US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says reut.rs/4b4JWXm
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US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says reut.rs/4b4JWXm
US senator seeks perjury investigation into Kristi Noem over DHS spending.
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Quick takes: Polio in 2 nations, Sudan’s cholera outbreak ends, avian flu vaccine trials in UK
Sudan's 18-month cholera outbreak resulted in more than 100,000 cases nationwide, with an estimated 2,408 deaths.
With Healthcare Fueling U.S. Jobs, More Trouble Ahead Due To Trump Cuts www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...
The Pentagon is building National Guard “quick reaction forces” for U.S. cities — troops “trained for civil unrest and rapid deployment.”
The timeline most people missed:
They’re expected to be operational by April 2026. A few weeks from now.
DOJ has produced, and Judge Boasberg has ordered unsealed, transcripts from three hearings in the investigations that led to Trump's federal indictments.
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“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.
man, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social was (afaik) the first former CDC person to publicly call *explicitly* for RFK's resignation, rather than gently scold him, and he's currently being called a piece of shit and dogpiled for saying vaccine hesitant parents are facing a bad information environment
Feels relevant that both Fetterman and Platner were/are downwardly mobile sons of the white upper-middle class. That can nurture a distinctly different bundle of resentments than are usually found in products of working or middle class households.
March 6
Al Jazeera reports that at least 3 more schools have been hit by airstrikes during the U.S.-Israeli campaign along with gut wrenching first-hand video and testimonials from the massacre at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school. 7/
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March 6
The Wall Street Journal independently verifies the reporting from Reuters, arriving at the same conclusion that the U.S. was likely responsible, and also verifying the earlier BBC analysis debunking the "misfire" theory. 6/ www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Oh, I see. What we're after is IMAGINARY unconditional surrender. This all seems very well thought through.
When @vicmsong.bsky.social and I talked about how covering fitness and wearable tech meant her beat now included wellness... well, I told her it was going to get bad and weird fast www.theverge.com/column/88992...
Want to know more about the sweeping trend of state mandated taxpayer financed and hyper empowered civics centers, and the political project they embody, as in Ohio? See this excellent @theguardian.com article @osuaaup.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
[1/2] GOP Speaker Mike Johnson appears to be following Vladimir Putin’s lead by denying that a war is in fact a war. Both would have us believe the wars in Ukraine and Iran are “special military operations.”
ALERT: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files motion asking court to block Trump's closure and demolition of the Kennedy Center
Beatty is ex-officio member of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees
Beatty: "Emergency relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm"
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Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London
Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May
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Neighboring Malaysia has also said it is considering a ban on social media platforms for young users. Some Indian states are also implementing such bans.
Indonesia plans to restrict social media access for users younger than 16 years starting March 28, the first non-Western country to do so
Obligatory first day of early voting in Virginia selfie
Not super busy, but steady stream in Arlington
Election Day will be April 21 so plenty of time to cast a ballot
Make your plan to vote!
You know that feeling of emptiness and exhaustion after a creative spurt? A new study has a name for this phenomenon — “creative hangover” — plus some surprising findings.
Calling this juvenile is insulting to juveniles
Here’s a piece I wrote in 2007 about how an over-reliance on militarized drug war tactics has basically thinned out the herd and ensured only the most efficient and adaptive operations survived. We’ve been selectively breeding highly evolved supertraffickers for decades. Sit this one out, Stephen.
I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from
As many of you know, the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social has stuck with science-based vaccine recommendations, while RFK Jr. has personally hijacked the CDC’s recommendations.
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GPD jamming floods the Strait of Hormuz, adding to the fog of war. Dozens of signal jammers crowd coastlines, scrambling GPS.
What do NY, VT, AZ, KS, and FL have in common?
MAGA Racist group chats.
This group chat in FL was created by Abel Carvajal, the Miami Republican Executive Committee Secretary, and law student at FIU.
No investigation at the local level yet.
#ProudBlue
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NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
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