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Again: not good.

Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death is inhumane, deeply disturbing, and completely avoidable. Nearly blind and unable to speak English, he was dropped off alone in the freezing cold by Trump's Border Patrol agents at a donut shop five miles away from his home.

It's got what plants crave!

The answer is to abolish ICE and CPB and start over.

We cannot survive as a free republic while the president has a standing army of unaccountable masked goons at their beck and call.

Attorney General Bonta Exposes Amazon Price Fixing Scheme Driving Up Costs for Americans, Asks Court to Immediately Halt Illegal Conduct New evidence shows Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products and making Amazon richer and richer OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob B...

California’s Attorney General says they have uncovered evidence of Amazon and its competitors engaging in coordinated price fixing to raise prices and boost Amazon’s profits.

oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

At the risk of having this skeet blopped on my head in a couple of months, the birthright citizenship case is an incredibly easy case decided by straightforward text, and that’s part of why these amicus briefs are all such dunks.

Welp

All, The following instructions pertain to the passing of SB 244 regarding gender reclassifications. I've attached the letter that was sent to the individuals who need to return to our office and have their credential updated with their gender at birth. A flag will show on record indicating SB244 NOTICE for anyone who has been sent a letter. The individuals will be charged as normal for their reissuance. Should these customers arrive at the office without an appointment you are to make certain to get them processed as soon as possible, getting them in and out of the office. When issuing these credentials, you MUST reach out to the DL Helpdesk at KDOR_Photostop@ks.gov with the individuals K# and name indicating SB 244 update. For your ISSUANCE NOTE please include the following information: "Subject"=REISSUED PER SB 244 "Note"=GENDER CHANGED FROM MALE TO FEMALE (or whatever the situation) - Along with regular credential issuance notes

Little scoop before publishing a full story on the situation later — I've obtained the email sent to all Kansas DMV employees by Kent Selk, Driver Services Manager for the Kansas Department of Revenue on how to handle the compulsory gender marker change for trans people.

Full text of Selk's note:

Sorry but the craziest and worst regime in the world is North Korea and they have nuclear weapons and Donald Trump wrote what he described as love letters to its dictator.

Folks need to understand what really happened here.

Rep. Al Green was born in 1947 in the Jim Crow South. In 2026, a sitting president, Donald Trump, posted a racist video targeting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Al Green defended Black folks’ honor.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Don’t you cry!

No crying!

Well… maybe a little is okay.

Okay… Go ahead… we all have a lot to let out.

Now dry your eyes & figure out where you’re going to be for No Kings on March 28th. Together we can end the heartache & mend the heartbreak.
www.nokings.org

Another one of my half-baked theories is that Americans love an underdog but hate a weakling

yep. I think if Biden had jailed Trump he wouldn't even have been the nominee, half the point of MAGA is the visceral thrill of seeing him get away with it

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

This should have been an easy answer @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

GIVE BACK the money from Palantir or any other corporation who are in bed with ICE FFS!

#Justice4ReneeGood
#Justice4AlexPretti
#ICEOUT

Evan nails it here. Committing to being an independent journalist is a fundamentally hopeful position that we can build something new from billionaires’ scorched earth, having no idea if it will actually work.

Worth reading in full. The UK is for the present operating outside of what could be considered to be upholding human rights and legal norms on trans people

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...

mostly it was the WRONG nerds. We'd probably be fine if it was D&D nerds or theater nerds or buffy nerds or a long line of better quality nerds.

Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization The OpenAI CEO, very smart, brushed away concerns about AI's environmental impact with one hell of a take.

I know we're several terrible news cycles past this, but I'm still not really over Sam Altman looking around at the broad backlash to out-of-touch tech execs and deciding to openly lament the foundations of human life as wasteful.

just immensely unremarkable and utterly incapable of shutting up

This is how I feel about the History Channel. Constantly wrong about the things I know so 😬 about the things I don’t.

This is what they’re up to..We must stop them!

Right-Wing Media Is Downplaying The Withheld Trump Accuser Files Scandal I've been analyzing how right-wing outlets are covering the withheld Trump accuser documents. I found they're avoiding the cover-up question, then ignoring, downplaying, and reframing the development.

I've been analyzing how right-wing outlets are covering the withheld Trump accuser documents.

I found they're avoiding the cover-up question, then ignoring, downplaying, and reframing the development.

He shouldn't be president anyway. He's not articulate or inspiring. He's lived a good life and he's done a lot of cool things, but he's not a political leader.

This vote should disqualify Kelly from running for President.

Hang this around his neck. In February 2026 after Pretti and Good, after the SOTU and all the fascism, Mark Kelly was STILL voting for Trump nominees. His presidential run is over.

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This just popped into my timeline and is so apt a simile that I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it.