This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
They’re all a bunch of cornered hacks and they can’t stand to be told to stop breaking the law.
The American Sociological Association has formally positioned itself as a genocide collaborator.
Corruption. Soliciting cash on the backs of the power built and created by the American people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
“The president and some advisers were surprised at the breadth and scope of Iran’s retaliation, which included missiles and drones launched at regional countries from Azerbaijan to Oman.
“Allies in the Gulf are privately furious with the U.S.”
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
It’s Women’s History Month. Rather than post factoids I’m just gonna post a picture and a name and y’all can google why they’re important. Knowledge for you without a lot of free labor from me. Win win.
Today’s prompt is Judith Jamison
No Kings Day is two weeks away and we’ve already surpassed the total number of events from October’s historic protests. Join us in the streets again on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
Just another grift...
The Federal Parent Locator Service contains sensitive details about individual children, and it’s meant for finding people who owe child support.
Granting access to DHS would violate a federal law that explicitly limits its use, officials said.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call attention to the consequences of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
In just 10 days, more than 800,000 people in Lebanon have been displaced by an Israeli military offensive, just over a year since the last conflict uprooted over a million Lebanese from their homes. That’s one in every seven people in the tiny country.
Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
President Trump’s son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
did he talk about the $1billion/day war in Iran, I wonder?
Since July, the Trump administration has been sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by ICE to a Texas group shelter. Some of the administration's own child welfare officials object to this policy, saying the facility lacks specialized care the girls need.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Researcher David Redman recently published an exchange he had with ChatGPT that shows how the system can plan a school shooting.
His experiment exposes the dangerous gaps between how AI systems are designed to prevent harm and how they can behave in practice.
It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.
Michigan synagogue attack highlights rise in antisemitic violence
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Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon
A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to gov't officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign sovereigns
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention.
DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Demand for Student Race Data
A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Federal Judge Blocks Order Ending Deportation Protections for Somalis
The judge said she was staying the order indefinitely in large part because the Trump administration had been unprepared to defend it in court.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
The purpose of this Order is to ensure the CFPB operates as Congress intended— fully funded and able to ensure that consumers have access to “fair, transparent, and competitive” markets for consumer financial products; not subject to ever-changing Director fiat.
NEWS: Judge rules Russ Vought's plan to defund and shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law.
We're honored to represent former Federal Reserve officials in support of this case.
Very interesting stuff here. A new supplemental funding bill, notionally to pay for the Iran War, will be a back door way for the White House to claim Congress retroactively authorized the war itself talkingpointsmemo.com/news/for-tru...
A War for One Man
'Netanyahu doesn't need a clean victory; he just needs a durable narrative. This isn't just about distracting Israeli voters when they head to the polls, but about cementing an Israeli national security doctrine that always trumps diplomacy'
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Blocks Subpoenas in Powell Investigation www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Upcoming Voter Registration Deadlines for 2026 Primaries
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Dems proposed to pay TSA workers; GOP senators rejected it. They don't have to be missing paychecks because DHS is indefensible......
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
