Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

“A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department.” Trump wants to be a dictator. We must stop him.

Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...

Relevant thread re: online privacy (with links!). #MOMSky

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

There's something about seeing it visually over time that chills the blood. It's hard to process that when we made the jump from 2022 to 2023, it still wasn't enough to convince people this was serious. Before Trump was re-inaugurated gender-affirming care was banned in more than 50% of the country.

"Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-26 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians." www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...

There he is.

“You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country.” But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges. The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

-Layoffs through ‘volunteer retirement’ -Shipping costs increase -30 day notice -Reduction of services in rural areas -Closing of post offices in rural communities www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...

Author alert! Pls check, share with friends.

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Thread: the premise of the EOs aimed at Paul Weiss and other law firms is that it’s based on national security concerns. Yet nothing in the “settlement” had anything to do with addressing such concerns. It was extortion pure and simple.

Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over.

I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."

"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess

This is only going to get worse. Much, much worse.

All, DOGE tried to visit the United States Institute of Peace with FBI agents (!) and were turned away. You know what a good call is right now, if you have Republican reps? Asking them how they're okay with the FBI being used like this.

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

The opening of Hair: Unbraiding Identity! Uptown support, Uptown shine, Uptown vibes—it was everything!!!

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

We must fight antisemitism, but weaponizing the Office of Civil Rights investigations and threatening to withhold funding from colleges and universities smacks of modern-day McCarthyism. It does nothing to make Jewish students safer. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The cover-up… USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”

Plunderers of the earth close all environmental justife offices: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

3/ As a nation—and as a world—we watched the same tragedy unfold at the onset of the pandemic. Day after day. And it’s still playing out. The pandemic. The unprocessed grief. The trauma. Data and emotions, buried.

Please read and share. Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.

Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.

Opening Thursday 3/13 at the NOMAA Gallery in Washington Heights, “Hair: Untangling Identity.” Honored to have my poem, Raices, included. www.nomaanyc.org/nomaa-events...

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

“Indeed, fascism is a one way street, and once our nation goes down that road, there’s no coming back. We cannot let that happen.”

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

Dear Trump Voters, Be careful what you wish for.

“I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, / Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame. / I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat / Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone.” — Terrence Hayes

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have spent the last few months reaching out to the people we ourselves turn to for clarity and hope. This anthology of twenty-six writers is a community in book form.

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza. Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Before legislation comes up for a vote on Monday, write and call State Senator Elena Parent to tell her to vote NO on anti-trans bills SB 30 and SB 185! (404) 656-5109 [email protected] [email protected]

In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular." "You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"

Yup. Both are true. rosselliotbarkan.com/p/how-andrew...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.