My compromise position on dealing with the dem complicity in this rise of fascism is that any senator who voted to approve Rubio can never again hold a position more powerful than city councilor

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

No Kings Day is two weeks away and we’ve already surpassed the total number of events from October’s historic protests. Join us in the streets again on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

The Trump-Orban comparison has always suffered from a bunch of different cognitive biases. Trump is both a “playbook autocrat” (like Orban) and a “mad king” (not like Orban) I wrote this duality here. In my view, the mad king persona will always prevail. www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...

Oh so a bribe.

Brendan Carr so loves being America's top censor.

I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.

I would also like the Democrats to stop just ceding the Republican framing of everything that matters we can't be the party of "nothing matters except tax cuts" when teachers have to buy school supplies with their own money and no one under 40 will ever be able to buy a house

An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky

Note that a one-round election with no primary or RCV (or anything to mitigate the FPTP of it all) is a pretty poor system. But Republicans (against whom it backfired here as you can see how they split the vote) have banned ranked choice voting in Florida: floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/11/f...

A Pentagon recruiter openly offers corruption: “unmatched access to top-level government officials and privileged information flow — whatever you need, you can get.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

CNN: Trump underestimated problem of Hormuz Trump: FAKE NEWZ!! WSJ: Trump's advisors didn't underestimate the problem, Trump kept the smart ones out of the room and ignored what contrary advice he got www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Meanwhile in the US and the UK...

Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light. newrepublic.com/article/2077...

This is what healthy investment in browser engines looks like; teams trading the lead. For no reason at all, here's some data from last year showing how Apple talks up their work vs. Cupertino's pitiful real engine investments: infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertin…

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Jared Kushner holds no government position at all. He is not a Senate-confirmed political appointee & his "special peace envoy" job is completely fake. This is wildly illegal & unconstitutional nepotistic corruption. Stop normalizing it in the papers.

Outstanding news. Defaults matter, and when choice is effective, the quality of products has a larger chance to influence the market. That's something we should all want.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

And as a fun related legal fact, the failure of a commander to punish war crimes by his subordinates is also a war crime under the doctrine of command responsibility. Published by the Naval War College in 2021: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol97/is...

Imagine being such a chuddite imbecile that you manage to commit a war crime on national TV through your habit of talking entirely in stock phrases.

"Another example was Mahmood’s claim that if her “earned settlement” proposals are not implemented 'we will see a £10bn drain on our public finances and further strain on public services..this is a mix of the deliberately misleading and the completely wrong." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

The same logic applies to energy efficiency measures in all homes by the way. We can’t switch every home to a heat pump this summer, but we can get them to do something to reduce energy use next winter. A bit more on this “replace oil and gas first, subsidise later” approach in my piece here:

Summer is an ideal time for heating engineers to install heat pumps (fewer boilers to fix). If the oil crisis subsides by winter, no regrets, you got a load more heat pumps. And if it doesn’t, you’ve reduced the need for subsidy and destroyed some oil demand. Seems… worth doing?

So, given you have a 6 month window before things get bad and you want to avoid basic oil subsidies if you can… … why not have a massive push on heat pumps to replace oil over the summer? Maybe boost the subsidy (to rural Scotland levels - £9k)?

Excellent 🧵 on the significance of diplomatic capacity in the #USA. Worth noting that the #UK is also currently significantly cutting its Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office

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.

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

The latest step, and a major one, in the Trump administration’s consistent efforts to keep the Russian army in the field against Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Remember the "I did that!" stickers on gas pumps? Trump really did:

taxes are good. let us be a society. Jesus Christ.

A win! A federal judge in Rhode Island has directed the government to reinstate a union contract covering more than 300,000 Veterans Affairs employees after the Trump administration attempted to end the agreement in August.

Curious about custom <select>? I wrote about some of my recent demos over at @css-tricks.com! Take a look ✨ css-tricks.com/abusing-cust...

Think you know HTML? Put those skills to the test with this crossword! 117 HTML terms: tag names, properties, values, some ARIA and language codes... #game #html #css

Playing with animations and "state" memory in CSS and made this little demo. In Firefox and Chromium browsers you can click to draw pixel art and even reset the drawing. I'd like to update it with alternative colors using the adjacent checkbox hack. codepen.io/allankukral/...

We should always think of the Interop project as a low bar. The stuff that gets included shouldn't be the limit of what browsers build in a year, but that's not how Apple (who are perennially behind) treat it. It's a scandal, and so are the misdirections they try to spread about it.

If you use a service worker's fetch event listener, would a `isReloadNavigation` boolean property be helpful to you? It would indicate if the current request was a user-initiated reload (e.g., refresh button click, location.reload(), or history.go(0)).

I cannot describe properly in words how much it infuriates me to my bone that there were people out there that were allowed to act like Right Wingers, RIGHT WINGERS, were free speech champions

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...

If people in the White House thought the war was going well I don't think JD Vance's allies would be leaking stories like this www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...