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Name a single female actor who has gone gray without pushback.

07.03.2026 01:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s “Warflation” Has Just Begun If he were trying to increase prices on purpose, would he be doing anything differently?

Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

06.03.2026 14:48 👍 806 🔁 315 💬 44 📌 26

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

07.03.2026 01:05 👍 2852 🔁 487 💬 96 📌 12

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping.

There is no justification.

Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration.

Full stop.

07.03.2026 00:05 👍 366 🔁 66 💬 7 📌 2
#sunsetfromthedeck in middle America with a cold front pushing to usurp our almost 80F March day. Grill is fired up. Corgi is relentless with the ball to fetch. Enjoying the cold and cloudy midwestern winter.

#sunsetfromthedeck in middle America with a cold front pushing to usurp our almost 80F March day. Grill is fired up. Corgi is relentless with the ball to fetch. Enjoying the cold and cloudy midwestern winter.

#sunsetfromthedeck on an almost 80F degree day in March. Dog got walked. Enjoying Friday cocktails while the seasonally inaugural grill heats for the meats. Hopefully we can keep affording the meats for the summer…

07.03.2026 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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President Trump's Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the ev...

"Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion."

www.cato.org/blog/embarra...

06.03.2026 23:51 👍 164 🔁 95 💬 8 📌 6

It is impossible for anyone younger the 50 to understand how grotesque and unoriginal this is. It’s always the small group of advisors or tactical team.

06.03.2026 23:51 👍 736 🔁 166 💬 50 📌 6

Why aren’t ICE/CBP/ERO visible on
Their uniforms?

No. I’m not stupid. Please, explain the difference in attire minus US DHS designations.

07.03.2026 00:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a healthy fascination with Hitler?

06.03.2026 22:14 👍 311 🔁 48 💬 9 📌 4
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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

06.03.2026 14:26 👍 3950 🔁 1648 💬 124 📌 520
toronto skyline
Cyclist who lives in city of over 3 million does in fact know your friend who rides a bike there too.

toronto skyline Cyclist who lives in city of over 3 million does in fact know your friend who rides a bike there too.

Cyclist who lives in city of over 3 million does in fact know your friend who rides a bike there too.

05.02.2026 13:13 👍 240 🔁 23 💬 14 📌 4
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These plots shows the highest-leverage policies that win back defectors on both the left and right:

- Increase pay for public sector
- Decrease cost of bus and train tickets
- Wealth tax on billionaires

and the winnable left bloc is bigger than the right

06.03.2026 17:18 👍 152 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 4
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The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.

On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist.

emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...

06.03.2026 19:52 👍 709 🔁 323 💬 22 📌 7
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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

06.03.2026 19:54 👍 599 🔁 172 💬 9 📌 6

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 2133 🔁 247 💬 114 📌 14

Point: shouldn’t they have to reveal training data when they make these types of claims? At least, they should release the interactions that led to this conclusion.

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Retiring Senator Dick Durbin: If you or your child have ever experienced dental pain, you know that oral health care is essential.
That's why I introduced the Promoting Dental Health Act to ensure that the CDC's Oral Health program has the resources necessary to prevent dental disease, build the workforce, and educate families.
2:08 PM • Mar 6, 2026

Retiring Senator Dick Durbin: If you or your child have ever experienced dental pain, you know that oral health care is essential. That's why I introduced the Promoting Dental Health Act to ensure that the CDC's Oral Health program has the resources necessary to prevent dental disease, build the workforce, and educate families. 2:08 PM • Mar 6, 2026

Rest-Of-Your-Body-Health care is also essential.

Let’s include dental work (teeth are inside your body) in a national health care plan that prioritizes public health and individual liberties not based on any one person’s faith.

06.03.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, this is a naive post.

I’m not naive. I’m cynical and sarcastic AF.

06.03.2026 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait.

Doesn’t OpenAI need an internet connection to determine where to target the bombs?

06.03.2026 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Harkin Institute suggests new CAFO moratorium, increased monitoring to improve water quality • Iowa Capital Dispatch The Harkin Institute released a report Friday with state policy recommendations to improve water quality and public health in Iowa.

The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement determined regulations on fertilizers, animal feeding operations and agricultural drainage, among other policy changes, would improve water quality and public health in Iowa, Cami Koons reports.

06.03.2026 20:11 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Make Bigotry Excommunicble Again

06.03.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dems.

More of this. Less hand-wringing and strongly-worded press releases.

Accountability matters.

06.03.2026 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big news!

The company whose AI-run ATS system emailed me Wednesday with “a position that matches your skills!” on Wednesday just sent their AI rejection of my application.

The system is working as designed. Plan accordingly.

06.03.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me, too, now!

Anyone?

06.03.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder why the prediction market looks like on this.

06.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Someone should set up a “when will America be great again?” bet on the prediction markets.

06.03.2026 21:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been alternating between Kevin’s expectation and thinking “well, we’ve proven people can do certain jobs from home, let’s give companies tax breaks to subsidize workers’ commuting fuel as a ‘benefit’.”

06.03.2026 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or suffers brain damage.

06.03.2026 20:25 👍 134 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 2611 🔁 632 💬 66 📌 44

No, Claude is not anxious.

Anxiety requires two components:

1. Awareness of the possibility of annihilation of self.
2. An autonomic nervous system.

Mimicry of the words of an anxious person is not being anxious.

A dog can be anxious. Your plagiarism machine cannot.

06.03.2026 20:44 👍 351 🔁 89 💬 6 📌 0