The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

The bar is really high for UConn making me go “WHAT?” but … WHAT?

Hi! 👋🏼 I’m a feminist public health professor and the only elected union leader in the race for Susan Collins’ US Senate seat. Andreaformaine.com

Thinking about how small USAID's budget was compared to this and how much good it did is just so infuriating

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

You could in fact make that case

Losing money on stolen oil may be an even greater Trump accomplishment than losing money on casinos.

Imagine thinking that “what makes America special” is our … lethality. What an uninspiring vision for a once-great country.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Look, sometimes taking out the top leadership can make a big difference; Hezbollah losing Nasrallah was a huge blow because his replacement can't fill his shoes. Sometimes it can be a massive own goal; Nasrallah came to power replacing Abbas al-Musawi, who Israel killed

This is incredibly stupid and monstrously unjustifiable, and I say that as someone who supported prior campaigns against hezbollah. It's been dramatically reduced as a meaningful threat already to the point that the Lebanese government is finally moving towards taking action. A sane policy would

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

The memory of the righteous is a blessing

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die. May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

both the msm and too many liberals ignore the fact that religious black voters, particularly regular churchgoing black women, are the core of the democratic party. without that demo, the democratic party literally ceases to exist.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

THIS.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

People really should start thinking about why it is that Collins hasn't coming down on Platner yet and the reason for it should be obvious

A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it. My newest oped on on the lies Americans tell themselves to excuse state violence. zeteo.com/p/ice-migran...

New Jersey. You got a problem with that?

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

This is one of the most racist members of Congress out there, bar none, and the fact that he is Jewish just makes me ashamed.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Happy birthday to 'The Times They Are a-Changin',' released on this date in 1964

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

Vladyslav Heraskevych, who wore a helmet with photos of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia’s war, says the IOC has banned him from using it during official training sessions and competitions. Please listen to his words! “The world must know the price of freedom.”

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I stand with the vast majority of Philadelphians against the hate that was on display at a disgusting, antisemitic pro-Hamas rally yesterday at Rittenhouse Square. I stand with both our Jewish and Muslim neighbors for peace and against violence.

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

As Greg points out, the Times thinks they're doing a dunk on Pretti, when actually they're providing evidence of *motive.* The ICE agents should be charged with Murder 1.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Now think about what the screenshot post means about the ease with which people from "the left" can head over to the far right

We’re the bad guys now.

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

honestly i thought bob weir was gonna live forever

2026, I want my money back. This is just all too much! Ten days in and with all the madness unfolding you gotta take Bobby, too? Damn it. Rest in Peace, Bob Weir. I can’t thank you enough. Words fail me. ❤️⚡️💙

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.