“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war. That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million. From @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:

Gun violence costs the United States an estimated $557 billion every year. That is about 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or more than $1,600 per person, every year. This cost is higher than what the federal government spends annually on education.

Justice Department slashes funding for child sex trafficking

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Is it too much to ask that the NYT list the other states?? At least the biggest ones? Something? Instead of the singular focus on Florida? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

A notable footnote from Justice Kagan, pointing out that if the court is so into parental rights why didn't it take up the claim brought by parents of transgender kids who want them to get gender-affirming care?

More Sotomayor: "By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country... There is much reason to question whether the majority will exercise its newfound authority wisely." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Nail polish remover (acetone) unglued my fingers (superglue craft incident) and this is why a science education matters kids 😭 #MedSky

My God, we’re ruined.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

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

@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025. Here’s the full story from @alexckaufman.bsky.social for The Fight: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN? *Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election *Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models What else?

what kind of reporting is this that doesn’t actually name the bill in question?? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

"...about volunteers who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.”"

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Alysa Liu skating to MacArthur Park is the energy I aspire to in life. ⛸️🪩💃🏼 #DonnaSummer #disco #Olympics #WinterOlympics #figureskating #Boston

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

“Cupich, in his homily, said: "This too is a day for those who are made to feel like dust, dust that can be swept away or treated as if they do not belong. … Yet, remember from the beginning it is dust that God uses to create humanity."”

Every other state in the country extends Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers for one year, but Gov. Sanders isn't letting up on her campaign to withhold such a mercy to Arkansans. We're #1 in maternal mortality, and we're sticking with it. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform. We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.

congrats to DC on achieving statehood

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

It's sad that the media's focus will be "Malinin chokes" instead of "Mikhail Shaidorov shines." Misha earned his gold!

because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

The disruptive climate crisis makes hot weather hotter and cold, colder. This year, our overheated planet has been making some of our weather much colder and in Washington much snowier.

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

Alluringly homoerotic and abjectly nonsensical, doubles luge might be the strangest event of any Olympics, winter or summer.

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

<Cringe post, don't care> I just gave a global health talk at Johns Hopkins, and one of their students came up afterward to introduce herself. She had taken my global health class at Emory, and she said that's what made her go into the field. Sometimes the things we do matter 🥹

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Bad Bunny sends a message at the Super Bowl: "God Bless America" "The only thing more powerful than hate is love"

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit