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Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.

"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.

Since the Epstein thing is destroying MAGA, expect Foxnews to find some new trans athlete to be outraged about soon.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station.

Credits: NASA

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney called Donald Trump's bluff by announcing yesterday that good relations between the two countries were "over." Having miscalculated, Trump caved today. #TheArtOfTheDeal

The US is going through our own Cultural Revolution. Our cult of personality is also willing to burn everything to the ground for ideological purity. MAGA's predecessor left China an economic ruin, killed millions, and left the country without intellectuals or expertise. It took decades to recover.

A Map of Protests March 29-April 4 An exhaustive list of (almost) every protest this week.

Did you know there are 437 protests this week.
"THIS WEEK, there are several worthwhile movements. In particular, Tesla Takedown is hosting over 200 protests on March 29. Indivisible has created Safe Schools... And don’t forget Trans Day of Visibility"
thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/a-map-of-p...

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!

YESTERDAY:

"There is no substitute for Starlink."

--Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product.

TODAY:

"We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink."

--Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

A billboard in a desert landscape features a large image of Donald Trump wearing a suit and red tie. To the right of his image, text in bold capital letters reads: "TRUMP IS GOLFING. VANCE IS SKIING. ZELENSKY IS FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY." The tweet is posted by a user named Fernando Oliver, Esq.

See the diff?

NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's pardon does NOT apply to a Jan. 6 defedant's conviction for conspiring to kill his investigators.

But he said DOJ's shifing views of Trump's pardon required him to do his own analysis.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show:

They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.”

Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag…

Made in Nicaragua.

They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.

Legendary.

🤔

In negotiations with Russia, Trump is repeating his ‘complete disaster’ peace deal with Taliban Donald Trump is elected U.S. president after criticizing a war abroad and calling for its end. He negotiates a deal with an adversary of the United States under heavy sanctions, cutting an ally out of...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiation strategy in Afghanistan resulted in a “capitulation” to the Taliban and abandoning U.S. allies. Experts see strong parallels to how he’s dealing with Russia today, writes Andrea Januta.

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

Unreal.

Except the GOP is swimming gleefully and willingly IN to Trump’s greedy mouth hole

On Thursday, Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 government nuclear officials.

Today, they realized those officials oversee the US nuclear arsenal — and they scurried to rehire the officials.

Just looking at the events of *this one day* compels the conclusion that the United States Government is being run by morons, psychos, invertebrates, and crooks.

Naval Academy faculty to stop teaching on racism, sexism After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.

SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

The veneration of white men to the exclusion of every other American has an historical parallel, I’m sure. I just can’t think of what it is…

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

West Texas measles outbreak doubles to 48 cases | CNN The measles outbreak first reported in Gaines County, Texas, has doubled to 48 cases in the last four days, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement Friday.

The measles outbreak in Texas has doubled to 48 cases.

"All of the cases are in unvaccinated people or those who have unknown vaccination status. Most cases are in children 5 to 17 years old.

Among the 48 cases, 13 have been hospitalized."

The Face of Courage You only need to read one thing today, and this is it.

The Face of Courage open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

It's very peculiar that trump says he wants to root out corruption, but his Department of Justice is determined to get the corruption charges against corrupt Mayor Eric Adams dropped, so he can corruptly pursue a quid pro quo wit Adams.

The whole deal is corrupt AF.