"We have been here for nine months,” wrote the 9-year-old. “Please get us out.”
"I miss my bear," the 5-year-old said.
In letters & drawings, the longest-held family at the Dilley ICE detention center describe it as "slowly killing us on the inside."
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/e...
Took a brief break from the dystopia beat to write about something that's actually good
new Hear Hear!
ft. Sung Holly, Cardinals, Sarah Kinsley, Bory, Westside Cowboy, Twisted Teens, Otto Benson + way more artists to discover
+ playlists + writing from @mayakosoff.bsky.social // @herbsundays.bsky.social // @dustyhenry.bsky.social // @mrsslrss.bsky.social // @chrisdeville.bsky.social
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Disturbing if unsurprising thread.
Now streaming on Hulu:
We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.
Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom and civil society groups: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
so good, i’m addicted!
The U.S. and Israel bombardment of Iran has led to civilian deaths estimated to be well over 1,000; a strike that hit a girls’ school in Minab killed more than 175 people alone. A Yale Law School professor discusses the lawlessness of Trump’s war. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fFM7yg
Read @daphnelundi.bsky.social of @urbanoceanlab.bsky.social and @annemariegray.bsky.social this morning:
“Today, our climate crisis calls for us to build a new world of climate infrastructure: clean energy, infill housing in areas that have low flood risk exposure, and clean water resources.”
Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook.
The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly.
But Trump just let them settle out of court.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
new Hear Hear!
ft. Sung Holly, Cardinals, Sarah Kinsley, Bory, Westside Cowboy, Twisted Teens, Otto Benson + way more artists to discover
+ playlists + writing from @mayakosoff.bsky.social // @herbsundays.bsky.social // @dustyhenry.bsky.social // @mrsslrss.bsky.social // @chrisdeville.bsky.social
it’s illegal that I ever have to be inside today
NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.
We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.
1/7
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
I know nothing matters any more but here's the president admitting that he accused Iran of bombing a school full of their own children based on absolutely nothing.
Helpful reminder that "the Academy has terrible/middlebrow/safe taste in movies" is a pretty outdated insight. www.theringer.com/2025/03/03/o...
Billionaires make up only 0.0003% of the U.S. population.
They made 19% of federal campaign donations in 2024.
THIS is why our politics are broken. We need to get big money out of politics NOW.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
John Oliver on right wing grifter, "brain" behind the "censorship industrial complex" and USAID destroyer, Mike Benz:
"a chronically online lunatic"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
This is disgusting and disturbingly becoming the norm among far-right members of Congress. When elected officials decline to condemn this hatred, it is allowed to fester and grow.
We know we are *all* safer in a pluralistic democracy and must take these menacing, corrosive statements seriously.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
My latest on the cover of Sunday @nytopinion.nytimes.com: the fantasy and terrifying reality of Trump’s reckless war in Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Politico is reporting that DOJ has reached a settlement with Live Nation after just one week at trial. We're going to withhold full judgment until we see details, but we've been clear that only a structural separation of LNE's various lines of business can adequately address harms.
Today in incessant reminders of the staggering anti-democratic ravages inflicted on this country by the Roberts court.
“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, and are reaping the rewards.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
Trump canceled a major scientific report on the health of the natural world. The scientists are finishing it anyway. Yay scientists! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can:
-seize voting machines
-outlaw mail voting for most Americans
-force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election
Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
