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It seems to me that there is a substantial national security interest in nationalizing SpaceX

This is entirely fixable however, Jackson has dropped 10’s of millions in ads and can’t make it past a tossup to maybe Tilt R race. If Bottoms can counter act this to any degree we can clawback it back secure.actblue.com/donate/klb-web

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Hi new followers, if you like what I post I’d appreciate donations to some great Utah Democrats working to break the supermajority here, flip the Salt Lake County Council, flip the County Auditor Office, and a state School Board seat! secure.actblue.com/donate/purrtah

Trump thinks that it's a hostile act against the US if other countries trade with the US, and also if other countries trade with each other without the US.

boy, sure is awesome when Republicans are more interested in settling factional scores than beating Democrats. probably no larger lessons here

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

UPDATE: uh holy shit we’ve raised over $12k since I posted this. that’s enough to give each of the 9 candidates here over $1K each, a significant fundraising boost that they will feel on the ground in these must-win swing districts

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

JUST IN Harry Mitchell, a former Arizona Congressman and longtime Tempe mayor, has died, according to his son, former Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell.

🌕 Today marks the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. If you have a small telescope, head outside tonight. By a remarkable coincidence, the Moon is almost exactly the same phase it was when the Eagle landed. We'll show you how to find Tranquility Base at capitalweather.com

Much has been talked about GOP PAC/Committee fundraising advantages and well they are going to need it. NRSC/SLF/MAGA PAC are going to be needed in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and Alaska specifically If there is a Senate candidate you should give to it needs to be Josh Turek in Iowa

These good people are selling balcony solar units at cost--a few hundred bucks to join the solar revolution. thank you @brightsaver.bsky.social !

obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

imagine if Adolf Eichmann was an insecure stammering imbecile

There are many midterm forecasts, but this one is mine: pollcast.net/senate_forec...

Anyways there’s a neat unaffiliated union guy running here in Utah for HD38(R+10.8, open) Sergio Sotello. He’s an immigrant and no Dem is in the race, he’s already raised over $18k! www.electsergiosotelo.com

#otd in 1944, planes from the 5th fleet shoot down more than 350 Japanese planes in 12 hours. History will remember it as the battle of the Philippines Sea but to the Naval aviators of task force 58 it would always be “The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.” The navy had come a long war from Coral Sea

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Woof. I've been critical of this Urban Institute study since it first dropped, but it turns out that the methodological errors were even more serious than I understood. econjwatch.org/file_downloa...

This is how I approach bars as an adult

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

A lot of politicians fail to think through second and third order consequences. Trump is unusual in struggling with first order ones.

It’s Tax Day. Don’t forget to file, and also don’t forget that this Administration got rid of the free IRS Direct File program, gave tax breaks to billionaires, reduced the staff of the IRS by one-fourth, and cut the budget for investigating sophisticated tax schemes.

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

We’re going to take underdeveloped state-owned land near Metro or light rail stations and turn it into housing so people can live near transit and get to wherever they need to go. It’s a plan that’ll help lower housing costs, increase ridership, and bring in nearly $1.4 billion in tax revenue.

I think this is obviously the correct move. The name of the game is keeping GOP turnout as low as possible head into the midterms. And it’s pretty clear that if Dems win back the House they are going to impeach him.

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

What a beautiful moment.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

For the first time since 1972, NASA is sending astronauts to the moon. The mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to launch on Wednesday at 6:24 p.m. Eastern time. Follow live updates.

I think a desperate all-hands-on-deck moonshot effort to build EVs affordably is the only thing that could save any western automaker from being completely cooked

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

“Crypto, AI, and AIPAC Are Corrupting Democratic Primaries” — my latest for @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/17/c...

The Oscars have no credibility. They change their minds about who the best actor is every year.

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

I'm devastated by the antisemitic attack at one of our nation's largest reform synagogues. My heart is with the entire Temple Israel congregation. Antisemitism has no place in our country. We owe it to our Jewish siblings to stamp it out and ensure they can worship without fear.

There is nowhere in the world where life has been consistently better over the last 100 years than the United States and even still, life was awful here within living memory.