The second half of March 2026 (part 1 is here) was dominated by Trump continuing to lose his senseless war on Iran, both overseas and at home.
Near the last days of the month, we had the gigantic No Kings protests across the country, and then ended with two Supreme Court topics (one about trans persecution, the other on birthright citizenship).
ICE was deployed to airports for no good reason. And the corruption continued throughout the regime — too much to even note.
Everything here is in reverse chronological order, except some of the more timeless images, which I move up or down for better visual balance, and is quoted from the attributed account.
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Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.
ElieNYC
No matter how much it's talked about, it's still not talked about enough
that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether the words in
the 14th amendment mean what the words in the 14th amendment mean.
Bearded Stoner
"Here is how the constitution should understand citizenship" says man selling American citizenship for $1 million:
Don Moynihan
really can't be said enough that the Wong Kim Ark birthright citizenship case was decided by the same court that decided Plessy v. Ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.
Evan Bernick
Simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is
already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright
citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers
and start over.
Kevin M. Kruse
I said this in replies
elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a
fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by
SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It
is a violation of every oath they have made.
Courtney Milan
I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow":
Kathleen Bachynski
It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care — and speech related to that care — are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado cannot regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality. States can force doctors to read bogus scripts claiming abortion causes future health issues (mandated counseling laws), but states cannot compel anti-abortion centers to tell patients that abortion and birth control is available elsewhere (NIFLA). It's pure nonsense all the way down. SCOTUS to states restricting medical care they don't like: their legislatures have a right to do this and the laws are subject to the lowest level of judicial scrutiny. SCOTUS to states trying to ensure access to medical care: YOU ARE SILENCING CHRISTIAN MEDICAL PROVIDERS.
Susan Rinkunas
Alito in a concurrence stating that so-called doctors should not be gatekeepers of medicine, suggests that we bring back bloodletting and other procedures intended to balance the humors
scoops @scoopsstp.bsky.social
i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
It is supremely infuriating that there are quite literally millions of left-wing Catholics in the United States, but the press only ever wants to hear from the right wing ones
Sky Marchini
it's a weird pattern. very similar to how jews are one of the most democratic-leaning demographics in the country yet jewish republicans are widely platformed as being representative of jewish opinion.
mtsw
Happy 2026! photo by Etienne Laurent:
Richard Kadrey
The Universal Law of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there.
Brent Toderian
People think Trump is dumb, but have you ever tried to asset-strip the wealthiest country there has ever been?
Jo Wolff
I get bummed out regularly that kids can’t just come in from the country with a few hundred dollars and a dirtbag dream and rent the third or fourth shittiest hole of their lives and make a go of it
Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social
People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this
Scary Mr. Olmec Man
Dutch newspaper cartoon:
michaeledward
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
The Associated Press
They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI.
Adam Serwer
NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
ProPublica
Nothing says “support the troops” like kidnapping their family while also starting a pointless war:
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social [photo modified by Daughter Number Three]
really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Every “far left” member of Congress is talking about “radical” things like not wanting to give unlimited weapons to a militant state abroad and like…universal healthcare lol
brent says join DSA @therealbrent.bsky.social
In case it isn't obvious, [AI education proponents] not proposing anything new except for the eradication of teachers and the implementation of robot slaves. You can already be taught classical studies from teachers. You can already access the complete works of Plato in books or for free on the internet.
John Brooks
the funny thing about bluesky deciding to push AI is that I would actually pay to use this service if it just stayed like it is, without AI, without ads, and just worked to keep improving moderation
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com
Washington insiders trying to sell us on Rahm Emanuel as a serious candidate remind me of Zuckerberg trying to sell us on the Metaverse
Ned Resnikoff
Wild that we refuse to build new actual mixed use streets but still slap on the idea of it as the facade to a mall:
Tom Flood
The fact is, methane has caused about 30% of the warming we have seen to date. And all non-CO2 warming pollution, taken together, has caused about half of the warming so far. And of the CO2 warming we have seen, a big chunk of that has been caused by deforestation.
