“Amateur Hour”: Federal prosecutors have lost every case against protestors charged with assaulting federal officers. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Give the entire SEPTA marketing department a huge multiple-seat raise!

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Does the phrase “Hitler-branded architecture” ring any bells?

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

Henderson

Cactus in flower, Henderson, Nevada

Policy feels abstract right up until it lands in your budget. That’s the point: the stakes are real because White House decisions can show up as pricier gas, a bigger health bill, and higher prices on imported goods.

Gym 🏋🏿‍♀️ music

When a monster steps out of the darkness and devours your mother: Vinson Cunningham on Savannah Guithree’s anguished return to the “Today” show. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Their vision of citizenship…would bring Dred Scott back from the dead. And it would do this in support of a political agenda that seeks nothing less than the reconstruction of race hierarchy & the rank domination of despised minorities.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o... @jamellebouie.net is right.

"if the Supreme Court decides in favor of Trump, it will have less to do with law or history than the political power of the president and his movement."

“I am afraid that one day they will get me, and I will leave the baby alone." Immigrant moms are hiding from ICE: skipping postpartum visits, losing income because they're avoiding work, afraid to go buy food or diapers. 1/3 of maternal deaths happen in the postpartum year. Most are preventable.

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What if the White House ballroom is a metaphor for Iran, tariffs, fiscal policy & the Fed. Bulldoze a treasured national institution before making plans. Hide the rubble. Unveil a grandiose and self-aggrandizing vision. Prevaricate. Squirrel! Dither. Discover it was unconstitutional all along

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Gas hits $4/gallon on average nationwide www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Whoops guess bullying, tariffing, and threatening allied countries was a bad idea bsky.app/profile/matt...

I love a headline that gets right to the point (You can read @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social’s full op-ed here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...)

Cactus in bloom

Nevada - cactus in bloom

It’s why they call it “Madness” youtube.com/watch?v=OCCP...

Thirteen people have died in federal immigration custody in the first three months of this year, and 46 have died since President Trump took office last year and began his mass deportation campaign, according to death reports and news releases made public by ICE. trib.al/XITKbfd

NYT reviews Trump's ballroom plans and lets some serious architects look at them. Risible design failures, like some fifteen year old did it using some computer-enhanced design function. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Timely new book from the Harvard Press: The man who wrote that “all men are created equal” envisioned America as a white republic that would banish Black people from its shores.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

"We can't win elections unless we get our voter-suppression bill passed" is narrowly honest, in its way, but politically moronic and morally bankrupt. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/40S5HVL

Lines at the voting polls; lines at women’s toilets; lines at Trump’s airports: Waiting time tells a lot about our societal health. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

For now and ever, the GOAT. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish: Two Stanford researchers modeled how many people polio, diphtheria, rubella and measles would kill or disable if the U.S. lost the vaccines that prevent them. @propublica.org illustrated the results. projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...

This is out of control

The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City, Colorado, 1925

Derrick Bell foresaw it all

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

Note to Black journalists who have suffered professionally for calling racism by its rightful name: I see you.

Pege Hegseth's chief of staff tried to block the promotion of a black female combat veteran because, as the article notes, "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" in Washington DC

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/robe...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Single mothers are among the hardest hit by the increase in gas prices as they balance rising costs on one income. They said the unpredictability of where the price changes are occurring has been challenging. A few years ago, the story was all about rising grocery prices. Now it’s gas, too.

Brooklyn 2:35 PM

Heads up women on the SAVE Act.

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...