Massive Nebraska wildfires have burned an area the size of Rhode Island. The raging fires have burned over 800,000 acres of grazing land.

BREAKING: Apple is about to introduce ads into Maps. The system will function similarly to advertising in Google Maps, according to Bloomberg.

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

New York Times with their finger on the pulse.

The head of the biggest federal workers union says ICE is completely unqualified to replace TSA. "ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security. TSA officers spend months learning to detect explosives, weapons, and threats specifically designed to evade detection at checkpoints...

BREAKING: Hundreds of workers at a key supplier of  Navy ships are on strike. 650 designers, clerks, and engineers walked out of Bath Iron Works, rejecting a contract from General Dynamics. The workers say the offer doesn't sufficiently address wages, insurance, or retirement.

BREAKING: Trump says that if ICE at airports isn't enough, "I will bring the National Guard."

ICE is being deployed to airports today as the GOP refuses to fund TSA. Here's border czar Tom Homan: "There's a lot of things that TSA does it doesn't require like specialized training, right? ...  ICE can check identification before people enter the screening area."

BREAKING: Kalshi has been temporarily banned in Nevada. the gambling capital of America. www.wired.com/story/nevada...

Days after the CBS News union held a 24hr walkout over failed contract negotiations, Bari Weiss has announced a 6% staff layoff and the closure of CBS News Radio. This is the second round of layoffs since billionaire David Ellison acquired CBS-parent Paramount.

An Ohio company that made a mom return to office during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered to pay $22 million in damages. Chelsea Walsh made a work-from-home request 4 days after an operation on her cervix to prevent her from going into early labor. /1

The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike. Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes. ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.

It’s just a weird sickness at some point, this level of greed. You have $200 billion dollars. You could wipe your ass with $100 bills and keep getting richer every day. Why kill thousands and thousands of jobs at this point?

BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI. The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development." It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.

The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council. It will be the size of Central Park. And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

Jeff Bezos has begun the process of raising $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

A recent study links pesticide use to increased cancer risks — at a level on par with smoking. The evidence can be seen in several Midwestern states, which grow the majority of U.S. corn and soybeans and have elevated cancer rates, according to @foodandwater.bsky.social.

Exactly.

Sales of new homes in the U.S. have plummeted. The latest data shows sales of new single-family homes down 17.6% — hitting the lowest levels since October 2022.

The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

Trump's approval numbers on the cost of living are now at -41 — a record low. He's at -60 on the issue with independents, according to Yahoo/YouGov. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

BREAKING: THE MLB is signing a multiyear contract with Polymarket. The deal is estimated at three years and $300 million, according to FOS. This move comes as prediction markets are being investigated as illegal gambling operations by multiple states. frontofficesports.com/mlb-makes-mu...

The Wall Street Journal published this one week ago.

Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

People are shopping at Dollar Tree more. The company reports that 4th quarter sales increased 9% to 5.1 billion. And Dollar Tree is passing those sales on to investors — conducting $1.6 billion dollars in stock buybacks last year.

The cost of vegetables jumped 49% last month as inflation hit hard and companies raised prices. www.bls.gov/news.release...

On Instagram Zohran announces that a landlord who is illegally refusing to make needed repairs will be fined $1,000 per day until the work is done.

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

Senator Chris Murphy and Rep. Greg Casar have introduced a bill that would prohibit prediction markets from offering wagers on “government actions, terrorism, war, assassination, and events where an individual knows or controls the outcome." www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

The billionaire who was just given $314 million to build and an ICE mega-jail was accused of making death threats against workers and their families. Stephan Crétier runs GardaWorld Federal Services, which was awarded a massive contract to manage a detention warehouse in Arizona. /1

The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.

BREAKING: Arizona authorities have filed criminal charges against Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully ‌allowing people to place bets on elections.

Workers in multiple countries are switching to four-day work weeks due to oil shortages. Sri Lanka is introducing a four-day week to preserve fuel reserves. Many workers in the Philippines are now on 4 day weeks. Public officials in Pakistan are working four-day weeks as well.

A new analysis shows that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in credit card debt – more than any other point in history. tcf.org/content/repo...

Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse farmers for 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies. The standards governing those tech wouldn't be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry. This could give Big Tech immense power over farmers.

Amazon is now rolling out 1-hour and 3-hour delivery. Injuries have already been increasing near 'last-mile' Amazon warehouses that handle the last leg of the delivery process. And workers at the many Amazon sub-contractors are already heavily exploited and over-worked.

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

A pair of New York bills would ban surveillance pricing at grocery stores and other retailers. One bill could ban the use of algorithms and personal data to set prices. The other would stop grocery stores from using digital price tags that constantly change.

BREAKING: New report shows that the median rent in Manhattan has now hit $5,000/month for the first time. www.brickunderground.com/rent/nyc-man...

A group of Ohio residents are trying to ban giant data centers across the state — and they've started the process of amending the state’s constitution to do so. In just 8 days this small rural group already got the 1,800 signatures needed to begin the process. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

The Jeff Bezos Washington Post comes out against raising the minimum wage.

New polling from Pew shows what Americans think about data centers: Only 6% think they're good for the quality of life for those nearby. Similarly, only 6% think data center have a good impact on home energy costs. And only 4% think they're good for the environment.

The estimated cost of the war against Iran has already surpassed $21,000,000,000.

A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/a...

BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike. This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is seeking to fine big companies with workers on Medicaid. Her plan would generate $145 million to offset the state's Medicaid costs. Too often big corporations deny workers healthcare, and rely on the state to step in. newjerseymonitor.com/2026/03/12/g...

Pete Hegseth talking about CNN: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." It is the Trump administration that will determine if the mega-merger that allows Ellison to control CNN goes through.

Protests and pushback against data centers have delayed or blocked $98 billion in spending since 2024, even as tech companies spend millions on campaign-style ads touting their benefits.