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A little good news. Many folks fought hard to keep this mining operation from happening.

If you’re not down here and not familiar, the Okefenokee is a vast, unique, irreplaceable wilderness area in Southeast Georgia.

🐊🤸‍♀️ FINAL: No. 3 Florida #Gators gymnastics scores 198.575 in a win over Kentucky, a new top score nationally for the second straight meet.

3rd-highest score in program history.

Selena Harris-Miranda got a perfect 🔟 for the second straight week, too.

From Imprisonment and Torture in Iran to Endless Detention in the U.S. - Documented Trump wants Iran's citizens to rise up --while trying to deport asylum-seekers who have stood up to the regime in the past.

new @documentedny.bsky.social: meet Iranian dissident Shayan*, who’s been detained by ICE for a year and a half while the government fights his asylum case. He’s won; they’re appealing.

He fought for the regime change Trump wants and keeps getting punished for it.

documentedny.com/2026/03/13/f...

It will outlast digital

The OG technology. And still undefeated.

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating.

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming arstechnica.com/science/2026...

US officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took ambulance meant for man shot by police Dyshan Best later died after having to wait 10 extra minutes for next ambulance, according to Connecticut investigation

Officer suffering anxiety attack given ambulance intended for shooting victim. “A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took the first one that arrived..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today
I heard a robin
singing,
balancing
the world
in the soft light
of dawn,
bringing something
#Precious
beyond telling
to a world
adrift in chaos.

#VSS365 #Poetry #Writing #Birds

It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match.

This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.

BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Says Dem Lawmaker Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) dropped a bomb, telling reporters that a President Donald Trump accuser "was given a settlement" by Jeffrey Epstein's estate.

Rep. @repsuhas.bsky.social Subramanyam reports out that in a deposition before a Congressional committee, the former Epstein accountant testified the woman who made allegations against Trump “was given a settlement” by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate

✏️ by @cnn.com

Spring is my favorite season in the PNW! All the blossoms and days with morning showers and evening rainbows. So many rainbows 🌈.

Just spotted the first robins of March, hopping around on my back patio. Spring isn’t far away! #wawx #pnw

Do I Have the Right to Film ICE? Despite government attacks against protesters and the press, documenting interactions with law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the First Amendment. Here’s what you need to know.

Yes.

ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.

This is called kidnapping and it’s a crime. Abolish ICE

But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”

Celebrating and remembering my Aunt Kathy for women’s history month

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Who actually has gas prices at $8 a gallon??

RFK Jr.'s MAHA Allies Call to Eliminate All Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Inside the MAHA movement’s Washington meetup.

This is RFK, Jr.'s MAHA Institute's recent meeting in D.C.

Slide presentation titles:
“The Polio Fraud” and “The flu shot has given 1,900,000 Americans Alzheimer’s,” and “VACCINES ARE GREATEST SCAM IN MEDICAL HISTORY.” (capitals, theirs)

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

He is in way over his head and has not surrounded himself with competent people. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/03/most...

I can’t shake the feeling that AI’s relationship to humanity is essentially parasitical, and while there might be some beneficent aspects of it in the short run, ultimately this will end like all parasitical relationships do. Can anyone recommend something I could read that argues otherwise?

Wtaf

Happy Women’s History Month but only to women who voted for Kamala

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99 The recordings exposed President Richard Nixon's role in the cover-up that followed the 1972 burglary at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate building – and hastened his resignation.

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...

This is what I like to hear.