Incredible stuff is happening.

Kickbacks say what? Ted Cruz asks Senate to withhold his pay during partial shutdown

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) helped write the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. Last night, she violated it by missing a deadline to disclosure her husband’s Pfizer corporate bond purchase worth up to $50k. In @notus.com: www.notus.org/senate/susan...

Then I better not see you all using his platforms.

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Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies! Incredible! Truly shocking! It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶 This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪 Science: 2,978,547 🧠🪱: -785

When you’re the villain and trying to make it obvious because the audience isn’t catching on www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

Wilco County Judge Steve Snell on Tuesday criticized county Republican Chair Michelle Evans over a doctored video and false claims posted by a member of the party's election integrity committee that led to a death threat against the county's election administrator. www.statesman.com/news/politic...

We are in a Jordan Peele movie www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Yes yes yes apnews.com/article/data...

Elon pulled a Susan Collins. He knew his offer would be rejected, but he wanted to look good. It had the opposite effect for me and highlighted wealth inequality.

Meta begins laying off hundreds of employees, impacting its Reality Labs virtual reality division and at least four other divisions, a source familiar with the matter tells NBC News.

BREAKING: USPS will impose its first-ever surcharge on packages — an 8% fee to cover the rising cost of fuel.

(The Atlantic) Great article that speaks to what the Trump Administration has done to change the Catholic Church in the USA....priorities now focus on immigration. Wonderful and focused... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

From credit scores to fitness trackers to baby monitors, metrics don’t just measure behavior — they can define what “good” looks like. And increasingly, those standards are set by corporations, not communities. theconversation.com/moral-metric...

(WSJ) Meta and YouTube lost in their trial today...re: the design of their apps causing young people to become addicted. Plaintiff here was a young woman, 20 yo. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-an...

That the GOP plays the long game. Always has. It's why we are where we are.

1) THREAD: Federal cybersecurity reviewers said this @microsoft.com cloud package was “a pile of shit.” They gave it their seal of approval anyway. Here’s how it happened 👇

Can kimchi rid you of microplastics? Probably not. But the story is hilarious, and involves - I kid you not - a shadowy government department intent on manipulating people into buying more kimchi. gidmk.substack.com/p/can-kimchi...

Thread of non-English Wikipedia articles about slang/idioms!!! Here's “Ketchupeffekt” from Swedish Wikipedia. They're all autotranslated to English in my browser

“At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. at the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.” —Aimé Césaire, Discourses on Colonialism

The slowest and biggest smash-and-grab in the history of the world

This woman once challenged me to a vagina-off. Yes, you read that correctly.

One of the stupidest losers to ever live

A circuit court judge has ruled that the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis can push ahead with reductions to a program that helps people with HIV and AIDS purchase life-saving drugs. via @floridaphoenix.com

There we go, being responsible for bad stuff again.

A major refinery in Ireland is feeding aluminium into the Russian arms industry.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN OH NO! “Donald Trump is without a doubt one of the most prodigious liars this country has ever produced,” Stewart said. “He’s our supreme misleader.” Jon Stewart | The Daily Show #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica Thread 1/3🧵

Airbnb in firing line as Cape Town’s housing crisis catches up with middle class

Ordinary Russians continue to guide suicide drones into apartment buildings killing Ukrainian civilians, while the world watches on: a large-scale missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities, strikes on apartment buildings kill 4, injure 21 overnight on March 24 kyivindependent.com/explosions-r...

This is going to be a thing everywhere

surftofind.com Feels good to be seen

Kimchi may get rid of microplastics in your gut. Research funded by...the World Institute of Kimchi.

One of my favourite facts about science is that there is a World Institute of Kimchi - an official arm of the Korean government - which exists to run positive studies showing that kimchi is beneficial to human health.

I want to see him hauled before Congress to testify and all his corruption exposed.

You know what to do…

Don't ever tell me this worthless fucking country is a meritocracy ever again.

Look, from a national security perspective, it is hard to imagine a less qualified nominee (I mean at least Noem had been a Governor) Nobody would have ever been dumb enough to nominate clearly unqualified people for national security roles before...but it is NORMAL in this administration

Well well well

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WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools. Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that. Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education: