Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Margaret Hodge, who was given a peerage by Keir Starmer, says there's nothing wrong with cronyism. Hodge is currently the governments official anti corruption champion.

She was running pockets like the Olympics www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Shout out to #ExpressScripts for refusing to follow their own policies.

And they’re such insufferable entitled whiners, my god, constantly feeling entitled to things they aren’t even qualified for

Proofs now in: very pleased to be able to announce that my first book will come out this summer with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! I argue that the French Revolution and the First Empire witnessed a depoliticisation of the concept of citizenship, and this still affects the way we understand it today

I don’t think Trump is going to convince people who didn’t get big tax refunds that they got big tax refunds. On some subjects, lies don’t work no matter how often you tell them.

Hegseth claims that with the exception of Gulf allies, "other allies have talked a lot and haven't done anything" (in short, he's slagging NATO and Asian countries like South Korean and Japan)

bonkers

A U.S. citizen has been deported to Mexico despite telling arresting officers that he had proof of citizenship at home. According to Univision’s Lidia Terrazas, 25-year-old Denver-born Brian Morales was threatened with either deportation or prison time following a traffic stop... TAT: [Nationalism]

i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”

Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner are reminders that Democrats need to stick to their principles or face consequences We don’t have room for sex pests or Nazis

HAPPENING SOON! Tune into our discussion about Common Sense and more with Boston University Professor Joe Rezek, part of our new series The Revolution Is News! Today at 4 p.m. here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

my editor just sent this to me because she really knows how to ruin my day

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They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

AI is supposed to improve productivity, but it is decreasing it. While 96% of employers expect AI to boost overall productivity (Upwork Research Institute); a staggering 77% of employees report decreased productivity and increased workload due to AI implementation. itsg-global.com/why-77-of-em...

“We have long challenged Gilead’s pricing practices, but their outright refusal to sell lenacapavir is deeply troubling,” Doctors Without Borders officials wrote in an open letter…It also called the restrictions “unconscionable,” given public funding contributed to the development of the medicine”

Where's Congress? Do your job and rein in our out-of-control, imperialist president. (2/2)

Spoke with William Hennigan about POTUS's threat to attack Iran's "Electric Generating Plants." "[T]he president’s categorical statement represents a threat to target even civilian objects regardless of the requirement for distinction, which would be a war crime." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Okay, @uncpress.bsky.social is running a American History Sale - 30% off with code 01UNCP30 so let's do a five book mini-thread 🧵

Seen a lot of inappropriate AI chatbots, but the Museum of Protest's deserves special mention.

What Trump has been doing to Cuba is unconscionable. He's singlehandedly forced the island into a humanitarian crisis over recent weeks. An American president can’t be given carte blanche to threaten hostile takeovers of other nations and sow mass chaos around the world. (1/2)

Abolish ICE

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

They’re absolutely conditioning us to having ICE around before they start putting ICE at polling places

Remember that day that the WH and all of the government agencies tried to come on here all at once as a way to troll and folks blocked them en masse and they gave up, lol

Impeach now

"the secretary of defense did insider trading on a war he was about to start" what the fuck are we doing here, honestly

Wait until you hear that a majority of the justices might agree with him

Who deserves justice and who deserves mercy under this administration? My colleague @jeremykohler.bsky.social has a disturbing case study: www.propublica.org/article/jose...

Here's a report from the Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/minnesota-su...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty sue the federal government to access evidence in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Written by Mohamed Ibrahim

The SAVE Act is three different kinds of poll taxes dressed in a trench coat. It's also a violation of the 14th, 19th, and probably some other amendments, too.

He doesn't object to HIS mail-in vote, just the Democrats' mail-in votes. For a quarter-century, we've moved inexorably toward the philosophy of "when the Republican is ahead, stop counting votes," with the "SAVE" Act (Stop Americans Voting Entirely) being the most recent and obvious iteration.

Both tragic and deeply, deeply pitiful that a set of ideas so profoundly antifeminist is driving young men to behave in ways so obviously, desperately akin to those of young women captured by the patriarchal beauty complex.

Since AI is so confidently wrong so often, even about “can you do x” questions, I’m alarmed for our collective safety. Again/still. I want The Jetsons future, not this one.

No matter what happens in the future I don't think I'll ever take our government seriously again, not when they can and likely will just revert to this as a default setting at some point.

and ICYMI, here's the other map I made recently (using London Lives data), which I'm quite proud of. mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr…

US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kendra Duggar nee Caldwell has been charged along with her husband Joseph Duggar with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree, and four counts of false imprisonment in the second degree. This entire family needs to be investigated.

13/ Legal experts we talked to were alarmed by the precedent set by Doyley and Bennett’s cases, particularly as Florida considers a bill that could pave the way for more court-ordered medical care. Read our full investigation:

In his 1838 Lyceum Address, Abraham Lincoln warned of the rise of an American "Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon":

What can you do other than laugh at this point