It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true. www.wired.com/story/doj-mi...

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

Merely declaring that no quarter will be given is a war crime. This formulation is from the Rome Statute, but it is well understood as a war crime.

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

“We’re ready to walk out if management doesn't come back and substantively address the major demands we have.” Listen to ProPublica Guild Secretary @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social’s interview on @wbai.org (starting at 34:30): wbai.org/archive/prog...

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Deaths in ICE custody are inhumane and inexusable. As are the deaths of more than TWENTY THOUSAND people in U.S. jails and prisons each year. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/23/d... #AbolishICE #PrisonAbolition

This is fine dot gif www.wired.com/story/a-scho...

Hundreds of people carried off thousands of CDs from my Dad’s collection yesterday. From his octogenarian friends to his former jazz history students to his radio colleagues to my 6th grade teacher, Lafayette really showed up for one of their own. I was incredibly moved by it.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

Jon Passant of @status.news says a line was crossed by these words. I'm inclined to agree. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca... [no paywall]

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...

Quite the statement. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

This fantastic @financialtimes.com piece by @alisonkilling.bsky.social just won an @sabew.bsky.social award for explanatory journalism. Enjoy! ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

That's not what this article says, notably not even in the headline. It says an anonymous source said that the AI use was *likely*. The source has no personal knowledge and is noting that it is the "immediate theory". Let's keep this clear.

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

You can support us by telling @propublica.org management that you will honor our digital picket line once we call a strike: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...

This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.

We had 99% member participation in this vote. I’m so proud of the solidarity we have in my union. Our work is important enough to fight for a strong contract.

The Spring Equinox will be at 14:45:57 UTC (based on a geocentric and heliocentric calculation)

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

"What do we expect our cameras to do for us—for our side—in this conflict? When we rely on cameras to document state violence, how much are we actually relying on other ppl to do smthg when they see those images? How do we preserve [our photos'] potency [when] the state" brazenly manipulates images?

Suicide prevention is not telling suicidal people to call a number for cops to take them to the psych ward. It’s being community for people. People suffer alone. You abandon your sad & mentally ill & lonely friends because they bum you out. We’re the ones with the duty of caring for each other.

I did a deep dive into five Cybertruck fires. What I learned was the truck's design can hamper rescue efforts and lead to worst-case scenarios where fires rapidly ignite, the vehicle’s electric door handles won’t unlock and passengers are trapped inside www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...

my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com

Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis" calmatters.org/investigatio...

A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat for the Trump administration's effort to cut the news outlet to the bones. n.pr/3NJLNco

Overnight, two likely ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Rzeszów, Poland. This airport was previously used to transfer deport Ukrainians. It is a violation of US and international law to deport people to an active warzone, including via another country.

This is up there for "worst taxonomy projects" I have ever worked on, btw, although I used to do them for fancy web agencies and now it's me and several other miscreants running on pure bloodymindedness.

“Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children.” And now these children will never have their dad back. What are we doing here?

A tip, Bluesky people! If you follow a lot of people, or have a lot of active posters [sorry... 😅] - use this feed to look at posts from people you follow who *don't* post a lot. It's another great way to catch up with people who's posts might get pushed into obscurity. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe? Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban. Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion. If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

Want to note that “student demand” and “areas for strategic growth” are very different metrics for allocating resources. Strategic metrics are where donors want the money to go, even if there isn’t student demand. ‘Strategic’ usually denies funds for humanities and social sciences.

Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to tell the story of the film the BBC didn't want you to see:

"Engagement-driven monetisation and accurate information are fundamentally in tension, and no platform has fully resolved that tension or perhaps ever will." –– Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...