Seems very silly that the causes of the global recession include tariffs, growing corporate adoption of AI tools, mass layoffs, data center electricity use, and now geopolitical conflicts costing $1 billion/day. All of these actions are due to the US government or by US companies.
Winner 🏆 @pbs.org
"Honestly, when people come up to me and say they’ve heard that ranked-choice voting is really confusing, I just put a ballot in front of them and, invariably, they can fill it out."
With @boltsmag.org, here's how D.C. is planning to educate voters ahead of the June primary rollout:
for those who might be interested, the National Theater is streaming their production of The Importance of Being Earnest (starring Ncuti Gatwa!) for one week on YouTube for FREE
youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...
Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely.
If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.
And to THINK I just had a nightmare about this man coming to my family home and me telling him off.
I've sadly lost quite a few subscribers since moving my newsletter from Substack, so I would greatly appreciate it if you signed up now that it's on Ghost.
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He's dunking on the media for rolling over. Congratulations on bending over for an old pedophile. An idiot, too. Reminding me of the Jeffrey Epstein text chain saying Trump never respects anyone who folds on his demands. Good work
Can you imagine having to participate in a 3hr virtual court hearing while in active labor?
It happened in "Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medical freedom for those who wish to avoid vaccines or fluoridated water, while constricting the rights of people in various stages of pregnancy."
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
I saw this trailer and I immediately thought of the books below. A potentially
Interesting thesis here!
-Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
-One of Our Own by Nicole Yoon
-The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
-Your Face in Mine by Jess Row
-Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUN-...
I’m gonna have to catch this one once it premieres on PBS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGf...
Jews are targeted in shuls & online.
Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps.
Muslims are openly targeted by politicians.
Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI.
Trans & queer people are being outlawed.
We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
I read the Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers and I really enjoyed it.
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...
So who's gonna pay for this "A.i." error?
No one?
No one, right?
All right then.
Burn it all down.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
For the night crowd
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
Leaving you all with this for the weekend. See you next week. open.substack.com/pub/fieldnot... - Of course I'm now going to read this book.
The Trump administration’s attempt to revive a declining coal industry is running into yet another problem: Few want to mine for coal.
Scoop 🚨
@mayor.nyc.gov promised to increase @hellodcwp.bsky.social
& @nycchr.bsky.social budget
Instead, advocates say he's breaking his promise
The proposed budget could gut the agencies that would enforce worker protection laws
New @documentedny.bsky.social
documentedny.com/2026/03/12/n...
Update: the videos have been taken off YouTube after a government request and a judge order www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Having five synagogue attacks (three in Canada, one in the U.S., now this) hit the news in a matter of days has me thinking about how many more didn't grab media attention. It's shabbat. Look out for your Jewish comrades.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
