JFYI, @jeffstein.bsky.social is one of the best economics reporters in the business. He isn't prone to hyperbole or exaggeration. So when he says about the Washington Post, "My faith in the paper’s current leadership is broken beyond repair," you gotta take it seriously.

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.” Must-read. apnews.com/article/trum...

you can’t convince me that ump didn’t have a “get Team USA in the Final by any means necessary” directive going into those final two innings.

That was not even close to a strike. Horrendous way for this game to end. Absolutely brutal.

Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

The best part of this is the one guy who remains aware that there’s a bat somewhere over his head 😂

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

ohtani when no one on the opposing team is drinking raw milk or taking bone supplements they bought off infowars

I don’t mean “as a collection of super teams.” I mean with guttural joy and pride and pain exploding in vibrant colors with music and dancing and peacocking and everything old school sourpuss baseball tries to suffocate.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

I never want to hear about free speech, law and order, the constitution, antisemitism, free markets, peace prizes, science, or business acumen from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again. Not about right and wrong. Not even up and down.

More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days. The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished. Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me. My latest for @nbcnews.com

The guy who bankrupted casinos has caused the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. The team that accidentally invited a reporter to a top secret military discussion was taken by surprise when the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz.

Following another week of more House Republican retirements, we move two newly-open seats in Democrats’ direction. TX-23: Solid R -> Likely R CA-48: Toss Up -> Lean D Read more from @erincovey.bsky.social:

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth. This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

💳🚍 HUGE TRANSIT WINS! Mayor Parker announced: • $25M - Zero Fare Program funding restored! • $10M - SEPTA Key Advantage for municipal employees restored! • 10% increase in city funding for SEPTA! @transit4philly.bsky.social

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

Can the government use its power to punish law firms for the viewpoints they represent? In my latest Civil Liberties in 60 Seconds, I examine the DOJ’s sudden reversal on its appeal defending executive orders that blacklisted major firms. Watch to learn why this matters. ⚖️🏛️

Big Give is here! For the next 24 hours, join Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, our students, and faculty in shaping the future of legal education at Berkeley Law. Donate now: law.berkeley.edu/BigGive2026 #BigGive #BerkeleyLaw #GoBears

"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

we’re hours away from bill ackman tagging elon musk in a tweet asking how long it would take to build “hyperloop but for oil” under the arabian peninsula

The Hon Scale

on the bright side i can't imagine losing a democratic primary against ilhan omar as an ICE lawyer is much work at all

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

finally someone with the gravitas of fdr and churchhill's wartime addresses. we shall fight on the seas, we shall fight on the shores, we shall dance like nobody's watching.

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter. uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...

That no one in he Republican leadership -- and none of his GOP colleagues -- have found the voice to condemn this utter trash says everything about them.

Trump officials moving onto military bases is a ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate thing, and the NYT story that credulously credited claimed threats as justifying such a move is also ridiculous.

NEW: What should we expect from Markwayne Mullin as head of DHS? Is there any reason to believe his policies will be any different from Kristi Noem's? Nope—not based on what he's said over the past year. We've got the receipts: www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ma...

A sweeping new mural at UC Berkeley celebrates 150 years of women at the university, featuring 41 trailblazers—from pioneering architect Julia Morgan to Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/06/sprawling-new-painting-commemorates-150-years-of-women-at-uc-berkeley

The Florida Legislature just sent Ron DeSantis a bill that records show was initially written by lobbyists for phosphate mining giant Mosaic Co. The bill makes it harder to sue mining companies over exposure to elevated radiation levels they leave behind on former mines.

The Sulzberger New York Times has many problems. But this is not one of them. “US Is at Fault in Strike on School in Iran” is at the top of the digital front page. The Times deserves praise when they report important truths clearly, and they have done so here.

Don't worry, the President's worst impulses on war are being checked by his advisors who are afraid to tell him that the shoes he gave them are the wrong size

/2 I still think it is astounding and a sign of the moral rot of institutions that the focus is on him being friendly with Epstein and not specifically on conspiring with Epstein, convicted sex offender, how to take advantage of a younger and less powerful colleague he calls a racial slur.

Thank goodness Pete Hegseth is bringing martial virtues back to the armed forces.

Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

I don't go in for most media-bashing on here, but this new thing where Trump calls access reporters during trading hours and gives them the SCOOP that the war's about to end is pretty egregious.

The Emperor is fully dressed, has excellent taste in footwear and knows my size. Truly, he has been sent by God to lead us.

Pete Hegseth gutted the Pentagon offices that would have investigated the strike on an Iranian girls’ school. The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence went from 200 employees to 20, with only 1 employee left in the division that investigates civilian casualties in the Middle East.

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”