Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
07.03.2026 01:59
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Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
So when meth was homegrown they passed a bunch of laws making it harder to get the ingredients, and hard for people to even get Sudafed. Instead of tackling the addiction problem they tried to restrict supply, which never works.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Wrapping up an extraordinary @harvard-jchs.bsky.social Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu
by Kenzie Bok with comments by Bernardo Zacka. As she noted “if we want to think about housing policy, we have to have a theory of housing justice”
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Wrote about the past few times US Senators were pulled into party primary runoff elections: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Here’s Hegseth buddy Benny Johnson saying earlier this week that we need mass denaturalization and deportations of those with “ideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization.”
They want to start with Muslims. Very unclear they’ll stop there. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...
It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.
They’re still lying to us.
www.startribune.com/close-to-650...
Many things are bad, but it is reassuring to know that Chotinings continue to happen.
The bulk of the money Missouri gives to pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families with basic necessities and child care.
As many as $3 of every $4 was from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in 2024, and in 2026, it will be $2 out of $3.
From me:
Governor Hochul's 2026 budget chicanery? Watering down the state's climate law.
hellgatenyc.com/climate-kill...
I really and truly think this admin thought war is actually easy if you're not worried about following the law and previous administrations have just been woke idiots and they can show them how it's done and just win quickly by bombing everything.
No
Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse.
We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines.
Sorry, not sorry.
right? people fucking LOVED Vine and they just shut it down
also Google Reader
All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine
I don't know a lot about global politics or foreign policy but man, this is bad.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.
Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
One of the best of all time.
“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
I wrote about the Republican crack-up over Iran newrepublic.com/article/2073...
In additional to the corruption and illegality there is just rank incompetence
Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
