Let's maybe not call people who think women should have no rights "traditional." Perhaps "anti-equality" is a more accurate frame

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When you are looking for it, it is amazing how often news sources owned by zillionaires try to make normal people upset about things that mainly (or only) affect other zillionaires. Denver7 is trying to make me sad over (Peter Thiel's ICE company) Palantir leaving the state in a hissy fit.

I increasingly think that the American public equates leadership with communication. Reagan wrecked people's lives but he could tell a story! Obamas: great communicators, both. In the absence of a great communicator, people will gravitate to a Tr*mp, who uses sales language to manipulate.

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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Just for posterity’s sake: starting a war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense.

A lot of the GOP plans seem to involve birth certificates, passports, registering to vote again - do they think most men are great at paperwork? This seems like a recipe for 75% female voter share tbh 🤷🏼

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What a great report by the Norwegian Consumer Council on how digital products and services are getting worse (enshittification)! Lots of good explanations and examples, but also very actionable with policy recommendations.

I don't think I've actually been excited to update to the latest version of Firefox since the version number was in single figures, but the latest version - 148 - ships with a "switch off all AI" setting that I have swiftly enabled. Any software that includes AI should have a kill switch like this

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I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

The Tr*mp effort to divide men and women and cause rifts continues by getting male hockey players to go along with his jokes about the female hockey players. It's all schoolyard politics - no different than "ew cooties" to get men in line. Hopefully some of those players were not gullible fools.

I wanna see a survey where his popularity is in the teens. For real

"This is an all-out assault on our free speech rights in this country." @jimacosta.bsky.social is exactly right.

This message is for anyone involved in the administration or working for them directly or indirectly Just stop doing what he tells you to do :) It’s just that simply. Disobey. Deny. Slow things down. Act confused. Sabotage things. Make a mess of the paperwork.

I think one can make an argument that the reason the Dems feel uninspired is because they've moved from being a party of ideas to a party of competence. And the GOP moved them there.

I can't remember whose memoir said it, but Motown Records existed because of the Detroit public school system and their commitment to musical arts through the 70s.

The Pulitzer board sometimes issues special citations — eg for the videographer at the George Floyd murder, or for journalists covering Gaza and Ukraine. They could do that this year, to ameliorate the error made years ago in not awarding Brown a Pulitzer Prize. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

I tend to think Colbert without corporate checks is a Colbert none of these folx are prepared for, but we'll see what he does next eh 🤷🏼

The groove continues because of this.

An effective visual for the public: how many children ICE would fit in a billboard-sized room

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Tr*mp tourism slump:

No one should. No one should be here for the World Cup.

That Austrian mountaineering case is bizarre but also echoes the time we are in. This guy, who claims to be an expert, makes a bunch of very obvious mistakes, owns up to none of them even though it resulted in the death of a girlfriend, and just keeps blustering on...

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Truly the public is not furious enough.

I used to think about inequality as the outcome of large, flawed, and impersonal systems Now I am much more inclined to believe that motherfuckers are in a group chat actively conspiring to keep all women and non-whites down

TLDR: universities and the talent they produce still run the US economy and we're idiots for damaging our most valuable asset for morons who think they can make Miami happen www.businessinsider.com/miami-next-s...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

The President problem in multiple countries is clearly related to a party politics problem, which leads back to $$$. If parties cannot be trusted to elevate non-corrupt candidates, where does that leave us?

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

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If the elections were rigged by Democrats, then Republicans wouldn’t control the White House and both chambers of Congress.

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right now “illegal” is anything a billionaire fascist doesn’t like. we need to learn to call that out as the bullshit it is.

Purple Virgil ftw

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

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“Terminated USAID funding has also resulted in more than 164,000 additional child deaths from pneumonia, 125,000 additional child deaths from diarrhea, 70,000 additional adult and child deaths from malaria, and 48,000 additional adult and child deaths from tuberculosis.”

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.