Presidents Can Be Impeached Because Benjamin Franklin Thought It Was Better Than Assassination. “The Constitution’s impeachment procedures make the removal of the chief magistrate less violent, less disruptive, and less error-prone than assassination.” [smithsonianmag.com]

If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes

I feel like I’m losing my mind, but it’s really just that he’s losing his. In any sane world, he would be impeached and removed.

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

Support CFPB workers in need while making a statement with cool merch available now at CFPBUnion.shop.

Article by @zittrain.bsky.social from nearly 2 yrs ago w/ smart ideas about embedding AI agent metadata at the level of Internet architecture, as a means of control. Since then, more of us can imagine a world w/ many AI agents. Read at least the last 7 paragraphs. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“He is going to take screenshots of fonts he likes and put them in a folder called ‘cool fonts’ and not know why.” I love this piece about the MacBook Neo. It reminded me of pushing my old hand-me-down Packard Bell past all its limits and loving every minute of it. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

The worst thing about credit bureaus is that you have no ability to opt out of them, and now without the CFPB, little recourse when they make mistakes. You are not their customer, you are their data source, so they have little interest or incentive in serving you. They need to be held accountable.

This article does a good job conveying the importance of the CFPB, and what's at stake now that it's not allowed to operate. It touches on many of the actions I was involved with personally as a technologist, supporting lawyers and examiners in Supervision. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I love this, and I’m surprised there are so many left. Still plenty of photo opportunities for the back page of 2600 Magazine.

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

This is a serious nostalgia bomb for me. This Pizza Hit Classic even has a poster promoting the BOOK IT! club. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/d...

The upcoming Nordic Forum for Design History Biennial Symposium at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social looks fantastic. www.umu.se/en/umea-inst...

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Seems like a big deal. Also, staggeringly stupid of Bondi to put it on paper.

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein. Now we learned that they were in business together. He has no business being our Commerce Secretary. He should resign. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Not sure how I managed to miss 170 episodes of the @darknetdiaries.com.web.brid.gy podcast, which is so is clearly up my alley, but I’m glad that I know about it now! darknetdiaries.com

Dan Ariely was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and asked for contact info for a "redhead." He is co-founder of BEworks, a KYU Collective company, which also owns my former employer IDEO. We need a response from all 3 companies, and they should cut all ties with him. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Today, construction on the nation’s largest infrastructure project came to a halt - with hundreds laid off - because Donald Trump is out of control. The good news: political pressure still works, and we can use our voices to make sure he doesn’t have the last word.

More of this! Why on earth are so many companies and governments still using that platform?

One thing I appreciate about The Economist is that they always describe Epstein as "a dead sex offender" instead of some bullshit like "disgraced financier" like other media outlets.

I do love a technical takedown by someone who actually knows what they're talking about, especially when it once again makes Elon Musk look like a fool. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

At some point in 2026 many more of us are going to need this advice: www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Just reposting this - my story this week is part of this week's cover package on Minneapolis and the rise of what we call "America's paramilitary peril." www.economist.com/united-state...

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino. They must all resign and be held accountable.

Sudheesh Nair, CEO of TinyFish on @marketplace.org straight-up laying it out that AI is funded by authoritarian countries and they use their power and platform control to hide and shape public info on what they are doing. @kairyssdal.bsky.social gives him a chance, he declines to say that’s bad.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

When people say that abolishing ICE is the moderate position, they are not wrong! @gelliottmorris.com www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

The fact that conservative movements have dollars slushing around with random ancient billionaires has made them think that's the only way social movements are funded. Genuinely do not realise that this is not normal or how solidarity works. Pathetic.

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.