NEW: A dozen Senators formally request Health Secretary RFK Jr to reverse changes to government websites that promote false and dangerous information about autism
They argue it puts "Americans’ health at risk"
Letter ==>
🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation.
Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent.
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Book candy bucket and thank you card.
The Kurosawa book I ordered from @mzspress.bsky.social came with candy, a tiny popcorn bucket and a nice note from @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social. I have never felt so valued as a customer/fan. Support the store!
WW1: ~$32 billion (in 1917–1918 dollars)
Iran: ~$889M per day
At current rate, we will eclipse the cost of World War One on April 3rd.
Because vibes.
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
NEW: US Treasury issued a general license for the delivery and sale of Russian oil loaded on vessels as of March 12.
Moscow continues to be the single largest beneficiary of the Iran War.
We are a nation of 349M, yet one man decided to launch our nation into a reckless, illegal war without congressional authorization or counsel or the support of the American people. He didn’t think he had any duty to sell it or serve the people’s interests. This is why despotic rule is so dangerous.
If you are not certain if it is worthwhile to read Science Under Siege by Mann and Hotez, please understand that is is a brilliant exploration of broad societal issues that spill out from the attacks on Science and upon scientists with integrity and decency.
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre: Sci-fi: Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary. Horror: An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned. Romance : Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner. Crime: Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon. Fantasy: A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
OMG - WTF?!
“Epstein suggested…that Russian officials contact him for ‘insight’…
He had already talked to Russia’s ambassador to United Nations Vitaly Churkin. ‘Churkin was great. He understood trump after our conversations,’ Epstein wrote. ‘it is not complex. he must be seen to get something it’s that simple.”
"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
Pentagon ordered Stars and Stripes to "limit the use of wire services, bars comics and other syndicated features and states that content must be consistent with 'good order and discipline.'” This will severely limit the presence of outside content & dissenting views.
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ME: —or you wear T-shirts and jeans for the rest of your life.
*brief pause while everyone observes that I am indeed wearing a T-shirt and jeans*
ME: Well, you can see what *I* picked.
A trans friend is shopping for women’s clothes for the first time and brought me along for moral support.
HER: This is much more stressful than I thought it would be.
ME: It will get easier. Though shopping as a girl is always hard. You either learn to love the pain—
CLERK: *snort-laughs*
The greatest wisdom from What Not To Wear is that if something looks terrible on you, it is not your body failing the clothes, it’s the clothes failing your body.
I couldn't be a part of this. Staying would just affirm what I think of as a deeply corrupt practice that is also an invasion of my privacy.
Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet
A catastrophically boorish sycophant who used his short tenure to destroy a great institution. Good riddance to Ric Grenell and may this mark the second-to-last time we ever hear his name. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
Asking yourself if it’s worth voting and whether your vote counts?
one of the earliest lessons in politics I learned as a kid from my parents was to always vote for a tax increase, because you're trading a dollar amount so small you probably won't notice in order to fund something important that benefits everybody. I wish that was how Democrats messaged this stuff!
Every single part of this is a tragedy
Paul Masters, a fan who frequented Doctor Who filming, has dropped another video. This time, it's filming of 'The Christmas Invasion' in July 2005 with David Tennant.
youtu.be/MECUH0wHnOw?...
"First of all, I must thank the comb. And the brush! And my God, the bowl full of mush! My warriors. My champions. This award will be next to you on the bedside table VERY soon."
There isn't enough literacy training in the world to counter this level of social violence
