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The Ascension of Christ, by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710, 📸 by Issac Baldizon

Kristi Noem's $220M Horseback Riding Ad Dwarfed the Budgets of These 2026 Oscar Nominees Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem used $220 million in taxpayer money to create a minute-long anti-immigration ad. That's more than the combined production and marketing budgets of nearly every 2026 ...

Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:

* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent

A nice result from tonight: one of the Republican candidates resigned his seat on the Dalton City Council to run for GA114. Although they're technically nonpartisan elections, the woman who won the election to replace him tonight was the Democrat.

would’ve licked that blue magic in that part AWLLLL NIGHT

They are forcing hospitals to close.
Kicking people off their insurance.
Taking food away from hungry families.

All while launching yet another war in the Middle East.

It’s a disgrace.

Speaker Johnson could call the House back and vote to fund TSA today.

Let’s be clear: long lines at the airports are a direct result of Republicans insisting ICE be able to defy court orders, kidnap and murder people and face zero consequences.

This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)

I had to read Elijah Anderson's "The White Space" for a course I'm teaching and I couldn't help but think of how moderation policies on social media platforms increasingly create "white spaces" through policing such that white comfort becomes the norm of the space.

This picture is giving me an enormous blister

BLACKROCK’s “Chart of the Week”:

Over the past nine months — without health-care — job creation is net negative 347,000. 👀

Background information here:

Straight up opening a portal to hell.

A mere $15 for a night (and, an ER visit) you will definitely never forget.

The suggestion that having U.S. military vessels escort oil tankers thru the Strait of Hormuz would exert a downward pressure on oil prices . . . is not persuasive.

I don’t think she did, which was probably the right crisis management call, because it (and, he) pretty much went away.

No, he wasn’t.

goldman chart showing oil moved the strait of hormuz at 20% of normal, just as they predicted

l m f a o
they're just *insistent* that it's actually fine, just as predicted.

It feels like weird (read: terrible) social signaling?

having a baby at 18 is not the same as getting an SS Tattoo

So many people setting fire to their hard-earned credibility to give cover to a racist misogynist with a Nazi tattoo.

Q: You suggested that Iran got its hands on a Tomahawk missile and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war, you're the only person in your government saying this. Why are you the only person saying this?

Trump: I don't know enough about it. It's something under investigation

Mindy Kaling’s brother: I faked being black to get into medical school | CNN Actress Mindy Kaling’s brother, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, says he posed as black to get into medical school. He’s trying to pitch a book deal on the experience.

I realize this might as well be 100 years ago lol. But, it came back to mind today.

“Democratic lawmakers said the family members they met with on Monday expressed frustration that [GOP Rep. Monica] De La Cruz had not shown interest in their case until the public outcry.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Does Mindy Kaling talk about her brother?

White media is really trying to put the Sinners cast and crew through some vile humiliation rituals this award season.

X post: Apparently, The New Yorker ran a story with an illustration of Wunmi Mosaku that was obviously not intended to represent her well, so I redid it real quick in a similar style. Took 15 minutes & a love of Black women ❤️

i feel like i’ve been trying to warn about anti-blackness & racism at The New Yorker for years now but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words…

Digital illustration of Wunmi in a blue dress with blue eye makeup. She is standing in front of shelves of bottles.

Digital illustration of Wunmi in a blue dress with blue eye makeup. She is standing in front of shelves of bottles.

My redraw 💙 Wunmi deserves the world

Been FINE!!!

This does kind of look like Squidward’s house, but I’ll still be making plans to visit next fall.