Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances.

He still has no comment.

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

wait are these the actual paid protesters

Thread here.

bsky.app/profile/greg...

In case you missed it, my FIREFLY books got banned in Alberta for "explicit sexual images" that... they don't actually contain?

gregpak.com/my-firefly-b...

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

All this week I've written about how here in IL, dark money and MAGA aligned PACs are spending absurd sums of money to prop up establishment corporate Dems while attacking progressive Dems who are actually willing to fight.

MSNOW has the scoop on just how deep this goes:
www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

I think about this a lot.

im so tired

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

03/12/2026 - business secrets

Why don’t the eagles simply carry the ship to Mordor?

@roryblank.bsky.social out there still saving lives.

just passed a house which had a statue in the yard of Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, meditating in a giant lotus, but The Buddha was fucking jacked, I mean absolutely shredded, zero body fat, rippling muscles and extremely vascular

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."

When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."

www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

I still think about this every day

damn, how crazy would it be if we could just not worry about a limited resource that can be so easily bottlenecked and controlled

Today after the movie screening I went to the person sitting next to me told me I have a very pleasant laugh, that they usually hate people laughing very loudly, but my laugh is very pleasant and sincere sounding

I Miss You Dad

Pete Kegsbreath spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, and barred Pentagon photographers for making him look bad.

Here he is, making the signal for MORE CRAB!

Virginia has a data center boon. Officials debate whether it's time to scrap its tax breaks Over the past 18 years, Virginia became the world's largest data hub. The debate taking place there comes as dozens of communities nationwide are fighting data centers in local zoning meetings.

Amid a growing national pushback on data centers, Virginia senators have voted to end a projected $1.6 billion annual tax break, requiring the industry to resume paying a minimum 5.3% sales tax.
https://to.pbs.org/4sHadlL

Just because you can't pet Gori: Cuddly Carnage anymore doesn't mean you can't still give YOUR cats a cuddly
#FrostFatales

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

The answer was the first lawsuit dropped: bsky.app/profile/juli...

It's win win because basically everyone who voted against him owns a car.

I agree that this is...not good. Curious even.