Reminder: It’s against the law for federal employees to engage in insider trading, including in prediction markets.

as someone who actively publishes in both student run law journals and peer reviewed social science and hard science journals and is a peer reviewer myself for all kinds of journals... there are good and bad things about both ways! this is my most lukewarm take but it is true

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

⬇️ Trump’s approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, reflecting growing pessimism among Americans over the issue they consistently describe as the most important.

In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants. therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A federal judge has denied Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR, calling it unlawful: "It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch."

‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law sparks international criticism

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack ft.trib.al/GhNkF2Z

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Trump hits new approval low among all adults, rounding to -21 for first time  fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

more seriously, this is a completely unforced and fundamental methodological error. You do not cite people who opposed X as authorities on the meaning of X. Here, X is the Fourteenth Amendment.

So what’s next after today’s historic No Kings Day protests? We’re glad you asked: nokings.org/whats-next #NoKings

there it is, all 7 continents

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Over 100,000 people here at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul Minnesota. This amazing crowd continues to grow. Our country belongs to all of us, not one person. Trump is forgetting this. He acts like he owns America. He does not. On this day from Alaska to Maine we remind him!

How could this possibly go wrong? 🤡

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

CRFB is searching for Social Security solvency in the wrong place. The problem isn’t retirees getting too much—it’s unchecked income inequality starving the system of revenue. Capping benefits isn’t reform; it’s a distraction from the real solution.

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

"The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions..." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The deep, deep stench of corruption.

The difficulty in the classroom *is* where the learning happens in the classroom.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

When you can see the future…

Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society

the country is at war and the president is peacing out for another weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers

And I would add even more fractures, but this is a good start. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

No money for Americans, but there's always money for war. Well done, MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Economists Warn That Costs Of ‘All Products’ Will Rise Amid War With Iran

#BookSky and #BlueSky family interested “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance” (released yesterday), here is a free excerpt from the book. @spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org/digital-surv...

Washington just passed a “millionaire tax,” after Massachusetts passed its own in 2022. New Mexico enacted universal childcare last year. And organizers in Montana and California are advancing a ballot measure that would get corporate money out of politics. We still have power to fix the system.

Amazon paid $40 MILLION for the rights to the Melania documentary—$26 million over the next highest bidder. Why'd they overpay? Maybe because Amazon wants Trump to hand over a bunch of special favors. Was the Melania movie one big bribe? We deserve answers.

Just a reminder that Donald Trump campaigned on lowering costs and no new wars.

Accelerating wealth inequality is as much a political problem as an economic one. Nowhere is that more blatant than California, where billionaires are spending tens of millions and propping up Super PACs to block a 5% wealth tax. Extreme wealth = extreme influence over our politics.

"Rethinking Volume: The Illusion of Liquidity" by van der Beck, Fu, & Bretscher shows that rising gross volume is driven by high-frequency trades that do not improve long-term liquidity. Net volume better reflects true market depth. spkl.io/63328AIvMk #Liquidity #Markets #Finance

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

"The Trump Administration invoked emergency powers to allow a company to restart an oil pipeline off the California coast that state officials have kept offline since it ruptured in 2015 and caused one of the worst spills in the state’s history..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/c...

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

President Trump on Fox News: “A lot of them were let in here, they shouldn't have been let in. Their genetics are not exactly your genetics.”

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers. www.wired.com/story/google...

I love DC! On my way to find this statue!

In a world on fire, there is still some good news out there: Washington state just passed an income tax on millionaires! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

IRAN WAR First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3 billion ($1.8 billion per day), Pentagon tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The House of Commons tried to exclude the children of aliens born in the realm from being counted as English, about three decades before Calvin's Case, in 1580. The bill failed in the Lords.

Dems just scored an upset win in a New Hampshire special election: Democrat Bobbi Boudman won the special election for Carroll County District 7, defeating Republican Dale Fincher 51-47% in a district that voted Republican by more than 13 points just 16 months ago.