“Food is going to become less affordable.” Economists warn El Niño and the Iran war haven’t yet fully hit US food prices, which were already rising www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging membership took to the streets and clashed with the police. And a member of the Trump family was at the center of it all. The year was 1927. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-fre...

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

It is the 99th anniversary eof Fred Trump's arrest at a KKK riot. I dug deep into the story to see if I could find what it said about the Trump family. I found something that said a lot about the whole country. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-fre...

The asteroid will swing by Earth on Monday and be close enough to be visible using an amateur telescope

My new one @slate.com: Why is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden? slate.com/news-and-pol...

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

As government agencies increasingly rely on software and algorithms to make decisions, these tools may shape outcomes through their architecture in ways the public never sees and courts can’t review, writes Eli Talbert. Accountability thus requires that design choices be visible and transparent.

The 14th Amendment includes this sentence: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which granted citizenship to those formerly enslaved. If you're anti-14th Amendment, you're pro-slavery. 🤷🏿‍♀️ #blacksky

Highly relevant today with all this Jim Crow 2.0 going on. JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...

The deadliest terrorist attacks in the United States in recent years come from white nationalists pushing variations of Great Replacement Theory. El Paso Walmart, Pittsburgh synagogue, Buffalo supermarket, and more. Plus some in other countries. Not mentioned in the new counterterrorism strategy.

If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:

Cartoon by @slyngstad.bsky.social

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Defense attorneys Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam appealed to the all-white jury to summon its "Anglo-Saxon courage" to acquit the defendants in the Emmett Till murder trial. Word for word.

NEW: A Secret Service spokesman tells MS NOW the brother of the suspect in the WHCD attack contacted the New London, Connecticut police department about his writings. The police then contacted the Secret Service the night of the incident. MS NOW's Carol Leoning has the latest.

WaPo editorial board looks at share of income taxes paid, relative to share of income made. This is a very, very bad way to assess a tax system's fairness. 1) It excludes half the tax code, which dramatically changes the picture 2) Worse, share doesn't tell you actual impact on finances Consider:

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

"All of Trump’s weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His refusal to comprehend the substance, his childish understanding of the nature of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, and his belief that anything can be accomplished with sufficient threats and violence."

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Now Tisza is at 135, surpassing supermajority

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

The Presidential Records Act isn’t complicated. It was passed after Watergate for a reason & it’s very clear about what belongs to the public & what doesn’t. That’s what makes the new position DOJ is taking so disturbing. I explain here: joycevance.substack.com/p/killing-hi...

SCOOP: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has no plans to resign or otherwise leave his role at the Pentagon, he said in a statement on Tuesday, after a series of clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have prompted questions about how long they can coexist. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

FYI... Somebody should tell the governor of Texas that this photo is AI-generated. Neither the US military nor the White House has released any images from the rescue.

NEW: It's not just Gen. Randy George on the way out. Defense officials tell me and Tara Copp that Hegseth also is removing: Gen. David Hodne, commander of Transformation and Training Command Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., head of the Army's chaplain corps www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

1 week from today! Set you calendars On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in Appomattox Court House, VA, signaling the effective end of the Civil War.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

NEW: CNN found a Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate attended a GOP training event just months before filing for Senate. The Dem state party calls him a GOP plant to "trick voters" — he tells me he's a "free thinker," but admits voting for Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...

Pentagon looks for vendors to supply pre-made bunkers within 30 days trib.al/9wmRwE2

Happy 25th anniversary to all who celebrate Randy Johnson Hits a Bird Day!

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

Bad content drives out good. digg.com

This photo only gets more and more relevant with each passing month.

Cartoon

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz

SCOOP: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job w/ @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/john-s...

Per CNN: The shooter in the Michigan Temple Israel incident is dead - www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

“Rights advocates said they were alarmed by the proposal, which they saw as part of a drive by the administration to place homeless people in institutional settings against their will.”

The brand new Gordie Howe Bridge (spanning Detroit and Windsor) has announced their toll rates and they're significantly less than the Ambassador Bridge, whose private owner has lobbied the Trump administration to block the bridge from opening. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed aristocrats are 92 of the House of Lords' 800 members. n.pr/4ujW5AB

The US Department of Defense said they “had nothing to provide” when asked if they had reached any agreement with Iraq to utilize their airspace for cruise missiles targeting a third country. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...