i am genuinely astonished by how this guy speaks exclusively in cliches

I'm excited to be returning to Berkeley Monday, to speak in the Ellsberg Lecture Series about The Second Emancipation, in conversation with the great Adam Hochschild. 12:30-2.

Oh so a bribe.

Gov. Sherrill plan seeks to fine big companies with workers on Medicaid • New Jersey Monitor Gov. Sherrill wants to fine large companies up to $725 annually per worker enrolled in Medicaid. Business groups oppose the plan.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is seeking to fine big companies with workers on Medicaid.

Her plan would generate $145 million to offset the state's Medicaid costs.

Too often big corporations deny workers healthcare, and rely on the state to step in.

newjerseymonitor.com/2026/03/12/g...

The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Take my phone away lol

Opinion | Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change? Transformation is no longer optional.

i’ll save y’all the trouble: luddite faculty are scared of bold changes so it’s all their fault.

Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.

“The idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely.
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We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along."

- Brian Cox

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

As Mamdani Walks a Tightrope, His Father Pushes Boundaries

Disappointing, but not surprising, to see the narrowing of the consideration of Mamdani's scholarship to its relevance to ongoing NYT fixations. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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The International Paralympic Committee is investigating "rule violations" by German athletes who ignored the Russian anthem and refused to take a joint photo with Russians.

Exclusive: New data shows increase in FBI searches of Americans’ data last year The number of FBI searches of data collected through the surveillance program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) between December 2024 to November 2025 rose to 7,...

Surveillance state isn't just DHS

🇺🇦Ukrainian wrestler Artur Kostiuk, during the award ceremony at the European Youth Championship (U23) in Zrenjanin, stepped off the podium and turned away while the Russian anthem was playing.

screenshot of a dictionary definition of kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy" • a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. plural noun: kakistocracies "the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"

this word takes up so much space in my head that i'd rather be using for other things

Column | The enduring truth of Tupac’s ‘money for wars, but can’t feed the poor’ New data shows one-third of U.S. adults have cut back on essentials like food, utilities and gas to cover health care expenses.

Yes, yes y'all. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

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...

Men's Pursuit 🔮Update: Samuelsson's 5th place finish with Perrot in 11th makes this a big time race to watch next week!!

1) Eric Perrot 🇫🇷 337
2) Sebastian Samuelsson 🇸🇪 314 (-23)
3) Tommaso Giacomel* 🇮🇹 296
4) Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 🇳🇴 294 (-43)
📸Deubert/IBU
#biathlon

Celebrating the birth of my queen @4thetennis.bsky.social from afar

If they die, they cannot complain. Feature not a bug of a system.

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Julia is going to be hard to beat but I need her to get it together for the pursuit. Today was an interesting sprint. I hope Lou figures out how to deal with the pressures of leading because a lot of errors at the Olympics since were mental.

Women's Sprint🔮Update: Lou Jeanmonnot has secured the Sprint Discipline Globe! Even with another race to be run in Holmenkollen this one is all wrapped up as she is now 91pts clear of Suvi Minkkinen
📸Nordnes/Manzoni/IBU
#biathlon

NEW VIDEO: What started in sports is spreading everywhere.

Over the past year, I've been reporting on how gambling became embedded in sports -- and how it's changing the way we experience the world far beyond the games themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBBn...

Because capitalism rewards the worst kind of people - those who are willing to destroy the environment, treat people like shit, sell faulty products - all in the name of beating out competitors who may have a weakness in the form of an ounce of humanity. These are not people who want a better world.

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

one thing I think is cool about gym websites is that they give you easy to find information about how to buy a membership and offer you the prospect of a fun scavenger hunt for most other information of any practical utility (like what equipment they have, how many racks and platforms, etc)

@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price

electricity water clean air knowledge

you name it

they should be treated like the common thieves they are

Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.