Donald Trump patrolling in the Strait of Hormuz.

This can’t be allowed to continue. It just can’t.

He finally did something good.

"While Australia's ban was brought in with huge fanfare, it is widely acknowledged that many under-16s continue to use the 10 platforms covered by the law: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and streaming platform Twitch." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed. And Gov. Cox is complicit. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

The Trump administration has abruptly ended a Veterans Affairs home loan safety net, causing 10,000 veterans and their families to lose their homes. www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

A few thoughts ahead of the President’s speech tonight.

Trump: Tonight I'm making a little speech at 9 o'clock. And basically I'm gonna tell everybody how great I am.

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

Number of 80°+ days in March in Denver: 1972-2025: 7 days 2026: 8 days #COwx

‘The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Andrew Tate any more’: the poet taking on toxic masculinity

According to Facebook memories, 14 years ago today, I was in Washington, D.C., marveling at the explosion of cherry blossoms between meetings with Senator Ted Kennedy and the US Senate Education Committee. What a strange, twisting, and wild ride it's been.

If he had reported when he found out in 2020, the abuse that happened in 2025 might not have happened. It doesn't matter what the church says or what the policies are, the practice is to protect abusers.

The 2026 Rose season has started!

Laguna Woods, CA turned out today! ✊ #NoKings 🚫👑

From @masnick.com at @techdirt.com: One needn't be a fan of Meta to be worried about the implications of recent cases for smaller platforms with much smaller budgets. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/e...

The president doesn’t want friends in high places.

Reminder for my fellow follically challenged people going to the #NoKings protests today — don't forget to wear sunscreen on your dome! Even if you're wearing a hat! Spring scalp burn is a real thing, and speaking from experience, skin cancer is NO fun.

It's official: Salt Lake County's deep blue district is here to stay! Incredible activists across the state got the word out and over 9,000 Utahns have revoked their signatures, taking the Prop 4 repeal off the ballot. Donate or volunteer at nateforutah.com to join our movement!

We're ready for #NoKingsDay! My only wish is that organizers would think of the elderly folks who attend these rallies and schedule them earlier in the day. Our rally isn't until 1 pm, and it will be nearly 85 degrees. It makes it challenging for older folks and heat-sensitive people.

No ICE. No war. No Kings.

Children growing up right now won't experience AI as a transition. It is simply the world they are entering. They have no reference point for what independent thinking feels like without a tool that can answer before the question is fully formed. www.anthropic.com/features/81k... #AILiteracyDay

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

I had every issue in a plastic sleeve. Until last year when I went on a cleaning binge. Ooof.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is a right-wing extremist. If he becomes governor of California, he’ll be a direct extension of Donald Trump. “I am the antithesis to California state government because I am going to take a nuclear bomb into that building…”

This. Was. Delicious. 🍋 giadzy.com/blogs/recipe...

British political parties will be banned from accepting donations in cryptocurrencies, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Wednesday, saying illicit finance poses a "stark" danger to the country's democracy. https://to.pbs.org/4bNycc7

Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

🚨BREAKING: An exclusive Democracy Docket investigation shows that California sheriff who seized ballots once wrote "Some people should never be allowed to vote." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Two verdicts. $378M in damages. 2,000 lawsuits pending. The question both juries asked: Who in your company is accountable for what happens to children inside your product? If you're building AI for kids, that question is now yours too. derekebaird.medium.com/what-the-met...

Under COPPA 2.0, teenagers would gain independent control over their personal data. They would have the right to access, delete, and control how platforms use their information. www.linkedin.com/pulse/senato...

This proposed detention center in Salt Lake City is unacceptable, full stop. We cannot be scared to take on Trump and the corporations that make hundreds of millions of dollars off internment camps and private prisons. Donate at nateforutah.com and help fight back against ICE's invasion of SLC.

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

The California Governor's race is a hot mess. www.latimes.com/california/s...

1 Month to Go: COPPA Compliance Deadline Approaching The countdown is on. By April 22, 2026, companies must comply with the FTC’s updated COPPA Rule—the most significant changes in over a decade. www.privo.com/blog/underst...

What would it look like to take teen awareness about social media seriously, rather than replace it with an adult-imposed rule? The 2025 Pew report found that 44% of teens have already tried to cut back on their own social media use. www.mindfulmediaco.com/post/half-of...

100 days since the social media ban. Young people are mostly still on social media, but a new & unexpected issue now emerging. We now have a generation of children actively working around the ban, which informs how they can respond to other laws. thepolicymaker.appi.org.au/100-days-of-...

SEN. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social : “So what did we get at the end of this war? — This is nonsensical. This is what happens when you put real estate developers and talk show hosts in charge of 🇺🇸 national security.”

“Russia is not the only outside power potentially looking to prop up Orban in one of the toughest campaigns of his career. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Budapest last month, telling Orban that ‘your success is our success.’” 🙃

I'm attending No Kings' event, “NO KINGS Laguna Woods and Surrounding areas” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #NoKings

As gas prices skyrocket thanks to Trump’s war, keep in mind the Republican refusal to extend the ACA subsidies is also doing the same to health care costs — except for those who lost coverage altogether

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Breaking news: A federal judge has ruled that the Defense Department’s controversial press policy was illegal, striking it down as unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by the New York Times.

Residents on Oahu’s North Shore are being urged to evacuate as severe rains continue to create catastrophic flooding and threaten to trigger a dam failure. www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti... #Hawaii

Roadtrip Nation is one of my favorite youth media things and I love that they built an LLM to help young people chart their own path! Kudos, Roadtrip Nation!

Wild conflicts of interest: “Tucked in the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse 🧑‍🌾 90% of adopting AI & precision ag tech… standards set by the industry… Trojan horse for big tech to take advantage of farmers/wrest control of the food system…” fortune.com/2026/03/14/f...

Zoinks! 😖 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A new expeditionary dining facility paid for and built by South Korea is now supporting U.S. troops rotating through the only Marine Corps base on the peninsula. The new 13,000-square-foot mess hall can seat 420 Marines indoors and 84 outdoors. From Stars and Stripes' Alejandro Carrasquel:

Yay! Cancer! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

The push comes after X’s AI tool Grok allowed users to generate millions of images of real people in bikinis or fully nude, including images of children. www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...