Federal agents are now restricted from using tear gas and other chemical or projectile munitions against peaceful protestors and freelance journalists near the ICE processing center in Portland. We shouldn't have to fear being brutalized by the government for exercising our First Amendment rights.

⚖️🧵 <insert paralegal smirking here> But AI is so efficient & such a time saver! Who needs paralegals!? Also lying to the judge’s face is never a good idea. Judge was SOOO NOT amused.

It was recently leaked that Meta plans to quietly roll out smart glasses equipped with facial recognition while civil liberties groups like ours are busy dealing with the Trump administration. They're wrong. We can walk and demand Meta halt production on these creepy glasses at the same time.

“I’m one of them, so I can say it,” is the only role these people want to see marginalized people play.

Schrodinger's Mad King

The New York City Bar Association issued a December report on President Trump’s serious abuses of presidential power and has since continued monitoring the situation, issuing an update. www.nycbar.org/wp-content/up...

As of 3/10, Trump admin has begun a partial easing of sanctions on RU oil “to stabilize global energy markets”.

Trump: “So, we have sanctions on some countries. We’re going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out (…) Then, who knows, maybe we won’t have to put them on – there’ll be so much peace.”

"the only minority ruining this country is billionaires" *NARRATIVE DETECTED!*

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Wonderful opportunity for Indigenous youth who are writers! Apply today to work with First America; details below.

Moment of calm in a world of confusion March Hare

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. -Ursula K. Le Guin

President Donald Trump declared Sunday that he will not sign any other legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, dramatically escalating his campaign to force the voter suppression bill through the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Our pill lookup app provides the most detailed look yet at the makers of America’s drugs and whether they’ve met manufacturing standards meant to keep us safe. Here’s how to use it.

AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse?

ICMYI: We published this piece on Friday, which explores a 4chan board that’s turned into an assembly line for online sex abuse via AI “deepfakes.” Even a small number of its users seem to question whether what the community is doing there is legal

"At least 64 billionaires and 37 of their immediate family members donated directly to the campaign" of one Republican Senate candidate. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

"I considered going to a protest downtown. But that seemed a little far, so I am crossing the ocean to Europe."

Dutch intelligence agencies issue a warning about Russian-backed hackers launching a global ​cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials, military personnel and journalists. www.defensie.nl/documenten/20...

Trump just put in charge of Iran a guy considered to be a hardliner *before* we killed his father, mother, and wife. We helped cement his rule by blowing up a girls elementary school, scorching their skies, and cutting off their water. We should expect retaliation—and blame Republicans for it.

Kootenay Lake 1/3

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

ICYMI: Yesterday, @bellingcat.com analyzed a video showing the attack on the Minab IRGC base that killed at least 168 people (mostly children) at the Shajareh Teyyebeh girl's elementary school. We concluded the attack on the base involved a US Tomahawk missile. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

BREAKING: France plans a “purely defensive” mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Macron said from Cyprus.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Here's a shot for #BlueSkyArtShow in the #flowing category... An HDR shot taken somewhere off in northwest Georgia. I'm... not entirely sure I remember WHERE exactly. If I had to GUESS, this was taken on Terrora Cir near the Tallulah Falls Gorge. Here(ish) www.google.com/maps/search/...

The report details how recent EPA decisions have relaxed restrictions on harmful chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air, increasing Americans’ exposure to 12 of the most dangerous and ubiquitous pollutants. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is exactly the stuff technology is meant for. youtube.com/shorts/hghlx...

#BBCNews - US embassy in Oslo hit by explosion, Norway police say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🖤 SUBMISSION SUNDAY 🖤 A Lone White Horse Against a Night Sky ~ watercolor, ink and gesso on paper by Jon Christopher Gernon #beautifulbizarre #artinspiration #artcommunity #supportart #art

Cleansing 🧵

Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.

“You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream… Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.” ~ Alice Walker

This is a classic example of Imperial Blowback. Foreign powers, seeking to shape the world to their demands, destabilise and overthrow popular governments, with results that - sometimes many decades later - come back to bite them in the nethers.

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

In 2000, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, said that intervention by the U.S. in the internal affairs of Iran was a setback for democratic government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Everyone should watch & listen to this video. He nails it! ⚡️🔥💣💥

If you’re wondering why “peptides yes but vaccines no,” it’s partly because a hallmark of conspiracy ideation is rejecting the mainstream and embracing whatever the alternative is. Vaxx = mainstream = corrupt & bad Peptides = fringe = secret & good.

This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe. gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-tells...

The pedo-cannibals in charge want to cut down the last of Oregon's old-growth forest. There is no reason to do this other than to desecrate Creation. This cannot happen. Link to xomment on BLM's plans in the reply. PLEASE take 30 seconds to help defend. Please share this 🙏

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

15 years ago if you complained about how the extraction class wanted to buy up the entirety of media and befuddle the electorate with right wing agitprop you'd be tsk-tsked by professional tutscolds who treated you like a toddler who just took a dookie on the wedding dance floor

Realized today that I'm working on the last and final project of the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Which is the official history of US public media, with Allison Perlman (Irvine), and Mike Janssen (Current).

Bizarre to write this story about Kraken gaining access to major US government financial infrastructure without mentioning the company's past legal troubles, which include... being investigated for subverting sanctions and enabling transactions with people based in Iran. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

😆 Now he’s gone & done it. Something deeply funny to me about a Kennedy trying to take Dunkin from Bostonians. That stuff’s horrible, but just TRY & pry it out of their cold dead hands.

Virginia Giuffre Memorial Garden installed right outside Buckingham Palace by @everyonehateselon.bsky.social She's wasn't here to see the arrest of P̶r̶i̶n̶c̶e̶ Andrew, but don't let the world EVER forget Virginia Giuffre. Andrew Windsor & Jeffrey Epstein tried to SMEAR her. But she demanded justice.