"The deal is tied up with so much debt that it virtually guarantees layoffs the likes of which Hollywood hasn’t seen before." prospect.org/2026/03/02/p...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

This stuff — the astroturf fake Dem groups, cancelling people’s IDs and threatening jail if you keep the paperwork that correctly genders you, the attacks on trans kids playing school sports — are all disgusting, and a playbook we saw a decade ago to prop up the last fascist Republican president.

In addition to its draconian measure on drivers licenses, the state of Kansas is offering $1,000 bounties to citizens who want to report that a transgender person is using the “wrong” bathroom. amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...

After a decade of dithering, the Trump admin has outlined a plan to change Obamacare. And it is to make the coverage exponentially worse and send out of pocket costs to the moon—essentially to make it not health insurance—in the name of lowering premiums a little. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

They are so insane and incompetent that I'm wondering if i could join ICE and then just stay home and collect paychecks without anyone noticing

this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad

Very cool that my power bill has increased by 50% to pay for the grotesque consumption from data centers using technology that stole the work of millions of people, including myself, to put millions of people out of work If this happened in a cyberpunk story I'd be like "Okay, dial it down a notch"

This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)

Is there life on Mars? For decades, America was in pole position to find out with its multi-mission Mars Sample Return program. But MSR is now officially dead. And in the race to find alien life on Mars, it’s now China’s to lose. Me @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/26/1...

For what is apparently the 10,001st post on Skepchick (and my own 3,000th), it's a HAPPY STORY of how scientists have shown that Dolly Parton is substantially improving literacy rates around the world through her Imagination Library 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...

Republicans: great news we have a new healthcare plan that bills you every month and ALSO allows you to pay the full cost of any treatment People : so whats our benefit Republicans : what do you mean your benefit

"My problem with claims being made by big tech companies around AI and climate change is not that they're not fully quantified, but that they're relying on hypothetical AI that does not exist now, in some cases…” — @drolnick.bsky.social ino.to/BQ1Saun

The major findings are that multiple aspects of a species' ecology shape the tempo of visual perception, which is a highly evolvable trait:

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... - new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues Different species see the world as fast as they need to...

The assumption that Somalis, who obviously have built their own lives, businesses, and families need white help is just disgusting, naked racism. These are the values of so much of Twitter's pseudointellectual class.

4) And they STILL haven’t released the Epstein files.

First column for Quanta Magazine's new essay section, Qualia. I take stock of particle physics, a field in crisis. What happened, and what now? Commentary here from many angles. Please lmk your thoughts, or any tips or topic ideas I should look into. 🙏 www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-...

Nice article from @nattyover.bsky.social about the state of particle physics as a field. It’s historically been perhaps the highest prestige and most prominent subfield of physics but there are genuine worries about the path forward, as Natalie clearly lays out. 🧪

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

So they don't really give a fuck about immigration. They just want to establish dominance over a blue state. They don't care how.

To further clarify what I'm talking about here, the modern 2A cult has always hinged on this idea that every armed citizen is part of some crowdsourced militia that is ready to stand against a tyrannical government. This is a lie, and your guns will not work for that purpose.

we are going to win and you can tell we are going to win from the simple fact that they are not even trying to besiege (at this level) more than one major American city at the same time and in every city they pull out of the population is more organized against them than it was when they arrived

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

If you're not shouting "Abolish ICE, arrest the murderers, hold trials," you're normalizing domestic terrorism at the hands of the trump government at this point. Abolish ICE is the moderate position and the absolute bare minimum.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Oh she’s EXTORTING US.

If anyone expects anything to change at this point, it’s not going to happen without changes across the board and that includes Chuck Schumer. We have real Democrats in the Senate. They have the power to change leadership at any time, and that needs to happen immediately.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Unmask ICE agents. We need whistleblowers to reveal their identities. We must shame them as a society.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

Gavin Newsom just announced that California will be the first state to join the World Health Organization. This is in direct defiance of Donald Trump, who just pulled the United States out of the organization.

If ICE truly were targeting "the worst of the worst" and not, you know, deliberately brutalizing innocent families with children, they'd rush to correct all the stories like this one, apologizing and insisting it's not what they're really doing. They don't because this is deliberate. This is it.

2026 Nobel Peace Prize should go to residents of Minneapolis.

Look at Minnesota. Look at our country. Look at what we’re building. Look to the example of the organizers who are right now at this moment building the movement we want to see. Join them in their work, because they’re fucking winning.

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Saw someone else make this point but it is worth repeating. The same people who were storming state houses during the pandemic over having to carry vaccine cards seem to be perfectly fine with the government requiring you to carry proof of citizenship at all times now.

Important perspective from Greenland.

Good to see approval so high but also I want to say for the hundredth time that what gets covered in the media as "protests" in the Twin Cities is very often "people going about their day and then running to help when they see federal agents trying to kidnap their neighbors"

I think about this a lot: the fact that it's "inconceivable" is a HUGE part of the problem. Hey folks: conceive of it. That's the necessary first step. This fascism is in fact happening, and the whole "I can't imagine" part is stopping a lot of progress in overcoming it.

To this narcissistic piece of garbage, the worst thing about the murder of Renee Good is that it might have turned her father against him.

democrats think its going too far to push impeachment for this pos

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

My feature is on the cover of @sciam.bsky.social !! This is one of the more fascinating, maddening, mind-boggling stories I've reported in a long time. Please come on this journey with me.

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Bizarre editorial choice by @nytimes.com to portray Trump's threats toward Europe as strong and fearsome rather than as a madman and unhinged tyrant spiraling out of control before our very eyes