Don’t give up, pope. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

Democratic rising star extends ‘love’ after Hegseth pastor prays for his death Senate nominee in Texas James Talarico says ‘Christian nationalism kills’ in response to Brooks Potteiger remark.

"Trump had in his possession some highly sensitive documents—the type of documents that only presidents and officials with the most sensitive authority have," special counsel memo says. One was "accessible by only 6 people." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

So they are not, in fact, really good people

Delighted to see this! The judge who ordered the DOGE depositions to be removed (bc of supposed reputational damage to the men who indulged their bigotry to revoke funding) is now allowing them to be published.

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & baseless claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my detailed thread with all the facts. TL;DR: There are good reasons why it takes time to count; justices are just making shit up. 👇

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & ignorant claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my article with the facts about why it takes time to count votes, and why the process is secure. trustthevote.org/blog/2024/09...

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & ignorant claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my article with the facts about why it takes time to count votes, and why the process is secure. trustthevote.org/blog/2024/09...

“the most transparent administration in US history”

“pervert glasses”

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & ignorant claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my article with the facts about why it takes time to count votes, and why the process is secure. trustthevote.org/blog/2024/09...

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & ignorant claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my article with the facts about why it takes time to count votes, and why the process is secure. trustthevote.org/blog/2024/09...

In Watson v. Republican Natl Committee, Alito, Gorsuch & other SCOTUS judges are engaging in fact-free “vibes” & baseless claims about by-mail ballot security; here’s my detailed thread with all the facts. TL;DR: There are good reasons why it takes time to count; justices are just making shit up. 👇

Remarkable: The public has rejected *all* the major pillars of America First Trumpism. Majorities oppose: *deportations *tariffs *war with Iran *threats to Canada and Greenland ...while NATO, vaccines, and foreign aid remain broadly popular. Some thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Fantastic interview by @reckless.bsky.social, editor-in-chief of The Verge. This story of how a no-consent likeness-stealing feature made it into an AI-product perfectly illustrates the hubris, lack of ethics and incompetence that defines the parasitic extractive AI economy. Highly recommended. 👏👏

Barack Obama pays tribute to Robert Mueller, calling him one of the finest FBI directors in history and honoring his unwavering commitment to the rule of law

The American president celebrated on Saturday after learning that Robert S. Mueller, the FBI director who led the agency after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, had died. He was 81. www.mississippifreepress.org/former-fbi-d...

Ruling in the case of Michael Jennings, the Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor’s flowers, the Alabama Supreme Court said police can demand to see ID during a stop if they don’t like a person’s verbal answers

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

encompassing bloom

Rep James Talarico, "President Trump said I insulted Jesus." "You want to know what insults Jesus?" "Kicking the sick off their healthcare" "Bombing schoolchildren in Iran" "Deporting moms and babies" "Covering up the Epstein files"

U.S. House Republicans have introduced legislation that would make it illegal for women to flush their miscarriage or abortion remains when using mifepristone. jessica.substack.com/p/republican...

The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important. The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

These measures arguably promote one religion over others, and religion over non-religion, threatening to turn students, families, and teachers who don’t subscribe to Christian-nationalist religiosity into outsiders in their own public schools and communities.

My latest for Texas Observer:

(1/5) ⚖️ ON MONDAY: The GOP is asking SCOTUS to strike down mail-in ballot grace periods. If the Court agrees, millions of Americans in ~31 states and D.C. could be disenfranchised ahead of the 2026 midterms, disproportionately affecting Democratic voters. Here’s what Republicans are arguing👇

I'm nobody's editor but every story about the SAVE act should include the fact that it's a solution in search of a problem.

👇👇👇

“…of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts.”

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends. www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

Bravo, this. 👇 “…there's no point in even elevating many of these gentlemen, because they **foundationally have nothing honest or interesting to say.** There's not even compelling evidence they have a decent grasp on the reality we inhabit.” An appropriately fierce, truth-telling piece. 👏👏👏

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

when you hear “using the power of the state to regulate speech,” this is what it looks like

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

notice how the press helps Sam Altman pretend that he's not just some sort of sage hybrid sociologist/philosopher, but he's an outsider to the problems his bad choices cause

Hunter Biden says wtf

hegseth: please do better on our propaganda