Democracy and trains

Yeah, this seems like something that we would do really well if we did it as a blitz. Like, for three weeks everybody give cross streets and a photo, and make it the world’s simplest upload.

I got so distracted by the boil water alert that I forgot to go to the Governmental Affairs Committee Mardi Gras post-mortem and I am so, so sad!

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Well this is depressing

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

WHO hub in the Middle East has frozen emergency assistance due to bombings. They've stalled shipments of medical supplies, eg $6m in medicines for Gaza & polio supplies to Afghanistan & Pakistan.

WHO says >100,000 people displaced from Tehran & >60K from Lebanon. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This Day in Labor History: March 9, 1911. Railroad brotherhoods in Kentucky and Tennessee went on strike to protest the hiring of Black workers. This is an example of how skilled white workers would choose their white identity over and over again over any sense of racial solidarity across class!!!

River water pre and post treatment

Two warships in the fog along the Mississippi with the ruins of a pier in the foreground

Might as well go take a walk

Every time we do this the map blob gets bigger

Yes, ANOTHER water main break, Monday, March 9

*cackles hysterically, scares cat*

President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Oh great!

How D.H.S. Retreated on Immigration Tactics After Minneapolis

Gift link: how my hometown shaped Trump’s immigration actions

How D.H.S. Retreated on Immigration Tactics After Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

I guess it's understandable that only the most depraved and awful people would want to join ICE.

This is my favorite explanation, of course

A little Morse codesque with pauses, didn’t catch a repeating pattern. To be fair, I didn’t stick around that long either.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut."
Here's a Miami Herald gift link.

Sigh. Yeah.

Heya, #nolasky can anyone think of a good reason or even just a reasonable reason for there to be repetitive electronic beeping coming from within a storm drain?

He’s pivoted out to stay in my peripheral vision and is loudly giving financial advice with very large numbers. It’s giving 1989 NYC vibes, there’s slicked back hair and a pastel shirt and a bottomless chasm of need.

But also there’s rocks within reach and I just want to get through these emails!

I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.

I should be allowed to throw things at people who do the ‘I’m going to sit proximate to you and do lots of attention seeking behavior in public rather than just say hello like a normal human’ thing.

Dear Kurdish opposition, please don’t trust the demonstrably least trustworthy person on the planet, thank you.

Appellate court limits options for immigrants to seek release from detention The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals eliminates the pathway to release from detention that freed a Salvadoran man in Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, La. in October 2025.

Appellate court limits options for immigrants to seek release from detention

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals eliminates the pathway to release from detention that freed a Salvadoran man in Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, La. in October 2025.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

It's just absolutely gobsmacking. Can you imagine any other president talking about this subject so casually? And if he actually means this—if this isn't just typical lack of control over his mouth, further addled by dementia—how GROSSLY irresponsible that his administration is not preparing people.

US House narrowly rejects resolution to end Trump's Iran war The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.