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social
It cannot be long before Trump’s retinue of sycophants, enablers and justifiers, in government and in the media, start telling us, "I never liked the guy", "I tried to restrain him" and "I was only obeying orders." So be sure to keep the receipts.
George Monbiot
reducing cigarette use was an incredible political accomplishment and almost no one (including me) knows anything about the people who organized the movement.
Dean Baker
The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one
Benjamin Balthaser
buffet flat antiques, angle 2, route 97, bend, oregon, 1987:
old roadside pics
I love (hate) how every 3 months there's a story about how there's 150 evil white men with insane amounts of $$ who use their influence to ruin everything around us, but we never talk about it because there's a single mom who wants to buy her kid a cookie with her food stamps and that's what really matters
Phoenix Calida
Democrats are too ambivalent about fossil fuels to see what’s right in front of their noses: how right-wing climate denial is intertwined with affordability, elite impunity, general dissatisfaction, distrust of government — everything voters care about. This is why they have no vision or fight.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
The inevitable result of barring undocumented kids from public education would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
most of what you know about the civil war came from people who weren’t there and had an agenda (shelby foote-esque southern sympathizers). people who were there described it as a jihad against the satanic plantation aristocrats
ae @aelkus.bsky.social
Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years.
Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get
richer. See the problem here?
Robert Reich
You know you don't really live in a free country when the regime can just illegally knock down a historic building that belongs to the people of the United States and start building a Pyongyang like monstrosity to replace it and there's apparently "nothing anyone can do."
Colin Woodard
One reason why the East Wing resonates with people is that it will be incredibly difficulty, divisive and costly to undo this shit. And in that respect it serves as an apt metaphor for the Trump administration.
Don Moynihan
Under Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona completely rewrote the rules of urban space: reclaiming a million square metres for pedestrians, tripling its cycle network to 273 kilometres, adding 80 hectares of green space, halving car traffic, and cutting street-level air pollution by 20% in just eight years:
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com
"an estimated 60–80 million people have been killed by cars since their invention."
Bryan @bryanformhals.com
The main "use case" of AI and crypto is to kill democracy as quickly as possible.
Gil Durán
Does it work properly? No.
Are the people making it acting in good faith? No.
Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No.
Does it make people's lives better? No.
Will it make people's lives better? No.
Is it profitable? No.
Is it popular? No.
Is it harmless? No.
The argument for AI.
Nick Pettigrew
haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social):
@histoftech.bsky.social
I've never met a single Democrat who doesn't hate Rahm Emanuel with a passion that burns with the intensity of 1,000 suns. There's way too many political writers who've never talked to a single voter
Will Bunch
Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values and policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right. The first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 — heavily promoted in advance by Fox News — only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.
Kevin M. Kruse
No Kings:
C.G., PhD @tcrg2012.bsky.social
I assure you that if 8 million right-leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT
Tim Dickinson
Classic sign:
Charlie Austin @chuckles-s.bsky.social
#Caturday #NoKings:
SubRosa Magick
St Paul, Minnesota, Saturday 28 March 2026 No Kings protest:
Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
Mark Harris
Star of the North:
Alex Schieferdecker
the vibe:
e.w. niedermeyer
Spotted in NASHVILLE…
The Tennessee Holler
Pasadena CA No Kings:
headcase4321.bsky.social
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.
Mrs. Betty Bowers
not a big Hillary Clinton fan but the way the media is protecting the public from the details of Kash fucking Patel's personal emails is impossible to ignore
m @keptsimple.bsky.social
The Ethicist | I don't feel like paying the Guatemalan immigrants who roofed by house. Can I just have ICE deport them?
NY Times Pitchbot
Ken Jennings asked 10-day Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding what effect his $250K+ winnings might change his life. After thinking for a second, Ding responded, "Now I can move closer to public transportation."
@pattho.bsky.social
Why does the fawning media always call these stains on our democracy [like Trump's signature appearing on currency] “a first” like Trump broke the four-minute mile as opposed to the Constitution
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in
Gasoline isn't expensive enough, given how many people I see idling their vehicles.
