sometimes you don't need a sex trafficking cop you need a SEX TRAFFICKING cop. right? you know? www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

FYI: “Unable to match” is not the same as “this bullet was not fired by this gun.” It’s likely just an analyst being careful. I haven’t yet seen the report by the firearms examiner, but I’d caution against making too much of this. There is no scientific basis for “matching” one bullet to one gun.

Journalists produce reliable information like bees produce honey - and our current age of AI is smashing the hive, killing the bees, and setting us up for total information collapse in the near future. Great piece from @mattdpearce.com :

new quinnipiac poll on ai suggests bluesky users are not the ones living in a bubble over this shit. nobody trusts it, nobody’s excited about it (6 percent say they’re “very excited” about it- more believe in mermaids). 21-point majority thinks it does more harm than good poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Duke won’t solve this until one of their own throws Stephen Miller into an active volcano

people are really out here voluntarily disclaiming any understanding of the soul or interiority at a conceptual level in the paper of record

If I had a comms job and this were the lede in the paper about me, I’d go into hiding

Over 10 years, 98% of medical grievances filed in federal prisons were rejected — mostly because of ridiculous administrative reasons, like using the wrong size sheet of paper. The system works exactly how it's designed to: Thwart complaints & dodge accountability at every turn.

The two genders.

ICE is seeking co-working spaces in Nashville and Knoxville as it expands its administrative outposts throughout the country, according to a federal solicitation posted last week. via @tennesseelookout.com

Please read this enraging @mississippitoday.org investigation into the practice of striking prospective Black jurors from Mississippi juries. Prosecutors cited "strange hair" or a bad "vibe"--and appeals courts upheld it. SCOTUS looks at one such case on 3/31: mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

You could read your children Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain instead is all I’m saying

Give me your simple, basic budget app recs. I really don't want to pay a monthly fee, which seems like a dumb budget move, right?

I’d feel more delight at Bari failing so badly if she hadn't made so much money and destroyed so many livelihoods while doing so.

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

I made like $27k last year (inclu unemployment) and paid taxes on most of it and yet somehow I owe money to the IRS (and can't afford to pay it either), so this is super fun! Love being poor!

oh man I missed the BGA shirt the first time around. immaculate

Lots of emotional abuse discourse going around. I can’t pretend to know what Lindy West’s relationship is really like, but I know what it’s like to be overweight and think no one will love you and settling for a sociopath who preys on insecure women. carigervin.substack.com/p/sunk-cost-...

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Just remembered last night when I had to get bloodwork done AT WORK to save on insurance and they told me I was pre-diabetic bc I had just eaten and they used a fasting range for blood sugar and I was barely overweight. And then even after I gained A TON of weight, I was never pre-diabetic, at all.

Lots of emotional abuse discourse going around. I can’t pretend to know what Lindy West’s relationship is really like, but I know what it’s like to be overweight and think no one will love you and settling for a sociopath who preys on insecure women. carigervin.substack.com/p/sunk-cost-...

The slo-mo is even more devastating. HOW DID THAT NOT DROP

Oh my god that was so close UGH

Just screamed so loud the cat ran away

I know we’re supposed to be mad at David Harbour bc Lily Allen but damn he’s so good in DTF St. Louis

Just skipped spring and went straight to two-showers-a-day weather, huh?

This sucks so hard

This "micro-cheating" bullshit does more harm to monogamous relationships than a million poly memoirs ever could. (Also: If someone accuses you of "micro-cheating" and dumps you, they did you a favor.) www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you, putting 100+ songs online for the first time.

Everywhere please thanks

Yes, the small city of Alpharetta, definitely feels like small town living there, definitely not a giant strip mall that runs into other giant strip malls also called "cities" in Fulton/Cobb County.

Hi, Bluesky, hi! Our 2026 audience survey just dropped! I'm hoping we can get at least 1-2% of our followers to complete the survey. As a thank you, you'll receive a PDF copy of our poetry collection Verses Beyond Bars, curated by 2026 Audience Engagement fellow @kashawntaylor.bsky.social.

This is correct and FFS someone please write a women's/ girls' basketball YA remake of the Iliad so my friends and I don't have to do it. I am entirely serious. Use injuries instead of deaths.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.

I just saw a morning routine blog post by someone who wakes up (intentionally!) at 2:15 a.m. to get things done/exercise/meditate/have "me time" before getting her kid up at 6 and then going to her 9 to 5 job, and like, I get the need for morning calm before the chaos, but when do you sleep?!!!

The result isn’t just that an individual plaintiff gets screwed. It’s that attorneys (outside the non-profit world) will not take cases challenging the constitutionality of state statutes on contingency any longer. So offending state statutes will frequently go unchallenged in the first place. (2/2)

There’s a separate wrinkle here that is worth flagging: This procedure enables the State to avoid fee awards in all cases. If they lose a temporary injunction appeal, the State can just repeal the statute afterward and moot the claim. And based on SCOTUS jurisprudence, that means no fee award. (1/2)

Cool, cool, this will be fun

Tennessee lawmakers decided in 2025 to move the vast majority of sports gambling revenue into a special fund to pay for new K-12 school construction as part of a deal to pass a statewide private school voucher program. via @tennesseelookout.com

So we’re supposed to get tornados overnight and snow at lunchtime? Go home, weather, you’re way too drunk

Ok, fine, Dan's pulling strings in the afterlife, can't be mad

Do not love this OT

OMG Alex thinks women get pregnant from period sex?! Bro

Finally not too crushingly sad to catch up with Love Is Blind, and you can really see why Ashley picked someone like Alex with a dad like THAT. (But, also, he's 100% correct about Alex.)

Search your camera roll for hell

Justice has long been as elusive as Bigfoot, Carolyn Amanda Shavers writes. But when Alabama’s governor spared her dad’s life, she caught a glimpse.

Omfg