“The Treasury Department reported on Wednesday that the national debt hit a new record high - at just over $39 trillion. The debt reached $38 trillion back on October 22, 2025 - which means another $1 trillion was added in just under five months.” — @jamiedupree.bsky.social

They are coming your way already. Love you.

Do it every night until it passes.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. apnews.com/article/covi...

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

This line from The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the outbreak of World War I resonates now: “Austria-Hungary, with the bellicose frivolity of senile empires, determined to use the occasion to absorb Serbia as she had absorbed Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1909.”

Will not watch/listen to a millisecond of this lying, cheating Trumpist (even if the alternative is two Dookies & delayed brackets on ESPN).

As happened so distressingly often last season, @racingloufc.com gives up a goal after 85’ to lose what would’ve been a very well-earned point.

BLOOMER!

Have never, ever seen @racingloufc.com center backs as involved in the attack as much as they have been tonight.

The whole match changed when Sears moved to the right side.

Give O’Kane & Fischer some credit on this goal. O’Kane pressured Sheridan into a bad pass & Fischer disrupted it out to Sears who deftly found Weber for the calm finish. Thought they might score it an own goal, but love Weber opening her ‘26 account early.

“On the bench, all nine available substitutes will be making their Racing Louisville debuts if they come into the game. Eight of the nine substitutes would also be making their NWSL debuts.”

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Read this essential, ominous thread from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. Deranged madman Trump has created a national, regional & global catastrophe. Things are spiraling rapidly. There is no good exit or end. Have been promoting Murphy for Senate Democratic leader, but he has presidential potential.

Under the fascist Führerprinzip, the leader’s interest is the public interest. Below, the MAGA Party minister of propaganda threatens to close media that do not submit to the leader’s dictates, operate as organs of disinformation & lie about the misbegotten & unconstitutional war. MAGA = anti-truth.

Wow. Read this excellent, but very disturbing, report by @joesonka.lpm.org. Reporting like this is vitally important & one of many reasons to support @lpm.org. Those in the @govandybeshear.bsky.social administration & the General Assembly GOP responsible for Medicaid owe taxpayers some explanations.

Remember every single day that a relative handful of congressional Republicans could stop most, if not all, of this dangerous & deranged fascist criminal insanity. But it would require character, courage, fidelity to the Constitution & love of country over partisan & personal power & position.

I would now give Jasper the green light to start indiscriminately chucking all his pent-up three point attempts hoping he also has pent-up makes.

Kentucky lucky to be in the game after shooting 2-11 on threes.

I would go zone & pack it in ridiculously.

Jasper.

Jasper.

Jasper.

Hegseth's advocacy of war crimes is now such a frequent occurrence it draws scant attention. Thank goodness for Brian Finucane... bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night in Louisville, Kentucky.

Now Michael Adams disgracefully sells his soul to deranged fascist felon Trump. Had hoped for better from him. Adams making his bargain with the devil now, after insurrection, Epstein files, murderous ICE masked goons, Iran war, etc. is especially indefensible. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Impeach and convict a president for an unlawful war, and you’ll see fewer unlawful wars,” our columnist David French tells Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The Times Magazine, in their conversation this week.

The nets at the Big 12 Tournament are the shortest & stiffest I’ve seen since the ones the Knicks had at Madison Square Garden circa 1969-73. Also, that court is an abomination.

Read this entire piece. Garrett Graff says what needs saying & does so as clearly & powerfully as anyone could.

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

Charlie Sykes: "So, this seems a rather urgent question: Is it now the policy of the US that we can kidnap or assassinate the leader of any nation state without (1) a declaration of war or (2) a ruling by any court or international body? Is that the new rule? That we get to kill anyone we want?"

Listening to Kentucky MBB radio broadcast. Commercial for UK Healthcare featuring Coach Mark Pope talking about “making a run for a banner” is getting on my nerves. #BBN

This conversation between Brink Lindsey & Damon Linker, very smart, thoughtful gentlemen affiliated with The Niskanen Center @niskanencenter.bsky.social, is great. Discussions & ideas like theirs are essential if liberal democracy is to survive populist assault. open.substack.com/pub/brinklin...

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

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Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen. Then came a FOIA request from @weareoversight.bsky.social.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Please read about this great American life. A courageous patriot & an inspiration. “In his memoir, Lafayette wrote that the ever-present threat of death during those early years of organizing taught him that the value of life ‘lies not in longevity, but in what people do to give it significance.’”

Sickening. Shame on Messi.

Confused about who is doing which new gig that has not actually been created or defined yet. Is Mitch Barnhart now Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas & Kristi Noem the Executive in Residence for the UK Sports and Workforce Initiative or vice versa? Regardless, congrats to both.

"But Mr. Kennedy attracted a range of other institutions, representing about a quarter of American medical schools. Many are public schools in conservative states, including ... the University of Kentucky" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Wish she had kept pushing for a response instead of letting him dodge. Probably more & better planning by this fascist administration for invading & occupying American cities & states than for this misbegotten war on Iran.

Trump Youth

@repmcgarvey.bsky.social Isn’t Rep. Massie right when he says, “If your tax dollars were used to settle sexual harassment claims against members of Congress, you should know about it”?

@repmcgarvey.bsky.social Why did you vote to refer the resolution to reveal all sexual harassment settlements involving members of Congress to the Ethics Committee where, per @jamiedupree.bsky.social, “it will presumably die,” instead of supporting the resolution & an up or down vote on it?

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Love Sears & Sentnor playing together. #USWNT