every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Energy facilities are civilian infrastructure. This would be a war crime. The U.S. must stop this disastrous war that is doing immense harm to innocent people and only weakening our global standing.

I’ve always believed that one of our jobs as leaders is to pass the baton on to the next generation — and to give them the resources and support they need to lead us forward. On National Run for Office Day, check out runforsomethingcivics.net for the resources you need.

Medical schools will no longer be required to teach about health inequities. The change comes as political pressure about diversity, equity and inclusion grows. Experts say removing DEI from the guidelines will affect patient care. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

What’s remarkable about this piece is that it doesn’t even attempt to argue the Iran War is close to achieving some important goal. Instead he argues: 1. There have been times in history that gas was more expensive 2. Other wars (some of which he also supported) had gone even worse

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

Students Are Worried That AI Will Hurt Their Critical Thinking Skills: Despite those concerns, students are using the tech more and more for schoolwork.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

7,000 Americans were killed at Iwo Jima, 19,000 injured. No doubt, Graham will be leading the charge.

These stories are horrifying. Medical decisions should be left to the patient and their doctor.

the country is at war and the president is peacing out for another weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers

Turns out that chatgpt might not be as smart as everyone thought. The moral of the story is don't ask it solve your calculus take home exam. ChatGPT struggles with accuracy, consistency on science quizzes - Earth.com share.google/KGOhvesp730C...

A new survey suggests around 2 million Americans have lost health insurance after Congress let the subsidies expire.

One of the new goals of the far right is to make it harder for women to vote. The SAVE Act, which the Senate is debating now, would be a major vehicle to achieve that goal. Spread the word about why we need to stop SAVE. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Literally just lighting (a lot of) money on fire

wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"

UNC-Chapel Hill says an outside investigation into its embattled School of Civic Life and Leadership is complete. What it found, the university says, won’t be made public. https://chroni.cl/4sD8XQI

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations. First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

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Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

$1 billion could give 120,000 people free tuition for a two-year Associate’s Degree, or it could provide free child care for a year for $71,000 kids. That’s the cost of this war every single day.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

The next time a conservative critic tells you about bureaucratic accretion in higher ed, remind them that TX A&M's board instituted a policy that required the university to review the content 5,400 courses that in many cases required 3 and 4-levels of administrative review.

Institutional researchers are asking for three more months to try to retroactively create data on admissions that will likely violate privacy standards and represents a massive expansion in the size of the federal footprint in higher ed. I love data, but retroactive data won't be useful.

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Thank you to @anthropic.com for maintaining their company's ethical red lines prohibiting the use of Claude technology to surveil American citizens or operate autonomous weapons. It's great to see a tech company standing up against Trump's authoritarianism; I hope more follow suit.

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Cruel and heartbreaking. DHS cannot continue operating without any guardrails or accountability. Thinking of Nurul Shah Alam’s loved ones 💔

@repcasar.bsky.social is right—Trump is cashing in on the presidency while millions of Americans are struggling to pay their bills.

Calling the SAVE Act voter ID is a trick. This bill would force Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person to an election official. ❌ 146 million Americans don’t have a passport ❌ As many as 69 million women don’t have a birth certificate that matches their married name

trump says we're gonna simultaneously make houses more affordable and also keep their prices high

Is replacing all income taxes with tariffs mathematically possible? No. And even if you could, it would be terrible for everyone but the rich. Check out our interactive at @americanprogressaction.org: www.americanprogressaction.org/article/comp...

Trump called for passage of the SAVE Act again during SOTU. Calling SAVE “voter ID” is MAGA sugarcoating MAGA to try to make Americans swallow this toxic bill. SAVE requires Americans to show a passport or birth certificate. REAL IDs don’t count. This isn’t election integrity, it’s election rigging.

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I’m boycotting the State of the Union, but Becky Roberts will attend as my honorary guest. She’s one of 22 million Americans facing higher premiums after Trump and Republicans let ACA tax credits expire and cut Medicaid. I invited her so Trump must face the people hurt by his policies.

America is a melting pot. The diversity of our country makes it prosperous and strong. Unless you are indigenous, your ancestors were also immigrants at some point. #SOTU

The SAVE Act is a *voter suppression bill* that would create new barriers for married women, rural voters, and people without a passport for voting. We should be making it easier, not harder, for people to make their voices heard at the polls. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Trump has done little to curb drug prices. The progress that has been made has been done under a law (IRA) the Biden administration signed. Most people on private insurance have seen little effect. www.factcheck.org/2026/02/trum...

In democracies, we respect the outcomes of elections.