Most California voters support the state’s newly proposed billionaire tax, according to new polling. Meanwhile, rich Californians are plotting a $500M slush fund to influence the state's politics. So they can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties. 1/

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed the bill Monday surrounded by families who have pushed for faster cooperation from tech platforms in criminal cases.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

the most vile pieces of shit

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

Also—

Fun fact: UAE’s spymaster has directed billions to Trump’s World Liberty Financial. He’s also invested in it.

Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?

I don’t know why NYT looks down on mass protests. Maybe it’s a “leave the politics to us” attitude by an arrogant player in the public conversation. Maybe it’s because it’s hard to get protest coverage right. For example, you might misrepresent a GOP activist as just another man-on-the-street. 3/🧵

Thanks, Tim! That's us: people standing up and doing the work. Montclair Sundays: 3pm at the corner of Bloomfield Ave. & Church St. in Montclair - 58th consecutive Sunday TODAY. #NOKINGS. NO THRONES. NO TRUMP. YES DECENCY. YES DIVERSITY. YES IMMIGRANTS, FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Andy Kim: "Homan did an excellent job dodging your question about why Trump didn't start paying the TSA agents sooner if he had the authority all along. I know the answer to that, the American people know. It's because he doesn't care about them."

Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!

No Kings in Denver, Colorado. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

So I ask again, two weeks later, where are the newspaper editorials calling for Trump to stop the war? presswatchers.org/2026/03/stop...

Holy New York.

Here at the Denver No Kings protest at the state Capitol @denverpost.com

Given the news that Iranian hacker group Handala breached FBI director Kash Patel's personal email, here's our profile from earlier this month of the group, which despite its hacktivist rhetoric is widely believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence. www.wired.com/story/handal...

An "activist" who pushed 2020 election fraud claims has been convicted of election fraud: A jury convicted Wisconsin man Harry Wait of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Mason without their consent.

Iran-linked hackers have released a cache of Kash Patel's emails

youtu.be/U4PVW9mvVhc?... #NoKings

Chef’s kiss

The number one rule for No Kings 3 tomorrow is DO NOT INTERACT WITH COUNTER PROTESTERS! Do not talk, do not argue, do not react to their words, their single-finger salute, or their rolling coal. DO NOT ENGAGE!!!! You safety team is ready to deal with any negative people.

Court responds to Veterans' Affairs nixing union agreement on eve of hearing. DOJ must show by March 31 "why the Court should not consider the re-termination letter...BLATANT violation of the Preliminary Injunction Order...and therefore in CONTEMPT of this Court."

Putin asks oligarchs to donate to budget as cost of Ukraine war soars ft.trib.al/6XXQRo6

Like a cat pissing to mark his territory, Trump puts his name on government buildings and our currency. It stinks to high heaven.

🧵Grateful that @ezralevin.bsky.social clarified when people *actually* started protesting DJT 2.0. Nov 6, 2024 "Immediately after Donald Trump won election again in 2024, we saw a surge of people...starting to do things on the ground...a steady & then increasing drumbeat from folks organizing."

Chromebooks and iPads were getting in the way of learning, according to leaders at this rural school. So, they banned them.

Trader Joe's Recalls 10 Million More Pounds of Frozen Food Over Glass Contamination www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

This is going to surprise, well, no one who has been paying attention, but Trump's birthright citizenship legal arguments are based on the theories of a former Confederate officer, white supremacist, who went on to argue the segregationists case in Plessy v. Fergueson. www.vox.com/politics/483...

For anyone losing track: the New Mexico Case was running parallel to the LA bellwether social media teen mental health case. Jury finding for the state across the board is, however, a big moment for the crowd arguing that product liability offers a way around Section 230.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

I should clarify that there were two separate findings of liability involving 37,500 violations. So that's ~$375 million in a state that contains 0.62% of the US population. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

⚠️ Someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword iPhone #spyware and published it on the code-sharing site GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk. ✍️ @lorenzofb.bsky.social @zackwhittaker.com techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/s...

#CUBoulder professors expressed concerns about the system's new OpenAI contract to provide ChatGPT to students and faculty www.axios.com/local/boulde...

The Orbán model claims to harness the power of the government and the private sector. But opponents label it cronyism, alleging that taxpayer funds are used to enrich Orbán’s pals who have supported his reelection bids. www.ft.com/content/70c2...

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023). My latest:

A woman who claims Bill Cosby drugged and raped her in 1972 won a $19.25 million jury award, decades after first stepping forward as Jane Doe Number 8 in a 2005 lawsuit.

The convictions of four business executives linked to spyware developer Intellexa may also lead to further prosecutions against those who played a role in “Predatorgate,” a 2022 phone hacking scandal. Read the story: buff.ly/xhZvDp8

We live in an age of miracles

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, is absolutely tanking. The company burned through over $700 million dollars while bringing in just $3.7 million in revenue. It merged with a nuclear fusion firm, bought a bunch of bitcoin, floated a spin-off of Truth Social. None of it has worked.

The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder [...] that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

Lina Kostenko, Ukraine’s prominent poet, is 96 today. Here’s a rendition of her poem Wings, performed by the one and only Emma Thompson, to mark the occasion🪽 Happy birthday, Lina🎂

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

Steve Davis, Steve Davis, Steve Davis, Steve Davis Not mentioned: Amy Gleason, the alleged administrator of DOGE !!