David Ho
For a sense of the scale of the federal occupation of the Twin Cities metro this winter... Chicago and LA were too big so they tried picking on somewhere smaller. They were thick on the ground here but they still left in disgrace:
Aaron Sojourner
30% of encounters having a drawn weapon is a wild statistic. Imagine if that's how our regular police worked.
Jeff Beal @jbbeal.bsky.social
OMG, ADOBE ACROBAT, please stop telling me that this document is long and that I should save time by reading an AI Assistant summary of the book. IT'S A NOVEL. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE LONG. I WANT TO READ IT. ALL OF IT.
Mari Ness
The idea that (white) American farmers and ranchers are the "true volk" while cities are a sore on the body politic, filled with greedy merchants and mobs of laborers, is the foundational, racist blood-and-soil myth of America that still pervades all of society including mainstream media.
Chad Loder
So…this piece of art in the touristy part of Sedona does not do javalina justice, lol. It actually does them dirty. They’re not pigs and the babies aren’t chunky like that:
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
Red state universities: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology
Blue state universities: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
I don't think trans people should be imprisoned for 5 years because they have to pee
Parker Molloy
we need a wholesale recommitment on the left to public higher education as a high quality low/no cost public good rather than a jobs training licensing agency. I do not anticipate this happening.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
I love how irreconcilable it is that conservatives, who imagine themselves themselves to be the tough guys, love to talk about how scared they are to go into the cities where the purportedly wimpy liberals hang out all day.
Mac Rogers
Final batch of anti-ICE and related signs from around Minneapolis. Every neighborhood, almost every block. Around 600 different signs (and many hundreds more duplicates). Community, solidarity and resolve. “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us” –John Lewis. Batch #33:
Wendy @hyssop.bsky.social
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
I am really sick of their special snowflake status, because police is not a uniquely dangerous job. In Minnesota, the industry with the most deaths was transportation. Second construction. I want police training to be far more about de-escalation than about things that heighten danger for themselves *and others.*
Saralovesyou
Seen somewhere along 19th St in DC:
Tinman 2.0 contre la caste @bcmfietser.bsky.social
Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.
Chris Geidner
so like, if you talk to women about our fears in society, such as walking alone at night with keys gripped in our hand to stab an eyeball and such. these bathroom issues aren't shit that anyone has issues with besides these fucking weirdos. it's just a non issue
Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist:
Tom Gauld
Went through security, kids are too small for the scanners so we go through metal detectors. I asked the TSA agent, “do we (my husband and I) go through the metal detector too or the scanner?” He said “oh with the kids, we aren’t the ones who split up families.” I see you TSA man
miss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social
Wikipedia now has higher standards [on AI] than all universities
Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social
It's sad for all Americans that we have to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great nation with the most corrupt, evil president in our history.
Jim Henderson @hendy-77.bsky.social
seeing a lot of moral abandonment and dereliction of duty by people who just wanna stay employed and wondering how much this would be happening if healthcare and insurance could be decoupled from employment
Lora Kolodny
I know there's a lot going on. But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
super fun that his signature will be on bills when he never pays his:
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social
If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US service members by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.
Adam Serwer
thought experiment: since sports are a closed system with predictable rules and keep detailed statistics on players, maybe we can replace college coaches with AI. coaches make a lot of money, so this could be a great cost saving measure for universities.
now reflect:
◾ why isn't this a part of the discourse?
◾ what are the reasons that folks want to make sure there are humans in those roles?
◾ why do other people at universities seem more replaceable, even though their tasks are not nearly as well structured or replete with informative data?
Ilana Horn
Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.
Kevin M. Kruse
The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks:
Paul Leigh
America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff. Landlords leased more space last year to service-oriented tenants than those selling products, with wellness and fitness leading the charge
Jemin Na, CPA
Younger people won't believe this, but the Republican Party used to complain that Barack Obama was too self-centered.
