Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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When Nadia Reed refused to work while incarcerated in Colorado, she was punished.
She was put in solitary, not allowed to talk to her family, handcuffed, shackled, & moved to a more punitive part of the prison where she was sexually assaulted.
A judge ruled Colorado has to change its policies.
Coming up on 30 years since the Dunblane school shooting massacre (13th March 1996) and watching another documentary about it. The families wanted to end legal handgun ownership and we passed those laws. We’ve not had a school shooting since. I ache for all Americans who cannot get this done there.
NEW at Bolts: For years, Colorado has been ignoring a ballot initiative that was meant to eliminate forced labor in prisons.
A judge finally said enough, and ordered the state to stop punishing people for refusing to work (for a mere pennies).
On the big CO ruling:
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A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.
And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.
National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026
Quite a move in the US yield curve — 2s-10s below (source: Bloomberg).
#economy #markets
It is both pathetic & dangerous to see Republicans actively stoking a religious war in a country that was founded on the value of religious freedom.
Fortunately, the good people of NYC did not fall for this grotesque, bigoted fear mongering against @mayor.nyc.gov.
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1/ Flu season is finally starting to wind down. But the race to make next season’s flu vaccine is already underway. The process takes about six months and this year, there’s new uncertainty about what the U.S. vaccine will actually look like. 🧵
Yikes.
To summarize, Trump has offered asylum to Iran’s women’s soccer team and death to its men’s.
Thread.
This is why we should make minimal competence a requirement in a candidate for President. I don’t care what bad vibes someone got from Kamala Harris; neither she nor any other minimally competent person would have done this.
The FBI routinely scours this intercepted data to read the private messages of Americans without a warrant, a practice privacy advocates call a “backdoor search.” In a floor speech earlier this week, Wyden warned that Congress is debating reauthorization without a complete picture of the government’s activities. “There’s another example of secret law related to Section 702, one that directly affects the privacy rights of Americans,” he said, noting that successive administrations have refused to declassify the matter. “When it is eventually declassified, the American people will be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information.” The internal oversight mechanisms meant to check the government’s sweeping powers have been systematically dismantled over the past year. FBI director Kash Patel, who previously criticized the warrantless searches, flipped on the issue after taking office. He now defends the program as a “critical tool.”
Featuring yet another alarming statement from Senator Wyden concerning classified information he believes the public ought to know.
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NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional.
It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.
"The evident fact is that the president is nuts."
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
IMO, this is a minimum baseline for anything we would call "civlized." So the US has precisely one civilized state now.
This is an important likely correction--it was almost certainly the synagogue security who shot the driver, not the police.
Also FYI: Temple Israel is the largest reform synagogue in the U.S. & has ~3,400 members.
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Maryland Democrats say they've recruited candidates to run in every legislative district for the first time since 1974
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Two people were injured after a gunman opened fire inside a campus building at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to officials. The gunman is dead.
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Will future winners of the FIFA Peace Prize also be required to threaten members of FIFA World Cup qualifying teams?
No words.
And I suppose, that’s what they want.
No words.
