The triumph of congestion pricing in New York City “offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives,” the editorial board writes.

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" Trump responds to a reporter's question about why the U.S. didn't alert allies before initial strikes on Iran in a meeting with Japan's PM.

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"...allegations that the Trump administration began negotiating the transfer of the center’s space weather program to a private company in January, before the review had been completed... "...attempts to improperly transfer public assets to private companies... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

Isaacman has lost all credibility

Energy Dept., NASA take steps to oust their unions www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #NASA

Just awful. AXIS would have provided the next step in the study of the high-energy universe. How stupid of NASA management to actively implement Trump's insane NASA budget cuts, which were eventually forestalled anyway in a burst of sanity by congress. Lots of eggs broken for no reason

"If the United States relies less on oil, it can care less about the Persian Gulf," Rosemary Kelanic writes. "That would be one more reason to bring home the tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed there."

Representative Raskin talking truth and smarts in DC #StandUpForScience

fiery Chris van Hollen standing up for science in DC now

Gretchen Goldman of Union of Concerned Scientists speaking at the SUFS National Day of Action Rally in Washington D.C.! #March7 #March7DC #Rally #science #ImpeachTheQuack

I’m sure he’ll resign in protest.

Nothing to see here I’m sure

The 2026 budget directive tells NASA to protect the Goddard Space Library, not following the directive is illegal. Visit the link in our bio or search tr.ee/save-nasa to contact your rep. and urge that they make NASA follow the budget directive. #NASA #savenasa #space #science

Remember when the worst Republican policy was tort reform?

A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman (Starliner) nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... #NASA

Finally out in the Astrophysical Journal. Results from the deepest radio pulsar search of the innermost 1.4 arcminutes of the Galactic Center region at 10 GHz. Work led by recent Columbia PhD Karen Perez. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

NSA's whistleblower report is about contacts between foreign intelligence and someone close to Trump. Instead of acting on this information to protect the United States, Gabbard tipped off the White House and squashed an internal investigation to protect Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

also loss of tax revenue since the fed government is exempt from paying real estate taxes

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

After numerous artists said they would no longer perform there and ticket sales plummeted, Trump says he is closing the Kennedy Center for at least two years.

Chris va Hollen deserves the thanks of every American for his defense of due process rights

I don't mean this in a snarky way. I really mean this earnestly: Why are Republicans so much better than Democrats at this?

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Springsteen releases new song: "Streets of Minneapolis": Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst... We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis

Don't let them change the narrative and blame only Bovino. TRUMP GREENLIT THE ASSASSINATION OF INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS. That's it. That's the headline.

HEAD Awards Rossi Prize to Henric Krawczynski The top prize in high-energy astrophysics has been awarded to Henric Krawczynski of Washington University in St. Louis for his contributions to the theory, instrumentation, and scientific interpretation of X-ray polarimetry. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭

Walz: "I don't care if you are conservative are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian 'Don't Treat on Me,' a Democratic Socialist -- this an inflection point. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of a citizen and besmirching everything they stood for -- someone has to be accountable."

Ironic isn’t it? Had an ICE thug been hurt at the very same location 5 minutes earlier, Alex would have dropped everything to save his life. But 5 minutes later….

Well, would you look at that

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

murder

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Best way to stop the conquest of Greenland is to point out the likelihood of two additional Democratic senators.

Alexandra Petri FTW https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/individual-federal-services-replacement/685333/?gift=X3irTF-fr6U_jIeZ7biZ4iBSt651tko4l_BtoMktHxY

Renee Macklin Good wrote a poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs". It went on to win the 2020 Academy of American Poets prize. "make room for wonder”

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

Thank you US Senator Mark Kelly for welcoming #AAS247 attendees to Arizona and for your continued support of the astronomical sciences. We’re grateful for your ongoing advocacy for science and discovery. #ExploreAstronomy Photo by © CorporateEventImages/Todd Buchanan 2026 🔭

Never forget

Why is the Jack Smith deposition not trending? It is an incredibly clear and damning indictment of the person in the White House. youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE

The President of the United States is a criminal. Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.

I thought I would share my End of the Year Python script. from datetime import datetime year = datetime.now().year while True: print(f"Goodbye {year}. {year + 1} can’t be worse.") year += 1

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

more dingbats for this regime please

All these people are going to hell someday: How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...