Mike Martin

Iran has killed over 1.2 million Americans.

No, sorry, that was the number of Americans *Donald Trump* killed with his incompetent response to COVID.

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

How does habitat loss affect sharks and rays? - Save Our Seas Foundation When an area of ocean or coastline is changed or degraded beyond the point that it can serve as a home for the species that live there, or is even destroyed entirely, that’s habitat loss.

The #1 threat to sharks and rays, by far, is unsustainable fishing practices (not just shark finning).

But the #2 threat is habitat loss.

Learn more about it: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...

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Deconstruction of a memory engram 🧪🧠

It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.

DOGE Is (Was?) an Insider Threat

Nobody could have predicted this (boldface mine): According to the disclosure, the former DOGE software engineer, who worked at the Social Security Administration last year before starting a job at a government contractor in October, allegedly told several…

Pretty sure this is what they used to call war profiteering.

Progress!

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It's time for a resurgence of jazz hip hop.
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1-to register, a driver's license is insufficient; you'll need a passport or a birth certificate + valid ID.
2-to vote, IDs such as tribal IDs or student IDs are not valid.

Professional Dems really need to emphasize what a pain in the ass the SAVE act will be.

Pupping grounds for the Critically Endangered tope shark Galeorhinus galeus around the Dutch Wadden Islands Globally, the tope shark Galeorhinus galeus, also known as the school or soupfin shark, is classified by the IUCN as Critically Endangered. It is known to undertake broad-scale movements throughout continental and pelagic European waters, where it encounters threats posed by incidental fisheries capture and environmental change. The identification of pupping and nursery habitats is essential for the conservation and management of elasmobranch populations, including highly migratory shark species. For the Northeast Atlantic region, published evidence on the location of pupping areas remains limited. Catch records and survey observations of neonates in July 2022 support the existence of a pupping area for tope sharks in the Dutch Wadden Sea and adjacent coastal North Sea waters. Given its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we discuss the role of the Dutch Wadden Sea area as a potential pupping ground for the Critically Endangered tope shark.

Pupping grounds for the Critically Endangered tope shark Galeorhinus galeus around the Dutch Wadden Islands www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...

These accusations always come from a "sadly disturbed woman" until they're proven true, don't they?

Not only did Trump bomb a girls elementary school killing around 175, he also continues to tell preposterous and obvious lies about it to the American people and the world while his defense secretary, who said he wasn’t following “stupid rules of engagement,” refuses to comment.

Boy, I spend a lot more time fantasizing about cracking people (let's be honest, men) in the head seth a baseball bat these days. This can't be a good thing.

Admittedly, I haven't done the math here myself, but I certainly take the point.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Love the @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social !

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Donald Trump's aggressive campaign against wind, solar, and EVs has kept Americans dependent on foreign oil. Now his Iranian war has exploded the cost of gasoline. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

The 115 girls in the bombed school were no angels.

Winning hearts and minds here. Definitely.

We used to make things

Seafood fraud is rampant, imperiling fish populations, report finds The global fisheries and aquaculture sector produces more than 150 million metric tons of food per year, valued at nearly $200 billion. Yet it’s plagued with fraud, according to a new report. The…

Seafood fraud is rampant, imperiling fish populations, report finds news.mongabay.com/2026/03/seaf... “up to roughly 20% of aquatic products are intentionally mislabeled as the wrong species”