still in Pittsburgh

"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

After a DHS Warehouse Deal, a Fundrise Investor Asked Why The company’s response — shared with Project Salt Box — describes how an unsolicited offer turned a vacant Maryland building into a $102.4 million federal purchase.

Fundrise told investors it had a fiduciary duty to complete the sale — walking away from a profitable deal would have conflicted with that obligation. That turned its retail investors into passive financiers of a federal detention facility without notice.

“A Crime Against Humanity”: U.N. Inquiry Condemns Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children The Trump administration has granted a 30-day waiver for countries to buy U.S.-sanctioned Russian oil currently stranded at sea. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move was needed to stabilize ...

Some 20,000 children have been abducted and sent to Russia and Belarus, where they are sometimes subjected to military training and even forced to fight against Ukraine.

"it will help them not need social supports and social programs"

This is Republican-style anti-government services bullshit language.

EVERYONE needs social supports and social programs in this country BECAUSE CORPORATIONS IMPOSE MASSIVE SOCIAL COSTS THAT INDIVIDUALS CANNOT PAY FOR VIA TAX CUTS.

if the Justice Department and federal judges are willing to set the bar for “providing material support to terrorists” this low—an encrypted group chat, auto-deleting messages, wearing black, possessing zines—what the Praireland defendants have been through will likely be just the beginning

Living in Scandinavia, I find myself morbidly fascinated by American progressives' inability to understand—or acknowledge—that the secret to a healthy, functioning welfare state is broad middle-class buy-in. Everyone pays something—some more than others; everyone gets something—some more than others

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Des is declared guilty of corruptly concealing a document or record. Both Des and Mari are declared guilty of conspiracy to conceal documents.

Support for the Prairieland defendants does not stop with a verdict × We will continue to support those in the struggle against the state even while held captive ~ they need our support more than ever now!

Don't let the state scare you away from radical ideas/organizing/actions

Help override the Mayor's veto of extending eviction pre-filing notices.

Click here to send a letter to the six city council members that can change their vote to SUPPORT Pause Evictions, Save Lives in Minneapolis to override the Mayor's veto today. actionnetwork.org/letters/paus...

Iranian Dies in ICE Custody as Trump Administration Bombs Iran A 59-year-old Iranian with chronic health conditions died in ICE custody just as the US-Israeli war on Iran began.

ICE recently announced that Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, a 59-year-old Iranian man who has lived in the U.S. since 1991, died while in the agency’s custody. Najafabadi was incarcerated for nearly a year in a rural Louisiana prison despite suffering from chronic heart disease.

Horrific news. The defendants — including two trans women — are political prisoners persecuted for opposing the atrocities of a fascist regime.

But the Haymarket trial didn't kill anarchism or unions. Rigged, corrupt courts are an old weapon in the hands of tyrants. People always fight on anyway.

Iran war deprives US farmers of affordable fertilizer as spring planting looms Farmers in the U.S. ​and Canada, already worried about another year of low profits or losses, now could have spring planting disrupted as they struggle to find ‌fertilizer.

Iran war deprives US farmers of affordable fertilizer as spring planting looms reut.rs/4lpWxZP

This is extraordinarily bad

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

The Iran War Is Also Now a Semiconductor Problem The conflict is exposing the deep energy vulnerabilities of Korea’s chip industry.

Why Korea & Taiwans stock markets are tanking
No Gulf energy ->No manufacturing of Chips -> No Sales to AI data centers
And why Asia is rationing electricity, fertilizers & industries
Those shutdowns will RUN through world economy
@darciedraudt.bsky.social & I:
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

(Published Aug. 2025)

The SAVE plan, which allowed student loan borrowers to pay back their loans based on their income, is dead after the Trump administration refused to defend it in court.

Now, monthly payments will spike by as much as 400%.

Trump is making the affordability crisis worse by the day.

An environmental activist and her family escaped death threats in Honduras. ICE deported her husband anyway Oscar, Ana and their children fled violence for safety in the US. Now Oscar, afraid and alone, is back in Honduras – ‘at the mercy of God and his will’

An environmental activist and her family escaped death threats in Honduras... then 11 days before their asylum hearing, ICE arrested her husband, severed his case from theirs, and then deported him back to Honduras – where he's now in hiding.

lmao

The Oil Tankers Trump Seized Are Costing the U.S. Millions of Dollars

Cool cool. The tankers trump seized are costing us tens of millions of dollars to maintain, and he can't sell the oil without a judge's permission. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

BREAKING: NBC News reports that approximately 5,000 additional US Marines and sailors will be deployed to the Middle East.

For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

Better article re: the #TargetBoycott

"The company confirmed to USA Today that it’s making no new commitments or reversals on its DEI policy."

and

"Black women across the country are reminding people that they started the boycott — and they’ll decide when it ends."

Iranian Dies in ICE Custody as Trump Administration Bombs Iran A 59-year-old Iranian with chronic health conditions died in ICE custody just as the US-Israeli war on Iran began.

Iranian Dies in ICE Custody as Trump Administration Bombs Iran

At least three deportation flights removed asylum seekers to Iran in the months before the U.S. and Israel began massive bombing campaigns.

Among those still targeted are a gay couple facing execution and a women adopted in the 1950s.

Bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare Acid rain, toxic air, contaminated water and soil, and the possibility of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.

Bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare [via @theguardian.com]

Press freedom declines in Americas, with US seeing sharpest drop: Report A press freedom index has given the Americas its lowest ranking since it started recording results six years ago.

A press freedom index has given the Americas its lowest ranking since it started recording results six years ago.

US Joins ICJ Case to Defend Israel From Allegations of Genocide Fiji, Hungary, and Namibia also intervened in the case as Iceland and the Netherlands back the arguments against Israel.

After over two years of arming and otherwise supporting the Israeli government as it lays waste to the Gaza Strip — even after an October ceasefire deal — the United States this week officially joined an International Court of Justice case to defend Israel from allegations of genocide.

Millenarian Fantasies In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

"What we are witnessing is the renewal of a nakedly imperial project: a politics of permanent siege, existential paranoia, and millenarian last stands."

@joelleabirached.bsky.social on apocalyptic politics and the threat of ethnic cleansing in Southern Lebanon

www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...

All Modern Warfare Is Chemical Warfare What we witnessed on Saturday in Tehran may be the largest release of petrochemical toxins over a civilian population since the Iran-Iraq War.

"To see this as collateral damage, or an unfortunate byproduct of legitimate military operations, requires accepting that 9 million people’s lungs are an acceptable externality of war."

Local Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT non-shortened link https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/georgia-woman-charged-with-murder-after-taking-abortion-pills-giving-birth-hospital/6GA7IHO7YNBCLC24BXHHBAV6XI/

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.

@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb