Related, movements can leverage insurance as an effective way to fight local discrimination. Cities carry insurance, and prices get exorbitant (or uninsurable) if insurers learn cities are likely to get sued for discrimination.
Thanks! I hope there’s still a way for people who were harmed to find out & join the class action against them.
We're doing warfighting now! Warfighters don't need to know about chokepoints! Do you think the Spartans worried about chokepoints??
As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
You can bet every Trump regime official has watched 300 several times, but they still can’t understand the concept of a choke point.
"Another pull on tightening supply is fertilizer. ... sustained shortages would not just push up farm input costs, but risk cutting crop yields and worsening food insecurity."
seems bad if you produce or eat food!
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Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
Ted Lieu: “A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files — the best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as Trump & Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up & release all the Epstein Files as required by law”
The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Where do you find the expert icon to click? Or did they take it down?
How did you find it?
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
If you were affected by the Grammarly “expert analysis” identity theft and want to join the active lawsuit, here’s the info to speak with an attorney about your options.
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.
It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
You know I can remember a high school global studies teacher pointing out the Strait of Hormuz on a map and explaining why it was so important and how easy it would be to close off and it just astonishes me that my 9th grade teacher put more thought into this shit than our current government.
Walk into a sandwich shop. It’s regulated for health and safety.
But AI, which will transform the world economically and socially, is completely unregulated. That’s insane.
We need to make certain that AI works for ALL humanity, not just the billionaires who own it.
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
The clown shoes cabinet. Apparatchiks desperate to demonstrate their loyalty in a personalist regime.
I really think Hesgeth believed Iran would get knocked out in the first round and there was no need to plan for everything that was obviously going to happen next, Israel knew better but kept that to itself, Trump was incurious and easy to persuade, and nobody in administration dared push back.
So..how do we search grammarly to find stolen expert personas?
So, it’s Israel that targeted the oil reserves and the desalination plants.
Israel is following the same MO as in Gaza.
Trump: *shoves another pawn in his mouth* what?
JFC
These people got exactly what they wanted, the war they begged for, but are mad at the obvious consequences?
Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.
Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".
Yes, he was mass murder-y too, just not in the economic collapse context.