Colorado meatpacking workers go on strike. "United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union representing 3,800 JBS workers in Greeley, has been negotiating for months with the company but has been unable to secure a deal." www.denverpost.com/2026/03/16/j...

Ouch, my eyes

Designer Robert Couturier told the FBI Epstein asked him to decorate a bedroom on his island with “a very colorful palette for his girls.” “Everybody knew what was happening on that island.” Couturier eventually backed out and told the FBI what Epstein had instructed. The FBI knew. 1/2

Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Cuba, EMSC says reut.rs/470UFRA

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

The University of Florida’s College Republicans chapter was disbanded after a photo reportedly depicting two students giving a Nazi salute had been shared on social media.

a year without any charges whatsoever. it still stuns me. i can't begin to think what she must have gone through.

When I was in college there were a disturbing number of professors who we noticed were married to former students. I thought I was the last generation where that shit would happen since it was icky then and exceedingly against policy going forward

More lies being spewed by dementia don.

thats called "stealing"

The sitting president of the United States just sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office of the White House and referred to the Governor of California as the President of the United States. Can the media start reporting on his deteriorating mental state now or nah?

The fact that neither “It Was Just an Accident” nor “The Secret Agent” won anything at the Oscars “is a reminder of the Academy’s cultural myopia,” Justin Chang writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/67xQmu

Maddow: How is Jared Kushner's role in the U.S. attacking Iran not more of a show-stopping scandal?

The other war raging right now is Pakistan v Afghanistan. The Taliban government has blamed Pakistan for an attack on a drug treatment facility in Afghanistan, as conflict between the neighbouring countries threatens to escalate into outright war. ft.trib.al/eja8Lhe

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

this is a horror story nymag.com/intelligence...

Support For The US Military Overthrowing The Cuban Government: Oppose: 57% Support: 18% Support Among: GOP: 40% IND: 12% DEM: 6% YouGov / Feb 27, 2026

Support for the US Attacking Cuba: Oppose: 61% Support: 13% Support Among: GOP: 30% IND: 9% DEM: 3% YouGov / Feb 27, 2026

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

Ya know, I wasn't even especially into the idea of a Buffy reboot, but now I have a NEW ENEMY. Who is this creepy exec?

“Our current financial system fails not because any one thing goes wrong. It fails because different shocks propagate through the same structure and in ways that are hard to anticipate. When something eventually goes wrong, it spreads faster than it can be contained.“

Proud to see that the JUSTICE FOR HIND RAJAB ACT has been introduced by Welch and Van Hollen in the Senate as well as by Jacobs and Castro in the House. It demands a full federal accounting and investigation, to be reported to Congress, on the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza by the Israelis.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

meanwhile in the Federal government: bsky.app/profile/greg...

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

“Two brothers of one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers visited the sex offender's former New Mexico ranch … for ​the first time to demand the Trump administration release unredacted documents to reveal ‌the identities of men their late sister alleged sexually abused her at the property.”

Columbia University has a hell of a lot to answer for.

A TN grandmother spent six months in jail because Fargo police used facial recognition to accuse her of bank fraud in ND then left her rotting in jail without bothering to investigate. “She lost her home, her car, and her dog as a result of her stint in jail.”

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

Four of the bylined journalists went to The Atlantic, three to NY Times 2 to MSNOW, the rest scattered/retired/layoff victims. The package's lead editor, Matea Gold, also went to the Times, along with two of the other three credited story editors. bsky.app/profile/matt...

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of Jan. 6. Their entry's capstone was a mammoth feature titled "The Attack," featuring reporting by 26 journalists. By my count, 8 of them are still at the paper. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

Yeah, I’m *absolutely* going to need a torrent of this 😃

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.”

Nearly 16,000 workers at Meta may be getting pink slips soon in what would amount to one of the internet company's largest layoffs ever. https://bit.ly/4sgYniu

I’m reading at Ohio Wesleyan this week & Two Dollar Radio in Columbus, which is terrific. This year has been the good kind of whirlwind for Mycocosmic. After that I don’t have any book events scheduled until summer—time to think and write is also beautiful. www.owu.edu/calendars/de...

A Heat Advisory is in effect for San Francisco through Friday 8 p.m. Temps in the 80s are possible in San Francisco. Take steps to stay safe in the heat:

“Every two or three days, she says, ICE officials enter their room to ask people to sign forms agreeing to voluntary removal. Many have taken it, including a man from Minnesota whose lawyer said he only agreed because he was being denied medication for his diabetes.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the Iran War: “NATO is a defence alliance and not an intervention alliance. And therefore, NATO is not called upon here at all. “I pointed out the risks from the first day, and the risks of this war are large, very large. 1/2

Today, 5 years ago, 8 people lost their lives during the Atlanta Spa Shooting. Remember the names of the victims: Daoyou Feng, 44 Hyun Jung Grant, 51 Suncha Kim, 69 Paul Andre Michels, 54 Soon Chung Park, 74 Xiaojie Tan, 49 Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33 Yong Ae Yue, 63 www.11alive.com/article/news...

There’s something really gross about your boss announcing your medical diagnosis to the world. And something deeply wrong with him, in the same breath, announcing that you won’t miss a day of work in service to him because of it.

For Alta Magazine, I wrote about Hannah Lillith Assadi's novel PARADISO 17 which imagines the life of a Palestinian man from birth to death and beyond, living as a refugee in search of home. Well worth sharing with those who claim the news is too much for to bear. www.altaonline.com/books/a70521...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rips Trump's "sham" Kennedy Center board meeting today: "Current management has so severely looted the Center through self-dealing, favoritism + waste that it now seeks to cover up those failures by shuttering the Kennedy Center altogether.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with stage one breast cancer, President Trump announces.

Today's delight: Michael B Jordan walks into In and Out Burger with his Oscar in hand and pandemonium breaks out. www.facebook.com/reel/1394489...

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's just wrong to make Americans think that every single Palestinian in Gaza was a member of Hamas. That's just not true. There were tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians murdered by these bombs that were dropped on them. Now the same thing is happening in Lebanon."

The Puyang burial, from China's Yangshao culture (c.5000-3000 BCE), sees a man buried with two formations made of stones, one a serpentine dragon, the other a tiger. It is among the earliest Neolithic depictions of a dragon. #MythologyMonday