HUGE: Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it.
Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.
Law Dork coverage:
Shocking, the public doesnt approve of Stephen Miller's fever dreams. www.axios.com/2026/03/10/w...
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
CFA Condemns US Strikes on Iran www.calfac.org/cfa-condemns...
Full statement below.
“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.
The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Bypass here.
archive.ph/4NboB
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
The white nationalist Internationale
Lenacapavir for PrEP was the big "star" of #CROI2026 after showing almost 100% effectiveness in preventing HIV in 2 large RCTs.
Unfortunately at a pricing point of 28000$ a year it remains inaccessible to most. A drug is only as great as the number of people who can access and benefit from it.
Bill Gates reportedly apologized to his foundation staff over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and admitted he had affairs with two Russian women
You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
“For Domingo, however, the pen was the primary tool he chose to campaign with throughout his life”
Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica by Peter Hulme and Leslie James reviewed in Morning Star:
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comp...
Money is Tight and Campus Fees are Rising at Cal State - EdSource
https://edsource.org/?p=751311
So how did Epstein get all of those girls and women from across the world to his island?
Easily, he had friends in border patrol.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#SheShed
The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far
Spain’s parliament will investigate Meta for possible Facebook and Instagram privacy violations on Android, adding pressure on a “free” ad‑driven model built on pervasive tracking and profiling. #Meta #Spain #Android #Privacy #Tracking
www.reuters.com/world/spain-...
NEWS
Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.
Not y’all’s president called into C-Span this morning pretending to be “John Barron” to complain about SCOTUS. LOL!!! m.youtube.com/watch?si=j_o...
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing
A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.
PRA’s @holyshift.bsky.social and Annie Wilkinson join @gritlaura.bsky.social and @ninaburleigh.bsky.social to discuss how anti-gender politics fuel authoritarianism—and why women, femme, and queer-led movements are so powerful in response. Tune into @lauraflanders.org to watch the full episode:
😭😭😭
Everything about this is a disaster. From the obvious yuck of the Epstein relationship down to the pasta sauce line, cuz who tf is the market clamoring for that?
The camera person and the editor are the heroes here. Cuz they dragged him without saying a word. LOL
SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
wired.com/story/social...
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
Tomorrow, the Democratic Party of Evanston members will vote to endorse candidates.
Unfortunately, the DPOE misrepresented us on the ballot, didn’t tell us, and still has not issued a formal correction.
So we’re doing it ourselves:
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
