A headline I’m having trouble wrapping my head around: An American woman in her early 40s is now more likely to give birth than a teenager.

oh well

This is brilliant.

A lot of historical authoritarian regimes ultimately foundered because there are upper limits to how much brutality human enforcers are willing to carry out on a broad civilian resistance that includes their family and old classmates. An AI controlled drone is never going to refuse an illegal order.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

Really good piece by @parkermolloy.com - it's easy to see the problem, and I naively have been thinking that 10 years is enough time to come up with an effective solution, but the reality is that the administration is very effectively exploiting a structural weakness in the media. Now what?

'One Year of Failure': The Lancet Warns RFK Jr's Assault on Science May 'Take Generations to Repair'

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water. He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him. www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

The Department of Justice is claiming that it removed a photo of Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick from its released Epstein files because it was flagged for nudity. There is no visible nudity in the picture. trib.al/sVBt0vL

MAGA: The same old hate, now in a red hat.

Why do we fall so quickly for lies? To cope. To cope with a world that tells us we're not good enough the way we are. To cope with having to look a part, to live up to anyone else's ideas. Once we're afraid we're not good enough, the idea that we're better than anyone else comes as a false relief.

today in things i say that apparently will generate vitriolic hate trains against me: "oligarchical consolidation of media is bad but also there are limits to what can be done given the nation's size and its deeply-rooted tradition of a free press."

WATCH: “Rep. Jody Barrett is running unopposed.” 🎯 It’s true — the guy who wants women who get abortions to face the death penalty has no opponent.

"The podcasters’ revisionist history of 2024 confirms they're kickboxing above their political weight class. But absolving themselves of responsibility is necessary because it's the only way manosphere listeners who also may be grappling with a case of voter’s remorse can exonerate themselves too."

"Women in tight uniforms and maggots in the soft serve: Two ex-employees sue Trump’s N.J. golf club" Abraham Gutman for @inquirer.com [How the heck did I miss this story from January?!]

A new ACLU report documenting ICE's expansion of the 287(g) program to build out a national deportation policing force. The administration is enlisting thousands of state and local police to conduct dragnet-style enforcement. www.aclu.org/press-releas... www.aclu.org/publications...

My law firm and I are fighting DOJ in court over in every one of the first 25 lawsuits it filed to gain access to your sensitive voting data. We will do the same in these next five. This is the most important fight right now and I intend to win. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

An actual company (Anthropic) told me no, so now I'm going to pick a fight with children to feel big and strong

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

I can’t stop thinking about this.

Trump’s been denying the affordability crisis. Meanwhile, January PPI just came in hotter than expected at 2.9% YoY / core 3.6%. Data don’t lie.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Most of the most outrageous allegations against Trump — including allegations of child rape — date to the mid 1990s. Back then, the National Enquirer wasn't in the business of "catch and kill," so covered Trump's attack on Jill Harth in 1996.

Shocking video shows Border Patrol abandoning refugee Nurul Shah Alam in front of a closed Buffalo storefront on a cold winter's night. Shah Alam died 5 days later. This comes after Border Patrol claimed the shop was still open.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

there only being two ideological teams now attempts to split the differnce are a dead end www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

Please spend 40 minutes listening to my brilliant friend and immigration rights attorney Jessica Zweng break down how the immigration and criminal justice system worked to kill Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind Rohingya refugee who was left to die in the cold. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-sy...

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

A photo released last month by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein's island in the Caribbean has been removed from the Justice Department's website.

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake. And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone. And lied about it. They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid. And lied about it. What does this tell you?

Denmark to hold a snap election, apparently to give the governing Social Democrats a larger mandate to deal with the ongoing Greenland crisis. This is one thing a healthily flexible political system allows for; early elections when the political conditions call for it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

I am essentially breaking even on my minimized monthly expenses but any extra expenses sap my savings. I am not promoting it as much as I did last year but any support of my work here or on Patreon would be appreciated. Patreon.com/katelynburns

“According to preliminary information, Shah Alam did not have shoes on, just orange booties from the detention center, when he was dropped off by agents, Ryan said,” in Buffalo, in an unusually brutal February www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

Border Patrol dropped a blind Rohingya refugee at a Tim Hortons 5 miles from his home on a freezing February night. Didn’t call his family. Didn’t call his lawyer. Five days later, Nurul Amin Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo sidewalk. He was 56. #Accountability

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is plotting to steal the 2026 election and his buddy David Ellison and Bari Weiss just won control of CNN. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and pro-democracy. No corporate investors. It will never back down. Support it by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

NEW: Federal prison officials face civil contempt hearing, as ICE is threatened with criminal contempt. Thursday orders from two Republican judicial appointees show greater willingness to push back with increasingly harsh tools in the face of continued Trump admin lawlessness. Tonight at Law Dork:

People are dying . The media ignores them.

A legally blind, 65 yr-old woman: has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can't afford food under Trump. "The end is coming near. Under Joe Biden I received $80 SNAP per month & was able to put away $100 per month for food. Trump took that away from me." #sheshed

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

Glad she is released and grateful for the Mayor’s efforts but I can’t stress enough THIS IS NOT HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO WORK

December, 2025, there was widespread speculation online that Marco Rubio was under the influence of narcotics after his bizarre behaviour during a press conference.

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

after speaking with zohran mamdani this afternoon, president trump announced that he will kill himself immediately