Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

Should’ve run this past his staff… oh wait.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

This bubble cannot collapse soon enough. A machine of lies built off theft and greed, causing untold harm to our planet.

What does it mean to "pursue" something that at the moment is wholly in the hands of Trump's handpicked VP and handpicked cabinet? What are you talking about? The 25th amendment wasn't written for a moment like this, and you'd know if you talked to the guy who wrote it. prospect.org/2026/04/07/w...

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Today's the 100th day in office for Zohran Mamdani. We talked to him, a top deputy, his consumer protection head, his housing director, and more, and found that he's building momentum for bigger fights by proving that government works and getting New Yorkers to participate in it:

It's a war on Iran but the most battered location is Lebanon. From Beirut, Santiago Montag reports that the country has been completely destabilized by a deliberate Israeli campaign to divide its fragile sectarian balance. Fascinating piece. prospect.org/2026/04/10/l...

Tampa Bay Lightning manage to play a pretty impressive defensive game with a fantastic PK, tie it up late with the goalie pulled and immediately choke the game away. Hard to believe this is the same team as the one before the Olympics. Them "flipping the switch" is likely a pipe dream.

In the '88 film Switching Channels, Ned Beatty delivers one of the greatest satires of politics/media. It's the kind of thing that’s been censored from pop culture. Beatty plays a right-wing Dem trying to win a primary by executing a wrongly convicted prisoner on live TV. Go watch the clip.

New from me: The latest in my "You can't hide your lying ICE" series. radleybalko.substack.com/p/you-cant-h...

Alright let's see. In 2019 Trump was angrily posting about the 1.8 billion in cash the Obama administration gave Iran in 2016. 1.8 billion divided by 2 million is 900. Prior to the start of this war, about 135 ships went through the Strait of Hormuz every day.

People give @davidsirota.com shit about "Don't Look Up" but he nailed it, sorry

The most vapid, empty, dead eyed, immoral people to ever walk the planet. I’d say more about them but I’d get banned if I did.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

For the back page of our print issue, @franifio.bsky.social enthuses that finally, we don't have one of those woke wars, with gender-neutral burn pits, pre-bombing land acknowledgments, and prohibitions on kamikaze missions because of fears about cultural appropriation. prospect.org/2026/04/03/a...

The Tampa Bay Lightning are officially in the mix. The #GoBolts have clinched a ninth consecutive berth to the #StanleyCupPlayoffs, tied for the longest active run in the NHL. www.nhl.com/lightning/ne...

Horrifying. IMPEACH, REMOVE, ARREST.

Short answer: NO. DHS never should have been created in the first place. #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

originalism, i am told, is supposed to respect popular sovereignty. but here we have two “originalists” who insist that their language games — and that is what this is, a language game meant to extract meaning where it does not exist — ought to control over a sovereign act of the people.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

my son is 2. there must be a reckoning for this

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

ICE detention is climbing rapidly as private prison companies expand capacity. Now the government is considering buying some of those facilities — a move that could help bypass state oversight and lawsuits over abuse.

Nice dive attempt from Timmins...

Don't typically root for the Bruins...would not mind Zadorov absolutely ending Dahlin.

Dahlin up to his normal attempt to injure players...him cross-checking down on the hips of players needs to stop. He did it to Goncalves and caused an injury, seconds later tried it on Brayden Point. Point took umbrage and attempted to fight the much bigger Dahlin. Turtling Rat bitched out.

Hell YES. MN attorney general Keith Ellison not giving up on this.

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#GoBolts Blown high sticking call, Kakko's stick clipped Hedman, they blow the whistle but don't call a penalty and then immediately call the Lightning for a penalty. Then Hedman goes to work getting abused by Eberle and putting himself out of position beaten by the pass and McCann out of the corner

Bobby McMann with a dive. That's so soft.

New joint investigation between @bellingcat.com @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org where we identified agents causing chaos and violence across the country. These guys were some of the worst repeat offenders we saw. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

TFW you decide it's in the national interest to pay a company hundreds of millions of dollars to not generate energy during an energy crisis www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

"Usually, you do the coalition-building *before* going off to war and getting into an impossible military predicament. Of course, usually you would check to see if the country you’re about to bomb has operational control of any strategic passages." prospect.org/2026/03/17/g...

IF I lived in the IL-09 district I’d vote for Kat Abughazaleh aka @katmabu.bsky.social in the Dem primary today. Kat understands and tells the plain truth about the moment this country’s in. She’s smart and brave - repeatedly shows up to confront ICE where they are. We need more like her in power!

Illinois has same-day voter registration! Make sure you show up at YOUR assigned polling place with 2 forms of ID!

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

This week’s Colorado heat wave is absurd. Historic. Unprecedented. I don’t use those words lightly. Mid-summer heat coming to Colorado in mid-March. All-time monthly records across the state will be broken, likely by several degrees. Thursday-Saturday. #COwx

Just noticed that @markruffalo.bsky.social is the top Drop Site evangelist (with @stelhami.bsky.social not far behind). Thanks guys!

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

#GoBolts Ah, so another Saturday night game where the team is sleepy. Good choice. Hedman gets caught out of position, takes a penalty, then gets beaten again during the delayed penalty. This version of Hedman is bad.

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.