That the Ds leadership won’t be spending the next week coordinating members hammering on another J6-pardoned pedo is just malpractice Also malpractice: whining, we can’t talk about this and also Iran and gas prices If you’re that incompetent, hire an ex-R gunslinger — eg, Tim Miller — to teach you

Me, watching coverage of the Iran war

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Seriously though, I want to really note my appreciation for Tim Walz’s specific, by-name defense of our Somali neighbors. “Your great-grandchildren will still be here when this administration is dust” hit me harder than every other speaker combined

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian. huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

Praying for the children , spouces, and the relatives of my friends in the military, and for the Iranian people, who’ve been brutalized by their government and are now being bombed by us

Our future is going to be very weird

What I'm discovering during this war is that it's pointless to be a strategy expert if the main belligerent is not using strategy

The IRGC and Artesh combined have ~1m personnel. If you add in the Basij militia and police/security forces, that's roughly parity with the entire active-duty US military. Oh, and all of them have just been convinced that the ayatollahs were right about the Americans hating their country.

reporter who only covers really big protests and never covers local organizing: why is this protest I'm covering so big and where is all the local organizing

see you there

Hit up the Arvada No Kings protest. Denver isn’t until 12-5 and gotta get the protesting done before the NCAAs. Hell of a turnout for this tiny little town.

Huge turnout in St Augustine, Florida. #Nokings #staugustine

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

Mamdani is freakin amazing This is just one small step for NYC But if he keeps upping big city govt’s game, it’ll be a giant step for Snowshovel Socialism

A letter to the editor, from a Minnesotan: “Living through Minnesota winters teaches both fierceness and compassion. Wind chills in the state can reach 40 below zero. If we don’t look out for one another, someone could freeze in the dark.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Also, almost 50% of #NoKings3 events are in red states or battleground states, per Eunic Epstein-Ortiz, press spokesperson for the coalition.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Moderate Brits: “f**king hell, where is this going to end?” 👻 youtube.com/shorts/dWn_K...

My prediction: Trump will win a Nobel prize in physics for his discovery of Schrodinger’s War: under certain quantum constraints, if the mainstream media refuses to observe what’s happening, Trump can both already have won the war and need another $200 billion to win it.

Can we stop with the “Israel made Trump do it?” Netanyahu has been giving the same warmongering pitch about Iran to US presidents for many years. The difference wasn’t Israel’s influence. The difference is that the US now has a president who’s a f**king idiot.

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

I am a parking reformer because I live in a country where self-professed environmentalists, like this @sierraclub.org leader, oppose affordable housing because it ”doesn’t have enough parking.”

Oh yeah these guys are definitely giving us a UBI for sure any day now

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

In December 2021, Austin’s median rent was $1,546, By January 2026, Austin’s median rent had fallen to $1,296. Building more housing lowers rents. Study after study support this - and NIMBYs are the enemy of poor renters. www.pew.org/en/research-...

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

From David Shor’s firm: AI now ranks among the top concerns for voters, mostly on job displacement. Populist proposals to protect jobs or create job guarantees in response to AI are very popular.

Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

As a guy who spent over a year negotiating / cajoling / fighting with MA utilities to create standard interconnection rules for non-utility power - this is a really big deal. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732. Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Something I think about a lot: virtually all concrete, practical wisdom about energy grids was developed at a time when there was no energy storage at any kind of scale. The introduction of storage *fundamentally changes* the basic dynamics of the grid in a way that renders much of that CW moot.

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

WTF are we doing bombing desalination plants? Not only is this a war crime and a terrible attack on the people of Iran, who we claim to be attempting to help free, but it is also likely to set off a spiral of escalation across the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Happy clean-yr-paws-uv-got-half-a-wk-left Day!

Are your emotions feeling like they’re trapped in a pinball machine of the insanity of our times? Columbus zoo baby elephants are here to help youtu.be/2xH3IFQcBEw?...

Seattle progressives no longer get to make fun of anybody else — this is too stupid for words

Hegseth: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.” The truth: We did start this war two days ago. And now, apparently, we're not going to finish it in a way that will make it worth fighting. And we have a constitutional crisis. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I’m sure there is a dumber thing Trump could’ve decided to do then try to topple the Iranian government — and to do it by bombing them out of existence — but you’d have to work hard to come up with it. Put aside the morality of what we’re doing for a minute: WTF??? How does this not end badly?

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

Jeff Bezos gave Trump $40 million for the Melania documentary. He donated $1 million to his inauguration. In return Amazon got an $8 billion tax cut. We have to get big money out of politics. I joined @StopBigMoney to talk about it.