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@rebeccaballhaus I have a feeling the face-eating leopards aren't gonna go hungry.

@IAPolls2022 @tencor_7144 golden age

For the first time since Gallup began tracking it, more U.S. workers are struggling in life (49%) than thriving (46%). Net thriving 🟢 Q3, 2022: +14 🟢 Q2, 2025: +4 🟤 Q4, 2025: -3 gallup.com/workplace/7032…

Amid the chaos in Iran, it’s easy to overlook the Trump administration’s pointless brutalization of Cuba, Ross Barkan writes. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Modern day "Dune".

Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast. nyti.ms/4lNat07

A federal judge is allowing the release of deposition videos of two former DOGE staffers, ruling that the risk of "embarrassment and reputational harm" is not enough to overcome the public interest in the videos. abcnews.link/P1xYZ26

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

@sp6runderrated It hasn't really changed.

What is the conservative alternative to the ACA?

Fox News has learned that the Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division Maj Gen Brandon Tegtmeier and his “command element,” members of his headquarters staff, have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East as the Pentagon and White House weigh whether to send the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East for possible land operations. There has been speculation that the US would use ground forces to possibly take Kharg Island or for other missions inside Iran. This would be a first step needed to plan for such a contingency. NYT was first to report yesterday that the Pentagon was weighing whether to send the 82nd Airborne. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/…

This timeline escalated fast: Laid off on H-1B Filed B2 near the end of the 60-day grace period Found a new job Filed for an H-1B transfer Then this happened: B2 denied Grace period not recognized Out of status Final notice from USCIS: Leave the country or pay a $100,000 fee and reprocess abroad Timeline went from employed → compliant → out of status in weeks This is how the system is currently being applied reddit.com/r/h1b/s/yzktgt…

President Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

It’s Republicans that are blocking funding for TSA, FEMA, and other agencies that keep us safe. Why? Because they want even more money for ICE—the agency that already has a $75 billion slush fund and is terrorizing communities & executing Americans in the streets.

Rules for thee and not for me

"These twin crises (airport lines and aviation safety) are separate but related: They are both the result of an approach to governance that neglects the work of governing." My essay in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

How many kids of of Wall Street Journal reporters and editors do we think would be part of an invasion force?

Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits. @paulkrugman: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-t…

🚨LEAKED VIDEO: We’ve obtained secretly recorded video of Republican Chip Roy ADMITTING he’s trying to hide concerns his SAVE Act hurts women voters: “I’m trying not to elevate the issue… my Chief of Staff… had to go through a bunch of hoops… (and) go back to the DMV twice. The footage was secretly recorded from a ZOOM meeting from February last year, featuring the “Election Integrity Network” - an organization founded by Cleta Mitchell, a 2020 Trump attorney who played a central role in efforts to overturn his loss. It’s a stunning admission - as Roy publicly claims the bill isn’t a barrier to women, while admitting IN PRIVATE the exact hurdles women face. 🧵

NEW: Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a leading champion of the SAVE America Act, repeatedly rejected concerns that the bill would impose voter registration barriers for millions. But privately, he admitted it would pose hurdles for married women and those who’ve changed their legal name. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ch…

@SciGuySpace A moon base at this stage puts the cart before the horse. All the real science gets done by the unmanned probes, which predictably get slashed for this boondoggle. If we had the capacity to use He3 for fusion, and were building out other infrastructure, then maybe build a base.

I’ve been waiting literally decades for NASA to articulate a plan for a Moon base. Now Carlos Garcia-Galan is doing a masterful job of precisely this. Dozens of landings. Drones. RTGs. Rovers. Habitats. Excavators. This is incredible stuff.

@dburbach Base is premature. All the real science gets done by the unmanned probes, which predictably get slashed for this boondoggle. There's a lot of helium-3 on the lunar regolith, and that would be valuable, but we haven't even mastered D-T fusion let alone D-He3.