Kevin M. Kruse
even if trans women had a biological advantage at sports we let people with biological advantages participate in sports all the time—at a professional level they're basically required — and no one cares because those advantages don't trigger a reflexive discomfort in cis people
may @maysuser.name
Ancient Egyptian gold finger-ring set with a mouse amulet inscribed with the cartouche of king Thutmose III. Gold and glazed steatite. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1479-1425 BC. Squeak squeak Thutmouse! Photo by The Met:
Alison Fisk
A guy at my table during dinner said he spent $150 on gas for his truck and didn’t even fill it from empty. That's equivalent to 8 weeks of my unlimited transit costs in Chicago’s but will probably last him less than a week. Idk how you can see these numbers and not think car ownership is a scam.
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social
The actual reality of what’s going on with NASA is a real trip when juxtaposed with what a hit the NASA-saturated “Project Hail Mary” film seems to be. I wonder how many people who enjoyed the film are aware of just how much this admin has shanked all the cool real-world research it featured.
Faine Greenwood
Of all the crops we grow on Earth — with huge impacts on land, water, biodiversity, and climate — less than half of them actually become FOOD.
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social
The widest part of a freeway passing through the heart of a city is antithetical to the very idea of a city. Throughout history, cities have located at natural chokepoints where the path terminates or narrows:
Qagggy!
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke
Adam Serwer
For all the talk of the left's vision of manhood (or supposed lack thereof) it's important to note that the modern right doesn't have a vision of manhood so much as a dream of perpetual adolescence.
@itreallyisaparty.bsky.social
"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.
Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social
The Farm Bureau estimates that a year-round increase from E10 to E15 (15% ethanol blend in gasoline) would increase US corn demand by 2.4 billion bushels a year. Latest yields per USDA are 188.8 bushels/acre, so growing it requires another 12.7 million acres. That’s about half the size of Indiana.
Richard Waite
12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.
John Smillie
Good morning:
Sarah @sarahjen.bsky.social
Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies [Mike Flynn], who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social
I think every single candidate for mayor of any city should be asked "Will you end every city contract with McKinsey and anyone like them?" It's literally free money for your city to do this. Your city never needs to pay 23-year-old new grads to ask ChatGPT how to optimize services for poor people.
Daniel Suitor
According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
Robert Reich
We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it:
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social
America is in such a shambles that people are actively rooting for TSA, an organization that normally has the same approval rating as athlete's foot.
Josh Gondelman
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money.
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social
It’s pretty cool to have a church, a mosque, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Bulgaria all in a single shot distance:
Marika Mikiashvili
Lack of health insurance kills FAR more Americans every year than Iran ever has. But Trump and Hegseth want $200B for war instead of care. That’s not “national security” — that’s national neglect.
Madelyne @madelynerants.bsky.social
The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.
Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social
these guys are working incredibly hard to reinvent slavery from first principles
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Wednesday:
Ajediday
Patrimonialism: governance where a leader treats the state as their personal property, ruling through personal loyalties, patronage, and kin ties rather than through formal, impartial, or merit-based bureaucracy.
aftertheboat174.bsky.social
More than 10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
Meade Krosby
It’s 2030. The average cost of gas is $12 a gallon. A new car costs $100k. Americans are still calling public transit and bike infrastructure a waste.
Climate and Transit
Minnesota GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change." How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?
Minnesota House DFL
God certainly not known for creating weather events to send a message.
Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social
“Stephen Miller’s true goal is to use immigration as a tool to chisel away at the Fourteenth Amendment. Until he’s ejected from the White House, all our rights are in danger.”
Greg Sargent
I need a moment to sit with this:
George Takei
I have literally no idea what beliefs Gavin Newsom holds besides “I should be President”
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
As a retired airline Captain I flew into LaGuardia and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligence. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%
Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social
remember that one time a train derailed in Ohio and literally nobody died but it was a news story for like a full week and Pete Buttigieg had to personally answer for it?
Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social
ICE has become Trump’s Praetorian Guard.
Sanho Tree
Every goddamn day is another round of “why didn’t you fix this when you had the chance” from people who think outlawing the GOP/rightwing Christianity is a button we were just too bashful to push
ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla paid just 4.9% of their profits in federal corporate taxes in 2025. They have seen their collective tax bill drop by $95B thanks to two rounds of Trump tax cuts. Meanwhile, they've laid off thousands of workers. Trickle-down economics was always a scam:
Robert Reich
Better to disenfranchise people than disappoint others who were prematurely excited to think they won. They should do that in sports too – just stop playing after the first team scores, don't wait to complete the whole game. Some fans might get really sad otherwise.
ginkowest.bsky.social
what really undermines voter confidence is when you vote and it doesn't get counted because people who vacation on billionaire yachts say so
Steven Palmer Peterson
What seriously undermines elections is trump constantly lying about the election being stolen. Let’s start there.
teepig.bsky.social
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks:
Albino Badguy
True cosmic horror isn’t that the universe is hostile. It’s that the universe is indifferent. This holds true at the human level. We imagine monsters with malevolent aggression toward us—but in reality, the greatest horror on earth is other humans indifferent to suffering.
Brandy Schillace
I will say this forever but ICE is both an ethnic cleansing machine and an ideological terror machine. It is entirely built as an extralegal goon squad that only cares about fealty to the regime.
Norm Charlatan
TV news in 2026 is basically either six talking heads yelling at each other about literally anything, doesn't matter what; or The Today Show, a program designed in a lab to never produce anything of consequence while capturing as many eyeballs as possible for 10–60 second stretches.
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social
Spent the afternoon today at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. And I’m not sure what the experience was like before 2026, but… Not once did I ask myself “How could this happen?”
Tinman 2.0 contre la caste @bcmfietser.bsky.social
Actor Steve McQueen (left) shares a laugh with race car driver Derek Bell on the set of the 1971 auto racing film Le Mans:
Cool Bike Art
Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip. My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.
Alex Ip
ICE agents should be fired, not deployed to airports.
Ilhan Omar
Today it's the airports, but soon ICE will be omnipresent in our lives unless they are stopped. Public spaces. The polling place. You name it. This is textbook authoritarianism and as long as the corruption of liberal democracy continues there will be more and more power vacuums for the fascists.
Jared Yates Sexton
I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.
Aaron Cynic
Ann Telnaes
It’s really a testament to Trump’s weird obsessions that that letting states make their own election policies is now the blue position, while a top-down, one-size fits all policy that hurts rural voters is the red one.
Radley Balko
Now Trump plans to pay $1 billion to a foreign company to ditch its plans for offshore wind power and to build oil and gas plants in Texas, an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars for the purpose of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change.
Dana @outbeyond.bsky.social
DC National Guard deployment not only costs $1.65 million a day—$600 m/year—but it also has had no impact on outcomes. US Congress, in its majesty, gives $150 m/year for the operation of DC transit system. So it's essentially spending 4 times as much on useless guards.
Yonah Freemark
That first entry is hilarious given who is currently in the White House:
The Alternate Historian
Can’t believe Trump found a way to make Americans like the TSA
Wes Burdine
Like every time you see an article about a groundbreaking piece of scientific discovery, go check where the foundational data came from. Chances are good it will be a study or department that effectively no longer exists thanks to trump DOGE firings and funding cuts.
Tyler King
I often imagine telling the ghost of Upton Sinclair about how fascists are currently in the year 2024 putting kids to work in slaughterhouses and drinking raw milk and eating raw meats and not vaccinating their children and he is so upset he is crying and he is throwing up
Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social
We'll see your electric hearse and raise you one bicycle hearse:
The War on Cars
There is this really weird dislike of, even a revulsion to, modern society that is happening all over the country and across the political spectrum. Antivax, tradwives, retreat into racial and ethnic essentialism, blowing up the modern food system, on it goes. Seems like a key story of our time.
Robert Cruickshank
If you think about it, why WOULD it be the responsibility of cities to provide free parking for everyone’s cars?
Urban Truth Collective
He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social
Pretty much:
Patrick Chovanec
It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com
True that “The irony here is the fact that ICE agents would never pass TSA background check.”
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social
So, the goal for the whole war is now to make Iran like it was, only worse?
Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social
NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids. A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
ProPublica
Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.
Nico Mara-McKay
How are we all even still holding our shit together with everything that this administration is doing?
Black Aziz Anansi
Double-tapping an elementary school on the very first day of the war is not what you do if you are trying to "ignite an internal uprising."
Michael Hobbes
“Is this some sort of threat, Emily?”
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social
Trump could have sent any number of groups to the airports to help TSA. He chose ICE for a reason! Because it’s another opportunity for them to kidnap people! Airports are a great place to find people! You think ICE quotas are gonna disappear at airports??
Erin Biba
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Ygrene
Goddamn I love cities with good Metro systems (grade-separated). Getting around DC has been so easy. Now we're on our way to our friend's house in Alexandria and it's just as easy. I love not having to rent a car or take a Lyft when leaving a big city.
Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike
I would read the heck out of a book or article that explained why a disproportionate number of American fascists have been chiropractors. No shade on that entire category of practitioners, but it's definitely a theme that has emerged in my research on the US far right. Article is from 2001.
Seth Cotlar
Reagan would do wildly illegal things and the system would try to hold him accountable, but he would never admit the things were wrong, and it turned out the system wasn't set up to deal with that, and you could feel the whole right wing of the country go *interesting.* Anyway, every Republican president of my lifetime has spent their presidency doing whatever tf they want, committing war crimes, enriching their friends, and facing zero consequences for it, and now we've arrived at full plutocracy because greed, turns out, will metastasize if you don't kill it.
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social
Trump is just “posting through it”, except “it” is a war.
Bill Lindeke
Barry Blitt, The New Yorker:
Fiona "Fi" Webster @fiona-webster22.bsky.social
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
Austin Kocher, PhD
I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)
Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social
I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
I wish that the United States pursued literally any worthwhile goal with the diligence and zeal that it has been trying to deport Abrego Garcia to somewhere other than Costa Rica.
Sean Marotta
The world is adding 1 GW of solar every HALF DAY. In 2004, that same 1 GW took a whole YEAR. That’s exponential S-curve disruption. Next up:
Storage explodes
EVs accelerate
Fossil demand gets squeezed
Sales tell you what’s happening. Capacity tells you what wins.
Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com
RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.
Norm Charlatan
Double standard?
Brown Eyed Susan
Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.
Heather Hogan
Wait, so we can cut our use of fossil fuels for war but not for the climate?
Pepper Sanchez fan account @fedef.bsky.social
Anyone can grow up to be President, we used to say, like that was a good thing.
Robert Simonson
It’s awesome to daily read the news and it’s like AI is going to dry out the planet and tell everyone to commit suicide. And like no one has actually found a good use for it yet. It does literally nothing useful other than making some tasks, slightly more convenient.
Wes Burdine
These are the people who are obsessed with genetics:
Helen Kennedy
I honestly feel like that’s the lesson of the Trump era the country is gonna take the longest to learn. like oh okay so we have been lionizing the founding fathers for 250 years and it turns out they didn’t do their ONE JOB. they didn’t Mad King-proof ANYTHING! first Mad King crashed the system!!!
Claire Willett
We're entering an incredibly rare and funny phase where the U.S. President is directly responsible for dramatic increases in gasoline prices; U.S. drivers are too car-brained to understand or care how gas prices actually work; and the car industry and news media will blame environmental regulations.
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo.bsky.social
"China is adopting green energy at a scale hard to imagine for many other countries, installing 446 gigawatts of it in 2025 — more than the rest of the world combined, according to Australian think tank Climate Energy Finance."
Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social
if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
A jolly 1980s school set, sold but not forgotten. Happy Friday all! 
Present & Correct
The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.
