Jared Kushner has FOUR days left to file his public financial disclosure revealing any conflicting assets, now that he's been appointed as Special Envoy for Peace.

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

If you’re interested in understanding why American culture is blowing in the wind, you need to be reading Derek on Substack. 🎯🔥 #culture #culturaltheory #democracy #liberalism #nokings 👇👇

They don't build prisons to keep them empty.

the usual circular firing squad of loathsome Trump apparatchiks

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

Researching at the Library of Congress today. This quotation from James Madison seemed to be speaking to today’s struggles.

The history of The Merchant of Venice alone is enough to make you ill

These are painful to read

An important thing to know about these civics/ western civ centers. They have faculty lines and are hiring historians - regularly without any input from or even knowledge of their history departments.

Universities are dismantling the humanities at the same time as the most powerful empire in world history is being brought down by a lack of understanding of geography.

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

speaking of political essays, "never escalate the level of violence in a fight that you are losing" seems like one somebody should write

“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” ~Ida B. Wells, 1892. Image: Public domain.

There was scant data behind ending the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children, according to internal memos made public because of a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services

Kristi Noem has been referred by Congress to DOJ for Perjury investigation for lies she gave to the Senate & House on March 3 & 4. One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS. But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury. youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...

My sources say it was former president John Barron

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

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Oscar-winning screenwriter #RyanCoogler: “I’m standing here” because, when he took a creative-writing course in college, the professor “read something that I wrote … and said, ‘I think you should go to Hollywood and write screenplays.’” #Humanities #Academia #LiberalArts #Oscars

We need to quit believing this post. Because if it was true to happen, it would have happened

bye, bitch

"'I love Texas but right now, it doesn’t feel like they love us back,' Jones-Radtke said."

thank god some judge was like what if we didn’t kill the children

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Me neither

Gibberish. Where does he plan to take Cuba? For a walk? To the movies?

Good news. A judge has just BLOCKED some of Sec. Kennedy’s disastrous attacks on vaccines. This is an important victory for science and for our health, but the fight continues. Keep up the pressure.

LFG

BREAKING: All Kennedy vaccine changes and all ACIP decisions are blocked by a federal court, and the panel cannot meet as planned this week. @apoorvanyt.bsky.social “This is a significant victory for public health, evidence-based medicine," a lawyer for AAP said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Netanyahu has long been very confident in his ability to influence U.S. policy. From 2001: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

Finishes what job?

Because the majority of Americans are against them. Period. And they know it.

BREAKING: Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to retire, reports say He has been one of the most visible — and staunch — defenders of Trump's mass deportation agenda.

Willing to bet my life that none of this is true and I'll never understand why he's the first and only US president who's just allowed to blatantly lie continuously and carry on as if nothing happened cos no one expects him not to lie constantly

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Call your senators to vote NO on the “SAVE America Act” IT’S A POLL TAX 🎧 The bill would require a photo ID that proves U.S. citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport, in order to register to vote. ‼️ Senate Democrats are firmly opposed to the bill. #Pinks www.npr.org/2026/03/16/g...

We have a page of places to pitch on our website. Not sure of where is best for your piece, but maybe this can help you get a sense? blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

NYT suggests that Sen Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Trump's new pick to head DHS, grew fantastically rich with stock trades placed on insider information, and they produce the receipts.

I cannot quite believe, in 2026, that I’m seeing a writer in the Atlantic make the argument “sure, they’re slaves, but they’re happy and content! So it’s okay!”

The whiplash effect from Hegseth saying 'Maximum lethality, not tepid legality' to 'Please world we're baby please carry us through the strait' should be on the first page of The Big Book Of FAFO

Powell has been running these bad-faith attacks since Mamdani won the primary. It's embarrassing to run yet another piece that can't justify its own existence

NEW: An insolvency judge in England tossed out testimony after discovering a witness was being coached on what to say in real time through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the cellphone after it was disconnected from the glasses, the witness blamed ChatGPT.

The Chilling Effect

This is a terrible idea

This gets funnier by the hour. By this point, Trump seems like a helpless and distressed motorist standing by the roadside waving desperately to the passing traffic for assistance.