“It was one of those days when you felt God had forgotten the city” The first line of a 1930s novel of Depression-era Glasgow: not Blake’s THE SHIPBUILDERS or Barke’s MAJOR OPERATION, but HUNGER MARCH by Dot Allan – b. #OTD, 13 May 1886 – which preceded them both 🎂🧵 1/3 asls.org.uk/dot-allan-a-...

Scottish tourist attractions are not what they used to be. [Rev. J. B. Craven, History of the Episcopal church in Orkney 1688-1882.]

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

“Forcing”

This Monday on 103.3 fm WPRB...the ALL-STAR WARS SHOW returns for a fifth year!

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Outstanding article detailing how Eric is following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps in the family grift machine using the same tactics. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Imagine if our best engineering minds were working on stuff like this www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkVPRk85/

6/ How did the National Park Service and Caltrans come to spray poison on public lands? They relied on research that Monsanto secretly organized and even helped write: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

On March 30, Israel’s parliament passed the “Death Penalty for Terrorists” law, which is likely to be applied in practice almost exclusively to Palestinians. @amichaic.bsky.social and @yuvalshany.bsky.social evaluate the law’s compatibility with international and domestic constitutional law.

An onion will do well for such a shift

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 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...

"I see disinformation—which is an intentionally deceptive speech act—as often a preparatory act to engage in an intentional associated harms or exploitation act. In other words, I see disinformation as preparing the landscape for corruption." Cambridge Disinformation Summit youtu.be/3fye7X6TtVw

We claim to want the Europeans to step and take responsibility for Ukraine... and then we go and back the country blocking them from spending $100bn on Ukraine. 🤔

A super-rare chance to see work by TGE graffiti artists from Philly's midst and beyond. Visit Works on Paper for the opening party, 4/4, 6-9pm!

National Review accuses me of lying about the rise in maternal mortality since the end of Roe: "It turns out that maternal mortality rates declined in 2024 according to the CDC." You absolute fucking tools, that's *national data*—take a look at what's happening in states where abortion is banned

Hey hey!

Elizabeth Banks

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

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BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.

I'm not sure who said this but it bears repeating: When you kick over a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when it is over.

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

Nuclear safety, on Trumpism. What could possibly go wrong. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Greatest hits from my yearslong #FOIA pursuit of documents from Robert Mueller's Trump/Russia investigation, including my epic win (thx @mvtopic.bsky.social) to unredact the Mueller report.

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

thousands of allied troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and Kurds died on our behalf following 9/11 and this depraved freak has the audacity to call their sacrifice "moderately helpful" or "mostly symbolic"

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt via @msjpauly.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA. read more here:

This company should be nationalized, torn apart, and sold back to the industry as spare parts.

An enormous amount of the heinous offenses committed by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell occurred in New York. The Manhattan townhouse was an epicenter. The survivors make clear that Manhattan was a place where men allegedly sexually abused the girls and young women who were caught in Epstein’s lair.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

In 2023, OpenAI’s usage policy explicitly banned the military from accessing its AI models. But some OpenAI employees discovered the Pentagon had already started experimenting with Azure OpenAI, a version of OpenAI’s models offered by Microsoft, sources say.

NEW: Since Jan 2023, ICE + CBP together have spent at least $515 million on products from Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, & Google. But where is the money actually going, & what specifically is it powering? Here, I break down everything we know about both of these things: www.wired.com/story/how-bi...

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start. so, let me help: here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!) 🧵:

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

🔔 Government officials are citing journalism as "doxxing" to threaten press freedom. Join our webinar with @telliotter.bsky.social, @royalpratt.bsky.social, @sovernnation.bsky.social, and @charlie4change.bsky.social to learn more. 🗓️ March 4, 2 pm ET RSVP: freedom.press/journalism-isnt-doxxing

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

At the new ProPublica Narrated, you can listen to narrated versions of our important new investigations alongside the most compelling journalism from the ProPublica archives. Give it a listen here:

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

Floor plan for an ICE concentration camp. (Gift link for the @willbunch.bsky.social piece is in the thread.)

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...