WWRJD (What Would Raul Julia Do)

“Most Americans think this is a fight over a handful of congressional districts. It is much, much worse than that. Over the past several days, Southern legislatures have moved with breathtaking speed to dismantle Black political representation across the South…” open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Our public lands are not for sale. Period.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

Whichever candidate runs on packing the court has my vote.

Carl warned us

me in 2013: gerrymandering is one of the most important issues facing the country, we should not improperly represent states. we cannot let what scott walker did to wisconsin become the norm me in 2026: destroy every elected republican

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

"Huh, that kind of looks like Gothmog from Lord of the Rings" 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘰𝘯 😮

Big update: I secured a commitment that the FISA court opinion revealing abuses of Americans' rights will be DECLASSIFIED before Congress votes on reauthorization. The more Americans know about these abuses, the more they’ll demand real reforms.

This isn’t a scientific debate. This is government censorship. This is Lysenkoism, as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social pointed out last year. And this will not end well. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"Maximum lethality, not tepid evidence-based reality. Violent effect, not epidemiologically correct"

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

This works really well if you're of a political persuasion that thrives on lying and gaslighting while being opposed to people whose most critical weakness you identify as empathy.

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

The party of "the single biggest loss in healthcare in the history of the United States" has a nice ring to it

This is not a drill: The Senate is poised to blow up Boundary Waters mining protections, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

$240 million loss. Amusingly, this is coincidentally the same amount of money *extra* that Americans are collectively paying *daily* due to Iran war and the resulting fuel shock and gas price increase. Over $10 billion extra since the beginning of the conflict. www.twz.com/air/navy-mq-...

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

I wonder if Iran will take this opportunity of a negotiation process to launch an attack out of the blue on another party that is presumed to be negotiating in good faith ... like we did to them ... twice.

I wonder if Iran will take this opportunity of a negotiation process to launch an attack out of the blue on another party that is presumed to be negotiating in good faith ... like we did to them ... twice.

How it feels being on this app today

Our own deranged autocrat calls in from the toilet to stump for another deranged autocrat and further a program of western democratic erosion. Elections are on the 12th. What a time to be alive.

It’s probably nothing. 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social

"Alexa, was Escape from Alcatraz on TV last night?"

The Air Force just lost at least one of its (roughly eight) functional E-3 AWACS to an Iranian missile. One THAAD battery in Jordan was rendered inoperable when it's radar system was destroyed. Two more THAAD radar arrays may have suffered damage from a separate strike on the UAE. This is attrition

4 years of Ukrainian combat footage and POV drone detonation vids does not make this sound like it will be great. The gamification of exploding people via drone and posting the videos with hype soundtracks online is not something "kitchen table issue" folks are ready for.

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

"He told officials that anti-ICE could not be viewed as successful, and repeatedly said that demonstrators “need to be vanquished by any force necessary,” another DHS source told the Mail." Fucking **vanquished**? It's just cartoonishly evil.

Meiselas: How would you vote on a $200 billion supplemental for this war in Iran? Cortez Masto: I would vote against it. That $200 billion in taxpayer money could go toward helping taxpayers. With that money, we could fund ACA tax credits for another seven years...

Great question. The problem, of course, is that every other journalist in the room didn't keep asking it until they got an answer.

Spain again showing the west that it is, in fact, possible to have principles.

Dr Assal Rad— "This is a great example of a terrible headline from @nytimes.com, which avoids all the useful information."

Here's the deputy AG—the man who runs the DOJ—aggressively advocating a crime.

To say that Harry Nilsson was an iconoclast is an understatement. He had a gorgeous voice, a gift for melody, often clever lyrics. He also had demons. Many demons. A complicated and fascinating artist. In the mid-late '70s the man made some defiantly idiosyncratic LPs. A gateway Nilsson work? This.

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

C-SPAN caller to Rep. Pete Sessions: "Your party has given the power of the presidency to an insane, pedophelic serial killer"

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

It's been very unseasonably warm here in Colorado. So much so that this is the warmest March ever recorded on record. And to think a major political party believes climate change is a hoax. WTF are we doing America? 🌎 #climate #ClimateChange

Edward R. Murrow famously used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. He got his start on CBS Radio, which will sadly be shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. We need more journalists holding the powerful accountable like this.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Things are not okay.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit