meanwhile A sanctioned Russian tanker loaded with liquid natural gas is drifting out of control in the Mediterranean with no crew on board and a gaping hole in one side, prompting warnings of a "serious risk of a major ecological disaster". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

Made some charts and maps to visualize just how stark the U.S.'s democratic backsliding has been in the past year. www.pbump.net/o/visualizin...

Just *one* explanation for this is the admin thinks they're playing Civilization or some other turn-based RTS that totally abstracted away the need for maintenance or limited deployments...

"Until today I don’t know what we did wrong to get detained" - Gustavo, 13. Gustavo and his mom spent 4+ months in detention at Dilley. They are home now but more families remain in detention. Powerful piece by @tusk81.bsky.social highlighting the moms fighting to get their kids home. #FreeThemAll

⚠️The SPLC is urging the Senate to reject the SAVE America Act, sweeping anti-voter legislation that would strip millions of Americans of their right to vote. ☎️ Contact your senators and urge them to vote no TODAY. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3NLWviB

"How embarrassing is Pete Hegseth?" @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social: "He can do nothing beyond read the script that’s been given to him...can’t answer detailed questions...doesn’t understand the strategy—not that there is one...way in over his head" bluevirginia.us/2026/03/vide... h/t @acyn.bsky.social

Sen. DURBIN: This is not a public safety operation. It’s an occupation by a paramilitary force. And it is children who are the most harmed by this cruelty.

For anyone up late and eager to be pissed off: Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill that would require every pregnancy to be registered with the state and given a "certificate of life" jessica.substack.com/p/ohio-gop-w...

The US is no longer classified a liberal democracy. The special section on the USA, (pp. 33-38) is required reading, especially if you are an elected legislator or member of the judiciary. Reversing the democracy decline requires resistance from legislative and judicial branches. Demand democracy.

The SAVE America Act, if passed, will be enacted immediately upon trump's signature, which means it will impact the midterm elections. Trump has told the House that it will deliver the election to the republican party. It must be stopped. Call your Senators. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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But let's be clear: When an evil, bloodthirsty man pushes your buttons and promises your glory YOU REMAIN A HUMAN PERSON WITH AGENCY & YOUR DECISIONS ARE YOUR OWN. That the president & his cabal are such easy marks is not Bibi's fault. It's ours. Trump was elected. By people in this country. 3/3

IRAN WAR Bibi didn't "make" Trump do anything. He told Trump, Miller, Hegseth, etc, what they wanted to hear—that the thing they ALREADY WANTED TO DO was a great idea. They grabbed that gleefully, & with both hands. Which is part of Bibi knowing that America is a thing you can move very easily ⬇️

The first week of Trump’s war with Iran cost over $11 BILLION. And there’s reporting that he plans to request another $50B in funding. That amount of money, invested in our communities, could end homelessness or cover daily nutrition benefits for every American on SNAP.

CBS's article LIED about Mohammad. His legal status did NOT expire! His asylum case was under review and pending. USCIS gave him an approval notice which was valid UNTIL January 29, 2029. ICE.gov is lying about him on their website too! #BoycottCBSNews www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

"We have to pass this bill because of all the fraud!" "What fraud?" "Shut up."

Inadequate ethics laws and enforcement have enabled unprecedented self-enrichment by the president. bit.ly/4sTukxk

You can achieve things or help create conditions for things to happen that are both positive developments for the Cuban people and Americans without threatening or causing death and havoc and imperial corruption completely unnecessarily, but then that would run contra to the core modern GOP platform

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"The US Department of Health and Human Services is now run by conspiracy theorists who believe that the American public health system is hiding key data on vaccine safety and who spend their days spreading health misinformation." Not how I ever thought I'd open an article but just stating facts

In a rebuke, a federal district court judge blocked the administration's reduction in the number of immunizations recommended for kids and also changes to an influential vaccine committee.

The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.

The sophisticated empirical arguments against immigration are disproven, but all the objections that matter most politically are just complete nonsense that you don't need any complex analysis to reject...🧵

What is the point of copyrights if the most powerful companies on earth can ignore them?

“The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

From the ruling: “This argument [by the Government] can only be countenanced if one completely abandons the idea of objective fact…” That really is the issue at the heart of many of the legal cases against the Administration. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Once again, Trump uses the language of sexual assault. It's what he knows.

You can call Delta’s customer service line at +1-800-455-2720 but IF YOU ARE A SKYMILES MEMBER (check your email if you ever flew Delta!) then you absolutely SHOULD call the SkyMiles dedicated number +1-800-323-2323 and tell them how deplorable this is. They *give a shit* about your view of this.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

“… Maxwell was interviewed by Trump’s former lawyer, the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. She told him: ‘The president was never inappropriate with anybody.’ A week later, she was transferred to a minimum-security jail.”

Yes, and metacognition is essential for transfer of learning. But I guess that doesn't matter if you're an ed tech company. They sold some iPads and software, so their work is done.

These laptops are such a disaster.

I spent two years in graduate school focused on metacognition, by the way. It’s an interest. And yeah there’s no mechanism for it in these platformed lessons and assignments. A smart teacher *can* augment but they need time and support. Two things we don’t encourage. We are ruining the kids.

It's not well known that the congregation of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond donated approximately $40 towards Irish Famine Relief in 1847. Around 2,000 members of the congregation were enslaved, and only 150 were free. #twitterarchive

The bad news is that they will not be good at lawyering. The good news is also that they will not be good at lawyering.

Use our action center to tell Congress to speak out against ICE's detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez and any effort to deport her.

The FDA has issued a notice to consumers about raw-milk cheddar cheese products made by Raw Farm, which may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The company has not recalled the cheese, but CR’s experts say not to eat it.

A major charge at Nuremberg: "Crimes Against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing."

The worst sorts of people imaginable have ungodly power in this country.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

Soulless.

For some reason, the @nytimes.com appears not to have included a link to the opinion. So ... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Great news!! “Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel, and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act”

Stop the Save Act Rally Create Noise Before the Vote We have the opportunity to join activists in DC for a mobilization and rally against the SAVE Act on Wednesday, March 18 at 11:00 a.m. to noon at the US Capitol. www.lwv.org/save-acthtt

Pope Leo tells journalists: “It is up to you to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a videogame.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...