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Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Ten minutes. Do it today. Then share this so others do too. A handful of emails does nothing. Thousands change minds. Be one of thousands.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Trump's Forest Service upheaval sows confusion and concern

16-year-old US citizen teen Arnoldo said that the mass deportation agents who abducted his dad mocked him for crying and called him “an illegal idiot” and “border hopper.” He still panics when he hears sirens. This is state-sanctioned child abuse: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/american-k...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

WOW. New data just revealed that ICE agents arrested 3,800 Minnesota residents this winter – averaging 33 arrests every day. More than 75% of those arrested had no criminal record. ICE agents are not just going after the worst of the worst, and they are not making communities better off.

Isfahan is a city with over 2,500 years of continuous history. The US and Israel are bombing one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the region. Over 2 million people live there. I’ve only heard from my family once since the war began and this is their city, Isfahan, tonight. #Iran

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Fantastic protest sign in Tokyo, Japan! No Kings! No Tyrants!

Iowa City.

TODAY! 12:30-2PM CT! We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* #NoKings 3 #Virtual & #Accessible #Rally will be an online event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Join us! zurl.co/ygdFI

Fascism expert Tim Snyder on Why Mass Protests matter: PROTEST CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE For authoritarians to win, they need their supporters to be active, the majority to be silent, & their actions to seem normal. Protest shows their supporters are the minority, & the majority WILL NOT BE SILENT. 🧵

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

Elizabeth Banks

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2081...

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring. This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence. And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

Let’s be clear: Democrats have been trying for weeks and as recently as yesterday to fund TSA (and FEMA and the Coast Guard). Republicans have rejected these plans, as even the right wing Examiner admits. The TSA crisis belongs to Trump and his R minions.

Donald Trump wants to spend $1 billion of your tax dollars to drive up your power bill, by killing new energy projects. Let that sink in.

A beautiful and courageous letter by Emily Tucker at Georgetown Law. The complicity of academic publishers in the AI educational coup also must be noted. AI companies are not acting alone to dismantle higher education, the capacity of humans to think critically, and direct access to primary sources.

“[Americans] don’t know, still, the exhaustion, this existential exhaustion that comes over you.” Turkish journalist and author, @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social discusses what living under a long-term dictatorship can do to your faith in yourself, and in democracy. zeteo.com/p/nation-of-...

There are some 3,000 patients on dialysis machines in Cuba who are at risk of dying from a prolonged blackout.

2 headlines from this week

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

UN report says Trump’s hate speech sparked ‘human rights violations.’ White House responds: ‘No one cares’

We are governed by truly evil people.

The conflict in Iran is hurting your wallet—and the planet. The "Peace President" has gone to war, and Big Oil is already cashing the checks. The only real path to security and peace is a fast, just transition to clean energy. You can’t hold the wind or sun hostage.

“He looked pale, he looked sickly. He looked like a completely different child,” she said. “When I saw that image, my doctor brain turned on. I was like, this kid is sick. He needs medical attention.” @bcrodriguez.bsky.social's latest for @19thnews.org.

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Janet Faye Collins was born on this day in 1917 in New Orleans. Collins was a ballerina, choreographer and teacher who broke the color barrier in classical ballet. In 1951, she became the first Black prima ballerina to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. /1

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

"We are able to do away with domestic tyranny and violence and aggression by those in power against the rights of their own people only when we make all men answerable to the law" -- Justice Robert H Jackson at Nuremberg youtu.be/J5gygMrbeVM?...

It’s so clear that Hegseth is a Genghis Khan guy, not a George Washington guy

"Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal." 🤞

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

One pediatrician “testified that she had witnessed children’s medical treatment, sometimes in the middle of chemotherapy, disrupted because their parents had been detained or deported by ICE … there is no insurance plan, no transportation to the hospital, no one to pick up prescriptions.”

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...

"After several months, the popularity and usage of the food truck increased so much (that) we started talking about doing something more permanent,” Myrna Smith-Thompson, executive director of the International Order of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, told the Mississippi Free Press on Jan. 20.

NBC's top climate reporter resigns open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Donald Trump once opposed war and promised to remove America from foreign entanglements. This is why he broke that promise.

We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings. Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion. We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.

interesting that it's taken as a given that the US should have a hand in shaping who the iranian people choose as their leader

Very, very well said.