I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Iran is the 17th largest country in the world. It's got incredibly challenging terrain, probably the world's most sophisticated and well-equipped irregular forces, can be supplied by China and Russia overland through both Pak and Af
oh and they can control the world's most important oil chokepoint
In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
No government should ever concern itself with whether its people "appreciate their sex". Fuck off.
CHRIS HAYES: “are you a yes, or no on the supplemental appropriations bill to continue to fund this war?”
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: “I’m a hell no on any more money for this war.” 🔥
I appreciate Senator Van Hollen’s clear-cut answer here. No gameplaying!
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
“Typically, people familiar with [DHS] say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations. According to LinkedIn..Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club”
Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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Research estimates suggest that 25% of girls and 20% of boys experience at least one episode of child sexual abuse. The latest U.S. Census estimate had 73.1 million people under age 18 in 2024. If we presume a 1:1 ratio of boys to girls, then ~16.4 million (~22.5%) of all children could be affected.
CVS is threatening to close 134 Tennessee stores if lawmakers pass a bill banning pharmacy middlemen from owning or controlling pharmacies.
Macro photograph of a tiny pink flower with a purple and yellow center
The pollen on this Cut-leaved Crane's-bill I found today
(Geranium dissectum)
looks like a cluster of jewels!
#photography #art #bloomscroll #flowers
I think more than what was going on with Epstein with him raping kids , we need to know why the US was protecting him.
You know what I want when I'm buying sensitive medicine and personal products at a pharmacy: cameras everywhere
The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.
Flies and rodents plague Trump's hotels and clubs: report #RawStory
UAE-based reporter Inzamam Rashid also just said on MS NOW that he’s been watching a vessel burn in the strait for the past couple of hours.
“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
the truly wild thing is there's no way to know if you're in their little fucked machine. It's a dynamic system that suggests "experts" contextually. there's no list, there's no nothing. so if you don't know you're in it how do you know to opt out?
Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
"Joe Biden pulled off perhaps the greatest oil trade of all time and in the process broke OPEC's grip and basically no one knows about it."
Yup. Joe Biden was an amazing President who made this country stronger and its people more secure. And he gets ZERO credit for it. It's infuriating.
Could we invest in green energy and expand the market and create jobs?
Will we? No because oil is cool and big sweaty workers are rugged while green energy is woke! And also fuck you!
Trump goes after biggest oil reserves - scatter plot
I noticed that some of the countries Trump has attacked or threatened have something in common...
Why do republicans want such terrible things? Pigs in crates, poisonous pesticides, no protection of our air or water, sell off our public lands, cut down old growth forests, drill oil in the Arctic, bring back coal, allow little girls to be married at 12, no healthcare, no food help? Why so awful?
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.
White print on black background: Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today. Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st. You're going to pay in for 298 more days. This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us. Scrap the cap.
Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today (3-9-26).
Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st.
You're going to pay in for 298 more days.
This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us. Scrap the cap.
~ Americans for Tax Fairness
The WHITE HOUSE The White House * @White....6h This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the STRENGTH and MIGHT of the United States Armed Forces. Alex Cole @acnewsitics • 6h Preparing to blow up another school full of kids?
