There. Is. No. Plan.

Sign on madison ave baptist church: "I bet Rick Astley really struggles with Lent"

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

“.. Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion.” @time.com time.com/article/2026...

I might have put it more strongly than this, NYT “The remark was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s penchant for tossing aside diplomatic norms.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

If Biden had said this, the entire corporate media would be demanding his immediate resignation. Every discussion would be framed around his mental fitness.

The NYT sanewashed Hitler. Why wouldn’t they do the same with an American despot? The Gray Lady is a votary of Power.

“The remark was the latest example of Mr. Trump's increasing penchant for exhibiting signs and symptoms of frontotemporal dementia.”

Eight months from now in the Times: “Defecating on the conference table at the peace talks was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s penchant for tossing aside diplomatic norms.”

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."

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Stop the ballroom, and Trump might lose his will to keep going. Just saying.

“Patients illuminate the extremities of being. They shine like stars. … they allow an astronomy of the human firmament. Doctors must be navigators. Instead we put on white coats, sterile gloves, professional airs.” - Oliver Sacks theamericanscholar.org/thinking-in-...

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.” - Oliver Sacks #QuoteOfTheDay #OliverSacks #Wisdom #Disease #Medicine

Everything that Trump touches dies.

Anyone else think it's highly inappropriate for the defense secretary to say "in the name of Jesus Christ" while he's doing a briefing about the U.S. killing people?

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

Lewandowski wanted a cut on every awarded DHS contract... "wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group’s DHS contracts, according to a senior DHS official and three people familiar with their discussion." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ohioans experienced an Earth-shaking boom yesterday when a meteor exploded over Cleveland. The American Meteor Society is still combing through reports to reconstruct the path the meteor took. https://wapo.st/3PpN9JN

“Ever found yourself driving to the grocery store or coffee shop even tho it’s a 10-minute walk & perfectly nice day? New research suggests the reason isn’t just distance—it’s how the walk feels…it’s the sights, street life & amenities along the way that strongly shape whether people decide to walk”

sic semper tyrannis to all who celebrate

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This transcript is brutal - you never want to be this lawyer.

I'm going with the Pope on this.

In a rebuke, a federal district court judge blocked the administration's reduction in the number of immunizations recommended for kids and also changes to an influential vaccine committee. n.pr/4uv8q4U

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Trump is insulting and threatening journalists, and his FCC is threatening to yank broadcast licenses if war coverage isn't favorable. To take a stand against such outrageous behavior, *no* journalist with any integrity should attend the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25.

We have to be clear on this. He’s playing fast and loose - and without care - with American lives.

We advocate for an expanded notion of ecological validity along three dimensions: subject phenotype, task naturalness, and environmental fidelity. You can read the full open access paper here: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Would like to know who these senior WH staffers are.

More snow.....

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Crow watching me shovel snow.

2nd round of shoveling -- 21" of snow - more coming later tonight.

After Trump took a break from commander-in-chiefing for rounds of golf this weekend, he is only five away from having spent a full 365 days of his two terms on the course. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

First round done - more to go.

If MAGA men can’t stand up to Trump on the shoes they choose to wear, what can they stand up to the president on? The answer is easy: nothing. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/who-...

Medicare for All would save Americans $650 BILLION a year. Source: Congressional Budget Office.

A group seeking donations for Trump sent out an email showing the president watching the somber transfer of US troops killed in the Iran War. The email says donors can get "private national security briefings and "the inside scoop DIRECT" from Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...

Grift all the way down and disqualifying disrespectful all at the same time.

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

I still hear some people saying Trump is still more popular today than he was at this point in his first term. That's not true. He's more unpopular now. Also more unpopular than Biden was. But that's not even that close any more.

Last year Pete Hegseth eliminated offices he said did not advance his focus on “lethality,” including the team responsible for helping reduce risks to civilians. 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge rejected the DOJ’s subpoenas for Jerome Powell, calling them political prosecution aimed at pressuring the Federal Reserve chair to lower interest rates or forcing him to quit. He said the department offered “no evidence whatsoever” that Powell committed any crime.

“So he is using YOUR Tax Dollars to protect oil tankers from attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, which will cause gas prices to go up - because he started a war using YOUR Tax Dollars.” -Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is." It’s not wrong. #UrbanTruth

“People who are executed for their crimes are disproportionately poor or intellectually disabled & often lacked good lawyers. They are also more likely to be sentenced to death if they have been convicted of killing a white person.” But look, the very idea of a death penalty is completely barbaric.