretty obvious. president "buys wrong size shoes" trump determined that it can only good happen, and literally everyone in the admin went along with that because saying otherwise - that Iran could credibly fight - would be politically incorrect and get you fired.

I wish, as humans, we would stop equating certitude with knowledge and intelligence.

Conservatives were on the record in January 2023 in the NYT saying explicitly that they targeted trans youth to be able to ban transitioning for everyone. They admitted it but then every dumb centrist was like "but what about the evidence on trans youth."

And here we are.

Same.

Business cards, printed, never used in a box on the kitchen table: do they become an artifact, a holy relic, tucked carefully away wrapped in a favorite bandana or t-shirt? Or merely a paperweight, perhaps, holding down the birth certificate, Social Security application, immunization records for the child he never held until eventually, with the regret reserved by people who can't bear to waste for things only taking up space, they're shuffled off to a corner, then a closet. One day, will curious little fingers turn that drifted detritus into a toddler's totems of make-believe, playing with a child's intense sincerity at their father's abrogated dream?

I have some words.

I’m so sorry. May you, and all those who cared for them, find comfort.

Judge: why are you using AI to do run of the mill issue spotting which is a basic part of your job?

(I am also interested in this question)

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

The Pig War - San Juan Island National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

🎶“Let me tell you of a story of a San Juan pig
He wasn’t worth much cause he wasn’t very big
But he rooted in a garden and he nearly caused a fray
Between the king of England and the USA”…🎵

Oooh! The moment has arrived for my third grade WA state history class!

“The San Juan Pig War” (yes, it’s real AND there’s a song!) occurred because there was a border dispute btwn US and UK (on behalf of Canada) over whether the boundary was Haro Straight or Rosario Straight

Hallelujah! The Millionaire’s Tax has passed the House in #waleg.

Heroic play-by-play of the ENDLESS (a day? a week? what year is it?) debate by this Legislator:

I’d take credit, but it’s an ongoing weekly prompt from @livrunsfast.bsky.social

But, yes, it also makes me 🤭

Boooo! Please glare on my behalf.

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days The woman's family said federal agents told them that she was not in custody despite her phone location previously showi

Reminder: DHS is still routinely violating people’s constitutional rights.

Democrats must continue to fight to rein them in.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

I think it's a pretty grim state of affairs that it's not the bombing little girls or the poisoning of a major city that will cause political backlash in the US but god forbid bubba can't fill his lifted f-250 and people will finally start caring.

The “Iran strikes” version of the Democrats who are now acting contrite over having supported Trump’s deportation agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Here it’s an EVEN GREATER AFFRONT because of the implication that she should take responsibility for her actions (Publicly! By foreigners! In their own country! The audacity!)

As if just because she voted for fascism, racism, disappearances, cruelty, etc, etc, etc… she should be judged for it. 🤯

Ahhhh, the greatest unspoken White People Human Rights Violation: being uncomfortable.

It is SO deeply ingrained and never named, but I shit you not: we convince ourselves we’ve been victimized by simply encountering views/ questions/ topics/ people we don’t like.

Think: [Pearl clutch. Gasp!]”

Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15

Blowtorching diplomatic and humanitarian capacity while burning through military capabilities and alienating allies is malpractice of the highest order by the Secretary of State, the nation's top DIPLOMAT, and by the National Security Advisor. It does not help the military to kill US diplomacy. 14/

It’s unspeakable. The man demands unlimited power and zero responsibility.

damn, giant concentration camps in montana with abusive guards? its really the japanese internment all over again except worse somehow.

Look at that: a candidate for the Senate seat in Maine that ISN’T a Nazi or 78 years old.

If you wanted someone else, it’s time to get on board!

I’m not a cereal person. Except when my blood sugar is low in the night.

12 am - 4 am is when cereal hits its peak.