rogue

Country Joe McDonald was, incredibly, named after Joseph Stalin

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Ahead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-free The bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid.

What are we even doing here? The bulk of this is like four trillion dollar regressive tax cut that doesn’t help the poorest families at all and helps the richest the most.

To make it less regressive, he adds like another two trillion in progressive tax cuts that targets families with kids.

CLEAR brings biometric identity checks to Mount Sinai hospitals amid privacy scrutiny | Biometric Update CLEAR1 is a selfie-based identity verification that uses facial biometrics and “liveness” checks to match a user to an identity document.

“For New Yorkers, the fight is simpler: when the ‘fast lane’ biometrics company shows up at the hospital door, the real question is whether face ID is becoming the price of entry to essential services, and what happens to the people who can’t, or won’t, pay it.”

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

get in losers we’re eschatonmaxxing

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

I think this war could destroy his presidency--I've never felt this about any other issue. He and his gang of nihilist greedhead idiots have finally gotten themselves into something they can't get out of. But the cost will, on every level, be staggering.

Photo of a narrow street blocked by a huge wall of stacked oil barrels

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

YouTube video by Lidia Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69

just read that #CountryJoeMcDonald has passed - could certainly use another few voices like his to rise in protest right about now... RIP

here's the NYT obit:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4?...

Dear Vinay Prasad,

May the door hit you on the way out.

Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.

During his tenure Vinay Prasad
-Tried to block review of mRNA flu vaccine
-Demanded a sham-controlled trial for promising immunotherapy for huntingtons raising ethical concerns for patients.
-Imposed new warnings & study requirements for some biotech drugs and vaccines
apnews.com/article/vina...

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

YouTube video by BillsOldiesUK Country Joe and the Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag written 1967. (Issued in UK 1969)

I still love this song. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRf...

"And it's one-two-three what are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam."
Probably the first protest song I ever learned. By osmosis. My gang loved it. I can still sing it.
God bless you & keep you, Country Joe. You gave us a crazy, good anti-war anthem.

Guess we'll never know

AOC: They wanted to issue this statement as though we’re just going after these 30-year-old men on Medicaid playing video games in their basement, right? This was the narrative that we heard.

First of all, I think everyone should have healthcare in America, regardless of who you are

Oh my god

Love this for them.

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

"One week into President Trump’s war on Iran, the most severe shock to energy markets since the 1970s is cascading through the world economy." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

scoop -> Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official and a source with knowledge. Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel

This should for all intents and purposes be treated as a straight up lie and misinformation on the part of the US until proven otherwise

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

'Freshwater ecosystems across the country are in crisis, “overdrawn, polluted, fragmented and invaded.” Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, with reduced biodiversity. An estimated 34% of plant species and 40% of animal species are at risk of extinction.' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

The Democratic leadership would prefer that you think of them as feckless cowards, when in fact they are Kissinger-like creatures who support massacring Iranians.

In Schumer and Jeffries's realpolitik, they get the war they want while letting the GOP pay the political price. Best of both worlds.

I guess the thing about currently niche art forms like classical music/opera/ballet/etc. is that you can punch up or punch down at them, and a lot of people who think they're punching up are actually punching down

when the edible hits and you try to play it cool