If a person is afraid of what the children they're "caring for" will say about how they're treated, then that person/people should not have the privilege of caring for them. Period

The Trump administration told Israel to stop striking Iranian energy infrastructure, saying it was “not happy.” Turns out, the concern was not for civilians, but for fearing if they blasted civilians, Iran would retaliate against Gulf energy facilities. www.axios.com/2026/03/10/i...

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

CBS News Correspondent Announces Sudden Departure From Network: ‘My Work Will Soon No Longer Appear’

This fact is not in dispute: Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, has never killed anyone. But on Thursday, Alabama is set to execute him.

i hope that hell is real solely for people like this

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

HUGE payrolls miss, wow Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev 2m net revision -69k Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev

Also, just to say it: OpenAI had nearly an entire week to respond to requests for comment for this article. They dragged and dragged and finally sent a small handful of bullet points "on background" at the very end of the day today, without making a statement on the record about any of this.

Sharpton: "The problem is not Trump. The problem is us. What happened to us?"

if you don’t know a lot of women you may not be aware… www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/g...

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

On Monday at Law Dork, I covered DOJ’s decision to drop the law firm executive order case appeals and the SCOTUS oral arguments over the federal law barring gun possession by users of illegal drugs.

1996: My 6th grade english teacher was talking about various US military operations, and while I don't remember the exact material, I remember 1 student's reaction clear as day: "It sounds like we (the US) are the bad guys!" I think about that moment a lot.

To illustrate the disconnect between social media and the reality on the ground in Maine, look at the front pages of the two major papers in the state this morning. Nothing about Platner's tattoo or the podcast he went on, despite Mills camp sending out an oppo blast meant to get more eyes on it.

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Jesus Christ, and I mean that literally

An obituary for the short-lived DOE Climate Working Group, from Andrew Dessler over at The Climate Brink. It arose with a bang and died with a footnote in the EPA's endangerment finding repeal. www.theclimatebrink....

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.

this is hell

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

Where the f*ck is Congress? I'm in the midst of an(other) existential crisis. Now, off to pilates! Because what else is there to do when the people who do have power aren't doing anything better. Does anything but greed and power matter? Does it still pay to be good and moral? Did it ever?

Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

Kansas just invalidated the drivers licenses of every trans person in the state. They’re being told to surrender their current licenses and get new ones listing their birth sex. No grace period. Get caught driving with your now-invalid license and you’re looking at jail and a fine.

Trump claimed that “we ended DEI in America,” but research indicates that’s not quite accurate. The majority of leaders and workers in the US still value DEI policies, according to a recent survey by the Conference Board. @kris10p.bsky.social reports: www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...

This is just open racism about Somalis. No other way to describe it.

the price of utilities is getting ridiculous. we're not using more energy but the data centers & people who think AI is useful are. every day Virginians are subsidizing the AI obsession

Attorney John Hayden: “This whole campaign of just going out and finding vulnerable people, good people, people who are following rules, it's just another example of blowing the pretext of this whole operation.” (2) share.google/6jLXKUEtusHJ...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Who would've thought that getting Noah Kahan or Lily Allen tix would make Taylor Swift look like a cake walk? Absolutely bonkers.

"Roughly half of Canadians are now turning to artificial intelligence for health information – and those who do are five times more likely to report experiencing harms to their health compared to those who don’t" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

this should get wall-to-wall coverage, but...we all know it won't

CBS News scoop: Less than 14% arrested by ICE had violent criminal records “Trump and his aides often talk about immigration officials targeting murderers, rapists and gangsters…internal data indicate that less than 2%…had homicide or sexual assault charges or convictions”

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The horses are so far out the barn door already that they've galloped onto a boat heading to another continent, and NOW you're telling people to get vaccinated? Okay.

When I wrote this, I didn't realize it was going to end up being an obituary, but it was still such a fun one to work on. Weirdness will prevail. Art will survive.

NEWS: “We want to make sure that Virginia families know that here in Virginia, it is not just a Supreme Court decision that protects them, but it is also our state constitution," the Democratic governor said. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

This is heartbreaking. So many friends at the Post. If you're seeing this and you're spiraling or you want to be looped in on any new opportunities I hear about, please reach out.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

I was supposed to travel to NYC for work next week and decided to cancel. From everything I'm seeing, the city still isn't clear enough for people in wheelchairs to navigate safely. This isn't a knock on NY; DC is just as a bad if not worse. Cities need to to do better for disabled people.

ATTN: Today's arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon are an escalation by this administration to criminalize press freedom under the guise of law enforcement. The First Amendment is not optional, and journalism is NOT a crime. We demand their immediate release! newsguild.org/journalist-o...