As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

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Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.

This escalated fast, in a good way.

HUGE.

This is one you do not want to miss! And I’m not saying that just because the @onebrightbook.bsky.social crew got to chat about it. Jewett called it her favorite among her works. Her subtle examinations of urban vs rural life, queerness, and the ecological landscape she knew well are stunning.

A glorious Hydra today has haunting stories by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, a dreamy meditation on the life of David Jowitt, author of 'Nigerian English Usage', by @kolatubosun.bsky.social, and @joemacleod666.bsky.social on the Beastie Boys and Blue Nun Liebfraumilch flaminghydra.com/issue-520/

omg

Please help Mohammed's son Jamal survive Israel's genocide, which has left him starving & in critical condition. Jamal has diabetes, asthma, and injuries from an IDF attack. He urgently needs insulin & treatment:

welp, another one for the boycott list. hope you have fun sitting next to target, chilis.

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This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

any analysis of Israel and Lebanon that does not include the stated desire by multiple Israeli politicians - over many years - to destroy Lebanon itself is either not paying attention, in denial or actively deceiving people

So did they really get Axios to just print a story saying the target boycott was over based on a call with one guy who didn't launch the boycott in the first place? Am I reading this right?

This is called kidnapping and it’s a crime. Abolish ICE

Another word you might use for it is "looting". "This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

For every one of these profiles that makes the news, so many thousands more suffering in silence.

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.

This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.

This will be my only shoe post but as the Trump administration guys are getting asked for their shoe size and are all wearing shoes that are obviously too big… they’re lying up about their shoe size, aren’t they? No one is getting shoes that are too small.

This is false. Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott. Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

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Apropos of nothing at all, here’s a feature article I wrote for Playboy in 2015, about why America can’t win wars anymore. I cover pundits, yes, but also poor planning, strategic missteps, and a breakdown of politics. I was forced out of national security work three months after this got published.

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

Just sent the email ([email protected])

yeah so this absolutely happened though lmao

The ICE detention center purchases appear to be money laundering:

I ... am so glad that @randyhermanlaw.com was at this hearing. This guy is unreal.

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

What a disgrace. Many of them aren’t even running for reelection and they’re still voting like cowards.

I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.

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A normal day in the news dusting off this column about naval mines that @samlagrone.bsky.social wrote for @popsci.com back in 2014 www.popsci.com/blog-network...

Ramzi is hoping to raise money for food this week if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website against-a-i.com

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

the last few times iran has accepted a ceasefire, the US and israel have taken the opportunity to restock their weapons and then surprise attack iran again. "there's zero point in engaging in diplomacy with us any more" is what that strategy teaches

NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits. When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy