We've built an entire economy around selling people the feeling of control through bets, hacks, subscriptions, and optimization. But the model only works if people stay desperate. New essay on control and agency, financial nihilism, belief markets, the manosphere, and spectacle during war.

If you registered to come to the event today on how to use the ProPublica Trump disclosures News app, the @propublicaguild.org is asking y’all NOT TO ATTEND in support of our strike today. We hate to do this, but management isn’t offering us a fair deal.

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Trump is asking Congress for the biggest counterterrorism budget in years to implement NSPM-7, the national security directive targeting "anti-Americanism," "anti-Christianity" and "anti-capitalism" www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

"Journalists don’t work for the government and their right to publish government leaks is protected by the first amendment which, despite Trump’s efforts, remains the law of the land," FPF's Seth Stern told @jeremymbarr.bsky.social.

There was a time when the US helped countries (including Iran) to establish nuclear power programs to rebrand the new technology after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now those same peaceful programs are condemned interchangeably with weapons programs, which should alarm many US “allies.”

Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago. CENTCOM has sent outdated statements on casualty numbers. theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...

From abroken mother's heart I appeal toyour compassionate hearts 💔 Mybaby Ghazal living in harsh conditions,hunger,cold,lacking most basic necessities lifeYour support could save her,give her warmth,safety,secure life like other children Sendyour warmth,dont letus down🙏🥹🥶 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

This is a really hard, disturbing read. But in awe of these bravery of these survivors www.cnn.com/interactive/...

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US & 22 other countries. BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024. Read more: ow.ly/Q50350YxOSv Photo Credit: NIAID

From abroken mother's heart I appeal toyour compassionate hearts 💔 Mybaby Ghazal living in harsh conditions,hunger,cold,lacking most basic necessities lifeYour support could save her,give her warmth,safety,secure life like other children Sendyour warmth,dont letus down🙏🥹🥶 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

🚨 US military document leaked to shows how the Pentagon is working with private companies to manipulate the information you see about the Iran war www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...

NEW: As Trump sends 1000s more troops toward Iran, some service members report disillusionment & panic - Troops arguing "We do not want to die for Israel" - Uptick in conscientious objector + dissent talk - Evacuees from the region describe huge danger/vulnerability www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

There’s a hero here, but it’s not Joe Kent www.kenklippenstein.com/p/joe-kent-i...

Kristi Noem's replacement bows to anti-ICE protesters in humiliating show of submission: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/kristi-noe...

youtu.be/v1nS_-ra8xE huge shoutout to @fdsignifier.bsky.social for putting this out. @itsbabs.bsky.social

Humanitarian appeal:Myhome destroyed in the war,welost everything.Our tent was destroyed by storm offers no protection the cold.We lack even most basic necessities. Icannot provide food or needs mybaby family. We need £250 Donate today your support could save myfamily 🤲💔 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

From abroken mother's heart I appeal toyour compassionate hearts 💔 Mybaby Ghazal living in harsh conditions,hunger,cold,lacking most basic necessities lifeYour support could save her,give her warmth,safety,secure life like other children Sendyour warmth,dont letus down🙏🥹🥶 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

If you or someone you know is in the US military & you don't want to be deployed for this endless war drive, there are people & organizations to help you through the conscientious objector process. (Don't ask your CO because they'll lie.) Here's one of the groups that can help for free.

Telling our story about why we've established a Truth Commission, and what it entails. Thanks to you all at @505omatic.bsky.social for a great chat on how we're just getting started...!

For my first story with @505omatic.bsky.social, we interviewed the chair of the Survivors Truth Commission investigating Jeffrey Epstein's operations in New Mexico: youtube.com/shorts/6DYDJ...

A former UN human rights director, just wrote the piece on the illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran every outlet with a legal correspondent should have published 48 hours ago. They didn't. We did. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/unde...

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to be affluent NYT op-ed columnists who are never in any danger of being fired.

Please share Khaled’s fundraiser as he hasn’t been getting much engagement and donations stalling. I’m on a WhatsApp group with him and can vouch for him. Please continue to give if you can and share: gofund.me/d957242e3

A 6,000 year-old civilisation of mystics and engineers is fighting against a nation steeped in cheeseburger and mammon on behalf of a 70-year old colonial outpost steeped in thievery, apartheid, rape and paedophilia www.donotpanic.news/p/the-mcmuff...

If you care about homelessness after the big Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass, read this story. By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social and Ruth Talbot

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026. She kindly gave us permission to republish it. 😷 Read the full comic at The Sick Times: bit.ly/4rVqQdp

A Tense and Tearful Public Comment Session on the Soldiers' Monument Underscores Deep Wounds Far From Being Resolved

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

"Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely not get us out of here." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"I promise I’m no better than my neighbor. I pine for the old world when it does no good. I chase my dreams, but I chase the rent faster." open.substack.com/pub/positive...

My latest in @texasobserver.org The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas: As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance. www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

Chatham County teacher killed in crash by suspect fleeing ICE, reports The Current GA.

REVEALED: ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months Leaked documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images. By Yuval Abraham. @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/ice-microsof...

🚨 ICE is hiring people to work on a "watchlisting team," contracting records show: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expand...

For years, Epstein took respite at a sprawling ranch in the desert scrub outside Santa Fe, NM. Epstein’s nearly 10,000-acre property – known as Zorro ranch – was dotted with cholla cactus and Angus cattle, and came to include a 26,700 sq ft mansion, as well as a private runway and hangar.

🌟 Our latest "5 Questions with..." features Jerome Morrison, Katy Gross, and Warren Langford of @505omatic.bsky.social. An independent collective of journalists, 505omatic creates accessible social media content that has garnered a strong community following. www.tinynewsco.org/5-questions-...

🚨SCOOP🚨After two years of tracking Israel’s journalist killings, the Committee to Protect Journalists claims 85-88% of journalists killed in Gaza as “dangerous assignment” deaths—NOT targeted killings, including over 60 killed in their homes w/ their families.🧵1/8 nofrontiersnews.com/p/scoop-comm...

#Avian flu behind mass skua die-off in Antarctica, scientists say While H5N1 has been circulating in Antarctica since 2023, this is the first confirmation showing that it killed birds on that continent. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...#Avian Photo: Ignacio Ferre Perez / Flickr cc

‘This bill spits on basic human decency’: Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban without hearing | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg