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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. wapo.st/4aYkbco

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

EXCLUSIVE reporting from @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social -- www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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I’m so excited for this! Who’s going?

My talk will be about time, as ecology’s final frontier: dynamics, timescales, resolution and extent, historical contingencies, and the denominator of all ecological processes.

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence Abstract. With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the United States, researchers increasingly want to meas

After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Nashville Noticias' Estefany Rodríguez reportedly detained by ICE agents A reporter for Nashville Noticias was reportedly taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Thursday afternoon.

ICE arrested a journalist yesterday without a warrant.

She is an asylum seeker, has valid work permits, and is married to a U.S. citizen.

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Such moving tributes to Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. That so many stood on line to pay their respects is a testament to his enormous contributions. What a life! What a legacy!
#IAMSOMEBODY
#KEEPHOPEALIVE
#RAINBOWCOALITION

Many thanks and well done to a good and faithful servant.

REST IN PEACE!

What to Know About Clerking on a State Supreme Court Judges from high courts across the country share insights for law students and recent graduates.

Are you a law student or recent graduate looking for clerkship opportunities?

State Court Report is hosting an event on everything you need to know about clerking on a state supreme court. Judges from high courts across the country will share insights for law students and recent graduates. RSVP:

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virgini...

Apply to join my team by 3/16!

Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

“.. the prospect of Ms. Halligan losing her license could serve as a check on administration lawyers who have been accused by judges of pushing the boundaries of the law or intentionally misleading the courts, which has happened frequently in recent months.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

The report highlights the grim state of freshwater ecosystems, degraded marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and the risk of extinction for many species. But it also emphasizes the potential for improvement through conservation, restoration, and renewed connections between people and nature.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

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To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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.

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.

Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

Amazing news.

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

A large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak | CNN A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said Tuesday.

A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said.

Did you know that there is a swiss AI called Apertus, nonprofit, developed and owned by public institutions, open source, GDPR compliant, available here?

publicai.co

Maj. Jeffrey R. O’Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa, died on March 1, 2026, in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, Calif. as well.

The order itself requires Customs to "liquidate all entries" without regard to IEEPA duties, but at the hearing the judge said unequivocally that "I want to make it clear to the Customs Service that they have to refund any money that was unlawfully collected." [4]

Yup--I just listened to the hearing, and the Judge took the parties by surprise by indicating he'd issue such a judgment. USG counsel asked for some time to brief the merits and the judge responded: "There are no merits." [3]