"They were interested in building an elaborate alternate reality with one central function: coddle unchecked wealth accumulation with a vast scaffolding of strange mythologies." Sadly, I was unfamiliar with Karl Bode's work before today: karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-t...

Trump's going to verbally berate the press and they are going to sit their and silently take it. Maybe they'll even applaud him. If it plays out like that, it signals that the press is no longer free and exists only to serve him. That is a disastrous message to send. Cancel this damn thing.

One thing that always bothers me about any coverage of a catastrophic event, natural or man-made, is the blithe accounting of "so many killed, and so many injured" as if a minor cut and the loss of a limb or eyesight were functionally equivalent. It seems as if "so many maimed" should be included.

White hot rage is mine. More illegal shit it'll take a generation to undo: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

If you want to work with machines, there are plenty of jobs open to you. Journalism shouldn't be one of them: www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Worth reading. The campaign ads write themselves, but will any Democrat actually use them? Time will tell: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-trump-t...

Wow. This is pretty damning.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

The Artemis II mission so far is an achievement of expertise and astronaut bravery. You'd think Trump would be on about AMERICAN GREATNESS, but since it has nothing to do with inflicting pain on his enemies or a ballroom, he can barely perceive it happened. Even his grifting seems mere habit now.

"The purpose of it all was to be engaged in beautiful doing." On games and metrics, a very rich 20 minute interview with the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, well worth your time if you care about games or a world increasingly driven by metrics instead of context: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

With all the relentlessly shitty news, every now and then I need a reminder that humans can make beauty too. Courtesy of Paul Krugman's newsletter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zusF...

Here we go. Recent changes in Canadian law recognize Mrs. Professor Furious as a Canadian citizen if she can put together the paper trail. Every day adds more urgency to the task: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Is it mere coincidence that the acronym for the Department of War is DOW? I think not! /s

Dunno 'bout y'all but I think a land of free soil, free labor, and free people where full citizenship is open to any person of any race, creed, nationality, sex, or gender under the heavens who claims it is a damn inspiring vision. Call me old-fashioned.

On War (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Hey One-Percenters: The population of the USA is about 330 million people and 8 million of them attended No Kings protests yesterday. You do the math.

This talk between Krugman and David Roberts is striking in accurately referring to the USA as a "despotic petro-state" and summarizing China's clinical positioning as the electrified state of the future working to transition the world away from fossil fuels: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

The great powers are not prepared for wars prosecuted with cheap, sophisticated, and ubiquitous weapons that engineers can assemble in a residential garage. defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-stri...

Yikes, here's a HUGE story that it seems not enough folks are reporting on yet. Drone swarms of unknown origin this month apparently attacked an important Air Force base—"the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

So tired of all the winning.

In 2013, North Carolina Republicans passed laws disenfranchising Black voters “with near surgical precision.” They eliminated voting methods used by Black voters. The GOP saw that, refined its methods and expanded. Cheating is their only option. Autocratic Dictatorship Was Always The Plan.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 25 MARCH 2026 THESE HORRIBLE TIMES OUTRAGE AGAIN !! Meet Jessica Martinez, proudly serving our Country in the U.S Navy SHE WAS DEPLOYED TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR TRUMP'S WAR Her father Humberto has just been deported to Mexico by ICE She learned this while DEPLOYED

Follow the money. AG Pam Bondi, Border Czar Tom Honman, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, and DJT all benefited from GEO group. America's deportations and detention centers were never about making America safer. It's always been a grift.

@eschatonblog.com wrote yesterday about packaging elite conservatism as populism: "Collins: I think it's fair to say that everybody hates universal basic income. On the left and on the right. " www.businessinsider.com/ai-impact-on...

If generative AI is going to eliminate ANY jobs at all, it will be the $130k positions for new 23-year-old new grads to copy-paste from Wikipedia into a PowerPoint deck and add a slide that says "Prevent union" and "Fire people"

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... A must read

Democrats have now tried to pass TSA funding 8 times. In fact, they’ve tried to fund every department under DHS except for ICE and CBP over and over again. Republicans and Trump have blocked them every time. Why? Trump wants to suppress your vote so he can keep profiting off of the presidency.

"Treason". Of course, who's going to stop them? The Dept of Just Us? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

It's recklessly irresponsible (talking to you, Business Insider) to write these words as if they have any connection to reality. So tired of the idea that "unbiased" reporting means credulously translating the ludicrous statements of con-men.

Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice newsletter interviewed me about my push for the news media to report loudly on Trump’s dangerous mental unfitness. “They don’t want to make themselves part of the story by calling him out," I said. "They’re afraid he will direct his deranged behavior toward them."

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Reminder that DHS funding has lapsed because Trump and Republicans have refused to accept modest reforms for ICE — a rogue agency that has killed American citizens, brutalized immigrant communities, and detained thousands of residents (both citizen and noncitizen) while violating due process.

Is the mother actually playing pretend, or is this some other behavior?

Trump makes an incredibly crude, ignorant, insulting, and racist "joke" about Japan, with the prime minister of Japan sitting next to him. Guess where this is framed as "the latest example of Mr. Trump's penchant for tossing aside diplomatic norms."

@warren.senate.gov Are you kidding me? Constituent here, supporter of your first primary run when you were a professor, and I open up The Hill to read this? thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez, the widely admired Latino icon who brought to light the struggles of farmhands while leading the United Farm Workers union.

Folks, when i returned from war. I was at my lowest and the worst human being you could imagine. Not once did i joke about rape. Maine don’t elect Graham Planter, if he’ll blame this on his service. He’s already let you down.

AOC: We rely on hundreds of thousands of home care workers across the country. This labor force is going to expand a lot as more of our parents reach older age, and these folks need to be paid a fair wage. These are some of the most exploited workers in the country.

Impossible to be more obtuse. It's not that we hate Trump. It's that we hate stupidity and Trump is stupid and wasting blood and treasure in a parade of his stupidity. Another sign that just because you have a law degree it doesn't make you smart. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

More like this, please. Keep the pressure on.

This is closing the barn door after the horse is already President, isn't it? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

By the time you finish watching this video, you'll be able to explain the potential Warner Brothers-Paramount deal like an expert.

Don’t forget that March 17th ☘️ is also the Feast Day of St. Gertrude the Great! Patron saint of #cats 🐈🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