When I reported this story Thursday I reached out to an advocate of the legislation. I heard back from them Friday and updated the story.

NEW: Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

"Although Americans (and people around the world) are hardened to Trump’s outrageous behavior," writes @sulliview.bsky.social, "they ought to be aware of what this is."

Judge rules US government overreached with transgender health care declaration abcnews.com/Health/wireS...

How New Mexico Became an Obamacare Success Story www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/h...

The ridiculous thing is that Pluto is a binary dwarf planet with Charon now. That's soooo much cooler than "small and far away." Pluto went from a footnote to one of the most unique things in the solar system but some people won't be open to anything new.

In at least six statehouses this year, including South Dakota, lawmakers have revisited a long-running debate over whether #guns should be allowed on #college campuses. Via @statesnewsroom.com

Trump now calls war reporting ‘treason’. His attacks on the press are escalating fast | Margaret Sullivan

Our New Hampshire paper (@newhampshirebulletin.com) has done great reporting on this: newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/13/a...

Again, the press simply cannot let the Speaker of the House get away with non-answers & lies about voter fraud like this. Your questions need to be in the form of “Since we know mass voter fraud doesn’t exist…” Stop asking for evidence of the sun rising in the west. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

well, there’s your problem. you went to the desert on a horse with no name. all the nameless horses are slow and have no sense of direction. now, Speedy Desertknower right here, he would have gotten you in and out of that desert in 4 hours, 6 max

Federal judge blocks enforcement of Kennedy’s vaccine policies. Via @mayahoman.bsky.social and @georgiarecorder.com buff.ly/9oCFpwW

Three Wisconsin school districts on what’s at stake for their spring referendum requests. via @bspears.bsky.social.

Even with Wisconsin's strong open records law, public records reporting takes time, persistence and reader support, especially when agencies try to stonewall journalists and impose hefty fees. You can help power our accountability reporting with your donation! buff.ly/QxWgHfm

Public records that @wisconsinexaminer.com reporter @Isiahholmes.bsky.social has obtained helped him be on top of how law enforcement agencies use this surveillance technology, and sometimes misuse it with a personal agenda.

It's #SunshineWeek! Remember this story about how some police officers obscure their reasons for accessing surveillance data from the Flock system that tracks members of the public across Wisconsin? buff.ly/iAEuMs0

Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

OK... it's kind of a thing

BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike. This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

Is NBC really the only major news outlet covering this overtly anti-Muslim (and eugenicist) rhetoric from Trump and his Congressional cronies? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

They can't control what's happening now, so they're trying to control what gets said about it.

'LLMs as a disability aid for ADHD' just goes to show how many critical misunderstandings people have about ADHD. Like literally the best coping strategy for ADHD is mindfulness. Writing your OWN notes. Keeping your OWN lists. Finding strategies that help YOU remember things. YOU, not a chatbot.

It really annoys me when people reference the pallets of cash without saying 1) that it was Iran’s money, which we froze after the revolution, and 2) that the reason we didn’t just do a wire transfer was because our sanctions were so effective that there was no other way to transfer money.

In his first few days on the job, the new US Ambassador to South Africa has already floated major job creation initiatives AND been formally called to account for criticisms of South Africa’s racial redress policies. My latest in @goodauth.bsky.social, out now! goodauthority.org/news/brent-b...

Who knew Gulf Wars could be so complicated?

If you ever say “frisson of transgression,” a referee should appear out of nowhere and throw a flag.

I've been saying for years that MAGA is just narcissism operating as a political party. And the people they keep featuring in these articles and all their notable elected officials have yet to break that hypothesis.

congratulations to FIFA on their incredible choice of recipient for the first FIFA peace prize

Trump fired the people whose job it would be to warn him of the really obvious stuff.

GOP cuts in federal food aid scramble passage of long-delayed farm bill wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/03/12/r...

I don’t think that people have really absorbed the consequences of the death of a global order.

The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection effort as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.

Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

“The Three Billy Goats Gruff” is either a story about why you should travel in convoy or a story about why you should eat the first goat you see.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Why the claim that AI is going to bring about mass unemployment is lacking credibility. youtube.com/watch?v=YevE...

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

USAID’s annual budget was about $23 billion.

Eric & Don Jr. are turning the Iran war into a family business. Trump starts war. Trump bans foreign drone rivals (DJI). Sons merge their golf co with Powerus to sell 10k drones/mo to the Pentagon. Their own bank brokers the deal. The ultimate conflict of interest.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

What I find really dangerous about this is that it reinforces the idea that there is exactly one kind of man, one way to perform masculinity, and that any other way isn't masculinity at all. It's dangerous because of how it distorts behavior, but also in socialization effects for young men.

the people who love AI books are the same management types in every industry who see $$ and nothing else and in the scammers and grifters who are AI's most fervent boosters in every area, they're there in books too But the rest of us? Writers and readers? Absolute violent loathing for the slop.

** And because this is the internet: I actually love thinking about abstract problems! The thing is, the Trolley Problem does a poor job helping us actually solve anything or set ethics & morals. Instead it feels like intellectual masturbation to prove to other people that we're superior.

BREAKING: Federal lawsuit over Jan 6 plaque will CONTINUE. Police argue plaque was hung in “hidden” location that’s no better than a basement storage room youtube.com/shorts/umXT1...

I don’t know what’s worse: AI impersonating writers and editors and stealing the value they use to pay rent or people being casually dismissive of said writers and editors for being upset about that

Nearly forgotten in today’s news rush: I took over as editor in chief of the @oregoncapitalchronicle.com exactly one year ago. Working with the talented team of @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social, @miamaldonado.bsky.social and @shaanthx.bsky.social to inform you is a dream I hope continues for a long time.