CNN at the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed 9 people, including 5 children:
"We're told it was a yogurt factory by the neighbors here."
"The children's bodies, we're told, are in pieces and are going to take a while to identify the DNA so that they can actually do a burial."
objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online
Trump is trying to abolish income taxes and replace them with tariffs. The Democrats are handing him this gift on a silver platter.
I wrote about congressional Democrats’ incoherent, AIPAC-friendly, lawyerly messaging strategy around Iran that largely focuses on Trump’s supposed lack of “planning” and “consulting Congress,” while deemphasizing—or outright ignoring—clear demands to immediately end the war.
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
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I gotta say it out loud, but it’s really hard to feel all that bad for someone who dies in a helicopter crash.
In the late 1800s the US gov killed more than 3 million buffalo to intentionally starve Native communities and disrupt cultural lifeways. Today, tribes are working to bring the buffalo back. 1,500 buffalo were returned to tribes last year.
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
From a Short Residence in Denmark, etc “ England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequence; the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.”
Oh Mary Wollstonecraft, the revolutionary you are!!! The things you understand!!!!
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
At first I read this as Pumpkin Spice Latte Reddit. Yes I work for a private college.
Under RFK Jr., the federal government is taking aim at not just fluoridated water but also fluoride supplements.
The FDA announced efforts to restrict the sale of certain fluoride products to children and has issued a warning about their risks to health care professionals.
Post-DEI recruitment era comes full circle. During the 1950s and 1960s the Bureau of Indian Affairs turned to HBCUs to recruit a teaching force that would be less racist than the white “Okies and Arkies” who typically staffed their schools. One result: better trained and qualified candidates.
He loves skiing, gets banged up all the time and keeps going back.
That's what they do when they have no natural predators
Who can deny but the president general will be a king to all intents and purposes, and one of the most dangerous kind too; a king elected to command a standing army? Thus our laws are to be administered by this tyrant; for the whole, or at least the most important part of the executive department is put in his hands.
Man, the antifederalists were so paranoid.
antifederalists.org/papers/phila...
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
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Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth ... especially whenever ... it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
this is literally the opening to Moby Dick
in victorian times it was incredibly tempting to say "nice hat, dumbass" to anyone wearing a goofy hat. the british boarding school system was designed to beat this natural instinct out of the next generation of hat-wearers
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?
