Mark David Johansen

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

Hegseth asked about Russia helping Iran to target Americans:

"We're not concerned about that... The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live."

A grotesquely indiscriminate threat against the entire Iranian population.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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Kristi Noem Finally Faces Consequences — For the Wrong Thing A Firing, that's really a Reassignment, that's Actually a Distraction From the War, which is itself a Distraction From the Epstein Files

In Trump’s America, flunkies and henchmen are never fired for breaking the law.
They’re fired for breaking the illusion.

johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible:

"They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Logarithmic, even.

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

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There is an app to detect meta glasses around you. In case you need to break some glasses

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Kristi Noem Didn’t Give a Sh*t About ‘the Details’ Such as a woman who was here legally and helped the homeless—but was then deported anyway.

"I wanted to know what it’s like when the government—one’s own government—says you can live and work here legally, before betraying you at a green card appointment and plucking you unceremoniously from your family, job, and life. So I spoke to Maria."

The peeps must be trained in how to use the bullshit generator because human made natural speech prompts aren’t good enough.

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

Hey this is like the most serious oil guy i know and this is worse than i expected

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

Karoline Leavitt Slammed After Suggesting Reports Of Deadly Strike On Iranian Girls' School Are Just 'Propaganda'

Heartless.

4 nights out of 365 sounds pretty done with. I’m curious what percentage of subscribers to Shudder will be dropping after this, I know I will. I’ll resubmit the months that have specials, but otherwise Shudder is pretty much dead to me (and not dead in a good way).

Shudder Announces Series Finale of THE LAST DRIVE-IN, To Be Followed by Four New Specials - Daily Dead After more than 200 episodes, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs is ending its run on Shudder. Fans speculated that a series finale announcement was imminent following Joe Bob Briggs' recent social...

Shudder Announces Series Finale of THE LAST DRIVE-IN, To Be Followed by Four New Specials

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Yeah, I’ll probably cancel my yearly subscription after tonight, and just get the months that the TLDI specials run in.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Shudder however, may not be so lucky. If they can’t continue to support their award-winning movie host and his krewe of mutants, how much juice is left in the machine?

He’s not retiring. Series finale wasn’t Joe Bob and Darcy’s idea.

DOJ Official Pushes for Cases Against Cuban Leaders, as Trump Eyes Regime Change -- WSJ By Sadie Gurman 03/06/2026 13:58:22 [WS] (Wall Street Journal) -- A federal prosecutor in Florida is looking to build criminal cases against leaders of Cuba's government and Communist Party, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Trump has openly suggested the country would be his next target for regime change. The Trump administration used criminal charges as a pretext for the ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Miami has created a working group that includes officials from the Treasury Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to gather evidence for such prosecutions, the people said. Prosecutors are looking for potential crimes related to drugs, immigration and other violations, the people said. A spokesperson for U.S. attorney Jason Reding Quiñones didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration is increasingly emboldened after its January ouster of Maduro, who is now being held in a Brooklyn federal jail awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges. He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer has asked a judge to toss out the indictment. On Thursday, Trump said the U.S. would focus on Cuba after the conflict in Iran settles down. "What's happening with Cuba is amazing, and we think that we want to fix it," Trump said during an event at the White House. On Friday, he told CNN, Cuba "is going to fall very soon."

Sure, just add another war to the list.

The Drive-In may never die, but I have less hope for the continued existence of Shudder if they can’t continue to support their (probably) top-rated show.

If you vote for the new $50 billion supplemental appropriations package, you are voting to force us to pay for more of this.