Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.

The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly.

Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs.

By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Fire Stephen Miller.

Yes — that Markwayne Mullin. The senator who tried to start a fistfight during a Senate hearing in 2023 because someone insulted him on Twitter.

That’s who’s now in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.

What could possibly go wrong?

The BLM announced a plan to fell Oregon's last great forests. Submit comments to help put a stop to this catastrophic plan: https://friendsofanimals.org/oregon

This is far more threatening to American Jews than anyone's policy views toward Israel

This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness

Stokes’ Firing Over Kirk Post Chilled Speech at University of Mississippi, Faculty Testify The University of Mississippi’s firing of Lauren Stokes for sharing a post criticizing Charlie Kirk chilled speech on campus, faculty testified.

"Men older than me spat on me in public,” Lauren Stokes said, recalling the days after the University of Mississippi fired her for sharing a post calling Charlie Kirk racist.

A chill fell over campus as faculty grew fearful of sharing their views on anything, colleagues testified in federal court.

Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term

In case you missed it last night, Democrats flipped a state House seat in a special election in *Arkansas*.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race as long as possible. If she was worried, she was right to be.

Get caught up with our full writeup on Alex Holladay's big win →

100 years of Grand Lake: Oakland’s favorite cinema is an epic love story How did Oakland’s favorite movie theater survive for a century? The answer includes Ryan Coogler, real butter and a theater operator who fell in love with a money pit.

“In many ways it’s a time capsule. And it will be here for another 100 years.”

For the Grand Lake’s 100th birthday 🎂🍿 I wrote about a romance between a man and architecture — and how it rescued the best theater in the Bay Area.

Gift link for The Town 🌳🎁

www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

“Stop honoring our dead. You’re making us look bad” is the new “suckers and losers.”

🔥🔥🔥

Hey, this looks like a great talk, you should come see it! Oh wait, it’s me!

How AI Can Amplify Your Impact (Without Replacing You) talk at IAC26 by Lisa Ellis and Mia Donnell. Presentation comparing AI-assisted versus human-led research for information architecture navigation projects. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

How AI Can Amplify Your Impact (Without Replacing You) talk at IAC26 by Lisa Ellis and Mia Donnell. Presentation comparing AI-assisted versus human-led research for information architecture navigation projects. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

How AI Can Amplify Your Impact (Without Replacing You) talk at IAC26 by Lisa Ellis and Mia Donnell. Presentation comparing AI-assisted versus human-led research for information architecture navigation projects. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Is AI a game-changer for IA or just hype?

Lisa Ellis and Mia Donnell tested AI vs. human-led research on navigation. They share unvarnished results and their verdict in How AI Can Amplify Your Impact (Without Replacing You).

Learn more here: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/how...

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)

Paxton: Licensed Texas counselors can’t give trans care to kids Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion that says that a 2023 law that bans gender-transitioning medical care to minors also applies to mental health care.

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion that says a 2023 law that bans gender-transitioning medical care to minors also applies to mental health care.

Feels like that some days 😆 but no. If it helps, I’m in tech.

Virginia redistricting election can move forward, court rules Although Monday’s ruling means the redistricting referendum will take place, it is not the end of the legal saga.

BREAKING: In a win for Virginia voters, a court rules that Democratic lawmakers’ special election, which would allow voters to decide on mid-decade redistricting to counter GOP gerrymandering, can proceed.

Virginians can begin voting on the measure this Friday, March 6.

Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics “If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,” one judge wrote.

“'If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,' the judge wrote...”

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

With @texastribune.org

"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."

US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.

Full statement at the link:

www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

MAGA billionaire David Ellison is about to control CBS, Paramount, Warner Bros, Discovery, CNN, HBO, HBOMax, DC, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TBS, TNT, HGTV, Food Network, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN, Investigation Discovery, Cinemax, & more.

Prepare for overwhelming propaganda.

Relationships, distinctions, and patterns, to quote a respected practitioner

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

"My worries began when the exhibition's introductory sign omitted Felix's connection to the AIDS crisis. My fears turned into outrage when I read the museum label ... which, instead of explaining the installation's title and meaning, refers to "175 pounds as ideal weight.""

Along excelsior? Found one of my old pics

I love this thing, I’ve taken pics of it in a couple different seasons

Photos show global reaction to US and Israeli strikes Demonstrators took to the streets in cities around the world after the United States and Israel launched a major strike on Iran.

In the interest of centering the voices of Iranians and the Iranian diaspora, here is a series of photos of global reaction to the situation.

Read each caption to tell the difference between demonstrations supporting the US and Israeli strikes and the ones against it.

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