L.L. Bean has taken the position that it won’t support the Save the Forest Service movement, with messaging along the lines of avoiding political engagement.

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

Former U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton And Sheryl Sandberg Join Forces To End Child Marriage

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

This is one of the best sites for keeping up with AI lawsuits, including this tracker map of cases in the USA and abroad chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/aicopyrightc...

Was just reminded of this blog post today and it still holds true: "Six Reasons Why Everything in Publishing Takes So Long." It's more about philosophical factors than business ones, but the business stuff takes a ton of time too. (And there are fewer editors & less support.)

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Pope Leo speaks truth to power: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Feds subpoena Texas counties for voters’ records At least three Texas counties were contacted this week by the Department of Homeland Security for detailed records about individual voters. ...

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I almost cried watching John Kerry. To think he’s the caliber Iranians negotiated with during the Obama administration versus Kushner, Witkoff and Vance dealing with today must be head spinning.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

MS NOW: At least three people have lodged formal workplace discrimination complaints against Trump Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, alleging she created a toxic workplace and sought to retaliate against women who reported her husband for sexual misconduct in her office.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING! The Epstein criminal's Epstein speech on the Strait of Epstein closed by the Epstein War scheduled from the Epstein Room at the Epstein House at Epstein o'clock today, Monday 6, month of Epstein. Everything will be addressed except the Epstein Files. Be there or be Epstein!

After our “community standards violation” for asking people to message brands to speak out against the dismantling of the Forest Service, we had a team work all weekend knocking out a website for the same purpose. It’ll be live in a few hours.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant. But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.

How Trump uses verbs to obscure reality —and dodge responsibility President Donald Trump is known for his singular way of speaking. It tends to be, to quote Shakespeare, “full of sound and fury.” But according to a language expert writing for the New York Times, the Bard’s next line applies too, for

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We all just want to live in a polite society, where we respect and help one another. We are getting the opposite of that from this administration. They have made this country brutish, violent, and selfish. It shouldn't be that way in a civilized nation.

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It was so comforting to have a president that wasn’t a malignant narcissist.

On April 2, 2026, ICE goons in Hampton, Virginia, arrested contractors.

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House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia on Pam Bondi: "She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath. She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell."

White House set to release Trump's budget with major increase in defense spending The White House is set to release President Donald Trump's 2027 budget Friday, a sweeping blueprint that could boost Pentagon spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest of its kind in decades, as the U.S.... ...

1940: 🇩🇪🇫🇷The Nazis warned the French non-Jews to not hide any Jews, otherwise there would be consequences. 2026: 🇮🇱🇱🇧The Israelis warn the Lebanese non-Muslims to not hide any Muslims, otherwise there will be consequences.

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom a... ...

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“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

No thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Join us on March 28 by finding a No Kings protest. There are local protests in almost every town or neighborhood near you. The link below at the official No Kings website: Has a useful locater map to find a No Kings protest in your neighborhood. www.nokings.org

Big news in the fight against GOP gerrymanders: Missouri group announces that local officials have verified enough voter signatures to suspend the new GOP congressional map until a veto referendum takes place. But GOP officials are trying to drag out the process to thwart it, & litigation is going

Could not have said this better!!

Tell me more about the whole 'war on fraud' thing. "A month after Trump nominted Benjamin Landa to be US Ambassador to Hungary, the HHS inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments..." www.propublica.org/article/benj...

Putin told Orban to fake an assassination attempt, to get sympathy votes in the upcoming election. Hmm, that sounds familiar. 🤔

Washington state just passed a law banning law enforcement (including federal ICE agents) from wearing masks or face coverings while on duty. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed it Thursday and it took effect immediately.

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.” Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, over 20 armed ICE goons detained a 50-year-old veteran who was in a state of distress at gunpoint.

Let’s stop softening the language. The pregnant detainees in the Texas ICE camp are children. They are not “young women.” They are minors. If pregnancies occurred while they were detained, every ICE officer must be investigated for child sexual assault. These children must be freed.

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