Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
a cartoon: Josh Naylor of Team Canada attempts to shake the hand of Team USA catcher Cal Raleigh panel 2: Cal Raleigh, sad and pouting with beads of sweat, crashes out in a long monologue: "oh my god please no please don't the whole team all agreed that we’re not allowed to shake hands we give no quarter to the enemy forces on the field of battle we're like the TROOPS and you KNOW we’re like the troops because I TEXTED you that we’re doing the troops thing and this is frankly being a little disrespectful of the troops?"
Cal Raleigh:
Again, granting Ronald Reagan’s bad premise about taxes & government is bad policy & having a society/polity means that everyone should pay some level of all the taxes & when you keep telling voters that only the super-rich should pay them & we can also have all the nice things, it’s bad politics.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
"The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
When Christi Webb tried to cut off the flow of millions in welfare funds to ex-pro wrestler Teddy DiBiase, Mississippi welfare chief John Davis called her crying, she testified.
“‘The only way I can have friends is to give them money. He’s got to keep getting this money,’" she recalled him saying.
once called this King Crimson as the cast of a police procedural in 1981 ("The Discipline Squad"), and it still fits
ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days.
The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished.
Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me.
My latest for @nbcnews.com
Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.
This took me out
IG real_timmeadows “So many roles, I barely remember them.”
I love that the FBI is now just a taxpayer-funded program to help a lil 12-year-old boy meet athletes he looks up to
Charles Exum, the Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez five times, texted a group chat with fellow agents a few days after the shooting. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys,” he wrote. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fkS3Cl
A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.
And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.
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
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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This strikes me as extremely significant!
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This is a Steely Dan song
This is a great example of how Fox manipulates it's viewers. Because they trust only Fox, the Fox audience is completely vulnerable to manipulation by Fox. How could they know that what they're seeing with their own eyes isn't real? They couldn't. They're seeing it happen, it's right there!
“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.”
@washingtonpost.com #J6
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The White House is blocking the FBI and top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about new terror threats to the homeland tied to the war with Iran.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary
“.. , the facts cannot remain hidden,” said state Rep. Ray Lopez .. “A young Texan lost his life, and the public was left without full clarity for nearly a year. That is not about politics. It is about trust.”
@washingtonpost.com
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This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
As medical debt grows in importance on the #healthpolicy front, our IHPI team leveraged Michigan's statewide trauma registry—based at our institute—and deidentified credit report data to examine the lasting financial effects of traumatic injury. What we found: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.
All this
something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it
