Another SpaceX oopsy seems like a good occasion to share this @propublica.org piece from a few weeks back

Dear Democrats in Congress, Trump and Musk are breaking laws everyday. They are criminals. We should say so, loudly, 24/7/365. They are criminals and are betraying our country and our Constitution everyday. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Dropping tomorrow. Also, the name "Phoebe Abdee" was likely constructed in the 1960s. I reveal two surnames *Phebe went by, and I can name her parents and original enslaver. Hint: a local municipality is named after her original enslaver.

The 14th Amendment, a Reconstruction amdt that Black Americans died for, established #BirthrightCitizenship. A 1898 SCOTUS case brought by #WongKimArk, a Chinese American from SF, affirmed birthright citizenship. Trump's EO is unconstitutional and rooted in his desire to make America white.

BREAKING - Trump just asked Congress for a death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer Says the man who PARDONED over 400 violent insurrectionists who assaulted the Capitol Police on his behalf on January 6 -- with 4 officers ultimately dying

This is very bad.

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Hours before Trump addresses the country, his administration tells a federal court states should be allowed to threaten doctors with prison if they provide an abortion to a dying patient www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

A court order doesn't mean just change documents and lie. No to these idiots. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Sam Alito gave cities more leeway to dump raw sewage into our water supply by deploying a sleight of hand so clumsy that it would fail to impress a kindergarten class. This isn't statutory interpretation. It's a gut renovation of the Clean Water Act on behalf of polluters. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Which US state has the most billion dollar weather and climate disasters? It’s not California and it’s not Florida - it’s Texas. As this article explains, the only state subject to more wildfires than Texas is California. Texas even leads California in acreage burned.

NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned. ⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict reut.rs/41ncOoL

Well y’all - It looks like hell has frozen over. 😂 I’ve never seen Hoosiers but I’m excited to see what all the talk has been about. Join in Sunday with #HATM. I am certain it will be an entertaining night! Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there!

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

This may be the most alarming thing I have read in months. www.thedailybeast.com/former-socia...

I just attended a sold out screening of NO OTHER LAND and something I’ve never experienced happened. After the film, no one spoke. Every single person remained silent. All the way to the exit. If that interests you, see this film. It is truly a miracle that it exists. @belcourttheatre.bsky.social

Wowwwwww Just wow.

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

Elon Musk is hustling the MAGA base as surely as Bondi did with the “Epstein files.” But he has advantages she doesn’t. Gift link: wapo.st/4i0MV5r

Once again, if you voted for Trump because you thought he'd lower your grocery bills, I have some very bad news for you. news.bloomberglaw.com/internationa...

This bathroom issue was the big talking point used to defeat...the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982. This idea that to protect (white) womanhood we have to sacrifice minority rights is a very old one in US history. It's always a lie, an excuse. It's not about keeping women or children safe. 🗃️

They don’t care who they destroy.

A historian of early U.S.-#Canada relations notes that Trump isn’t the first leader to eye annexation—America’s ambitions date back before independence and often signal weakness, not strength. buff.ly/0vT4NgB By G. Patrick O'Brien, University of Tampa #polisky

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

Trump sells out our National Forests to logging oligarchs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dear Media: Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."

“Are animals smart?” asks Deron In our latest Curious Kids column, @okstate.edu veterinary sciences professor Leticia Fanucchi discusses this fascinating question. buff.ly/41gctp4

Well mr trump you get your comeuppance as quick as you tear down everything around you. Bad polls, bad economy, bad prices

This poster is showing up all over Europe, Germany included.

This would be funny if it wasn't so deadly dangerous… From a list of scientific research projects that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas wants stopped because they're "woke," "radical," and "neo-Marxist," Propublica reports:

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The long-term, multi-system complications after Covid hospitalization among ~64,000 cases and 310,000 matched controls. Excess of Type 2 diabetes, kidney, lung and neurological disorders. Replicates prior work by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Five teenagers have died from seasonal flu this year in San Diego. None were vaccinated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/28/a...

Judge says Trump cannot fire head of independent watchdog agency www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH" apnews.com/article/nih-...

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) made contributions to #astronomy that are still important to the field today. Among her achievements: she was the first woman credited with discovering a comet (she found 8 in all). theconversation.com/caroline-her... #WomensHistoryMonth 🧪 🔭

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing