"Crypto is only good for two things: gambling—is the price going to go up or down?—and crime. The amount of crime that crypto facilitates is staggering." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Dublin Rose admitted that she was "not surprised" with the racism, noting that it is "part of the experience of growing up in Ireland as a person of color." "I was more so surprised at the volume of hate that's been coming in." www.irishcentral.com/culture/dubl...

⚡ German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Putin’s talk of a "quick end" to the war a hybrid warfare tactic designed to mask military weakness and territorial losses. united24media.com/world/pistor...

⚡️US falls below Russia in survey of global perceptions. The global perception of the United States has fallen for a third consecutive year, now ranking several spots behind Russia, a survey commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundations revealed on May 7.

“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.”

"In the border village of Yaroun, Israel’s military used bulldozers to destroy parts of a Catholic convent that had been empty as a result of the latest fighting." apnews.com/article/leba...

Who the hell wants John Hinckley's opinion? Since his attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981, the number of guns in America has doubled. That's the reason why public spaces are NOT safe. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

A woman spent months in jail because of facial recognition technology that falsely flagged her as a suspect. "The ACLU said Williams is the 14th person it knows of who was wrongfully arrested because of faulty facial recognition technology." www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

We had a guest on BBC News last night speaking about UN Peacekeepers killed in Lebanon. He was asked about upcoming peace talks in Washington. He stumbled slightly and said, “We hope it brings some hope...” which is the most eloquent thing I ever heard somebody accidentally say about this madness.

Apparently the Iranians are not defeated.

Click to see why this Sunday read from Tim Prudente is piling up praise in the comments from Banner readers: www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

"Trump: Buy American, Unless It’s for My Ballroom While tariffs hammer US consumers and businesses, the White House quietly used foreign steel to renovate the president’s favorite room." ⬇️

"I don't want us to burn in hell harder than we already are." Mother Jones reporter @lauracmorel.bsky.social is out in St. Petersburg, Florida, speaking with residents who are showing out for Saturday's "No Kings" protest.

Some people at the Pentagon have begun calling Hegseth “Dumb McNamara” as an ode to Robert McNamara, the architect of American military escalation in Vietnam zeteo.com/p/the-thug-o...

The wealthiest person on the planet

Incredible to watch the leadership of a country lose its mind. In real time.

"An England fan flying from London and watching the team at every game - should they reach the final - could generate a footprint of about 3.5 tonnes of CO2. That is equivalent to heating an average home in the UK for 19 months." www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

A perfect storm of arrogance, wishful thinking, no backup plan and, now, no good options. "Whatever Trump chooses to do from here, the American president is now being driven by events instead of controlling them. Like a gambler chasing his losses, he keeps investing new money to stay at the table."

Watching my retirement savings shrink, I'm just filled with gratitude for the Polymarket bets that paid off for the White House and Pentagon staff who knew strikes were coming

The War with Iran "would be a thorny situation even for the wisest statesmen in world history. Alas, all we have is an elderly idiot whose primary method of diplomacy is posting barely literate screeds on his personal social media site." prospect.org/2026/03/20/i...

Welcome to the United States of Absurdistan.

people said release the epstein files and he said nah ufos bro

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

Putin is helping Iran target American troops. Trump just shrugs about it. What could possibly explain that response? www.wsj.com/world/russia...

In rebuke to Kari Lake, US judge orders 1,000 Voice of America staffers back to work My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2026/03/17/n...

Brendan Carr, the Minister of Truth www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The US judiciary is playing a vital and heroic role defending the health gains that science has brought us from Trump’s atavistic regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The job *was* to wreck and purge, just like Musk and DOGE. All revolutions need these people.

Yes, Trump Always Chickens Out on economic policies but TACO on the Iran War? Hard to turn that boat around.

Trump has applied for the coveted titles of "master strategist". Said I'd think about it.

🔴 Russia struck one of the residential neighborhoods of Kherson. As a result, 20 people, including a 17-year-old boy, were injured.

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Trump may be about to throw Putin another lifeline.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

How come the only people that seem to like AI are the ones who already have a job?

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

“In fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.” — Umberto Eco

Wow can’t wait to see what other weapons we fire off that we haven’t used since WWII.

Priorities!

“We’ve never seen something like this, where you have judges appointed by all sorts of different administrations in various states across the country agreeing that the government is reading the law incorrectly and also that this violates people’s due process rights.”

Trump quite clearly views the military, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, “like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.” buff.ly/ScPiCmr

Worst nightmare scenario of Warner Paramount deal? All those legacy films and characters and stories are now in hands of the most skeevy AI exploitative techbros in Hollywood, who just said they’d fix their poor earnings by hiring more engineers, not creators variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I too think more networks should run "pro-America content" like handy explainers on the constitutional limitations on the president's powers and the independence of Congress

It took Putin and Orban years to do what they’re doing.

Trump has a cult of personality composed of people he holds in contempt. Mamdani has a cult of personality composed of the people Trump wishes actually liked him.

Man, I miss meandering experimental #longform journalism like this. North Dallas dad walks across the city in a day + meets the city folk is incredibly touching. @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Launching today! 🎉 A Century of Sounds, a unique partnership between Cities & Memory and @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social, inviting listeners to explore compositions created by 100 artists from a century of incredible recordings from the museum’s sound collections. citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds