More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

In yarn news, I received a call from Melissa at @lovelyarns.bsky.social asking for red yarn. I dyed them up yesterday and will drive to Baltimore tomorrow to deliver them. They are hosting a Melt The Ice hat MAL if you’re looking for a place to hang out and feel community. 🧶🧶🧶

I just restocked skeins of Cherry on Brioche Dk if you need a skein for your #MeltTheIce hat. www.kimdyesyarn.com/dk-weight-ya...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Weiss herself is now enjoying the fruits of one such assault, assuming a leadership role at a television network bullied and extorted into adjusting its political orientation to the president’s liking because of a frivolous lawsuit.

Hi #knitting friends, It’s been a minute! I’ve been working on a YouTube Channel to share my knitting tips and journeys - like Ladderback jacquard feat. @knitterkim.bsky.social beautiful colors 😍 youtube.com/shorts/YvASk...

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

The Supreme Court has granted an adminsitrative stay of Judge Xinis's order requiring the government to return Abrego Garcia to the United States from an El Salvador prison. Find the Supreme Court's docket and lower court proceedings on Lawfare's litigation tracker.

Yep

Why not bring the kids along??? This administration is a National Security disaster waiting to happen.

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

"'Skadden,' Musk posted, 'this needs to stop now.' This could be an idle threat from Musk. It could also become official U.S. policy in the blink of an eye." How Dinesh D’Souza illustrates the inversion of law under Trump 2.0:

Marco Rubio, who used the Pulse mass shooting as an excuse to flip-flop on his promise to not run for reelection in 2016, is slashing LGBTQ+ people from annual human rights report: www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

oh this is a big mystery

@dmvaugha.bsky.social Cariño, did you see this?

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

The Republican Party is more or less built on reactionary opposition to the Democrats policies rather than their own actual policy ideas, and unfortunately the Democrats’ most recent policy was “having a strong economy”

You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Good morning! I am starting to host "Harry Hours" thru substack (probably will switch to zoom) This was a clip from the first one. Not only do we talk about everything thats going on and what we can do to fight back, but we try to have fun!! Join if you can!!! Lol ofcourse I love dad jokes.

A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Even Russia, says it was Russia.

Another alarming indicator of eroding free speech culture as well as editorial independence at VOA. A longtime reporter is on leave and under investigation, called “treasonous” by a rep for the administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

FRIDAY NIGHT FOLLIES: OPM revises Privacy Impact Assessment for server sending resignation/5-things emails to millions of fed employees, deleting earlier assurances that responses are 'voluntary.' Feb. 5: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Now: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

I know everyone is busy and crazy and the world is falling apart at the seams but if you are in a place where you can reach out to a friend and find a time get together in person for coffee or a walk or whatever, I really really really REALLY encourage you to do that

Trump's 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 to our ally in the Oval Office is a DAMN SHAME.  Denigrating a democratic world leader while sitting next to him has not only jeopardized our work with global allies. Once again, Trump's ego just put our national security at risk.

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

If transgender service members don't voluntarily agree to resign, they'll be forced by the Defense Department to repay the signing bonuses they received at enlistment. Not only will they be fired, they'll be punished with thousands of dollars in debt. All for attempting to serve their country.

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Bezos emails WaPo staff: "We are going to be writing every day in support & defense of two pillars: personal liberties & free markets." Adds "opposing" viewpoints won't be published. The WaPo is now a Trump propaganda outlet for contrived culture wars & unregulated oligarch-orientated capitalism.

It’s been a busy few weeks at WIRED, and we’re just getting started. Many of you have asked how you can support our journalism in a bigger way, so we’ve introduced a new option for WIRED Superfans: $100 a year, because you really love us.

If you work for the Washington Post and would like to anonymously share your thoughts about Bezos’ announcement this morning, please contact me on signal: juddlegum.47

Coeur d’Alene Press seems to be one of the few publications in the area that is not siding with the GOP on this. Today they released a spectacular piece detailing what happened. Please consider reading it in full. We need to support the good publications. cdapress.com/news/2025/fe... 4/4

Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

BREAKING: The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4gI5Ss4

What it's like to get fired from the CDC by DOGE. "It’s scary. I am a single mother of two kids." open.substack.com/pub/insideme...