just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Yikes!

the state of public history, 2026: with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

No one should show up to this. Let him vamp to an empty room.

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

If you teach please show your students this. If you're a student, please read this. The answers LLMs generate are not all alike. They are more likely to hallucinate on topics we don't already know a lot about. Even answers with "sources" shouldn't be trusted. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

"This small business owner is already giving her customers a tariff refund" www.cbsnews.com/news/tariff-... "if somebody charges you something and it's unlawful, they should give you your money back" Cc: The White House

"In all, for each $1 spent on online sports betting, net investments ⬇️ by 99 cents. In other words, basically all of the money people spent on sports betting didn’t replace other leisure activities or discretionary income, but ended up in less money in retirement accounts or other investments."

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

At a Cleveland newspaper, reporters assigned to the suburbs “are now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI.” Also: one reporter “said they were caught off guard when their annual performance review indicated insufficient AI use.” Gift link wapo.st/4aX44e1

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Top marks

“We don‘t know what comes next but we know that we killed a bad guy and that’s good,” the conservative editors intoned, having been born yesterday and being understandably confused about how this kind of stuff works

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

I thought "surely they wouldn't build a wall right through the National Park," so I went to their website (bit.ly/Big_Bend_Wall) to check for myself. The plan shows a border wall would be built, nearly continuously through the park's entire length, starting at Santa Elana Canyon. 🧵2/4

Is this eagle wearing pants?? Those legs are really something.

Dilley detainees said art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls. The Trump administration and private prison operator CoreCivic disputed detainees’ claims.

I used to get so panicky and sweaty whenever I did this but now I got 'em all on speed-dial LOL Jot down a few notes of what you want to cover, don't be hysterical or rude but do be firm and passionate, tell them you vote, and just remember they're hearing a thousand more insane calls than yours 😉

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

There is absolutely no reason for Sam Altman to say anything but he is currently digging the biggest hole possible, responding to all and sundry on Twitter. This is the worst possible statement he could have given!

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Get the word out!

There have been at least 11 medical emergencies at Dilley trailer prison requiring EMS. I have heard story after story of ICE failing to provide proper medical attention to children and families. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

For nearly a year, ICE and Texas DPS covered up an ICE shooting that left San Antonian Ruben Ray Martinez dead. His family deserves justice and the public has the right to know the truth.

Rep Jim Himes (D-CT), top Democrat on House Intelligence Committee: “Everything I have heard from the Administration before and after these strikes on Iran confirms this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame…”

Feb 23 poll of 2,287 U.S. adults (+/-2.6 points) % who said if President Trump wants to use military force in Iran, he should | shouldn't first seek authorization from Congress U.S. adults 67% | 17% Democrats 90% | 4% Independents 72% | 11% Republicans 40% | 36% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children

Because of new USPS rules, voters who mail registration forms near the deadline may risk being left off the rolls. One solution: requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter of a post office.

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I've already started doing this for IRS quarterly filings and similar things. I ask the postal worker to hand postmark it at the counter, then I take a photo of the envelope. They don't seem to mind at all.

“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

America's renewable energy future is already here - and it's being built in Texas. On a day-to-day basis now, solar power is now supplying 30-40% of all of Texas's electricity during much of the day. Wind power, too, is supplying another 30-40%.

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran. popular.info/p/deeply-con...

🧵 There are several possibilities regarding the Trump regime and Open AI. Here are a few possibilities: 1) Open AI has the same restrictions as Anthropic and the regime has actually folded without admitting it. 2) Sam Altman has misrepresented what Open AI agreed to with Pete Hegseth....

The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work. When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

Bishops: "At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment. It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community—whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children."

this is an absolute bald-faced lie, these were the exact consequences of the OBBB, there was a whole, separate side negotiation for an insufficient bail out for rural hospitals in order to get the bill passed and it is not to much to ask the press corpse to remember basic details

The revanchists in the Iowa legislature are gleefully destroying education, which used to be Iowa's crown jewel. From k-12 through higher ed, one of the country's best educational systems is being gutted by small, scared white men, who don't even comprehend this is no more than a murder-suicide (1/)

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

Patel was a witness in the stolen-documents case and pleaded the Fifth. A bit of a conflict of interest for him to be punishing those who worked on it.

Leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins news.mit.edu/2026/study-a...

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling