spawn of stumpy 🥲 www.wusa9.com/article/feat...

Serious question for journalists in 2026: Why would you take GOP electeds seriously, quote them as material and factual parts of your coverage? If a Journo 101 student kept getting lied to over and over, they'd stop using that source. It's clownish & makes reporters and outlets look weak & inept.

Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has expressed her disappointment with IOC President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women's events at the Olympics.

I just wrote a whole book about what Americans can learn from the fights against autocracy in other countries, including Hungary. Studying other places is the only way to “get real.” Hope you’ll buy the book: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

The Gulf became a cornerstone of the AI buildout, backed by massive bets from Big Tech. The vulnerabilities were well understood, and now they’re being tested https://restofworld.org/2026/gulf-war-aws-data-center-attack-ai-investment-risk/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Words, what do they mean?

The main "use case" of AI and crypto is to kill democracy as quickly as possible. Here's yet another AI group planning to spend zillions ($100 million) to buy elections and support the Trump agenda. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/b...

Sic Semper Tyrannis

One of the most frustrating things about the 2024 elections was how many people took for granted low unemployment rates and what that meant for wages and working conditions.

This feels weird. A lot of reporting is sounding very much like "how long will this take to get back to normal" when there's no sign in the short term that normality will return at all It's like 2020 Covid reporting

"We're seventh in the nation for overall gun violence, death, and injury, and we know that there are women living with intimate partners who still have firearms because our law does not provide the kind of enforcement we need." - Linda McFayden-Ketchum, TN Moms Demand Action volunteer

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Got to wander around Fells Point yesterday and eat burgers with the Fam, then hit a chilly O's game. It was such a blessing to be surrounded by love, community and sportshappy for a bit. This is why we fight and what we're fighting for. (also my wife is a straight-up hottie)

Digital Darwinism

Why was a California sheriff investigating the vote from last year’s redistricting referendum based on claims made by an “election integrity” group? A not-so-deep dive into his extreme anti-voting social media posts may reveal that answer — and we rallied just a few up 👇

🔔REMINDER: Week of Action is against Flock starts tomorrow tomorrow! Join our kick off training to get Flock ALPRs out of your community here: FFTF.link/FlockNo

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - L.B.J. Absolutely not new. Absolutely still despicable.

🧵It’s crucial that Americans closely watch the next two weeks in Hungarian politics. Trump is really, really invested in making sure Orban wins the April 12 election. So are Bibi, Milei, Wilders, and AfD head Alice Weidel. They’ve all shown up to campaign. Vance likely going next week. 🧵🧵🧵

Inshallah

"What was once a fringe, failed legal theory concocted by some local cops in one Texas border city is now the official position of the federal government’s lawyers."

DC K-12 educators: Your students can view a new film & meet the filmmakers via @filmfestdc.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social. Films on neighborhood that stopped a deportation, Starbucks workers union campaign, Chocolate City, Paulo Freire in Brazil, Donna Edwards at National Parks, & more ⬇️

Is this anyone’s dog? Found in Brookland, DC, 17th and Hamlin

Latinos are skeptical that Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan will comply with a court order that addresses racial bias. One activist told him: “We destroyed Joe Arpaio’s career. If you target our community, we will do the same to your career.” With @azluminaria.org

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

It was an incredible honor to represent tens of thousands of rapid responders across Minnesota who have spent the last 118 days standing up for our neighbors. Here’s my speech from yesterday at No Kings St. Paul. 1/

65 years ago, D.C. residents gained the right to vote in presidential elections, marking a pivotal step forward in building a true American democracy. But without D.C. statehood, the fight for full democracy continues. Join our fight for D.C. statehood: https://bit.ly/4pJb04t

"The site is the 11th worst emitter of carbon monoxide in the country, according to data from the EPA’s National Emissions Inventory database collected in 2020." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am again reminded of the statistic that sounds like Internet Fiction but is not— 54% of American adults read at a 6th grade level or below. And honestly, I am reminded of this statistic way way too often and can only imagine the geography illiteracy in the US.

Serious question for journalists in 2026: Why would you take GOP electeds seriously, quote them as material and factual parts of your coverage? If a Journo 101 student kept getting lied to over and over, they'd stop using that source. It's clownish & makes reporters and outlets look weak & inept.

"Europe does not need permission to help Ukraine restore its borders. It needs the will. There is a basic rule that applies to nations as much as to people: pour your energy into the things you can affect," writes Academic director at the University of Amsterdam Andrew Chakhoyan in his op-ed.

“Trump’s economy has been as brutal to women as Trump himself,” Senior Editor @anne-s-kim.bsky.social writes. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/29/w...

It’s the first truly warm spring Sunday of the year in Kharkiv. There is no greenery yet, but it feels as though the entire city has come out to the parks to greet the season. ​All of this is accompanied by never-ending air raid alerts and the occasional buzz of drones overhead. ​

I predict that we're about 60-90 days out from a deluge of "hey man, I was just following orders" sound bites.

The Everywhere Is Queer app hosts an interactive database of LGBTQ-owned and queer-friendly businesses. https://mrf.lu/8gzc

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, published by Columbia Global Reports. I interviewed him at Book Culture, a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

I predict that we're about 60-90 days out from a deluge of "hey man, I was just following orders" sound bites.

It cannot be long before Trump’s retinue of sycophants, enablers and justifiers, in government and in the media, start telling us, "I never liked the guy", "I tried to restrain him" and "I was only obeying orders." So be sure to keep the receipts.

The NYT actively misinforms its readers.

In rural Kenya, a team of women motorbike riders are giving pregnant women free rides to the hospital to ensure they feel safe and make their appointments on time. Read how Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are boosting the number of safe, skilled hospital deliveries: bit.ly/3NDiJmZ

"This administration is flagrantly corrupt,” said Gigi Page of Clarksville. “What Trump has been doing is destroying every facet of this country.”

For a sense of the scale of the federal occupation of the Twin Cities metro this winter... Chicago and LA were too big so they tried picking on somewhere smaller. They were thick on the ground here but they still left in disgrace. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

"The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is an adviser to both Polymarket and Kalshi, and an investor in the former. As the federal government has shown its willingness to cozy up to the industry, it has legitimized what would otherwise be under greater scrutiny."

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

USMNT's thrashing by Belgium serves as reality check — 'To feel the pain sometimes is good,’ Pochettino says. Hmmm. My second story with quotes from the 5-2 rout in ATL …