baby (21 months) is screaming as her brother (4) does the robot in front of her and I said bub im not sure that’s helping and he said im not TRYING to help! I’m TRYING to dance 🕺

Donald Trump is eyeing military intervention in Cuba, seeking business opportunities more than regime change, administration officials tell Vivian Salama and Sarah Fitzpatrick.

"we" doing a lot of work. Also if you recall, the Japanese Empire attacked the US, the US didn't get involved in WW2 because a cabinet of sycophants wanted to make FDR feel better about himself bsky.app/profile/atru...

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

"The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde...on Friday." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Wow given that Trump supporters are deeply offended by speaking ill of the dead, they'll certainly abandon him after this and not enthusiastically justify it because dear leader must not be contradicted bsky.app/profile/atru...

Gonna have furtive movement shootings in airports bsky.app/profile/cram...

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

Fascinating. wapo.st/4v10TeD

Interesting so every descendant of slaveowners might as well have owned a slave themselves and bear the responsibility for that crime? bsky.app/profile/evan...

My latest at @talkingpointsmemo.com: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-jo...

The Iran War’s Next Threat Is to Food and Water A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could unleash a humanitarian crisis. By Vivian Salama www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

more folks should know about this BS: A federal appeals court said West Virginia’s policy denying Medicaid coverage to people seeking surgical treatment for gender dysphoria is *not discriminatory* bc it bans trans-specific healthcare for cis & trans people alike ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

What does the “risk of regime violence” mean? You’re already at war? bsky.app/profile/carl...

It is also worth adding that almost nothing we provided to Ukraine is even relevant to this conflict. The only thing that would be is the PAC-3 and we gave a borderline negligible number of interceptors. We're not using GMLRs, Bradleys or 155mm rounds to fight Iran. This is completely made up.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.

Wrote about how MAGA is a rebellion against the reality of interdependence, and how that led the Trump administration to completely ignore the potential fallout of going to war with Iran. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I've been working on this for ages and it's finally up today! I was p. baffled by AI friendship, until I realized: AI is a logical, if extreme, extension of the kind of friendship our culture already values: individualistic friendship that is on your own terms www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Where we are: Former DHS secretary’s sidepiece/unofficial staffer allegedly demanded bribes from for-profit prison operator for federal ethnic-cleansing contracts. Explosive (if not surprising) reporting from NBC

U.S. allies don’t seem eager to join Trump’s war on Iran. “But this isn’t a simple strategic miscalculation or even a typical Trumpian incompetence—it’s the result of a particular ideological fantasy of American independence,” Adam Serwer argues.

Prediction markets are creating incentives for gamblers to target all manner of public figures—including journalists, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. He spoke with one reporter who’d found himself the subject of death threats over his article:

Democrats “can’t tell Americans that the government will help solve their problems and that they won’t need to pay any taxes to fund it,” Ben Ritz argues. “That’s not offering a solution, just slop”:

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

Writing process: (1) “I have the best argument in the world”; (2) start writing, think “oh no, this is a terrible argument, I’m going to lose”; (3) keep writing, think “this is pretty good, I think we have a good chance”; (4) proofread multiple times; (5) file; (6) find typo.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

doing it solely out of deliberate malice

SCOOP from me: CBS owner Paramount squashed an internal panel discussion on the Arab-American experience amid the Gaza war that featured prominent pro-Palestine activist Alana Hadid – all while holding multiple pro-Israel panels, one that included Batya Ungar-Sargon. zeteo.com/p/cbs-owner-...

I don't know how to say this more plainly but getting news from breathless clout farmers on the other site is just going to lead you back to this place over and over and over again www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Hey, I know you're suffering because we waged a pointless, massively expensive, forever war that I promised would never happen if you elected us, and we did it without the slightest bit of preparation, which is compounding the pain, but hey, at least a bunch of foreigners are suffering more!

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Wrote about how MAGA is a rebellion against the reality of interdependence, and how that led the Trump administration to completely ignore the potential fallout of going to war with Iran. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Alysa Liu defended Eileen Gu's decision to represent China at the Olympics, calling her critics "hypocritical." "Sport is sport, and she has a love for competition ... There’s no shame in going to where opportunity is."

EXCLUSIVE: Vaccination rates among young children in Michigan dropped sharply during the first year of the Trump administration, providing an early indication of how vaccine-skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is influencing immunization practices. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

$13 million from taxpayers for no-bid contracts to a small firm led by former Trump staffers. It’s now the government’s highest-paid event planner. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

This interview is so good. Also read Legacy of Ashes and Enemies. bsky.app/profile/tim-...

never seen anything like this in my life. bsky.app/profile/tari...

It was always a sign of a healthy, functioning democracy when people had to demonstrate their allegiance to the leader by wearing certain special garments. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Kitty ASMR (idk why they are lined up in order of size)

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

Teenage girls are all in on ice hockey, rugby, football, and wrestling—perhaps because these high-contact sports offer something that more traditional girls’ leagues don’t, Alexandra Moe argues.

For decades, members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew planes for the U.S. Army during World War II, lobbied to be recognized as military service members. Today they are still largely unknown. Soon, they will all be gone, @elcush.bsky.social reports:

Soon!!!

The war that we're winning, that we won last week, that we don't need any help with at all, is the Jews fault actually