Duncan Weldon
I don't idealize the past, but I think people were happier before there was a supercomputer in everyones pockets whose every social media notification is a cortisol-prompting reminder that the world is ending and that everyone else is more successful, living a better life.
Chris Lombardi
The most under-appreciated aspects of low-traffic neighborhoods that is hard to truly grasp from even the best videos:
1-How damn quiet they are.
2-How much $$$ saved not having to build safe pedestrian infrastructure and bike lanes.
3-The amount of children enjoying themselves in peace.
Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr.
When the live Japanese translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure. Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.
Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com
New Economist:
Mark Chadbourn
In the first year of congestion pricing, New York City's subway system saw 90 million additional rides. Few things better than when public policy works as designed.
Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social
the most subversive thing a country can do now is to build up its grid-scale battery capacity
Wolfgang Blau
mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”
Andrew Lawrence
I'd suggest that a big reason the world is currently so volatile is that Republicans keep handing Trump money to wreck things
Kevin M. Kruse
I've profiled a few dozen climate professionals and EVERY single one had a formative outdoorsy experience as a kid that led them to their career. In Minnesota, 9 times out of 10 it's a Boundary Waters experience (or Lake Superior).
Isak Kvam
The Republican party should carry the stench of supporting this man for decades. Even if he were to drop dead or resign tomorrow, no one should ever let them wash their hands of this.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.
Julie S. Lalonde
I feel like they buried the lede. Cat's name is Waffles:
Kevin Zollman
I remember having an epiphany at a Census Bureau stakeholder meeting that united business and academics: Scientists use jargon to condense complicated concepts; business people use jargon to inflate simple ones.
Carl Schmertmann
People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos
Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social
KFF survey: 9% of 2025 ACA Marketplace enrollees say they are currently uninsured.
David Wessel
I thought it was Hubert Humphrey:
Vic Thorstenson
GOP and Trump said we didn't have the money to extend ACA health care subsidies - and now millions have no health care coverage and many more are facing crushing costs. So hundreds of billions of dollars to bomb Iran but nothing to help Americans pay for health care.
Nathan Newman
polls taken in 1947 post-war Germany after the death and destruction, the revelations about the camps, lost family members, the Nuremberg trials, the reporting found an estimated 30% still supported or had a soft spot for hitler, cult members never accept reality they feel attacked and become protective
Kathy Byrne @kab-fair.bsky.social
Shout out to my mum, who this whole time has thought that AI stood for Artificial Insemination
Mark Deeks
A neighborhood street in Zürich, the place you send kids to play, with benches and a water fountain:
Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social
I'm sad that Cesar Chavez was a piece of shit. I'm not sad to find out about it. It's wonderful that these women stood up and told the truth. They deserve to be heard, believed, and validated.
Patrixmyth
With Cesar Chavez being outed as a serial abuser of women and girls, we can add to the list that men can imagine a world where there are rights for all workers, but not human rights for women.
Julie S. Lalonde
Men, here is a thing you can start today: Speak up every single time another man says something sexist, predatory, abusive, or dismissive about a woman in your presence. Every time. Make yourself and him uncomfortable. Stop turning away and keeping the peace.
Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social
Trump took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
Timothy Snyder
Markwayne Muller is a plumber who occasionally believes he is a secret agent. Another loony member of the GOP.
IcyDragon
I represented a client who was charged with obstruction for, this is true, not letting a cop sexually assault her. Client said "no" when propositioned, cop grabbed her genitals, she said "no" again, and the state's attorney charged her with obstruction. I represented a client charged with obstruction for not exiting a vehicle. Client was deaf and therefore didn't hear the command. State's attorney argued that Client chose not to get a cochlear implant so Client planned to obstruct cops.
Sheryl Weikal @leftistlawyer.com
Great point!!
Jon Cooper
I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city. why? because we cleaned that shit up. none of this is beyond salvation
Micah @rincewind.run
everyone can agree that sam altman is singular, definitive proof that capitalism is pathologically inhumane, right??????
