The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Fired FirstEnergy lobbyist Joel Bailey testified, with immunity, in the corruption trial that resulted in a hung jury in Summit County. Public records show Bailey and a woman tied to the same address donated to Judge Susan Baker, who oversaw the trial, in 2018. www.rooster.info/p/rooster-in...

Labor force growth could be near-zero starting this year, due to weak population growth and declining labor force participation. Such weak growth is unprecedented in the United States’ recent history. This has significant economic implications: (1/2) www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

“If tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” -Thomas Jefferson #NoKings

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Keep SHARING all the Epstein memes and posts and articles. Keep the pressure on! My latest on one of the worst of the bunch. ⬇️ mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-34...

Hi Tim, we have been working on organizing TwitterTakedown for the past year. We have a new strategy we think is really promising and could work with your help. We'd love to tell you about it! twittertakedown.org Supporting TwitterTakedown costs nothing, Supporting Twitter costs everything.

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

This graph shows how far into the year 2026 women have to work in order to earn the same as men did in 2025.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

So far in 2026, Democrats have flipped legislative seats in: Arkansas New Hampshire Texas Florida (today) That adds to their 2025 gains: Dems flipped seats in Iowa, Mississippi, & Pennsylvania specials, plus in New Jersey and Virginia's regular elections. GOP has flipped 0 seats over that period.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Emily Gregory wins special election for Florida legislative seat, flipping district that includes Mar-a-Lago.

Btw, the names of the two DOGE staffers who were deposed and are on camera casually saying that reducing a deficit was more important than human lives, even though DOGE actually helped increase that deficit, are Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh. We’re not saying their names enough.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

How can this go on for another 3 years?

WAY 2 GO MINNESOTA!!! BRAVO!!! The people of Minneapolis-St. Paul are being honored with a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their response to the federal immigration enforcement operation this winter, the JFK Library Foundation announced Wednesday. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

1. The people of Minneapolis were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize by The Nation magazine in January 2026. The nomination honors residents for their nonviolent resistance, community solidarity, and protection of neighbors against ICE. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

Since October there have been 24 deaths in ICE detention.

He does not get to pack his toys and go home. He started this war and Iran gets to decide whether or not the US is out!

We need a governor focused on lowering costs for Ohioans, not on jetting off to Puerto Rico with campaign funds to hang out with TikTok stars. Ohioans are struggling — and Vivek couldn’t care less.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said it chose to honor Twin Cities residents “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members from an unprecedented federal law enforcement operation."

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

If five states ban fluoride in drinking water, the costs to Medicaid for a significant increase in kids with cavities could top $40 million within three years, a new analysis finds.

Please see my essay “Oligarchical Corridor” where I try to conceptualize all this. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

We are now at a point in American diplomacy where the entire world believes Iran over the president of the United States. Think about that for a minute

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From slyngstad )

Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

Some nights you don’t need advice. You need a song that understands.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

The Ohio Senate voted Wednesday to prohibit ranked choice voting in statewide elections and withhold state funding for governments that try it on the local level. The bill now heads to Gov Mike DeWine, who spoke favorably of the ban idea earlier this week. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/05/o...

It hurts to imagine what our democracy would be like without all the voter suppression, and if it didn’t take 67 Californians to equal the senate voting power of 1 Wyomian, and if we didn’t have billions of dark money pouring into the propaganda hellscape, and if we had no gerrymandering. Sad.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

tune in to hear me say ‘jesus fucking christ’ more times than i ever had in my life before

Good for you UPS

Ben Smith: I don’t know if Stephen Miller resigns before the midterms, resigns after the midterms, or sticks around. But this feels like that moment when a president puts a lot of confidence in one adviser to steer national policy in a direction that turns out to be politically disastrous.

Jesse Jackson was a champion for civil rights, economic justice, and world peace. I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Wow.

When Russell Vought is your dad you know the bald guy that’s the Architect of Project 2025 and Project Esther! 😂😂😂😂🇨🇦

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.