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In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

A jury determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using YouTube, Instagram in a landmark social media addiction trial

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

A pet-friendly homeless shelter pilot successfully reduced the rate of homelessness among the people it helped in California. Here’s what they did:

On Saturday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war, escalating the administration’s campaign to silence reporting it doesn’t like. The trigger was Trump’s post accusing the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets of

Having five synagogue attacks (three in Canada, one in the U.S., now this) hit the news in a matter of days has me thinking about how many more didn't grab media attention. It's shabbat. Look out for your Jewish comrades.

Hmmm. 🤔

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

Two new bills could allow New Orleans residents to have their lead pipes replaced – for free Sen. Royce Duplessis and the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans proposed a constitutional amendment to allow federal money to be used to replace lead water lines on private property.

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

Crowd sourcing question for y'all --- But first - if you haven't read @marisakabas.bsky.social latest report, give a read & support her independent journalism So my question - has anyone seen any profile or background on Kenneth Jackson? From my brief look around today - he seems to be a ghost.

the headlines today tell a real fucking story www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere buff.ly/YeVk8US

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service.”

In the coming months, the Supreme Court will rule on a case that could gut key parts of the Voting Rights Act and radically alter the country’s voting maps Mississippi's Black voters are bracing for "devastation"

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Isolation is deadly. I shudder to think about people in already stressed families in hiding right now. What happens to someone who might normally be able to secretly get abortion pills without an abusive partner knowing, for example? A lot harder to hide if you’re also hiding from ICE. from 2020:

Hoping while @crockett.house.gov is submitting a bunch of media into the record, she also puts this piece, noting that CBP has a higher crime rate than immigrants, into the record. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

That’s what’s up.

Teaching the art of cuddles #caturday

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

I wish I could interview the artist behind this

Behind the right-wing plot to set up taxpayer-funded ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities prismreports.org/2026/01/27/c...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.

From Amanda Lehr www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE: U.S. journalists face war-zone conditions at home www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/us-j...? @di-sly.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #pressfreedom #freepress #journalismisnotacrime

Trump won by demonizing Springfield, Ohio, in 2024, and the Marshall Project reports on how residents there are now waiting for ICE: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/16/i...

Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, is down for the second time this week. Nearly 80,000 reports have spiked on Down Detector since around 10am ET Friday morning.

Last February, the Texas Observer investigation revealed the identity of James Rodden, an ICE attorney who operates an openly white supremacist account on X. This year, we proved he's back in court trying immigration cases:

ICE agents arrested dozens of U.S. citizens, accusing them of immigration violations, in 2025.

In 2020 I judged an award and the project Nos están marcando stood out. Powerful piece on Chilean officers purposely blinding people with non-lethals (essentially marking them permanently). I’ve been thinking of that project recently because it is happening here. ariariari.com/Nos-estan-ma...

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

My best movie of the year may be the 5 1/2 hour doc My Undesirable Friends. Not streaming, find a rare screening if you can. Important to see it all at once. My friends and I were literally at times on edge of our seats. Young Russian journalists, living their own lives and a black mirror of ours.