"Under God" wasn't even added until 1954 and that was in a fear response to communism. The original, founding document said we don't pick a national religion.

I don't have to have actually tried using a forklift to lift weights at the gym to understand that doing so would be missing the point.

Just saw Christian Petzold’s latest, “Miroirs No. 3”, in which this amazing song features and also plays over the end credits. WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE?

BREAKING: The judge in the Oregon v. Kennedy case has granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs. This is the case dealing with the Kennedy declaration attempting to institute national standards of care for trans youth and referring providers to the HHS OIG to exclude them from Medicaid.

Sometimes I go randomly to @atrupar.com's feed to regard the endless catalog of very stupid and very dangerous shit the current regime is saying and doing and how so much of it it just out there in the open AND how so little of it is incurring consequence. Then I scream a little! Or a lot!

swapping every cesar chavez memorial for a dolores huerta memorial is a slam-dunk deal. insane that she made pretty much the ultimate sacrifice — silence on her sexual abuse — to support The Cause. glad she's still around to see us correct. apnews.com/article/dolo...

Why am I not surprised?

"The govt, in the middle of an energy 'emergency' Trump declared & an energy price spike he precipitated by invading Iran, is proposing to spend nearly $1b in public funds to ensure that *less energy gets produced* b/c the current occupant of the WH lost a lawsuit 20 years ago & never got over it."

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

A very entertaining 🧵

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

I honestly thought this was a post from the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social account!

Finally, fuck the NYT for platforming yet another person calling for Dems to abandon trans people. It's basically a daily occurrence at this point.

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Directed a film that turns on America’s racist immigration laws, takes the Oscars stage not once but two times as a winner, and doesn’t say a goddamn thing about ICE. Shameful stuff, PTA.

Seriously, it's like Babs is giving her Redford tribute in a hotel room with somebody vacuuming outside the room. We're two hours into the show and nobody has fixed the audio. At some point, it's just inept. #Oscars

Ontario’s Premier Ford is a murderer.

There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s. They went ahead and built it—and now the low-emission, affordable, convenient shinkansen system is the envy of the world. 🧵

All this. I don’t care if some people find flying out of downtown easier. We need to stop letting these people run Toronto like it’s the place people have to be when they’re not at the cottage. We live here, we like it. Park not planes, @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

We demand that the Ford Government immediately abandon plans to fly jets from the #Toronto Island Airport. Sign now and tell your elected representatives that this is the wrong plan for our waterfront! share.nwmd.social/s/GdxzSYG8

Not the main point of the article (which is alarming), but TIL that the world’s largest salt mine is in Goderich, in southwestern Ontario.

This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

We need to stop accepting that these are "leading Jewish groups." They are not democratically accountable to the majority of American Jews, and I suspect the majority of NYC Jews do not care if Mamdani shares iftar with Mahmoud Khalil. I certainly do not! jewishinsider.com/2026/03/mamd...

Time for #Canada to open up its refugee program to Americans impacted by these cruel and inhumane rulings.

Begging Olivia Chow to not set the tone by *meeting Doug Ford in his home* and to start lying down in front of some tractors. Elevated Gardiner rebuild, decimation of Ontario Place and the Science Centre and now Toronto’s waterfront as a major airport are on your watch, Olivia, they’re your legacy.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Damn, it sure would be awful if a theocratic rogue state had access to nuclear weapons.

My latest for @thestar.com. Increasing surveillance and extending police powers doesn’t solve homelessness or drug use on transit — it merely opens up the broader public to arbitrary punishment, including the potential for jail time and $10,000 fines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

RIP Country Joe McDonald

I can't compete with this.

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

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This is sort of the Trump administration in a nutshell: ill-thought out policy, no Plan B. (see also, Iran war).

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

The best detail of this Noem saga is that she is now in charge of the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

I feel bad for breaking news desks tonight.

If you care about live music (the artists and the fans), you may want to follow this important thread providing live coverage of jury selection for the US v. Live Nation Entertainment (including TicketMaster) antitrust trial.

Why do some people believe they can live in a city but their neighbourhood will never change? Because their councillor tells them that www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...

always worth remembering that "the cloud" is actually just someone else's computer (or their many, many computers)

fuck this shit

Carney’s first big mistake and it’s quite a doozy. Canadians don’t like invading countries for bs reasons

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

I mean it sincerely, let Therme build their giant mall spa in Niagara Falls, it would be a great fit. Doug Ford needs to accept that as Premier his job is to govern the Province of Ontario not vanquish his long time foe, Toronto.

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.