Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Everything Americans feel about the Trump administration is captured in this weary traveler’s face.

March 25, 1776: New Jersey authorizes an issue of paper money to pay for the colony’s defense, in denominations ranging from 1 shilling to £6. Each note is signed by a New Jersey official, among them the future Declaration of Independence signer John Hart.

Passing “elements” of the SAVE Act through reconciliation would put lie to the notion reconciliation can only be used for fiscal policy and would be the end of the filibuster in everything but name under any sort of consistent interpretation if successful.

I’ve always said that cornhole is a scourge on this nation and we need to put a stop to it.

Men need to women up and know when to help. This is the domestic violence hand signal.

Fetterman is doing tremendous damage to the reputation of the Big Oaf community. Big Oafs did not ask for this kind of toxic representation. Now we must lumber back into the shadows, hiding under bridges wearing our most somber JNCO jean shorts, drowning in both our sorrows & voluminous denim

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

SCOOP from @anthonycormier.bsky.social & team As Lutnick Sold Cantor to His Children, Tether Gave Them a Loan Reps for Tether and Lutnick's family declined to reveal the amount. An ethics expert said the loan may be ‘another favor his family owes Tether.’ 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In 1841, shortly after the Choctaw Nation had been forcibly relocated from their ancestral homelands in Alabama & Mississippi to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), they heard about the Great Hunger in Ireland — the politically engineered famine that ultimately caused 1 mil people to starve to death. 1/2

Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

my takeaway from this bracing op-ed is that you cannot both  re-order the global economy around a technology that plans to disrupt every single industry in rather intense ways AND start a massive geopolitical conflict with potential for large scale economic strain around resources

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Boy howdy, if this doesn’t sum up the Republican Party, nothing does.

In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, the PBS series American Experience is running a bracket style contest to choose the greatest speech in our nation's history. Washington, Lincoln, JFK, MLK, Hamer, Milk, Fisher, Wiesel, Reagan, Obama. Who would you pick? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great article in Fortune on how the U.S. Mint‘s design for the commemorative dime removes the olive branch from the eagle’s talons but keeps the arrow. Good stuff on history of images on coins and their meaning. fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job. The “Numident” and “Master Death File” include data on 500 million living and dead Americans. DOGE guy "expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal." Gift Link wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Ukraine has sent drone experts and interceptor drones to help defend US military bases in Jordan from Iranian drone attacks. Washington asked for help last week, and Ukrainian specialists were deployed the very next day. “We reacted immediately,” Zelensky said. www.kyivpost.com/post/71523

BREAKING: the 52.0c/gal weekly rise in the national average price of gasoline is now the fifth largest ever recorded by GasBuddy data going back to 2000.

Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

As the Great Depression threatened the tenuous foothold of women on newspaper staffs, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt instituted a weekly, women-only press conference at the White House to force news organizations to employ at least one woman reporter. The first was held on this day in 1933. 🧵

this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

A full year of sunset times. The number of categories is dynamically chosen for each day based on the range for that day and therefore the number of colors changes throughout the year.

In the headline for today’s Ms. Manners column, the Washington Post reveals that it doesn’t know what an ophthalmologist is.

“Wars can be fought forever, and very successfully.” A war that goes on forever is one that cannot be won. This is going to be so much worse than any of us imagine.

Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral https://theonion.com/trump-on-fence-about-attending-ayatollahs-funeral/

After Renee Good was killed, career FBI agents were ordered to stand down from investigating her killing. Why? Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.

There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.

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Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case | Miami Herald share.google/5l80KTHCwcf1...

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

Breaking News: Trump launches Operation WAG THE DOG.

Israel says it has launched strikes on Iran, as explosions are heard in Tehran. Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. has begun “major combat operations in Iran." I guess he’s taking orders from Netanyahu now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

People are complaining that the $85 billion in funding provided to ICE is too much, but they need to understand that almost half of that just goes to providing target practice for the Dept. of Defense.

What a totally bizarre choice by the Washington Post for art to accompany this story. “4 dead on US speedboat” illustrated with an idyllic photo of children playing by the water. Must have spent at least 10 seconds searching the stock photo database to find this. How embarrassing

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

This is just a wonderful thread. Many thanks to both sculptors and curators.

New reports reveal that an army of 18,784 bots artificially boosted Nicki Minaj's recent X posts praising Donald Trump and JD Vance. The fake profiles made 31,701 comments on her posts.

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.