BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on

He "spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal," @bloomberg.com says about buying a pistol and a shotgun. If the media wants to say people with more than one gun (≈20% of US) have an "arsenal" and are inherently suspicious, fine, but they never talk about Republican gun policies that way.

I’ve been traveling. Did the Sunday shows talk at all about the fact that Trump’s 60 days for his attack on Iran under the War Powers Act is up this week, or did all last night’s dinner incident take up all the oxygen?

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

"So what?" Trump said, when told Mike Pence faced the threat of assassination on Jan. 6, 2021. Don't be like Trump. Condemn political violence, regardless of who is targeted.

'Emotional behavioral disorder' gets slapped on Black and Brown students to keep them out of mainstream classrooms while white students have learning disabilities and get integrated education, a divide that entrenches systemic disparities—and deprives Black and Brown students of their future.

Just think if those parents transported to today&learned abt a 2-s action that would have prevented these horrific, unimaginable losses in a 2-wk span&THEN learned some people refuse to take that action. 8 children, infants to teens, all warm&alive as Feb turned to March in 1897--& then just... gone

FYI: Congress can grant a person limited immunity for testimony. A presidential pardon is not needed. The immunity is not absolute, though. It doesn't cover perjury. If Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell, it's because he's trying to keep her quiet. There's no other reason to pardon her.

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"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Can't emphasize enough how alarming this is. Even if it doesn't come to fruition, think of the chilling effect on the exercise of democratic citizenship (voting, protesting, etc) when you are told that you can be stripped of your citizenship for political crimes.

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

Somehow there have been no applications for Hugh in the almost 5 months he’s been at the rescue. He is the perfect goofy orange guy who just wants love and pets. Someone please give him the home and endless belly rubs he deserves! (Located in northern MD)

Fact check: true. And bizarre that it needs so much repeating 🤦🏻‍♂️🫠

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

Reminder: in 2019, Dems tried to pass the “For the People” Act which would have expanded voting rights, changed campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, and banned partisan gerrymandering. Mitch McConnell (R) blocked it from coming to a vote in the senate.

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Dr. Vin Gupta warns a new American Lung Association report shows over half of U.S. children live with poor air quality. Nearly 150 million Americans are affected—and experts say it could get worse. Especially when we have a non-functioning EPA.

They overturned toxic pesticide bans and put a pesticide lobbyist in the Environmental Protection Agency, and they closed the CDC Office on Smoking & Health and put a tobacco executive in the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention cause they don’t want to protect the environment or prevent disease

If you're wondering why the Senate is in session at midnight tonight, it's because Republicans are trying to jam through at least $70 billion for ICE with no accountability. $70 billion for ICE. $0 to help families. $0 to help lower costs. What a disgrace. I'm voting NO.

They finally figured out how to reduce health care insurance costs! Just take your insurance away when you get sick. And of course all those expensive preventative procedures

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

🧵 New post: "How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery" I was catheterized by 2 new graduate nurses (one of whom had never done the procedure on a patient before), using incorrect technique, without adequate pain control, after a delay that doubled my volume past the hospital's own intervention threshold

This particularly resonates with me, when I see our precious science infrastructure get dismantled. We have long road to recovery when Russel Vought et al. are out. So much damage has been done within one year.

Gosh, I’m starting to think RFK Jr’s MAHA movement—which is doing all it can to roll back vaccination, drive up childhood infectious disease, curtail abortion rights, persuade people to ingest beef tallow, raw milk, & saturated fats, & push nicotine pouches on kids—might not be good for the US 🧐

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

Love how Rep. Pramila Jayapal let Vought have it. 🔥 88 corporations, including Tesla, paid zero taxes. Americans pay 14.5%. Healthcare getting more expensive. Defense failing audits. And he wants to talk about “fraud.” She was ready. #SheShed

Art of the Deal

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Porsha Ngumezi died at a Texas hospital after bleeding heavily during a miscarriage. The medical board’s discipline of her doctor felt like “a slap in the face,” her husband said. “What kind of justice is this for Porsha?”

“We must learn to live peacefully live the gentle dolphin” Marine Biologist: these species of dolphin are entirely covered in scars from fighting all day every day. They hunt sharks for fun and the juveniles get high off of puffer fish.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

thank you, wife

8 kids were killed in a mass shooting today. Doesn’t seem to matter 😳🤦🏻‍♂️😢

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health. This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.

"“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”"

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

This is true