“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
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I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
Rally being held just north of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden between 9th St & 7th St NW
WASHINGTON D.C.
TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, National Day of Action Rally!!! We have three goals:
Save Science.
Protect Health.
Defend Democracy.
We need YOU to join us to Take Back our Science!!!
See map below for location details!
Visit zurl.co/EREaO to learn more about D.C.!
Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:
1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.
2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.
Find your senators at reps.fyi
No see what people actually mean to say is that it will come up in the primary *and hurt democrats in OTHER elections*
It will be an endless way for the GOP to excuse Nazis in their own party by pointing at Platner and saying "SEE THEY DO IT TOO!"
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
By BEN LEFEBVRE 03/05/2026 05:00 AM EST f • • • President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.
I have an idea. Here’s my idea: We should have had this meeting last week before we started bombing Iran. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
Well would you look at that
So remarkably frustrated by the United States government this week. That it is in the hands of the worst, most incompetent, most compromised people. Ideologues and grifters. That our society enables it all. That they give a blank check to war mongers and the 1% and literally starve the country.
/4 Anyway, a long-time theme of Trumpism, and an increasingly common theme of the Republican Party, is that violence is justified against protesters because protesters are evil. It’s a deeply foul, thuggish, un-American sentiment.
We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.
As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.
We need better Democrats.
Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
"the failed inquiry has only added to the sense among many federal investigators that Trump has become increasingly erratic in his desire to use the criminal justice system to punish his political adversaries for behavior that comes nowhere close to being criminal" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
A middle aged woman and man stand smiling in front of a booth tent, that has Battle of the Butts and Battle of the Brains books and other goodies on tables.
Tables with water-themed plastic tablecloths, a small colorful prize wheel, and eight baskets of prizes for kids like stickers and squeeze balls.
Tables with water-themed plastic tablecloths and copies of Battle of the Butts and Battle of the Brains.
Tables with water-themed plastic tablecloths, a small colorful prize wheel, and eight baskets of prizes for kids like stickers and squeeze balls.
I forgot to post about this weekend at the Summerville Book Festival - it was fun!
Brian and I got there bright & early to set up our booth. We'd never done this before, so we were winging it, but we think it turned out OK. We had a wheel of prizes with all kinds of silly stuff. The kids LOVED it!
"When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen" coming out of Donald Trump's mouth is a Monkey's Paw ass quote if I've ever heard one.
The “shield” is intolerable here as well.
“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”
That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.
This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.
This is why you don't let tv personalities do defense.
Let's be clear: this is going to result in radicalization and blowback, and any person with a genuine knowledge of defense would know that.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
It happened at a time of his choosing
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
I didn't realize it was almost here. This news makes me ridiculously happy!
Tillis, like Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, & anyone else ostensibly still a "moderate" & "pro-democracy" GOP Senator, is welcome to caucus with the Democrats, giving them control of the Senate & actually fighting back against the authoritarianism, at any time.
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