I want to hear someone say, “The US Navy lost $30 billion last year”

We have the money to act on climate, btw

Shoutout to all the money that was invested in this, that could have powered a coast-to-coast network of midsize metro dailies until the heat death of the known universe.

The USPS has been around for *250 years* They want you to pay a private company more money for something that has been a public good for more than a quarter of a millennium Don't let them do this

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

Essential thread

One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia. bsky.app/profile/dave...

Chotiner. Menswear guy. There are just some people you don't tussle with.

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

A few weeks ago, WaPo's sports section led with original reporting about the Capitals and Wizards. Now it's an assemblage of wire stories about teams no one here cares about. (The fact that an injury to the White Sox's catcher in spring training is on the Post home page is comedic.)

Some fertiliser plants have shut down (temporarily?) because of hits to gas imports. Some restaurants and hotels are facing shutdown risks because domestic LPG is the priority. There are reports that firewood prices have shot up and induction stoves are getting sold out

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

This thread rules

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The spellbinding ignorance and naivete of tech bros never ceases to amaze

You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate? www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Excellent work from excellent team. And let's be sure to not bury the headlines here: coral reefs are GONE. Beyond 1.5°C we should expect >90% dead. North Atlantic currents very vulnerable at this temp. These are potentially v fast tipping points that could cause havoc with weather, farming. 1/5

Terrific piece on how the New York Times and Politico failed to spot pink slime and how it all plays into a reckless smear on AOC and Gov Whitmire. open.substack.com/pub/spinclas...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

⚠️"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica" I.e. The Paris Agreement target locks in approximately 2.1 metres sea-level equivalent from WAIS alone. 🌊

How do you look at any of this stuff and not see that it’s all about eugenics and always has been

This has to be satire. Right?

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Good news, and a bigger deal than it may seem. Peatlands are hard to restore once drained or degraded, and "decades" may seem like a long time, but that's about all the time we have to avoid climate cataclysm — and we won't succeed without restoring natural places like these

This is conscious, purposeful journalistic malpractice. Have the NYT ever quoted anyone else this way?

Ope

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

This is blackout poetry to me

🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This nonsense is literally going to kill people

WOW

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Most people have no idea how bad this is going to be

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This, a thousand times this.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Pay attention

Unbelievable

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Q: On ICE protests, what did you mean when you said 'people will suffer an equal or greater consequence'? TRUMP: If they do anything bad to our people, they will have to suffer, I'm sorry. If they throw bricks at one of our very expensive vehicles, they are gonna be met with very very serious force

really wish Epstein commentators would stop using the phrase "underage women" the word you are looking for is "girls", teenage girls.

With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree goal, scientists say the world is on course to hit tipping points — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that can not be reversed.