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A big topic of stress and conversation happening in the sports world right now is about how the fuck the US is going to host the World Cup (2026) and the Olympics (2028) if athletes and fans literally cannot safely come here.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

At the top headed 1985 is the original rate image by Dennis Luce three men at a table there's a dark-skinned man on the left there's a white guy and a hard hat and a high Vis vest on the right and in the middle is Rupert Murdoch the guy in the hard hat has a plate with one cooking on it Robert Murdoch has a plate with a pile of cookies on it Murdock is leaning over to the white guy in the hard hat and saying careful mate that farmer wants your cookie the second panel is the same cartoon updated for 2025 the same image except this time Rupert Murdoch is on top of a mountain of cookies taller than the two other men sitting at the table with him Really is true that things didn't used to be this bad yeah has time goes on you know lots of what you see is the same over and over again I'm old enough to have seen that and you know every generation complains about kids these days and so forth and certainly the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is a complete that goes back a long long time but no it did not used to be this bad

Dennis Lushch updated

Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

The five-time draft dodger is now erasing women and Black Americans’ service from our nation’s history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.

I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.

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Yeah...Indiana got hosed..ain't no way North Carolina should've gotten in over them smh

Why elite institutions MUST speak out.

Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.

"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"

now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make

www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Trump, who has ejected the Associated Press from White House events because they won't call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America & who today called for criminalizing student speech at protests claims to have brought back free speech in America

USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

Not mentioned at the #SOTU: how cuts to USAID are affecting American farmers, by potentially undermining the billions of taxpayer dollars they receive to support conservation practices. www.wired.com/story/usda-l...

a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men . ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.

American voters:

Things Trump did that he isn't talking about tonight...

-Fired 17 inspectors general and the top govt ethics director

-Halted anti-bribery enforcement and money laundering laws

-Dismantled CFPB at the behest of billionaires

-Put a corporate lobbyist in charge of the DOJ

"Drain the swamp."

All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.

Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point.

The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math.

Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.

“START BY PAYING YOUR TAXES”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib reacting on the whiteboard she brought with her, lol.

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.

Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

Matt Gaetz at the Barbie premiere. He's wearing a pink sport coat with black skinny jeans and black monk-strap shoes.

Matt Walsh at the premiere of "What is a Woman?" He's wearing a small blue sport coat, grey t-shirt, black skinny jeans, and tan derbies.

In the last 30 years, skinny jeans have moved from "womenswear" to "androgynous" to "hip guy" to "passé." As I've said, it's ironic that some of the most critical voices in today's gender wars are wearing a cut that was once seen as a sign of declining masculinity in the West.

A screenshot from Twitter. The original tweet reads: "Rapper Kenderick Lamar wore size 29 women's jeans to Super Bowl LIX." The tweet garnered over a thousand replies, most negative. I (Derek Guy) screenshotted that tweet and wrote: "so funny to see history repeat itself. men who wear slim fit and stretch denim—both of which were once considered strictly for women—criticizing kendrick for wearing flares bc they were on the women's aisle. in ten years, you'll be in flares clutching pearls about something else" Then another user replied to my tweet, saying: "Wearing women’s clothes has never been in style, homo."

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Ngl, I started playing this game for real in late January… and now have 162 hours into it. Shit is addictive! And I really didn’t like Fortnite or OW

So they literally could have set up 400 people in a $1500 a month apartment for 29 YEARS for what they spent to abuse people. Or housed almost 1000 people for a year at the same rate.

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

An American flag built on the backs of Black people...

Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways

All this in New Orleans... What a moment

Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it.

But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧵

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If Elon Musk can afford to pay people to look at your taxes, he can afford to start paying his own.