I really need to figure out the right way to get this poem tattooed on me because it has gotten me out of the hole that is not my grave entirely too many times and I think everyone needs to read it this week billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

One of the things about the time Trump, et al ambushed Zelensky in the Oval Office is Trump kept telling him, "you don't have the cards." He truthied this about China today, what do I see here? Zelensky doesn't have "cards" & China "played it wrong"? A telling "game" metaphor.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Everyone needs to view this.

In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.

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This is absolutely wonderful. We have to resist slowly yielding to the lies; the corrosion of our conscience; acceptance of the false ideology pumped out by Trump and his ilk. We must not let our spirits be broken. We have to hold on to truth.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

🧵I think there are many members of Congress who either don't understand, or don't care to understand, how central it is to their job description to show representational leadership even if there's few to no good policy outcomes that can result.

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

For folks who are feeling overwhelmed and don't know where to start (and maybe especially journalists who've been trained to believe that civic activism is out of bounds, and are now questioning that for yourselves), a resource some very smart friends of mine put together: www.mycivicworkout.com

Oh dear

What happens to this site if cats turn out to be vectors, God help us all

This is an important essay.

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I love this and would also buy a print!

She loves you too, I’m sure of it

Barbara says hiiiiiiii

Literally every time I have filed this story (4x this week), something happened to change it before my editor had a chance to look.

But here’s WTF happened at NIH this week (so far)

cen.acs.org/policy/US-fu...

Anyone get transferred from Blue Cross to Regence when the state switched over last year? Anyone all of a sudden having a lot of basic, run of the mill claims denied on what seem like absurd grounds? Just curious

When my social battery runs out 7 minutes into the function

Christmas carolers perform in the Kyiv subway during an air raid alert, where the subway also serves as a shelter.

🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram