DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
remember when the political press spent the last year helping Republicans pretend that MAGADOGE was a good faith effort at government efficiency and fiscal responsibility?
Because they don't.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
"At least 10 ships over the past week have altered their destination signal to read 'Chinese Owner', 'All Chinese Crew' or 'Chinese Crew Onboard', according to data from MarineTraffic analysed by the FT."
YOUR WORTH You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness. You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or unlucky. This, this is the essence of all sciences— that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. MATHNAWI III, 2652-2654 (translated by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski) The human shape is a ghost made of distraction and pain. Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel, trying wildly to open, this image tightly held within itself. FURUZANFAR #568 (translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks)
Wanted to share this poem by Rumi, a Persian poet from the 13th century CE. His short yet profound works have shaped Iranian/Islamic culture and influenced poetry around the world to this day. 🇮🇷
Next week… ALL CAPS
Jack liked the bsky idea because he thought by turning Twitter into a protocol he would be excused from having to do the messy community work that’s the actual hard part of social media - an ethos that almost destroyed bsky in the beginning and still lies at the root of all their bad decisions.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.
Despite it all, it’s another gorgeous day of blue skies and golden sunshine in occupied California. #bloomscrolling
Hey, remember when the Army Chief of Staff told the truth about how many troops would be required to occupy Iraq, and then got run outta town in a rail?
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.
Whenever I see Jack’s name, I think about 2018 when I saw him finally respond to some critique, but it didn’t register for him when hypervisible BW et. al. critiqued harassment on bird app for years. He said “It registered. We didn't acknowledge/act fast enough.”
What is “the other ideology” here?🙃
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/
Today, multiple news outlets reported that the U.S. and Mideast countries are seeking Ukraine's drone expertise in the Iran war.
However, not all Ukrainian drones are built to kill or counter other drones. Some have been used to identify landmines across the country's cities, roads, and farmland:
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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So senseless. 😢
Genuine question to the religiously knowledgeable: do any of the main world religions have a strain like fundamentalist evangelical Christianity that believes so fervently in an apocalyptic end times?
Highly recommend this podcast. Admittedly it’s *super* inside baseball and I only recognize about 25% of the names they drop, but I always learn a bunch.
“Old-and-busted is ‘Israel has a right to defend itself. New-hotness is ‘*only* Israel has a right to defend itself.”
overcast.fm/+AAR-RO5HsPA
$2 billion a day for this war.
No money for schools, healthcare, libraries, state universities, housing assistance, child care, public transit, infrastructure repairs, investment in science, USAID. No money for anything that makes our citizens' lives better, but endless money to kill people.
“Calling on ICE to investigate”? 🤔
Dude. Get serious. We need an external body to begin cataloging and prosecuting ICE
She’s going to be financially taken care of for the rest of her life and this movie has unfortunately led to a delusional comfort something bad will ever happen to these people every time one gets fired.
"A number of prominent basketball coaches, including NBA champions Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers, signed a public letter released Wednesday contending that political interference in universities threatens to undermine college athletics."
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It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace.
Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime.
SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats.
If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.
Auto light repairs Saturday at 2775 Cottage Way in Sac. Always free
📣“Say Their Names” ‼️
📆 Friday, March 6, 2026
⏰ 5-6pm.
📍 96th Street and Broadway, New York City
The Rise and Resist “Say Their Names” Group will say the names of those killed by I.C.E., or in I.C.E. custody.
Join us! Dress Warm!
We will have signage, and you are welcome to bring your own!
this sounds like them trying to get a palace coup that keeps the repressive government in place with a pro-US ayatollah
"UBI is not a ceiling that holds us down. It is a floor. And when you give human beings a solid floor to stand on, they don’t lie down.
They reach for the stars."
