There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

“If their revenue is coming from fraud, what is their incentive to protect people? It feels like Meta is helping the scammers out.” www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

As someone who drinks a lot of lattes this is concerning..... www.reuters.com/business/hea...

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

Profile in cowardice, or something worse

The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. Tell your Senator to reject this harmful legislation.

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Remittances to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are up 14%-20% this year as migrants prepare for possible deportation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

About 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from fossil fuels burned inside homes for things like heating, cooking and cooling. By replacing gas appliances with electric ones, you might be able to lower your contribution to climate change, and save your lungs. Here's what to know.

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, formerly headed by the Trump administration's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, called for the dismissal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reut.rs/4cjOM3m

"You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

The change comes amid President Donald Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration.

A band in the UK just released this statement;

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The independent group that governs high school athletics in Maine is challenging the Trump administration’s finding that it violated the federal law known as Title IX by permitting transgender girls to compete.

"Most Bunker Hill students work while attending school, and many have families. These short programs are their main opportunity to participate in learning abroad, [biology professor Scott] Benjamin said."

“Autopsy reports are vague and contradictory. They describe women with evidence of trauma, including burns and electric shocks, all labeled natural deaths.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

racial discrimination to the trump administration is when you offer admissions to anyone who isn’t white www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

"“I had my birth certificate, a change of address from the US Postal Service — everything but my blood type and the kitchen sink — and I was told I could not register to vote,” Spencer said."

Incredible reporting by @khadeejasafdar.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...