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We shouldn’t have put all our eggs in one hand basket (she/her)

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Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

06.03.2026 21:53 👍 16326 🔁 1828 💬 170 📌 141
Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism.
+ Burlington County
Girl Scout troop's cookie booth outside Mount Laurel marijuana dispensary draws praise, criticism
By WPVI, Amanda Pitts
March 06, 2026, 17:52
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (WPVI) -- A Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism, prompting the cancellation of a planned follow-up sale.

Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism. + Burlington County Girl Scout troop's cookie booth outside Mount Laurel marijuana dispensary draws praise, criticism By WPVI, Amanda Pitts March 06, 2026, 17:52 MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (WPVI) -- A Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism, prompting the cancellation of a planned follow-up sale.

people opposing this are cowards

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 846 🔁 111 💬 45 📌 74

These are so cute!!! But also y’all should know the song is Tubthumping.

06.03.2026 23:14 👍 452 🔁 34 💬 22 📌 0
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

06.03.2026 22:04 👍 7200 🔁 2672 💬 85 📌 98

If journalism is important to you , and if trans people are important to you ,

can I either have money or shares on my work and pay links?

If neither is important then nevermind, disregard

06.03.2026 21:34 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 👍 5694 🔁 1397 💬 40 📌 42
A four-panel collage of endangered wildlife: a tiger walking through tall grass, a gorilla resting in a lush forest, a rhinoceros grazing in a field of yellow flowers, and a giant panda looking upward among green foliage.

A four-panel collage of endangered wildlife: a tiger walking through tall grass, a gorilla resting in a lush forest, a rhinoceros grazing in a field of yellow flowers, and a giant panda looking upward among green foliage.

Some positive news you might have missed this #WorldWildlifeDay. 🙌

🐯 Wild tiger numbers are bouncing back.
🐼 Giant pandas no longer listed as ‘endangered’.
🦏 Kenya now has over 1,000 black rhinos.
🦍 Mountain gorillas: status improved from critically endangered to endangered.

03.03.2026 10:00 👍 87 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 3
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06.03.2026 21:37 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Two dancers, one in a wheelchair, are suspended above a stage during a performance at the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. (Antonio Calanni / AP)

Two dancers, one in a wheelchair, are suspended above a stage during a performance at the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. (Antonio Calanni / AP)

Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Opening Ceremony - Dancers perform during the opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, in Verona, Italy, on March 6, 2026. (Antonio Calanni / AP) Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

06.03.2026 21:26 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 3193 🔁 638 💬 20 📌 0
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‘Explosions every day': Virginia woman on way to wedding in India stranded in Qatar Arlington, Virginia, resident Anjali Sharma — stuck in the Middle East since Saturday amid the war in Iran — documents her story on social media from a hotel in Doha, Qatar. “I think it really hit me ...

One of the primary reasons the State Department exists is to serve Americans abroad, and they're desperately failing at that right now. I’ve heard from many families whose loved ones are stranded abroad.

The Trump Administration must get our people home.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/v...

06.03.2026 21:39 👍 79 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

28.02.2026 09:54 👍 3899 🔁 1936 💬 29 📌 26
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Judge Blocks State from Enforcing Abortion Ban Against Religious Objectors A judge has handed down a ruling that prevents Indiana from enforcing its near-total abortion ban against women who say the procedure is a requirement of their religious faith.

I've been writing for years about the strategy of challenging abortion bans as violations of religious liberty. www.politico.com/news/2023/06...

A court in Indiana just ruled that the state's abortion ban violates the religious liberty protections Mike Pence signed into law
wibc.com/880543/judge...

06.03.2026 17:50 👍 60 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 3
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hi
here’s my op ed - ☮️
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

06.03.2026 17:54 👍 585 🔁 103 💬 50 📌 11
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Lawmaker Asks Court to Block Trump From Closing Kennedy Center

BREAKING: hell no, we are not going to let Donald Trump rename, close & demolish the Kennedy Center!

We just filed for expedited court relief on behalf of @repbeatty.bsky.social

We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to fight back with cocounsel Washington Litigation Group

06.03.2026 17:35 👍 933 🔁 286 💬 26 📌 7

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

06.03.2026 03:10 👍 4323 🔁 810 💬 55 📌 52
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

06.03.2026 03:24 👍 6621 🔁 1301 💬 57 📌 92

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 👍 6294 🔁 1710 💬 66 📌 63
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 20366 🔁 4313 💬 758 📌 1124
Max he dog giving baby eyes

Max he dog giving baby eyes

I did too much doomscrolling today because there are so many things going on. Here is a cute photo of my dog giving baby eyes. Try not to stay up too late tonight.

06.03.2026 05:24 👍 417 🔁 23 💬 11 📌 1
"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable.
"If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about?
"They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."

"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable. "If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about? "They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."

Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton.

This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).

06.03.2026 12:00 👍 661 🔁 124 💬 25 📌 55

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

06.03.2026 13:16 👍 7555 🔁 1615 💬 207 📌 52
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.

Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.

they’re just begging for a car chase

06.03.2026 13:40 👍 3631 🔁 621 💬 70 📌 55

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

06.03.2026 12:05 👍 2049 🔁 1062 💬 17 📌 21
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Federal commission delays vote on Trump’s White House ballroom project The review, and possible vote, by the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday is the final procedural hurdle for President Donald Trump’s plans.

And, yeah, if you missed it, the Trump-appointed head of the National Capital Planning Commission delayed the vote on the ballroom today because there were so many opposed comments/speakers.

05.03.2026 22:49 👍 245 🔁 78 💬 5 📌 1

Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.

05.03.2026 20:21 👍 1523 🔁 284 💬 23 📌 27

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 4121 🔁 652 💬 89 📌 9
The Fifth Element "Diva Dance" on the Theremin | Carolina Eyck
The Fifth Element "Diva Dance" on the Theremin | Carolina Eyck YouTube video by Carolina Eyck

I did not know a theremin could do this.

05.03.2026 20:07 👍 105 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 8

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 7313 🔁 2017 💬 154 📌 88