The understatement in this article makes it have less than zero value. “Testing FBI Norms”???? “Kash Patel’s ultracasual style and attraction to the spotlight are chipping away at that image.”??? How terrified these reporters are of truth-telling... www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

To management at museums whose employees may be in the process of unionizing: It’s time to stop excluding workers, boldly resist further capitulation to the Trump regime, and recognize your unions.

Trump is spreading Daily Caller video showing old videos of San Francisco from the 50's and new videos of various places (not all SF) of drug addicts and destruction. I hope every Republican in the country thinks San Francisco is a no go wasteland and stays the hell away. We do not want you.

Separated at birth?

“No plan, no endgame, potential casualties, oil shock, unleashing carnage in the region, all leads to a disaster in the making for the US people.” £/$

Trump's Operation Epic Distraction anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

So precise and lethal we lost three f-15’s to friendly fire. Epically furious alright.

Your astonishing artifact this week is the enigmatic Lady of Elche. 🧪🏺

Mugshot Monday! If I can steal and paraphrase a line from the great Emo Philips, this mug is bi and large. (… **crickets** …) 😜 Traditionally in the US, pink is a "girl" color and blue is a "boy" color (before about the mid-19th century, the traditional "baby color" was white, but anyway).

Of course one consequence of Trump’s idiocy: pushing up the oil price means more money going into Putin’s coffers at exactly the time he needs it.

The US has confirmed that three F-15E Strike Eagles went down over Kuwait due to friendly fire.

Another thing that perplexes me.

Perhaps I’ll do a slow drip of Death Valley pics from last week’s trip. First up are several of the small shark teeth and bivalve fossils we found at Ant Hill just east of Bakersfield. It’s the publicly accessible portion of the Miocene-aged Round Mountain Silt within the Temblor Formation.

The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.

Assassination of world leaders is back on the menu, boys!

10/7 was seen as a failure of the existing iron dome, that it didn't extend all the way to the ground and out to the sea, not that the fundamental promise of the iron dome is a false one

Florida Man forced to leave links to temporarily discuss some minor accidents in remote country www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/flor...

Just to clarify. The story itself is about Trump's federal prosecutors in his first term. My remark there is about 2021-2024, when Garland did nothing with the Epstein material.

It was malpractice that Merrick Garland's DOJ sat on all this potentially explosive info.

In 2019, federal prosecutors asked NM officials to stop investigating the Epstein ranch, claiming they would share info with local authorities. Local investigators handed all their evidence to the feds, who shared...nothing. www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...

Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...

One very timely and excellent follow right now is bsky.app/profile/vcdg...

Every single Russian shadow fleet tanker needs to be seized NOW, get it done ASAP.

Aisling Bea sure is charming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BmO...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new study, repeated lines, notches, dots, and crosses exhibit the same level of complexity and information density as proto-cuneiform script, which emerged around 3000 BC

To sum up Love is Blind for people who don't watch it: the most beautiful woman you've ever seen is engaged to a man who looks like the decaying ninja turtles costume and clearly despises her

Benito Mussolini dies at 61. The gifted orator made Italy a Regional Power, Welcomed Africans into its Orbit. Public already paying respects at Piazza Quindici Martiri, Milan.

Stelter has to appeal to Bari Weiss in advance if he wants to keep his CNN gig, so I’d take his “media analysis” with a grain of salt

Why not both? /Donald Trump

Watch #Shoresy* on Hulu.

Bought a 4TB flash drive for $329 in December of 2025. Today, four months later that same drive sells for $579. Thanks republicans and unregulated billionaires.

maybe this will convince some imbeciles. probably not. but maybe... www.reuters.com/world/us-mil...

Super excited to meet the rockstars keeping #TeslaTakedown going at five locations across the SF bay area today. It's never too late to get involved in this important effort! www.eventbrite.com/e/tesla-take...

While sifting through a 15th-century alchemical manuscript, art historian Denva Gallant came across an image that stopped her in her tracks: an angel with dark skin. This rare illustration cast Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

Lynn Ahrens, singer, writer and lyricist for musical theatre, television and film, was the person behind Schoolhouse Rock. Here, she sings a history of the U.S. Constitution and the Preamble. Even if we had Civics, this is how many of us first learned. She wrote these songs. #WomensHistoryMonth

Trump's reckless actions will most likely lead to the death of not only Americans but thousands of others, and for that none of us should ever forgive him. This should go down in history as the Epstein War.

no sorry we’re not doing this anymore. not for a volunteer army committing atrocities

Lynn Ahrens, singer, writer and lyricist for theatre, television and film, is the person behind Schoolhouse Rock. She's written songs for productions like Anastasia, Once on This Island, Seussical, and Ragtime and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards and 2 Golden Globe Awards. #WomensHistoryMonth

Yep, we were all promised checks and balances. "Three-Ring Government" from Schoolhouse Rock, written and sung by Lynn Ahrens, aired on March 13, 1979. A little boy learns the three branches of the U.S. government (legislative, executive, judicial) by using a circus analogy. #WomensHistoryMonth

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999 youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

"war is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not colour his crime with the pretext of justice." ~voltaire "the ignorant philosopher" - 1767

The best person you can follow for honest reliable information, especially at times like this is @chadbourn.bsky.social It has been for years and is still true today, I don't know why he doesn't have 3 million followers, but he should have. If you're not following him, follow him.

Just to state the obvious: one major beneficiary of the Strait of Hormuz being closed (either because Iran takes steps to close it or because oil companies decide not to risk going through it) is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Reminded of all the kids in the Leatherface household in Texas Chainsaw Massacre whoopin' and hollerin' for Grandpa as they brought in a fresh victim for him.

Whoop, there it is. cw: Penske Media

Operation Epic Distraction anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

Ten Blue Links, "Cometh the hour, cometh the man-baby" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-man-baby-edition/

Seattle, know what you need tonight? That's right, classical music! 7:30pm, Town Hall, $15 at the door Come hear me play altogether too many notes, maybe even the correct ones at the right time 🎻 and enjoy our conductor's jokes Family friendly! (best for folks who can sit quietly & stay up late)

Stevens to a critic of a law authorizing black soldiers: "The gentleman from Kentucky objects lest it should lead to freedom of the Blacks .. Patriotism that is wholly absorbed by one’s own country is narrow and selfish. Philanthropy which embraces only one’s own race .. is cruel and detestable.”

“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus, ‘Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, and who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he had striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.’” - T. Stevens