I just want a political party that will make trustbusting and putting every corrupt Trump official/crony in federal prison the centerpiece of everything.

Every so often, Democrats announce they're investigating Jared Kushner, and nothing ever comes of it, despite the open and obvious corruption. I'm tired of investigations being announced to generate tweets, not consequences. newrepublic.com/post/209205/...

Lutnick's complaining about the sucking sound, because he and his sons are the ones doing the sucking. Must be loud, when you're $100 billion deep. fortune.com/2026/03/07/w...

Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women

I'm rewatching season 1 of the Diplomat, which came out in 2023. They're trying to avoid a war with Iran. Wildly, almost unfathomably different times, and it's only been 3 years.

Meteorologists missed the threat of a tornado outbreak until it was happening, and some meteorologists are concerned that reductions in NWS staffing and weather balloons means we are missing critical data needed for community safety. www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

The meteorologists are not okay.

This is the plot of a Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy movie, btw.

There's this French lady living in a medieval village who vlogs about her life whom I follow religiously. She posts new videos on Fridays, so I woke up this morning and excitedly logged in to see the latest from Menton. Did y'all know it's only Thursday? 😭

I'm so burned out, I know I need to leave my current job for my health and sanity, but every time I start perusing job listings, the idea of starting over doing the same job at another company makes me feel physically ill. It's the same shit everywhere.

Watching the tracking data for anything being shipped FedEx is bananas, because why has this package been through 3 different facilities in 2 days, and it's only traveled a whole 120 miles, all within the state of Florida?

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

This particular target a twofer for ICE - nab her AND make life harder for the people who need her services. (She's a court interpreter!) The replies to Aaron are a great illustration of how ignorant many Americans are about how immigration works and how at the mercy of the system immigrants are.

Last week: Most writeups on the 36-year-old state legislator tend to gloss over his Teach for America tenure, but it’s impossible to understand James Talarico’s meteoric political rise without understanding the network that incubated him.

The Unholy Trinity: the Messiah-cosplaying President, the Pope-lecturing VP, and the Secretary of War preaching from the Book of Tarantino. 🙄

Abigail Spanberger's veto comes two years after Glenn Youngkin, her Republican predecessor, vetoed a similar bill. Every Democrat in the legislature had voted in favor of the bill earlier in February and March, so this is quite the break with party.

Reporting like this makes me want to scream because "[AI models] solve cybersecurity problems 93% of the time, up from 15% in 2024" is 1) not true, and 2) not even necessarily a good thing. www.forbes.com/sites/steven...

In December 2023, the Justice Department sued a Texas land developer it accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents into predatory mortgages. Now, the Trump administration plans to settle the case without compensating victims.

It was great speaking with Miryam about autism and ageing while she prepared this article, and hopefully it will help raise wider awareness about the experiences and needs of middle-aged and older autistic folk.

You'd think that "the clearly deterioriating elderly president attacks The Pope and compares himself to Jesus in an unhinged, late night social media rant" would be a thing that political reporters would perk up about & realize theyd need to cover differently, but I guess not.

Every time Third Way publishes anything with their advice on winning elections, I remember that this guy, who thought Dukakis getting in the tank was a good idea, is an executive there. 40 years of non-existent judgment.

Can you imagine what the press, punditry, and party donors would do if Joe Biden had threatened to kill the pope then posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus on the social media platform he owned? Do you think it would be treated as a celebrity feud?

Because we don't want to vote for someone who sexually assaults women. Tough concept for the NYT, I know!

Whenever I want an impartial judge, I look to a conspiracy-pushing shitposter to do the job.

All right, I've got two local folks who are dangling at the cliff's edge, and they really need someone to help pull them up TODAY, because they can't hang on much longer.

I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.

The Trump administration threatened to kill the Pope? The *Pope*?!

lol

Wisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout. Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

The question I want answered by every member of the Senate and the House is "what did you do in the last 8 hours?" That's it. I don't need spin, I sure as hell don't need a story. I just want a list. What the fuck did you do today?

Olympic legends Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird have denounced the Olympics trans athlete ban. They call out the mass testing regime that will be implemented on women and the harm it will cause. “Can we focus our resources into real problems women’s sports face?” Subscribe to support our journalism.

Ultimately the problem with "heads I win, tails you lose" as a diplomatic mantra is that eventually someone will just shoot you instead of flipping the coin.

*sigh*

I got a very strange message from the DoorDasher who is getting my groceries tonight.

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

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Honestly, I think the leaders of the Democratic party are perfectly fine with Trump starting a war with Iran, especially when they can claim in fundraising texts and campaign trail pit stops that they didn't support it and it's all the GOP's fault, while omitting that they also didn't oppose it.

No one's going to do anything about all of this until some very rich people start losing money.

One of these people was deemed to be so dangerous to the United States, they were forced to drop out of the presidential race by the press, major donors, and their own party's leaders in 2024.

A global hunger crisis will follow the global oil crisis, all caused by Trump.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

Remember the summer of 2024 when every journalist, talking head, political consultant, and major donor came crawling out of the woodwork to scream about how dangerous Joe "Old" Biden would be for another 4 years?

Reminder: Tomorrow is Easter. If you have cats, do not bring any lilies into your house. At all. They are toxic and will kill your cats. Even just the pollen.

🚨 Ever Alvarenga, an asylum seeker, was driving to work Thursday morning when he was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle. He is still in the hospital after suffering significant injuries to his head, chest, back, & hands. [1/2]

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

I cannot escape the sense that the reason people get more “well, hmm” about this is that deep down, they’re not sure child care should be encouraged, which really comes down to a sense that a parent should stay home, by which they mean a mother, and I’m not walking that road.

"'Trump had in his possession some highly sensitive documents...'" the memo said. They included one document that was previously 'accessible by only 6? people, including the president.'" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

yes. they pay more based on income in taxes for the thing that is then “free” for everyone. this is how public services work