More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Reminder that #rabies is 100% fatal unless you get immediate post-exposure #prophylaxis with #vaccines. And among the most miserable deaths I can think of

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

Elizabeth Banks

Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school.

Today's New Yorker cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

A scientist who worked in the ER during COVID, here since he was 8, no criminal record, on his way to his newborn in the NICU—grabbed by ICE and still being held

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $580 billion a year in taxes and hold $1.6 trillion in annual spending power. Mass deportation removes that from the economy while adding enormous enforcement costs at least $88 billion per year just to deport one million people annually.

For scale, 800,000 people would be the population of Seattle. That’s how many people are displaced.

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

The majority of Americans can't afford an unexpected $1,000 emergency expense, and in a country with notably expensive health care, this is a recipe for disaster. And of course, this has ripple effects because the Trump Admin blocked a Biden Admin effort to keep medical debt off credit reports.

Research shows SNAP's harsh work requirement does not increase employment or earnings. It just cuts people off SNAP — including people like Mara, the mom of two profiled in this piece, who is now at risk of losing her food assistance while she's between jobs & desperately looking for work.

-53% oppose the attacks -74% oppose sending ground troops -55% do not think Iran posed an imminent military threat -62% think the Trump administration has not provided a clear explanation -71% thinks the conflict will last months or more

First the jokes about illegally killing people on boats allegedly carrying drugs, now a comedy routine about torpedoing an unarmed ship in an undeclared war

Dow is down, gas is way up (up 50 cents here from yesterday). Gulf allies are under attack. This was clearly foreseeable by any student in any Introduction to International Relations class but somehow a huge surprise to the people running this country.

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Really important.

Trump Executive Order Protected Weedkiller Roundup and a Munition, White Phosphorus www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

This is a sign of the complete moral failure of our society. AP report. apnews.com/article/suic...

When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

This is Albie. He was so touched by his family singing happy birthday in his native language that he didn't notice the cupcakes with his face on them. 13/10 hbd Albie #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: _sallyv)

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere. Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i... If you ignore people who say they “don’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.

How has the public belief in meritocracy changed over time? We address this question in our new Data Viz (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) by examining trends in popular beliefs across cohorts and periods in 35 countries, based on two datasets. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231261425841

Finally got to @gelliottmorris.com's piece this week on how poll question wording dramatically affects responses. It's excellent. This is classic stuff in the political behavior subfield of poli sci, but we don't hear enough about it in punditry. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

This country apparently can't afford to feed children abroad but can afford to bomb them.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

This should be a front-page scandal.

This slow-motion public health crisis in our drinking water happened for a reason. The EPA’s rulemaking process privileges corporate lobbyists over the public, and those lobbyists ran the same playbook Big Tobacco once did—obfuscate the science and delay regulation. More from @bmorons.bsky.social ⬇️

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

Two points: *Neither getting on a plan, nor buying beer is a constitutional right *You don't need to prove citizenship to buy a beer or get on a plane - that is what the SAVE Act calls for, which will clearly disenfranchise lots of people

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

As typical, @pkrugman.bsky.social gets at the crux of the problem with concentrated wealth and rising illiberalism. He lays it out so clearly here. "any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

In 2026, nearly 2/3rds of Americans expect prices to keep rising and more than half lack confidence their income will keep up. Yet 73% believe their own personal finances will improve in the year ahead, including nearly nine in ten adults under 30. https://www.verasight.io/reports/america-in-2026

Good report here on how very little TANF funds actually go to supporting low income families. It has become a slush fund for states to spend on things that have little to do with program’s mission. “How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“When less than 1% of farm employers are investigated every year, they can act with impunity, knowing that there is a very low likelihood that they will ever be investigated,” one expert said.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a 1/10