Alan's choice for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LandMeetsWater any bird on a shoreline or riverbank, water and shoreline must be in capture. Three Great Egrets Greater Yellowlegs #birds #photography #sonyalpha

Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign. Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us. What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.

PROF. PAPE: "I’ve studied every air campaign since World War 1. I’ve modeled the bombing of Iran for 20 years. Air power alone has NEVER toppled a government… it only brings in more aggressive replacements.”

America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?

Polls are open until 7 PM!

"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines. It gets dumber."

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:

My favorite personal Joe Kent moment was right after the 2020 election where I had to insist, plead, beg him to understand that the Supreme Court wasn't going to hold a jury trial to determine if the Italians had used secret satellites to steal the election.

Are you a married woman who enjoys exercising your constitutional right to vote? This afternoon, Senate Republicans and Trump hope to make it much harder for you. Call your senator and tell them to vote NO on the "SAVE" Act. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-go...

The Trump Admin says hurting consumers is the "last of our concerns right now." They don’t care.

Britain’s electricity is currently 72% zero carbon. We’re defeating the oil barons, petro-state dictators, paid fossil fuel lobbyists, and every right wing grifter on the internet one wind turbine at a time. Cool Britannia is back, baby…🇬🇧⚡️♻️🔋😎

There are some 3,000 patients on dialysis machines in Cuba who are at risk of dying from a prolonged blackout.

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

NEW: A federal judge ejected a Trump DOJ attorney from his courtroom, and ordered the leadership of the US Attorney's office in New Jersey to come testify. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/n...

💯 on 🎯

Learn about a jazz singer and activist https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/womens-history-month-nina-simone?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Trump adviser Kevin Hassett tells CNBC if the Iran war "were to be extended, it wouldn’t really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all." "It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about if that continued ... But that's like really the last of our concerns right now."

🇨🇦 Meanwhile, In Canada 🇨🇦

A “Hillbilly Effigy” as it were.

If Paramount can shell out billions of dollars to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, then they can pay their unionized CBS staff a fair wage. I stand with the CBS staff who walked out today as they fight these corporate giants for essential protections and fair contracts.

This is what the 25th amendment is for.

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said that the economic toll that American consumers are feeling as a result of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran is “the last of our concerns right now.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Trump did no planning in the run-up to the war. The US Navy decommissioned almost all of its minesweepers last year. Now Iran is threatening to mine the Strait of Hormuz. The only ships capable of dealing with this threat are the four remaining minesweepers stationed 7,000 miles away in Japan.

The regime is still trafficking children.

The SAVE Act has nothing to do with stopping voter fraud. It’s a poll tax to stop legal voters from casting their ballots. It's how Trump is laying the groundwork to block certification of any election results he doesn’t like. Tell your senators to vote NO: (202) 224-3121 [@brennancenter.org]

Let’s be clear on what’s happening here. They’re trying to steal the next election and this is a smoking gun. GOP Senator Mike Lee sees polling that shows Dems gaining ground and the solution isn’t better ideas or better leadership. The solution is rushing to pass the SAVE Act. #SaveActTaxesVoting

Markwayne Mullin is unfit to lead DHS—his record defends deadly ICE actions, election denial, Jan 6 objections, and volatile outbursts. Demand Senators vote NO on his confirmation for real leadership at DHS. Send your letter now:

Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has said today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflections. Old picture, possibly tricolored heron in or near Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel, Florida. #birds #photography

Joe Kent has resigned over disagreements on the Iran war. Joe Kent is not suddenly a good guy. He’s a straight up white nationalist. But there are fissures in the MAGA base

Governor Newsom responds to Trump’s attacks on people with learning disabilities:

The SAVE America Act requires proof of citizenship, like passports or birth certificates, to register to vote. This would likely disenfranchise millions and resembles a modern poll tax used to suppress votes, echoing Jim Crow laws. Essentially, the act functions as a poll tax.

Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders! I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate... @interstellarflight.bsky.social

Never forget who is really winning this war. www.ft.com/content/37d4...

Change this guy's name to Hunter and MAGA would be storming the Capitol again. open.substack.com/pub/thecause...

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

"He has no known criminal record. "But for an entire year, he has remained imprisoned with no access to a lawyer, no contact with his family and no prospect of a trial before a judge... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

In a statement, the Simmons family encouraged the public to take their grief to the ballot box in November. “Vote for Tyler and the five others who lost their lives recently and for all those serving our country,” the statement reads. -The Daily Beast

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

Seniors on fixed incomes face impossible costs under the SAVE Act. Birth certificates from seventy years ago cost money to replace. Passports cost $165. They built this country. Republicans want to charge them for the right to participate in it. #SaveActIsPayToVote

🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social on Trump’s war: “keir starmer should do as little as possible. Trump is a dangerous, delinquent idiot who started a war in one of the world’s most historically volatile tinderboxes’ — with no legal rationale, no plan, and no end objective.”

As we head into another wildfire season: "We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change." www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

The SAVE Act is voter suppression—not security. It would purge millions, especially married women with name changes, low-income voters without passports, and more. Tell Your Senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!

President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm elections by pushing GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps isn’t over yet. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Good morning, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Splash any bird capture with a splash of water, wave breaking or droplets of water on the bird. Chinstrap penguins porpoising. #birds #photography #sonyalpha

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Feeders, birds on feeders, the Alt theme is #Green, any bird with Green in its plumage. And we’re definitely doing twofers. Rufous-tailed hummingbirds, Violet-crowned woodnymph, Ruby-throated hummingbird #birds #sonyalpha #photography

Today we keep on talking about Ixchel cause her story's the reason why our director started Poison Free Belize. For Sarah it was enough, she got tired of getting raptors, especially owls, with clotting issues #Birds #Raptors #RatPoisonisWildlifePoison Link to help ➡️ www.bonfire.com/belize-rapto...

“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us."