PODCAST: @darcytotten.bsky.social, Executive Director at @ccswg.bsky.social joined us to talk about the history of the org, the challenges women & girls face today & what the future might look like. CCSWG was established by the legislature all the way back in 1965 capitolweekly.net/the-status-o...

Thank you to @Capitol weekly for a great opportunity to talk about the current landscape and what we can do to support women and girls. capitolweekly.net/the-status-o...

1. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC. I decided to find out why. It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington. Follow along for details. 🧵

‼️ Last night while you were sleeping, Senate Republicans passed a blank check of $70 BILLION dollars to fund ICE (with ZERO reforms added). (1/2)

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Deployed US ships are running out of food. Families’ packages aren’t getting through. “The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment on the mail stoppage or reports that some U.S. vessels were short on food.” Literally everything else aside, this should make Pete Hegseth resign in shame.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)

Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Kristen Stewart, JJ Abrams, Katie Phang, John Leguizamo, and over a thousand actors, writers, directors, journalists, producers, composers, and Hollywood executives have signed a letter against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger: 🧵

I realize everybody’s gonna get stuck on how unhinged the overall concept is, but I can’t get past the Transformers Statue of Liberty creature in the sky. I want odds on Trump accidentally informing us that the aliens have been here for years and currently hold several seats in Congress already.

Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we want it or not | Shakeel Hashim

This Women’s History Month, the celebration is overshadowed by an ominous reality: The rights we assumed were permanent have become dangerously historical.

"this front-running of U.S. policy was really large: the Financial Times estimates the sales of oil futures in that magic minute Monday morning at about $580 million, and that doesn’t count the purchases of stock futures." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

Even if the war stopped today, supplies will be disrupted for months. If it continues on a few more weeks, supplies will be disrupted for years. If it lasts for months, we can mark this as the end of fossil fuel hegemony in energy markets. In the meantime, millions will starve.

“Rather conveniently, Comer made no mention of who was president in 2019: Donald Trump. Nor did he mention that Trump appointee Bill Barr was leading the Department of Justice when this purported chicanery took place.” www.ms.now/news/james-c...

This week Commission Chair Dr. Rita Gallardo Good and Executive Director @darcytotten.bsky.social met with California State Assembly @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social to share more about our upcoming legislative priorities and to discuss the pivotal role we play in supporting women and girls in California

Thank you Senate Pro Tem Monique Limon Chief of Staff Mariana Corona Sabeniano for meeting with the Commission Chair Dr. Rita Gallardo Good and Executive Director @darcytotten.bsky.social to discuss programs and priorities vital to women and girls.

So I was trying to think of how I could encapsulate the joy, inspiration, frustration, anger, and boundless motivation that Women's History Month gives me every year. Thankfully, Brian Green helped me put it all into words instead for the #CaliforniaVoices podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/3FfG...

I wonder how many other people my age are calling their old college roommates to check in with the people they were sitting with the last time American touched off an endless war in the Middle East? The group chat is full of old photos and it’s weird and sad.

Welp. From last week’s @washingtonpost.com:

After horse escapes, Congress must weigh whether to close barn door. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Good.

personally speaking

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Richmond County’s own Nicole Malliotakis giving off the same energy as one of the white people protesting southern school integration in photos from the 50s

Skipping the State of the Union was not a power move by @thedemcoalition.bsky.social - it was a catastrophically stupid move by folks who probably should’ve listened to their communications directors. Zero opposition in the only room that was being covered made Trump look strong. 1/2

As President Donald Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, a majority of Americans say he is changing the country for the worse, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll.

“As an assistant prof of biology, it's made her think of the young women she sees going into the sciences today. ‘Will their ideas be taken seriously?’ she wonders. ‘Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?’”🧪

Rude.

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances. reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

As statehouse leaders gin up a flood of protection measures for immigrant communities, I can’t help but wonder why one of those protective measures is not just disallowing their states to build ice detention centers or to rent them prison space. What am I missing here?

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If I were the mayor or council of Los Angeles, I would simply fire the police chief and hire someone willing to enforce the law

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?

A Cabinet secretary does not report to the White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

ICE detained four children from Columbia Heights, Minnesota and sent them to detention centers in Texas. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

wait did they fucking rig up an improvise situation room at mar-a-lago with bedsheets or something

Wait till you hear how old my car is … it still has a tape deck.

SHUTDOWN NEWS: Republicans made a new offer to Senate Democrats Thursday with a fresh sweetener — the potential reversal of federal worker firings. @jordainc.bsky.social www.politico.com/live-updates...

I truly think this is an underappreciated point that much of the "rising far right" polisci literature has missed. We have n->inf findings that bad stuff leads to far right voting. But why _doesn't_ bad stuff lead to far left (or center left) voting? One big answer: A failure of political supply.

the organizational strength/structure of center left parties is working against them if we think of far right's emergence as a sign of the organizational weakness of center right parties.

Let’s take this show on the road.

I just woke up every cat in the neighborhood with how loud I howled

I don’t wanna hear another word about lonely men, the votes of young men, or why men need all of our attention. Just let women run the damn country.

My kind of place: 14BRs, 14BAs, $2.595M. Coastal Maine. Want to go in with us as innkeepers? Searsport. #FridayNightZillow www.zillow.com/homedetails/...