my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

Remember when Ilhan Omar got censured for saying AIPAC was too influential in Democratic Party policies, and now "AIPAC is trying to suppress a genocide by buying candidate loyalties" is so mainstream that she can make this statement and everyone knows she's right about it

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

andreesen is so terrified of what he’d find if he actually looked inward and reflected on the morality of his choices that he’s constructed an entire concept of the self that reduces him to nothing at all

Hair samples from preschool-aged children living near mine tailings facilities had the highest uranium concentrations in a recent study. Research from scientists at @samrcza.bsky.social, @hzdr.bsky.social, and elsewhere. eos.org/articles/gol...

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

Iran war was a bad idea from start. But Joe Kent is not the right messenger on this. See his alleged associations with Nick Fuentes and live streamer who said Hitler was “a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand” @splcenter.org @westernstatescenter.org 2025 letter:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the United States, the only country that has actually killed hundreds of thousands of civilians with nukes, is allowed to have them, every single other country should be allowed to have them.

“Give me your riches or your kids will die” is not how democracies negotiate. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

masterful gambit to make shipping costs go up higher by artificially reducing the supply of truck drivers in the middle of the biggest energy crisis in 50 years

Hey check it out, Delta helping ICE kidnap kids.

This is soul crushing. What the hell are we doing out here?

“This technology disrupts humanities trained, largely Democratic [often female] voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained working class, often male voters." - Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir — Wild to see AI disruption framed this way.

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

A manufacturing problem in millions of Abbott glucose sensors for diabetes patients has been tied to at least seven deaths and hundreds of injuries worldwide. on.nbcboston.com/9xkryjX

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

All of this incredibly obvious and infuriating welfare fraud happened under the first Trump administration and I don't recall them ever threatening to block funding to the state of Mississippi as a result.

Israeli police murder a family.

there is a cooking gas shortage in India now. My disabled father's household has one cylinder left. We're comfortable, and can manage somehow, but I can't stop thinking of the millions who don't have the money or privilege to find something, all because the US and Israel are their murderous selves

This was *the* case pro-Israel defenders would point at to say "See? Israel takes human rights violations seriously!" And after all that — including mobs of Israeli rioters and politicians storming a military base to protest the arrest of these soldiers — it's being dropped.

Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.

Epstein wanted to use Zorro Ranch as a “baby farm” to impregnate women & seed the human race w/his DNA. Elon Musk wants to boost the world’s population by breeding genetically superior offspring w/his DNA. I track the similarities between these men pushing pro-natalism. youtu.be/1j__euZrK_o?...

Daphy Michel was arrested after a mental health episode. Charges dropped. ICE took her, put ankle monitor on her, dropped her an hour from home w/no support or family notification. Found dead days later at a bus stop. ICE found out when coroner cut the ankle monitor off www.wtae.com/article/sist...

How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.

What in the world www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Just a heads up all the Jews in your life have not just moved on from yesterday’s synagogue attack.

There is so much evidence of bad faith behavior it feels like the really egregious acts get lost in the noise, but see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

No fatalities. OK. Sure. They don't have ejection seats in those things. And if they survived they won't be alive long. I'm so tired of saying "if Biden did this" and I guess the point I'm trying to make is the media is entirely responsible for this situation we are in. No Trump without em.

NEW: John Solly Is the DOGE operative accused of planning to take sensitive Social Security data to his new job. Solly and Leidos, his current employer with millions of dollars in Social Security contracts, strongly deny the allegations. read @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social:

Trump is the leader of the pedophile protection party. Trump is in the Epstein files 38,000 times. Trump wrote to Epstein about their “wonderful secret.” Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet (and lied.)

The people out here, they give *a lot of shit* about housing, including me. I rent because homeownership where I grew up is out of reach—and I run a successful small business. We need to build more, help buy a home and others stay in theirs. Restrict LLCs from buying up homes for profit, and more.

“Rights advocates said they were alarmed by the proposal, which they saw as part of a drive by the administration to place homeless people in institutional settings against their will.”

New: Dead bodies and a long-missing "death" bell: What will authorities find at Zorro Ranch? open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

This crisis will continue to get worse until normal traffic through the Strait resumes, and, at this stage, even if the conflict ended today and tankers ramped back up to 100% Hormuz flow, it would still takes months to return to anything resembling normality.

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Former Fukushima worker devotes life to abandoned pets. Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part of his quest for redemption u.afp.com/SuCM

Also West Germany had literally a CIA-backed Operation that stole disabled foster children and gave them to Child Sexual Abusers www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Q: "You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school…but you're the only person in your government saying this…Why are you the only person saying this?" Trump: "Because I just don't know enough about it."

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

While Americans spent the weekend watching gas prices rise because of his illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump spent the weekend golfing. America’s sons and daughters are being put in harms way because of his rogue and reckless actions, and this is how he is spending his time.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

"Legacy" editors angry at woke Me Too, their "meritocracy" billionaires, Joe Rogan manosphere tech bros, media and politics elite claiming working class Democrats are the "elite" while wealthy car dealership owners and white "farmers" (not actual indigenous farmers) are the true American herrenvolk