How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

‘For all its various forms of sophistication, gay history's ultimate motive is often a search for people like us, even if they might not have recognised themselves as such.’ @piercepenniless.bsky.social on gay history and its uses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Am at Dulles airport. Passed 2 groups of ICE agents. They're doing extremely important work of.... standing around doing nothing! But WAY better than their normal activities. All ICE should be permanently reassigned to this "work"! Until then, I advocate ICE abolition: thehill.com/opinion/immi...

Sad news. Tracy Kidder did some great work. Like for so many young people, Mountains Beyond Mountains was a gateway to a world of moral and sociological imagination for me.

How can a tiny (though charming) town like Shelburne Falls, MA, have THREE used book stores, but a college town like Storrs, CT, has none? @uconn.bsky.social @uconnhumanities.bsky.social

‘the most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government. It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.‘ www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

“Where have all the flowers gone …?’ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“.. We’ve not seen anything like this,” Gareth Ramsay, chief economist at oil and gas giant BP, told the conference. “It’s every oil analyst’s study piece or worst nightmare — one that we never thought would happen.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

McGovern: He’s doing nothing to make healthcare more accessible. They say we don’t have the money—but we have a billion dollars a day to blow on this crazy war. I don’t think he gives a shit about the American people. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and he’s golfing.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

If you’re traveling and spot ICE at the airport, start snapping photos. They aren't allowed to wear masks inside the terminal, which gives us a rare, massive opportunity for identification. Don’t miss the shot

ICE is not TSA ICE is not a substitute or even a suitable complement for TSA ICE is not about transportation security ICE is about dictator insecurity I don’t want to fly if I have to see them at the airport I’ll keep my money in my community instead

Is It Still On Netflix ?........

A Christian nationalist praetorian guard theintercept.com/2026/03/19/a...

Chris Murphy: "It's just disgusting, it's so heartbreaking that we have a president who is cheerleading the death of American citizens. Mueller is amongst many who have been trying to hold this president to account. He's the most corrupt president in the history of the country."

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...

Your life is not your own and / never was. D. A. Powell

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

In just a few hours, I’ll be in conversation at BN Hingham. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hey.

Do the honorable thing, Chuckles @schumer.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Good morning, BlueSky

First day of Spring (vernal equinox) and World Forest Day. poets.org/poem/birches

The Childe said this, I laughed/choked so hard they asked me to post it, & then they would not listen to “no one will believe me & will angrily say I’m lying.” So here it is. “Side effects of not reading include: nausea, diarrhea, pneumonia, shrinking, & in rare cases, death.”

Never stop talking about the Epstein files

Paul Kenton, #British #painter known for his dynamic cityscapes filled w/ movement, light & reflection. Using bold palette knife strokes & layers of oil paint, he captures the energy of rain-soaked streets, skylines & urban life w/ striking realism & texture @paulkenton.bsky.social #art #painting

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 US Air Force B-1B Bombers Denied Access to European Union Airspace airlive.net/military/202... #Iran #IranWar

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...

The flags were hanging in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department offices and in two different professors’ offices, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Free Press, which first reported the story. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

It's a volatile time in publishing right now. Don't be surprised if you see progressively bad news the next few months. But as I'm telling all of my authors, we've weathered bad times before and books won't go away completely. Don't lose hope, but definitely gird your loins. It's gonna be bumpy.

Deja vu all over again

Understand this: The next time you get gas and pay 4 or 5 dollars per gallon, that gas you are buying today was imported, produced, or manufactured at around $70/barrel by big oil. However, you are paying as if it was produced at over $100/barrel. Big oil is ripping us all off.

“His practical conclusion is brutal: any attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, to establish global governing bodies, to put the brakes on technological development, becomes— in this context — a preparation for the reign of the Antichrist.”’ variety.com/2026/digital...

Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Afroman almost got me feeling patriotic 'n shit. BATTERAM HYMN OF THE POLICE WHISTLE BLOWER www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8E...

KISS ME, I’M IRISH! ☘️💚 #LáFhéilePádraig  #StPatricksDay

‘In a letter posted on X, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed that the Trump administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel" and its powerful American lobby.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Beat #Zippy “Are we having fun yet?”

‘"Jessica Foster" is a widely popular, AI-generated Instagram influencer that emerged around December 2025, masquerading as a pro-Trump U.S. Army soldier to amass over a million followers before being exposed as a foot-fetish content scam.’ #MAGA #incels biztechweekly.com/jessica-fost...

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

Sen. Chris Murphy explains what the Iran war is NOT. (The Trump regime doesn’t exactly seem to know what it is.) @chrismurphyct.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/T2PWt...

As seen in a YT comment: “mellow dramatic”