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Preznit Fuckwit to American citizens stranded in the Middle East: ‘sucks to be you’ evacuation plan? what evacuation plan?

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Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

I gotta say: I'm not feeling too good about the extreme nutjob religious fanatics being in charge of the federal government right now.

Not the headline I would have gone with. Buildings can be safer with one stair than with two, especially if you reduce the length of the corridor and number of apartments per floor.

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

My thing with Hegseth is that he wants you to think he was a scary, war-criming, door-kicker when he was actually a Minnesota National Guardsman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in Iraq, then quickly pulled from the line and shuffled off to a Civil Affairs unit mid-tour.

I was completely wrong. The Mosquito Fleet Act did NOT pass, a striking bill passed greatly weakening and probably killing HB 1923.

Senator @markoliias.bsky.social fucked over the West Sound again, limiting transpo options, presumably to protect WSF against competition. Super frustrating.

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters

An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

I think it's super that the GOP has dispatched its dullest and dimmest senators, like Mullin and Tuberville, to make the unintelligible case for an unpopular unplanned war. Go get 'em, boys.

To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

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This is the exact same Guy you could find 2,000 years ago as a Roman senator gleefully listing the number of Germani slain and sold into slavery, 900 years ago exulting in the sack of Jerusalem, or 100 years ago celebrating 500 yards taken on the Western Front. Timeless chickenhawk scum.

The Parents over Platforms Act requires app stores to collect age info on every user. You can't verify some users are under 18 without tracking everyone's identity. These aren't child safety bills - they're surveillance infrastructure bills. @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

this bitch needs to be tied to a bomb and dropped from a plane

Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools Hospitals across Iran have been damaged by US, Israeli strikes - but no reports of direct hits yet.

Schools, sports centres & hospitals damaged by illegal Israeli-US aggression against Iran, including:
Gandhi Hospital
Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital
Motahari Hospital
Valiasr Hospital
Aboozar Children’s Hospital
3 medical emergency centres in the provinces of East Azerbaijan, Sistan-Baluchistan & Hamedan

Yglesias is the dems personal chatgpt account if it was turned into a real boy

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

That’s completely and thoroughly gross.

Objection: What Happened in Dallas County Was Not a Glitch What happened in Dallas County tonight should scare the hell out of you.

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.

In March. Imagine November.

I broke it down here:

open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

Republicans have 1.838 million votes in the primary with 78% of votes in

Isn't the bigger story in TX-Sen that the Dems got about the same amount of votes as the Republicans and the Dems have more votes left to count?

“There are many people [within government] who are looking at this and who are advocating for the executive order to be signed, and it has to be one that declares an emergency,” ~ Peter Ticktin (election denier)

paywall free: archive.ph/2026.03.03-2...

I've been a long-term pessimist about Dems in Texas until this year, and I basically agree with everything @gelliottmorris.com says here. Talarico isn't the favorite...but he doesn't need everything to go right to win, just more things than go wrong.

AIPAC's Rep. Dan Crenshaw has been defeated in the #TX02 Republican primary:

guess this was another thing Team America didn’t think to plan for

House GOP leadership allegedly worried Reps Hunt and Crenshaw just stop showing up to vote after their loses tonight

Clean sweep

Generally, he said, that authority is well placed. Council doesn’t have time to “referee” millions of little bylaw deviations in construction — it needs to focus on big-picture zoning policy. If it weren’t for the committee, all council would have time for is minor variance requests, he said. And if decisions were left solely to planning staff, he said that would create a lack of transparency. The tradeoff is that by delegating to the committee, council loses its say in these matters. It can’t overturn committee decisions.

I dunno, I feel like ultimately the goal should be to have zoning rules in place that don’t require “millions of little bylaw deviations” just to get housing built. www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...

Ah yes, said by the extremely famous Star Trek heros, the Borg