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America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social at the CA state capitol: “We chanted ‘we will not go back’ — I burned a confederate flag outside the chamber to send a message we will not go back to the times in which our folks were met with Billy clubs & the blast of the fire hose…” 🇺🇸

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this.

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

Just a deer relaxing in a dog bed while the storm rolls in - to brighten your scrolling ⛈

I was afraid when I made this joke yesterday that I was the only one that saw it or just too old. I feel so damn vindicated.

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Steven Tyler is headed to trial after child sexual assault claims

Katie Phang sued Todd Blanche this week, alleging his failure to turn over the Epstein Files interferes with her ability to report. Read her explanation of the lawsuit, what she hopes to accomplish & what comes next: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Make no mistake, this is effectively a nationwide abortion ban. We’ve lost Roe. We’ve lost abortion in many states. Women are bleeding out in parking lots. Their goal is to have full control over our wombs and they don’t care how many of us die in the process.

That would be bad if that ever happened.

WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

I have made my decision. I am backing, supporting, and will do everything I can to help build the moment for #BecerraforGov. We need this win, Californians! We have to keep a solid Dem Gov in office who will preserve our standing in the world and continue building on it. www.xavierbecerra2026.com

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Flea-borne typhus surges across LA County with 90% of cases requiring hospitalization Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be hospitalized. abc7-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abc7.com...

Trump threatens to jail the journalist who first reported that a U.S. airman was missing if the journo doesn't hand over source information to the government.

Campton Elementary in Campton, NH 💙💙 Everyone decided to learn sign language to communicate with a deaf classmate. "If he's your friend, you can play with him, and he's my friend," Reid said of Ben. "It clicked for him that the sign language had value," Etta O'Reilly said.

The @cssl.bsky.social is reporting zero snow water equivalent this morning, with just a little snow left around the property. It’s the earliest melt out of the lab’s snowpack since 2015. Median March 30 snow water equivalent is 34 inches. #CAwx

🧵There would have been no George Orwell without Eileen O’Shaughnessy Blair. She saved her husband’s life twice, including when they were fighting fascists on their honeymoon in the Spanish Civil War.

A dominant, persistent, and record-breaking heat dome. This satellite animation shows the evolution of the ridge over the last 6 days.

WATCH: “If there was ever a group of people that needed to hear my story, it was them.” CLARKSVILLE candidate Allie Phillips recounts getting shouted down by “abortion abolitionists” as they prayed for a failed Jody Barrett abortion death penalty bill. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DWJq6Fk...

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign. Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us. What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.

Individual states can do it right now.

Someone got dashcam video of the meteor over Ohio yesterday and their audio reaction is priceless

Jon Iran-splains the ramifications of losing the Strait of Hormuz in a way even Trump can understand

While everyone else is watching the Oscars, Donald Trump is rage‑posting on Truth Social accusing the media of treason because he can’t go five minutes without trying to criminalize criticism.

JFC! The right already stripped abortion rights from millions of women. Contraception is next. Project 2025 made the agenda clear. This was never about saving babies. It’s about control, pushing women back into submission and forcing more births. 1/2

Love that they spent who knows how many hours making sure their AI flag had the appropriate number of stars, yet failed to consider what wind does to a flag when it’s stapled to a Temu Norman Rockwell B2 covered in dust

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Knicks’ Mohamed Diawara at Marcus Garvey Park after sharing iftar at Keur Yayeu Dara, a beloved Senegalese restaurant in Harlem.

Make sure you’re ready to vote! You don’t even have to vote for me, just participate in the democratic process. It’s incredibly important, now more than ever.

Trump: "The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

"One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

More Big Money promotion of COVID unsafe behaviour.

Big money encouraging people to forget everything they’ve learned. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Cathay Pacific profit rises, plans 10% capacity boost despite geopolitical challenges reut.rs/4lm7I5P

This is covered in Project 2025. If they get their way, anyone going to public school will be forced to take the exams and enlist. Note that this will only be required of public school students.

Warren: "It is still the case that the Trump admin cannot explain the reasons we entered this war, the goals we're trying to accomplish. The only part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15m Americans who lost their healthcare, there's a billion a day to spent on bombing Iran."

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem