“the justices will test the landmark 1898 precedent set in US v. Wong Kim Ark, which held that a man born in SF to Chinese parents was American. Ark's great grandson, a SF area resident, said he fears that the principle enshrined by his ancestor's case could be in peril.”

It sometimes seems like everyone everywhere attempts bold new ideas except here.

Renewable energy breaks new records every year, the days of fossil fuels are numbered. www.the-independent.com/tech/renewab...

War is a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the 1%. #BloodForOil #GenocidalPsychopaths youtu.be/sXzrEjoGgYw?...

A $12 million interceptor missile. Destroying a $20,000 drone. Over and over. Every single day. Ask yourself one question: who benefits from that imbalance? Because someone does. And I found them. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

A team involving the same scientists has gone further since the study below in identifying risks of AMOC collapse (incl. many uncertainties). It considers that the IPCC should review its position that the "AMOC decline will not involve an abrupt collapse before 2100." bsky.app/profile/rahm...

Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears a case that shouldn’t be a case — birthright citizenship is plainly in the Constitution. bit.ly/4bI28aP

A few cartoons from this week... Enjoy!

A mass casualty event has been declared after a Ukrainian drone strike hit one of Russia’s largest petrochemical complexes, Nizhnekamskneftekhim. Pretty big #explodey

Toronto’s ‘Ask for Angela’ safety campaign expands ahead of FIFA World Cup

I totally agree with Paul. Canada needed a steady hand and we got one. Every day I am so thankful Mark Carney is our PM! A former Governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England who stepped up at exactly the right moment. Defending our sovereignty, 🍁 #MarkCarney #USDemocracy #Pinks

The problem with waiting for the courts to push back on Trump is that the damage has often been done before any resolution.

We are the baddies. The United States Has Become a Rogue State foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/26/u...

A federal judge ordered construction of Trump’s ballroom halted. In a 35-page opinion, the judge said he lacks the authority to unilaterally replace entire sections of the White House, after the East Wing was demolished for the project.

The judge blocks Trump from building planned ballroom without authorization from Congress. abcnews.com/Politics/fed...

The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.

The biggest reason Europe didn’t get involved with the illegal Iran war was because they knew there was a collaboration with Putin to drain NATO resources. Now Trump is asking for equipment from Poland that protects NATO be sent to the Middle East. To which they politely replied, “Fuck Off.”

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

Giorgia Meloni Tells Trump To Fuck Off,Said No,You Can't Land On Our Sicilian Bases ! Good,NATO Is Not Trumps Whipping Boy, (Or Girl) !

Add France to the list. One by one, U.S. allies are shutting their airspace to American military operations.

Thank you for seeing the light

“As of this writing, more than 1,500 mathematicians have signed the petition, which states that they plan to boycott the event if it isn’t moved outside the U.S.”

A sign of our times…

When Democrats retake the majority, there will be a lot of priorities. As long as I'm in the Senate, one of those priorities will be consequences and accountability for any member of this administration that commits war crimes.

For the first time, the “State of the Climate” report includes the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) as an indicator. The EEI is fundamentaL: if it’s positive, then the Earth is absorbing more energy than it’s releasing to space and therefore must warm. 2/n wmo.int/publication-...

Banning a harmful practice that is directly tied to deaths and self-harm is not "suppressing one side of the debate."

Congress may soon expand surveillance powers that allow the government to collect Americans’ data without a warrant. Sen. Ron Wyden says Donald Trump is the last person who should get that power.

1/ The US attempted to send several Iran-bound bombers to an Italian air base without prior authorisation and was refused permission by the Italian government while the aircraft were in flight. The news comes a day after Spain disclosed it was refusing US military overflights. ⬇️

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court

(Reuters) -- Italy has denied permission for U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella ​air base in Sicily before flying to ‌the Middle East, a source close to the matter said @reuters.com

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When you’re so far in over your head that even the dyed, dead rat on your head knows it. You started the fire, literally and figuratively, and now you want to run. You’re not respected around the world. You’re a dangerous, demented fool.

Now that mainstream media has abdicated their duty to truthfully inform the public, the heroes of the day are the cartoonists. They tell truth. @deadder.bsky.social

First trump does nothing about Putin getting American soldiers killed by telling Iran where they are so they can bomb then. Now he lets Russia sell & take oil into Cuba. How much more do people have to see with their own eyes that Trump is only loyal to Putin, not the country he’s supposed to serve?

“I must make clear, the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed,” Bishop Seitz said. Deportations “will not make our communities safer,” he added. “They separate families, divide neighbors and threaten our economic wellbeing.”

"I spend a lot of time listening to immigrants' stories, and I go back to what we experienced in El Salvador, when ppl were 'disappeared,’” said Salvadoran-born Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar. “This is what we are seeing in this country these days. Ppl … not knowing where they've been taken."

Letting conservatives write the narrative and falling for it is so stupid. Avi Lewis’ policies are reasonable and evidenced. Things Nenshi used to appreciate. It’s not the rest of the country’s fault the average Albertan has the intellect of a pea.

Alberta plans motion calling on Ottawa to give province more say in selection of judges - The Globe and Mail No! The Alberta government does not get to pick the Judge for the Federal Court just No! The Judiciary in Canada is an independent entity! All Provinces have a say in who are good Candidates

Kind of tangentially related: I'm seeing comms jobs, particularly corporate comms jobs, ask if users understand ChatGPT/Claude/etc, stating it's to help the workflow. I honestly can't fathom how this works in the longer term. You're encouraging people to outsource their thinking to AI...

I've had this discussion over and over with my husband, he the programmers he works with use gen AI to "write" code but it's okay because they can look it over. But how long before there's nobody who ever learned to program in the first place? Then what?

Nope. Trump is a convicted criminal who has turned the U.S. gov’t into an authoritarian mafia state. His legacy must be purged from the government entirely. SCOTUS must be reformed and voting rights restored. Also a truth & reconciliation commission and many, many trials. That gets my vote.

A study of children in Massachusetts shows that kids’ cognitive skills declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study finds that scores on an executive function test dropped dramatically after the pandemic began. Read more: ow.ly/15Tg50YzOY8

It’s hard to overstate how immoral and wrong it is that Trump is likely sending American soldiers into harm’s way for no good reason. Every American who voted for this man to lead America have aided and abetted this tragic mistake.

Iranian state media is more believable & more trustworthy than the President of the United States. Think about that. Just think about how fucked up, horrible, bad, & dangerous that is. But the people of the United States elected someone who lies as he breathes. So here we are.

An act of stupidity only surpassed by its absurd cruelty.