Claude writes by the rules.
Literature creates new ones, expands the current limits.
Sure, most people prefer Claude, but then most people also prefer James Patterson to James Baldwin
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
US presidents have refused to attack Iran for generations because:
• all oil is denominated in $$
• all countries buy $$ to buy oil
• all big economies buy US treasuries as it's the most liquid, because, well, oil
• And the United States lives on all that debt
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Since Trump’s tax cuts:
“The county’s top 1 percent of households…now have an estimated average annual income of about $35 million, 221 times what the bottom 99 percent is making, according to a Times analysis of tax data.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
“.. Gasoline prices starting to spike in the U.S. … daily average now up to $3.198, which is the highest since September.”
- Schwab ⛽️
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
A quote for the ages:
According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.
Scenario: The New York State AG teams up with the California AG to sue Paramount. Argument: buying Warner Bros Discovery would combine two competing studios (Par+Warner) and two newsrooms (CBS+CNN), stifling competition and harming consumers: www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.
The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.
This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.
In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.
Cops found his body 5 days later
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
Trump’s DoJ appears to suppress FBI memos outlining sexual assault allegations made by a minor against the president, NYT reports:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
Every country here has universal healthcare, except USA and China
Olympics medal count
yes!
Someone purposely opened a ‘90s-themed deli … I’m done
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Wow.
‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.
there are newsrooms that hold the line, and then there’s this…
12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Cover for a Comics Giveaway Day ALIENS/PREDATOR/PLANET OF THE APES book showing Dr. Zaius, a Xenomorph, and a Predator.
Heyyyy the ape's out of the bag!
I'm writing a PLANET OF THE APES story for ALIEN, PREDATOR & PLANET OF THE APES #1 CGD 2026, coming on May 2! The great @alanrobinsonr.bsky.social is drawing and it is gonna be AWESOME!
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“It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein,” Rep. García posted on X. “Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.”
www.politico.com/live-updates...
There is something broken in my mind, such that whenever I see "Party in the USA" my brain shouts "I was a terra since the public school era" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrC...
Three members of Congress and the governor of Hawai'i, a medical doctor who responded to the measles outbreak in Samoa, are calling for RFK Jr's resignation. Emails now reveal he lied under oath about his antivax role in those 83 deaths.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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