A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Trump can say completely conflicting things in the same breath and appear to mean both of them because, for him, there is no truth.
As a malignant narcissist, his relationship with reality is entirely transactional.
CNN airs compilation of JD Vance on the campaign trail saying he would keep the US out of war in the Middle East. “We’re going to stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policeman of the world. Our interests are very much in not going to war with Iran.”
Dolores Huerta has spent a lifetime reminding us of something simple. Democracy only survives when people fight for it.
Organizer. Labor leader. Civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers.
She gave the movement its rallying cry: Sí se puede.
#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth
What if drones, missiles and artillery are being directed at the surface ships that deploy and control UAVs?
Reports of the demise of irony have been greatly exaggerated
A year ago, Trump lambasted Zelensky in the Oval Office, pressing Ukraine to surrender
Trump said, “You don’t have the cards” and JD Vance attacked him for not wearing a suit
Now Trump is begging Ukraine to help in his war against Iran
this is why the us navy can't force the strait open. prosperity guardian was a shitshow and iran can credibly do 10x worse, no insurer will take the risk
Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error
Trump promised these Navy escorts "if needed." He promised this ... yesterday. youtu.be/ed2xOwmHZl0?...
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"You ought to come back to us with some data" -- Dick Durbin dogwalks Peter Schweizer over his wild, evidence-free claims about a plague of Chinese "birth tourism"
The public health field has bent over backwards to assuage the ‘concerns’ of anti-vaxxers for almost 3 decades now. It’s not working.
The way forward is stigmatizing these child-killing freaks and mandating that every kid gets a jab. Expand access, sure but that’s not going to move the needle.
SCOOP: The Department of Energy has made public a set of newly revised nuclear safety rules that slash security and environmental protections.
@npr.org first reported on the existence of the rules last month.
www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...
Good Lord, Trump seems to have forgotten that in war, your enemy gets a vote. If the Iranians read this, they will understand he is terrified and desperate, and probably speed up the mining of the straits. Worst war leader in US history.
Again, we are watching a mirror image of Trumps covid response unfolding in real time: events are spinning out of his control and his response to that is not to figure out what he can actually impact things & act there, it is to assert a fantasy version of events & insist on its realness
If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!
See also: pirates, Somali
The core revelation here is that Trump has lost the public *on the mass deportations themselves* and not just on ICE's brutal tactics. We have been arguing this for months but media has simply refused to acknowledge it. Now so obvious that it can't be avoided
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
The primary strategy conservatives use to convince white women to give up our rights is assuring us that we will be exempt from the oppression.
This is “white women will always be able to access abortions and reproductive healthcare” but for the 19th amendment.
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Can't tell how much this is just a rhetoric play -- Fox News spent all last year saying immigration enforcement was targeting violent criminals, even as it was clear mass deportations were underway. Is policy changing or just how to talk about it? www.axios.com/2026/03/10/w...
My opponent is using his vast personal wealth to try to buy a seat in Congress. I’m not worth hundreds of millions like he is, but what I do have is decades of real experience delivering for San Francisco. Being hyper-rich can buy you a lot of things, but it shouldn’t be able to buy you an election.
“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
Damn.
Jfc, this was so predictable.
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
Mike Johnson on House Republicans' Islamophobic rhetoric: "There's a lot of energy in the country and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia Law in America is a serious problem"
“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
