Pop Star Reveals She Lost Her Virginity After Triple Grammy Win “For me, I just promised myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t have sex until I won a Grammy.” www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/pop... seems like this also is not an April fools joke but it would be a great one?

Embarrassing Blunder on JD Vance’s Catholic Book Cover Exposed JD Vance’s forthcoming memoir about becoming a Catholic features a United Methodist church on its cover. www.thedailybeast.com/embarrassing... Pretty sure this isn’t an April fools joke—but it’s just as funny regardless

Drinking Raw Milk Is Risky. Should People Be Able to Buy It Anyway? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u... in the Trump admin, risk is irrelevant. Much like climate change, it has been erased & no longer exists. Thus, raw milk is just like nuclear weapons. If popular (on FoxNews), it can’t be regulated!

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

Citing 1st Amendment, federal judge issues a permanent injunction, blocking Trump’s executive order to end funding for NPR and PBS www.latimes.com/world-nation...

is there some reason they dress him as Dracula now

What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research? flip.it/5YcSde

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned flip.it/YWFDHP

Israeli Parliament to Vote on Death Penalty Targeting Palestinians Guilty of Lethal Attacks In practice, this would apply only to Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism, not to Jewish extremists. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w... when better for 🇮🇱 to pass more de facto apartheid laws?

what does the j mean nyt. WHAT DOES THE J MEAN🪿

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

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A sane country with a functioning rule of law would absolutely prosecute and jail Stephen Miller for a long, long time after this is over. And Dems running for office need to understand that for a huge portion of voters, that’s the moderate position.

There wasn't a recount. The democrat Brian Nathan won by .5058% FIVE votes fewer would have triggered a recount.

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time & may improve pelvic surgery for women. The clitoris did not make it into anatomy textbooks until 1995, when it was introduced as just “a small version of the penis” www.theguardian.com/society/2026... at least women beat AI to the clit map

Israeli Parliament to Vote on Death Penalty Targeting Palestinians Guilty of Lethal Attacks In practice, this would apply only to Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism, not to Jewish extremists. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w... when better for 🇮🇱 to pass more de facto apartheid laws?

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

Iran is right: Trump has already lost this putinous war. Last week an Iranian military spokesman rejected Trump’s peace plan by asking: “Has the level of your inner struggle reached ‌the ⁠stage of you negotiating with yourself? So will Putin bail him out? www.salon.com/2026/03/29/i...

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.

Iran is right: Trump has already lost this putinous war. Last week an Iranian military spokesman rejected Trump’s peace plan by asking: “Has the level of your inner struggle reached ‌the ⁠stage of you negotiating with yourself? So will Putin bail him out? www.salon.com/2026/03/29/i...

Mamdani & Curtis Sliwa Performed a Comedy Skit about Cats. NY Republicans Are Livid. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/n... FFS NYT: “Livid”? And what party are the Cuomo supporters quoted? Just TWO republicans are quoted —& Catsimatidis wasn’t even asked why—after the election—he still lives in NYC!?

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time & may improve pelvic surgery for women. The clitoris did not make it into anatomy textbooks until 1995, when it was introduced as just “a small version of the penis” www.theguardian.com/society/2026... at least women beat AI to the clit map

There Are Now 50,000+ American Troops in the Mideast With the arrival of 2500 Marines & another 2500 sailors, there are ~10,000 more US troops in the region than usual. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u... ~20% more deployed is scary & um “provocative”—but doesn’t make any outcome inevitable? Yet?

Europeans Are Angry at Trump, but not at Americans A generation ago, fury over the jingoistic Iraq war blurred into anti-Americanism. Now, Americans are apologetic & embarrassed—& Europeans distinguish between Americans & our putinous mobster rapist felon POTUS www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/w...

Drinking Raw Milk Is Risky. Should People Be Able to Buy It Anyway? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u... in the Trump admin, risk is irrelevant. Much like climate change, it has been erased & no longer exists. Thus, raw milk is just like nuclear weapons. If popular (on FoxNews), it can’t be regulated!

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

👏 Gavin Newsom to sign executive order to ban CA officials from insider betting on prediction markets www.politico.com/news/2026/03... despite Kalshi’s rules forbidding this, 2 CA gubernatorial candidates (who have both since dropped out) had placed bets on their race. What could go wrong?

👏 Nexstar-Tegna deal on ice after judge issues temporary restraining order www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

new github update automatically enables scraping your code for copilot 😍☺️ change it under settings > copilot > features > privacy

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Story on the death of a 19-yo in ICE custody. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/body-ca...

Trump’s DOJ Refuses to Rule Out 2nd Amendment Right to Nuclear Weapons DOJ says any arm in “common use” for lawful purposes can’t be regulated slate.com/news-and-pol... no matter how dangerous or costly to the public, popular arms can’t be regulated. Such killer incentives for arms marketers!

Tiger Woods is using painkillers the right way. by Ezra Klein

To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code & censoring themselves. “The forbidden C-word” — climate & “any of 100-plus newly banned words & phrases” are verboten flip.it/8HDu8R Censorship solved climate change—but not “elevated temperatures” “soil health” & “extreme weather”

Nancy Fraser captures the complicated feelings many of us have about the legacy of Habermas. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

LAPD chief backed cops who shot author Jillian Lauren (& partner of Weezer’s bassist). 👏 LA’s civilian police commission overruled him 👏 www.latimes.com/california/s... weird how the facts reported in this piece run contrary to the uncontested misogynist & false copaganda in all prior coverage…

‘Nothing is normal’: diary of Iranian 45 yo physics professor who happens to be the son of Iran’s presiden reflects hopes & fears of ordinary citizens www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump and Modi Had a Call About the Iran War. Elon Musk Joined Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u... just in time for #NoKings amirite? #loligarchy

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts. flip.it/CBIYbm aside from the folks who designed this intentionally & also all the folks who did, who could have ever predicted this?

Who could have ever predicted how the eugenics plagiarism machine would define “beautify” though?

Who could have ever predicted how the eugenics plagiarism machine would define “beautify” though?

🎯Trump’s putinous war may hasten the end of oil & gas dependence www.salon.com/2026/03/26/t... Sure seems likely! Not that he’d care? Weird how harmful & costly Trump’s professed love of oil & hatred of wind is for US taxpayers & the USG’s reputation—& how inevitably this benefits Putin. #SPECTRE

How $9.7 million of USAID Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined The Trump admin had options for offloading contraceptives. Instead, it let them rot. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w... DoS tried & failed to BURN the💊s. DOD is now lighting oil on🔥. When’ll Trump skip the charade & just burn 💵?

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

Judge orders Trump admin to bring back DACA recipient deported to🇲🇽 Judge Coggins called the deportation a “flagrant violation” of DACA’s promise of legal protection to folks who arrived here as kids www.politico.com/news/2026/03... Moore’s Law was usurped by the multiplying costs of our lawlessness

On Roblox, extremists are turning play into propaganda. The “Blueshirts,” modeled on Patriot Front, stage virtual protests, harass players, and use Discord to coordinate hate campaigns targeting children. Read more:

NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side. I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.