The company that introduced Big Boy tomatoes and Iceberg lettuce once teetered on the brink. Now, it’s once again thriving.

I made some improvements to the KDO Rolodex (a list of sites & people I read to make the site) and also sort of accidentally built a wee feed reader that's casual and fun? Come check it out... [kottke.org]

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Election Day confusion due to rule changes can lead to disenfranchisement — people aren’t able to vote or their vote isn’t counted due to wrong place, wrong time. The disenfranchisement isn’t necessarily intentional, but can impact outcomes. And it often sparks rumors about intent.

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

If only Tillis had known about this book when she was nominated

I like how in 2026 a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

“A new report by Patrick Kennedy found that roughly 66,000 acres of land in 142 US cities are consumed by highways, representing an untapped development potential of more than half a trillion dollars and $5.2 billion in foregone property tax revenue every year” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the department of special combat operations, everyone!

This is your brain on Fox News, MAGA podcasts and fash Twitter.

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Is there anything more disgusting than war? Yes...ghouls making hundreds of thousands of $$$ betting on when bombs will blow up girls schools of hospitals. What's worse about Polymarket, Kalshi, etc. - the immorality, or the insider trading? Ban them! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

This isn't UNO. You don't shout Reverse in court: "Tuesday morning, [DOJ] appeared to have abruptly changed its position... In an email to the four firms contesting the orders, a department official apologized for the short notice and said it would file a motion to withdraw its voluntary dismissal."

Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson: Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.

Exceptionally good piece that pulls a lot of material together

You can see this disaster coming a MILE away.

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Pete Hegseth: “War is hell and always will be.” Tommy Tuberville: “It’s war, it’s gonna git worse before it gets better.” Markwayne Mullin: “War is ugly.” Mike Johnson asked why War Powers Act is being ignored: “It’s not a war because it’s defensive in nature and design.”

That's what's called cause and effect. Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

"always the golfer, never the wildfire victim."

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

They're calling it SuperBenghazi.

The US State Department urged Americans to leave countries across the Middle East, citing “serious safety risks” from the war with Iran. bloom.bg/40B6YQK 📷: Ibrahim Amro/AFP/Getty Images

god fucking dammit

To reconsider a fundamental of American history, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not an act of war, but merely a strategic strike. It needs to no longer live in infamy, perhaps.

Something that is REALLY HARD to accept: repentance requires repair. I’ve had to work hard to make right and whole the people I’ve harmed. There’s no easy out. Only the good work of undoing wrongs, unlearning systems, lifting up the harmed, and reconstruction. Thanks, @theradr.bsky.social.

You couldn’t make this up. And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world. instead, we've got:

BREAKING: House has released depositions of the Clintons in the Epstein inquiry. apnews.com/article/jeff...

An extortionist caving: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Amazing

Again, Trump didn't run on "no new wars." He ran on "the wars other people started were stupid but I'm smart." It was about being anti-establishment, not anti-war. In case that wasn't already obvious. From Nov: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The Pentagon confirmed there was NO sign that Iran was going to attack the U.S. No imminent threat. No authorization from Congress. No reason our service members should be dead. And no exit plan or strategy. This war on Iran is a reckless and deadly mistake by this regime.

"Pentagon officials acknowledge Iran was not planning to strike US Now, Iran’s political future remains unclear, as Trump conceded that individuals he had considered as potential new leaders are dead The Pentagon is worried about depleting military stockpiles" open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

Trump on service members getting killed in his war: “That’s the way it is.” Trump when his country called for him to serve: I have bone spurs. Trump’s sons: We’re too busy making billions off daddy’s presidency in the Middle East to waste time as a sucker and loser.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

This is a year old, but still.

My man, you are going to prison* (*in 2029, probably) n.pr/4u48W9Q

I have never heard such a blatantly political speech from a secretary of defense.

The goal of preventing nuclear weapons capability, and removing all offensive capability, are two separate scopes on a massive spectrum. Iran will be prevented from having missiles and drones now? That's the goal?

OPINION: "The battle over the President's House exhibit goes beyond signage; it’s about whether we are prepared to face the full truth of who we are as a nation." — City Council president Kenyatta Johnson

What’s the place below the abyss?

It sounds fringe, but makes sense to me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGk...

Caught a band from Liverpool. Four sharp kids with mop tops. Tight. Hungry. Little rough around the edges — but there’s something in their pockets besides change. Hard to say where they’re headed. Wouldn’t be surprised if we’re still talking about them a ways down the road.

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I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/