Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

"With determined and revelatory work, the independent press in Hungary played an essential role in the election and in safeguarding what was left of democracy... They offer inspiration and lessons for journalists elsewhere contending with authoritarian leaders." ~ Martin Baron

Hungary, welcome back 🇭🇺🇪🇺 This is a turning point for Europe. The times of autocratic backsliding must be over. We look to a brighter and united future. Defending rule of law, freedom and democracy. Tonight, we celebrate in the streets of Budapest.

If Melania *really* thought people were lying about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, she would have sued them for defamation to clear her name under oath, not deliver a lame speech full of lies for television.”

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Hannah Dreier and the staff of The New York Times are the winners of the 2026 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their series "Exposed and Expendable." goldsmithawards.org/ceremony/2026/ @shorensteinctr.bsky.social

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Threatening to break-up NATO, easing sanctions on Russia, creating an energy crisis in Europe, supporting Orban and halting aid for Ukraine -- clearly, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems.

Lee Zeldin has already destroyed the EPA. If he becomes the next AG, he'll continue in the fine Bondi tradition of destroying the DOJ.

Nadya Tolokonnikova is on international most-wanted lists and Putin labeled her an “extremist.” Yet, she hides in plain sight, as she fights for human rights. “I don’t care about physical safety, I care about making good art.” hungermag.com/art-culture/... @pussyriot.bsky.social

Pussy Riot staged a protest at the Manhattan offices of tech company Ubiquiti over their claims that the company’s Wi-Fi equipment is being used by Russian soldiers in their ongoing war against Ukraine. www.billboard.com/music/rock/p...

JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress.

Thieves broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, and stole works by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w... @nytimes.com

Russian feminist collective Pussy Riot staged a protest outside Ubiquiti’s Manhattan headquarters for “powering Russian war crimes”. www.nme.com/news/music/p...

At Brandeis, Marty Baron said Jeff Bezos’ perspective changed dramatically after Trump was re-elected in 2024. “What he did [this time] is the same as what law firms have done, universities have done… In authoritarian regimes this is how it begins.” www.brandeis.edu/stories/2026...

Russian feminist group Pussy Riot staged a protest at American technology company Ubiquiti's Manhattan headquarters for "powering Russian war crimes." kyivindependent.com/pussy-riot-o...

Artist and activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova discusses the Russian platform at PACE, Russia's return to the Venice Biennale, and her OnlyFans account: “In five seconds on Twitter, I get far more insults than I did in five years of working on OnlyFans." meduza.io/feature/2026...

Tango is the national dance of Argentina, known for its passion, precision and heart. In a hospital in Buenos Aires, it has another purpose: as a therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/h...

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST || A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. It's a film about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created and what’s at stake if we get it wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPb... @focusfeatures.bsky.social

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...

Dr. Gildert hypothesizes that certain properties of cognition can be modeled using quantum mechanical frameworks - Nirvanic’s goal is to imbue physical AI with an intuition that can handle the unpredictable. nirvanicai.substack.com/p/from-bezos... @suzannegildert.bsky.social @nirvanicai.bsky.social

“We can’t last 34 more months of what we’ve seen in the last 14. We’re fucked if this guy serves out his term. He’s gonna trash everything once and for all.”

Victim advocates fear the funds seized from the Prince Group’s founder will be stashed away for the U.S.’s new strategic cryptocurrency reserve. www.icij.org/investigatio... @icij.org

Nick Anderson, Raw Story

Exclusive: U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live. Officials have not determined where they came from.

Alicia Menendez will be in the anchor chair 2 hours every weekday afternoon on MSNOW in the not-too-far-off future. Her questions always go right to the heart of the issue, her knowledge is deep, and her command of the broadcast medium is impressive. We need her! @aliciamenendez.bsky.social @ms.now

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

BREAKING: A federal judge says he's blocking the subpoenas the Trump Justice Department served to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Judge James Boasberg says the government has produced "essentially zero evidence" to suspect Powell of a crime.

ANIMA | Anima places two strangers in a car. It’s a tried-and-true story, and one that writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie gently twists, to magnificent low-key effect, with a dash of icy sci-fi and a soulful retro yearning. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ten years ago, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight emerged from a crowded Best Picture field to score Oscar Night’s biggest prize. “Obviously, the stakes in the story couldn't be more real — the safety of our children. What's more meaningful in any society?” ~ Thomas McCarthy www.goldderby.com/film/2026/20...

Another hush money payment.

Thousands of artists, academics, curators, journalists, and political figures are calling on leaders of the Venice Biennale to “address the implications” of Russia’s participation in an open letter published this week. hyperallergic.com/over-6-000-s...

Two prominent doctors stepped down on Tuesday following the release of a report that found that institutional culture discouraged reporting allegations of sexual abuse against a former physician who sexually assaulted hundreds of patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/n...

In Scathing Ruling, Judge Says 3 Trump Prosecutors Are in Unlawful Roles: Trump admin has shown through its statements and actions that it cares far more about who is running the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office “than whether it is running at all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell: "This is a story about grooming and the girls who lived through it.” ~ Lucia Osborne-Crowley www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was the bible of the beat generation. It shifted the course of US literature and captured the imagination of the world. NY’s Grolier Club will display letters from Jack that haven't been publicly viewed: March 9, April 20, May 4. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

At least 330 journalists worldwide were in prison at the end of 2025, up from fewer than 200 a decade ago. One-fifth say they were tortured or beaten - 129 died while doing their jobs or because of them, the highest number since records began in 1992. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

On rural lands across the country, community leaders are doing the hard and slow work of “braiding together” Indigenous sovereignty movements and reparations initiatives, hoping to strengthen both coalitions. dailyyonder.com/two-liberati... @dailyyonder.bsky.social @ndncollective.bsky.social

Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota), the founder of NDN Collective, explains that "a Land Back ethic doesn’t mean going back in time, but moving forward with all people to create a just and equitable world." dailyyonder.com/two-liberati...

Russia at the Venice Art Biennale?!? Pussy Riot are not having it! And promise there will be resistance! The collective led by Nadya Tolokonnikova will challenge Russia's presence at the Biennale, calling attention to this sherking of responsibility. www.artribune.com/attualita/20...

A coalition of public interest groups are calling on state AGs to block Paramount‘s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. deadline.com/2026/03/para... @deadline.com

My latest on the complicity of lawyers in dismantling democracy and the Justice Department's attempt to thwart the ability of state bars to hold them accountable open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTN...

“You’re a U.S. senator!” Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽 This should go great