In the director category, my "should've been nominated" pick was Steven Soderbergh for the ghost story Presence, in which he played the ghost via his own first-person camera. Some people can't walk and chew gum at the same time. I don't know how he does stuff like this.
I LOVED that film!!! I still think about it. Had to watch it again almost immediately after first seeing.
Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
Trump coordinating with the IEA for the biggest strategic oil reserve release ever, just 12 days into the Iran War, doesn't scream "energy dominance"
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Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.
As of February 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,289 people. 73.6% of them (over 50,000 individuals) have no criminal conviction. Many of those who do were convicted only of minor offenses, including traffic violations.
Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries.
If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes.
It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn.
Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
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The biggest “big if true” of all time perhaps
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
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Estefany Rodríguez of Nashville Noticias was arrested March 4 by ICE in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Spanish-language reporter is still being held and has filed a federal suit alleging the arrest violated her constitutional rights and was in retaliation for her reporting.
According to the disclosure, the former DOGE software engineer, who worked at the Social Security Administration last year before starting a job at a government contractor in October, allegedly told several co-workers that he possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens’ information, and had at least one on a thumb drive. The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names.
![According to the complaint, he allegedly told the whistleblower that he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.]” The engineer told colleagues that once he had removed personal details from the data, he wanted to upload it into the company’s systems. He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ra6gopdeuq77naoqp3qob5od/bafkreiht6d7xtewzwxz6ooz6rczfskw5e4fhfsv2m4e7zs3hit2wllguni)
According to the complaint, he allegedly told the whistleblower that he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.]” The engineer told colleagues that once he had removed personal details from the data, he wanted to upload it into the company’s systems. He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.
Nothing says “I am aware that what I’m doing is a crime” quite like “it’s OK because I’ll be pardoned by the president if I get caught.”
Members of congress have besn informed of whistleblower allegations that a DOGE employee took American Social Securiry data out of his gov’t office on a thumb drive when he left his job and planned to share it with his new employer www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
#RIP Alexander Butterfield, 99, who was born in #Florida & was the Nixon aide who exposed the White House taping system that blew the lid off the Watergate scandal. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/03/09/a... via @apnews.com
Lol
Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America
Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
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The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
A lawyer asked a DOGE staff why ChatGPT canceled a grant to make a film about women in the Holocaust. The DOGE guy said, "It’s a Jewish — specifically focused on Jewish culture and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture. It’s inherently related to D.E.I. for that reason.”
A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.
Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for 'carry your papers' law in southern Arizona azcir.org/news/2026/03...
A college student has yet to return to the U.S. despite a judge's order.
Joyce Carol Oates tweet reading: Harold Bloom said lots of silly things. No need to make a movie out of any of them — in response to a tweet reading: Hamlet is not about grief, it's about what Harold Bloom called the invention of the human" — they should make a movie about that
okay we just need to get JCO on Bluesky and our journey to the dark side will be complete
Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
My story:
NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
put it in a museum
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
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