I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
Floor of the US House Chyron: on motion to suspend the rules and agree H Res 1099 Republican: Yea, 215, Nay 0, Pres 0, NV 3 Democratic: Yea, 157. Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 2 Totals: Yea, 372, Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 5
157 Democratic members of the House just voted yea for a resolution that confirms they agree with the Trump administration's reasoning for starting with a war with Iran.
It passes 372-53-2
First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.
In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that most of the people applying to the Texas school voucher program [who have disclosed their income, because we don't know how many have/haven't] aren't poor.
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you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .
Even here, I have deep concerns about how vibe coding can be maintained in the long term or the tech debt we might be accumulating. I've been doing this too long to have any faith in the long term vision of "AI will do the coding, the QA, the monitoring and the fixes". Sounds like a mess.
Ohio Dem US Rep. Greg Landsman joined many Ohio Republicans in defending President Trump’s decision to join Israel’s attack on Iran while GOP US Rep. Warren Davidson joined several Ohio Democrats criticizing Trump for not seeking congressional authority. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/04/o...
If anyone else is helping aging parents with the taxes, please know that this year you MUST pay electronically. This will require creating an account with the IRS that involves multiple back and forths between a computer, your phone, taking photos of yourself and your ID. The confusion is high.
The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...
This has been my experience. Tech execs are arguing sweeping layoffs are due to AI, but when you look at where the layoffs are happening and what/how AI tools are being used, it's pretty clear AI isn't the reason for the layoffs.
I don't know whose running the McDonald's marketing department, but between the AI Christmas ad and the viral video of their CEO eating a McDonald's burger, it's fair to say someone should probably be worried about their job.
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
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I can't explain that difference to my kids, in part because *I* don't know if my youthful optimism came from childhood and ignorance and disappeared because I grew up and became better informed, or if it came from the fact that the world before truly was different after. Probably some of both.
I think it did horrific things to US politics--things that notably, were there all along, just emboldened--and I see a direct line from the hatefulness that spilled over and the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11 to everything happening in the present day.
I know it wasn't 9/11 alone, but a series of incidents and terrorist attacks in the decade-ish before, that resulted in a lot of these changes. 9/11 made it all feel urgent and locked a lot of that security theatre into place.
Sometimes my husband and I try to explain to the kids how different the world was before. Our parents walked us to the gate at the airport if we flew alone. You used to be able to park right outside government buildings, which we did on field trips and vacations.
In a lot of ways, I feel like 9/11 was a dividing line between childhood and adulthood. The wars stretched from when I was a senior in high school until I was a middle aged mother.
It warped so many things about our society, making that dividing line brighter.
My mom and dad weren't home that night. I don't remember why. I sat at home with my brother, who was a freshman, watching cable news, towers falling on repeat.
What I did not predict was that the wars would go on long enough for my little brother to fight in one of them.
I was a senior in high school. I watched the second plane hit in pre-cal. I watched the towers fall in Government. They turned the TVs off after that. I knew that day some of my classmates would end up fighting in a war. Many did.
Multiple North Carolina Democrats who have enabled Republicans to override the governor’s vetoes are getting routed in primaries tonight
Election Day confusion due to rule changes can lead to disenfranchisement — people aren’t able to vote or their vote isn’t counted due to wrong place, wrong time. The disenfranchisement isn’t necessarily intentional, but can impact outcomes. And it often sparks rumors about intent.
JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.
Our full recap:
The fact that a lot of people complain about Crockett "choosing" to run against Talarico, as if he's a victim of her, when her seat was deliberately targeted by gerrymandering. Her House seat was gone. She had to make a decision about what to do next. The Senate seat made sense. Still does!
Then the media frames this intentional vote suppression as "voter confusion," blaming Black voters for the problem?🤡
All of this after Crockett, who won her congressional election, was gerrymandered out of her district, by people looking to eliminate Black political influence?🤡
1 in 3 voters in Jasmine Crockett's home county of Dallas turn up to vote, and are turned away?🤡
Then the news talks about the issue in Dallas (pop 2.7M) and Williamson (pop 800K) as if they are the same?🤡
And they extend voting hours in both places, knowing that poor people are impacted more.🤡
I agree with you, but I feel like there is a large contingent in the Democratic party who would not. Instead, they would argue someone like Platner "speaks like an actual human," when what they mean is he's a white dude with a blue collar job and his tattoo is a credential of white blue collarness.