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Our billionaire class likes to position itself as revolutionary, when in fact they are standard issue grifters, with contempt for everything outside of wealth accumulation; vapid, morally adrift products of the capitalist ethos.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, and ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media and the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one fucking speaks it aloud.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
I don’t want a promise to heal the nation by coming together with fascist Republicans. I want a promise to heal those we’ve harmed.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
I’m trying to imagine the backlash there would be if a democratic president pushed a highly unpopular law through congress and justified doing so by saying it would guarantee that democrats would win the mid-term elections
Kevin Verhoff
this just in:
Tom Flood
Basically feminism for the past 250 years has been a struggle to establish that women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights, and among those rights are life, liberty, and bodily autonomy.
Rebecca Solnit
i know people feel embarrassed when they hear a word out loud for the first time and it’s pronounced differently from how they thought but i always find it kind of exciting. i still remember learning how you say Joaquin and Erdoğan. that little thrill over the possibilities of Language
rax king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social
Remember when MAGA committed treason? Turns out there was grift and corruption in that, too. Surprise, effing surprise. [firm that planned January 6 rally received no-bid contracts]
chrisestes.bsky.social
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM:
Andi Zeisler
Free speech for conservatives: A high school asking its football coach to not force students to pray on the 50 yard line at games is an intolerable restriction of the first amendment, but a public university firing a staffer for her political speech does no harm and violates no rights or principles.
Joshua Foust
In a rare moment of lucidity, the WSJ Editorial Board states the obvious:
1. countless investigations have proven vote fraud is extremely rare
2. the SAVE act is pointlessly onerous
3. it would disenfranchise Trump voters - those without passports - the most
Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social
Rep. Ted Lieu: "Undocumented immigrants want nothing to do with the govt! To vote, you have to first register. How many undocumented immigrants are gonna go, 'Yes, I'm gonna give all my information to the govt that's maybe trying to deport me. No way!' This is a problem that doesn't exist."
Aaron Rupar
The amount of damage Trump has done in such a short period of time is breathtaking. The extent of the damage can be hard to appreciate fully as we bounce from crisis to crisis, but it truly takes my breathe away when I pause to consider it.
Leah McElrath
The problem isn't that the DOGE staffers were young, per se; it's that basically every single one of them was an arrogant, incurious, willfully ignorant edgelord shitbird who was willing and eager to do literally whatever it took to get their edgelord papas to give them chin scritchies and head pats
Dr. Damien P. Williams @wolvendamien.bsky.social
Forget about that Patrick guy. Today is also Saint Gertrude Day, the patron saint of cats:
The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social
Let’s be honest. People don’t talk to each other about climate change because it feels bad to do so — quite aside from pluralistic ignorance about how much other people care or individual helplessness relative to the power of fossil capital. That’s where climate comms needs to start from.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
Trump wants to pay a foreign company a billion dollars to NOT bring us green energy.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Confiscate 99.8% of Marc Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
For decades we've been told that we don't need to shut down the fossil fuel industry, we just have to let capitalist entrepreneurship and the magic of the free market replace it with better technologies. Now we have those better technologies, so legacy industry is ensuring there's no free market
Dr Charlie Gardner
I anticipated that the energy transition would not go smoothly but I seriously underestimated just how stupid it would be
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social
Thinking about an episode of Star Trek where the crew get found out by an alien civilization they're observing and end up taking one of the girls on the Enterprise. And thinking how disappointing it must be to finally encounter aliens but they just look like you with a bit less stuff on their face
Kas @kas.goated.games
Scarlet Joe Handsome being a regal beagle:
Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social
A judge ruled against the government‘s anti-vaccine policy, a major setback to RFK Jr’s Leave No Child Left Alive initiative.
Frank Conniff
American democracy has not been trying to fend off attempts at fascism. American fascism has been trying to fend off attempts at democracy.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
Yep. Trump asked “what the hell do you have to lose” by electing me, and, now, we are getting another reminder that the answer is “a lot.”
Larry Glickman
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