To be fair, Louisiana is a year ahead of us on this one; they passed a similar law after the Dobbs decision and they've already indicted a California doctor over abortion pills:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
The slurs somehow have more agency than the Republicans.
The “NYT actually assigns agency to the people doing the thing” headline challenge remains unwon.
DEMOCRACY: "These three women sicken me. Other women have disgusted me, too, in the ways they sell out women and people of any color but theirs and prop up bad men and systems meant to hold women back," Donna Ladd writes.
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Many area residents in Southaven, Mississippi, and nearby Memphis, Tennessee, oppose xAI’s growing presence in their backyards, fearing what Elon Musk’s data centers’ operations could mean for their health and the surrounding environment.
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U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson has served Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. Ahead of the March 10 Democratic primary election, he wants to keep going.
“I plan on serving in this seat for as long as I can,” Thompson said on Feb. 18.
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NEW: A Mississippi bill criminalizing mail-order abortion pills as "drug trafficking" is headed to the Missisisppi governor's desk after passing both the House and Senate.
@heatherharrison.bsky.social reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/bill-crimina...
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
Who knew that the Dubya in George Dubya Bush stood for "Woke" all this time?
Grief warning ✋ For @cardinalandpine.bsky.social, I wrote about the war in Iran, specifically about the alleged US-Israel bombing of a school in Minab, and about the terrible position our troops find themselves in today, caught between one liar and the other.
cardinalpine.com/2026/03/06/n...
"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop".
Frederick Douglass, 1894
We have never been at war with West Asia.
They didn't have to use AI to do this... they just had to go back to the original releases (which didn't have the green filter). The green color grading was added in home video releases in 2004 and kept since.
The original release had a more natural color, including the original DVD/laser disc/VHS.
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
America doesn't do "politically correct wars" anymore. We strike schools and kill hundreds of little girls, because we're big tough strong men who don't apologize.
Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.
That's exactly it. You can go back to Gamergate and it's clear where this came from, and the answer is not simply "boomers."
Sickening.
NBC News: Are you afraid of a U.S. invasion in your country?
Iranian FM Araghchi: No, we are waiting for them.
NBC News: You are waiting for the U.S. military to invade, the ground troops?
Araghchi: Yes
Yup. But other people were so focused on blaming everything on Boomers that they didn't notice what cretinous "influencers" were doing to Gen Z men.
Gamergate was the preview.
We went from Ok Boomer to Oh no Zoomer
A chill fell across the University of Mississippi’s campus when Chancellor Glenn Boyce fired Lauren Stokes for sharing a post that called Charlie Kirk a racist.
It left faculty afraid to speak their minds, several testified in federal court, where Stokes is challenging her termination.
This is an absolutely fantastic article. Dr. Swain is the best.
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These aren't AI... they're just stills from the promo videos she made as head of DHS over the last year.
Donald J. Trump just posted There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!... noW U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy The economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4 percent. Follow updates More from Business U.S. gas prices, up 11% in a week, pile pressure on Trump.
The news this morning isn't great.
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."
Sarah Adlakha, a Republican candidate challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday's primary election, promises to crack down on corruption and reject any contributions from lobbyists while serving in office if she's elected.
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"Forget about next."
