The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

Not sure what is more terrifying, the actual statistic or the fact that nobody is talking about it.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social is going to have to get a corresponding Athletic account

Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

After weeks of unprecedented record warmth across the country, drought is also becoming an increasing issue. Luckily, a change in the weather pattern this week will bring at least a temporary reprieve for many. More: tinyurl.com/9c72wdsz

EXTRAORDINARY WARMTH IN RUSSIA Hundreds of March records smashed again See a small list of the most important below 👇 In KAZAKHSTAN also records,including 24.2C Dzhambety Much hotter tomorrow with thousands of records more from Russia to Japan. Absolutely crazy.

Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.

This cruelty needs to be seen. We need to show what Trump is doing to our people. We are fighting Trump and ICE by getting www.PAXIS.app into the hands of as many immigrants and allies as possible. FIGHT ICE, FIGHT TRUMP, FIGHT FASCISM: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

This is fantastic

Hegseth imagines himself defending "Western civilization." But the West has also made important contributions to the idea that there are moral limits on what we can do in war, from Cicero through Augustine, Grotius, Kant and more. He discards this inheritance. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

the NCAA uploaded raw footage of the UConn buzzer-beater from every camera CBS had in the building to youtube (will drop in the replies) and the best part has to be this hard pan to Dan Hurley's mom yelling HOLY FUCKING SHIT followed by a synchronized simultaneous HOLY SHIT by both Hurley parents

Wow! Each one of those granules is the top of a convection cell bringing hotter material from deep inside the sun to the surface. They're as big as Texas.

A final thought: the most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old normie Dems, "wine moms," "resistance libs," whatever condescending term you prefer. They're the ones doing the actual work. But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.

The last report from journalist Fatima Ftouni before she was murdered by Israel. She was covering Israel’s invasion of Southern Lebanon.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

The Middle East conflict escalated sharply overnight, as Iran struck a key U.S. military installation in Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched their first missile toward Israel since the war began.

A bill passed the Senate last night 100-0 to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily. But he won’t do that. Because Trump has ordered him to keep TSA shut down and keep the chaos. Pure incompetence.

“Multiple refueling aircraft and an E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane are among the aircraft damaged, according to preliminary information. A photo showed significant damage to an E-3, but the image could not be independently confirmed.” www.airandspaceforces.com/us-forces-sa...

Already ordered my hat.

I understand there are limits to this thinking, but it amuses me to no end that the NCAA exhausted every possible legal option to prevent one of its most popular players from gracing its product for one more year.

Realism vs. Reality

In his wonderful Cup of Coffee newsletter, @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social said the 91F temp at gametime for Cards’ MLB opening day seemed unnatural. It was. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

#Clayton, NM has reached 93F (33.9C). That sets a new March monthly record and also surpasses the April monthly record of 92F (33.3C) that was set on April 24, 2012. Records go back to 1896. #nmwx

Trump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."

probably the most depressing thing I’ll read this week

Used my daily BalancedWx post today to highlight the incredible interview that @andreatweather.bsky.social did with @drkatemarvel.bsky.social about her decision to join so many of my colleagues in the ranks of former federal scientists. The US is losing so much. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

🚨California diesel prices just reached an average of $7/gal for the first time ever. That’s not just a milestone- it’s a warning. Trucking and agriculture run on diesel. Higher costs are coming- and they won’t just stay in California.

This is completely outside of the realm of anything remotely normal for abnormal weather.

Broke the record high by 12 degrees today

Sunrise on intensifying Cyclone Narelle, soon to make its fourth landfall in Australia. Max wind speeds estimated by BoM and JTWC are 85kt (155km/h, 10-min sustained) and 105kt (195km/h, 1-min sust), respectively. Very similar minimum pressure estimates (954 vs 955mb).

Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!) Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

Once I got started on this piece, the numbers started talking to me, and by the end they were screaming. So I feel like I've got to share it with you: The Federal Employee Crisis Nobody's Talking About. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQuz...

My resignation letter

Rep Allard is super happy to be profiting off of death and destruction! Let’s spend a billion a day. Gee I hope no more Americans die or schools of little children are bombed. Oh well, thank you so much Trump. That is sociopathic 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

So I assume in his comment about wanting to track the “real” impacts of climate change the implication is some scientists are promoting “fake” impacts? Perhaps he’d care to offer some actual examples? 👿 Know what’s not fake? A week of 100+F temps in Phoenix in March.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Mamdani, unknown less than a year before the election, got 50.78% against an opponent who admittedly made every mistake in the book, but had universal name recognition and was swimming in outside money. I don't know what you're talking about.

Screw this, no concessions to Russia

Exclusive: The US has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters reut.rs/3NPWIkK

He did it for the children

I am reading "The Light of Battle" about Eisenhower and the lead up to D-day, and author Michel Paradis makes the point about how FDR and the US leadership did not want the US to become (in my words) an extractive empire like the British ran. Apparently we are all aboard the extraction train now.

All of this is correct. And it explains why almost everything Trump is doing is for the clear benefit of Putin.

Arizona’s mountain snowpack dropped over 90% in just a few weeks. New from me on the results of a first-in-the-state aerial snow survey. news.asu.edu/20260325-env...

How do you know when it's an insane period of warmth? When you need a map to track the sites around the country reaching monthly records - and more importantly, the number of days they're doing it. Thanks @climatologist49.bsky.social for making one. tinyurl.com/2upjydre

Have you heard about the mega-heat over the western half of the Lower 48 over the last week? Would you believe that the nationwide March departure from normal prior to the previous week was nearly as warm (+7.6F vs +6.8F)?