Quote of the day: "The case was seen as a major test of the first amendment and whether the government could use a broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters...

The Target boycott is not over because Target hasn't addressed the cause. Betrayal of DEI values requires significant, tangible, heartfelt, passionate embrace of DEI values and assurance the embrace will last by making structural changes. That takes time. An announcement isn't enough.

Quote of the day: "A billionaire is a machine for producing policy failures at scale." -- Cory Doctorow bit.ly/3NrAUMg

A reminder to anyone who is stressing over the possibility that Trump War will result in the need to take out a loan to fill up your gas tank, now might be a good time to invest in gasless mobility technologies. (Bikes.)

Trump is Sauron.

I am announcing that I am taking myself out of the running for the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security position. Upon reflection, I realized I am completely unqualified for the job. Unfortunately, I'm much more qualified than Markwayne Mullin. Oh dear.

Quote 2 of the day: "Every single AI story is crazier than the last. ... It’s not often you see a private company ask for their product to be used more carefully and ethically, but Pete Hegseth wants AI to be able to autonomously select human targets? Hasn’t he heard of Skynet?" -- Sonny Bunch

Used to shop at Target weekly. Haven't set foot in the store since the DEI betrayal. Based on this interview, the boycott is still on, full force. New CEO wants to win back trust with wishy-washy corporate-speak. Not persuasive. bit.ly/4smXBA6

After blowing up defenseless boats in Venezuela, the U.S. turns to hitting a defenseless Iranian frigate in international waters. Pete Hegseth is still committing war crimes and crowing about it. Vile. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

What's the most common goal of villains everywhere in movies, books, podcasts, reality? World domination. What does Trump want? Greenland. Canada. Panama. Venezuela. Cuba. Mexico. Iran. Hmmm.

Quote of the day: "Crises precipitate change. ... The world would be a better place without Vladimir Putin or Elon Musk or Donald Trump in it. But ... they transform slow-moving crises that are too gradual to galvanize action into emergencies that can’t be ignored." --Cory Doctorow bit.ly/3P416Nj

That's our money! (Or a runup of our debt, rather.)

Quote of the day: Karoline Leavitt says the Iranian regime "uses propaganda quite effectively, and unfortunately, many people in this room have fallen for that propaganda." In other words, don't fall for their propaganda. Fall for our propaganda.

Reporters: From now on, the first question to ask all candidates for any elected office in this country must be "Have you read and do you understand the Constitution?" No second question if they can't answer that one persuasively.

Ain't it always the way. In my area, we need funding for infrastructure, affordable housing, economic development. Bombing Iran is prioritizing death and destruction over the needs of the living. Again.

The Trump administration has a hard time getting its story straight. It's like they're not even trying.

Quote of the day: "We bear witness to two competing worldviews -- life as property or life as poetry -- and one of these is directly responsible for the planetary crises we now face." -- Ruha Benjamin in "Imagination: A Manifesto" (Hint: It's not the poetry one.)

Quote of the day: "Fascists never learn from history. They can't. But, really, opponents of fascism should. Stop engaging in purity arguments. Make alliances." --Trish Roberts Miller

American exceptionalism is the belief that reality does not apply to U.S. actions. Remember the Bush staffer who said, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." Remember Rumsfeld? Remember shock and awe? Apparently not. Dude, real reality always wins.

What's next? If someone enters federal prison with a heart condition are they going to say, "Well, we'll just remove your heart. That'll solve the problem." Same logic.

I think reporters might have misheard Trump when he announced his new organization recently. Bored of Peace is what he said, not Board of Peace. Get him to spell it out next time, OK?

Starting an unnecessary illegal war is industrial scale murder. Arrest Trump. Arrest Netanyahu.

Don Trump in the SOTU Tuesday: "We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. ... we're winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again."

Thoughts on the John Davidson gaffe at BAFTA. Tourette's made him say what he said, but it didn't make the thought that generated the words. He needs to offer a real apology. medium.com/@ewcrump/tou...

Aliya Rahman was removed from the SOTU last night for standing up. That was it. Just standing. Al Green was ejected for holding a sign that just said "Black people aren't apes." They apparently really hurt the feelings of MAGA Republicans. The 1st Amendment is dead, I guess.

Anthropic seems to be softening its commitment to AI development guardrails at a time when Captain Impunity (aka DoD Secretary Pete Hegseth) is pressuring the company to eliminate any restrictions on Pentagon use of its products. cnn.it/3MK7RDq

Tom Jones quotes Susan Page: “Will Trump use the [State of the Union address] to deliver a forward-looking agenda designed to boost fellow Republicans ...? Or one that exalts the achievements he claims to have already scored?”

Trump is mentioned so many times in the Epstein files that Jordan Klepper wonders: "Wouldn't it just be easier to call this 'The Trump Files featuring Jeffrey Epstein?'" Appropriate, but too long. I propose we just moosh the stars of the crimes together: "Trumpstein files." Efficient.

Dear President Obama, I think the word you were looking for was "precedented," as in all of American history as experienced by non-white people.

Quote of the day: "We don't need one perfect strategy. We need dozens of imperfect ones running at the same time. ... The mosaic doesn't require a leader. It requires participants." --Chris Armitage

Tom Jones of Poynter responding to a quote from Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray: "How does cutting a third of your staff help to make an institution 'bigger' 'relevant' and 'thriving?'" AI? Maybe the Post is going to replace the lost staff with machines (which don't unionize. Yet.)

It's nice to have something stable in this crazy world. One thing you can count on: With Trump, every accusation is a confession. Trump's DOJ charges Don Lemon with disrupting a church service, all the while ...

“You’re damn right, we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again.” -- Steve Bannon Dear Steve, Voters, by definition, do not "steal" elections. They choose their representatives. This is Civics 101 stuff.

Of course, undocumented immigrants benefit the economy because they are easy to exploit (if I'm reading this piece in The Hill right). thehill.com/opinion/immi...

Renee Good's and Alex Pretti's murders were well documented. DHS and White House officials still lied about those cases. It's such a strong pattern that we can believe the accounts of the doctors and nurses in this case. Do we have to see the footage to know the feds are lying? bit.ly/4qQwj4x

Dear America, The intense focus on the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in way dishonors their sacrifice. They were observing ICE to protect their neighbors, yet we are ignoring the deaths of those neighbors: Keith Porter, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, et al. Brown and Black lives matter.

Quote of the day: "It is a hallmark of failing societies, I've learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist." -- Omar El Akkad bit.ly/4bpn6LY

Quote of the day: "If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it 'neighborism' — a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from." -- Adam Serwer See the power of people pitching in however they can to help each other.

A child used as bait. I don't reckon family members were the only targets ICE was fishing for. Tactics like this are so cruel and offensive -- and frequent -- that it appears to be more strategic than tactical. DHS is trying to provoke anti-ICE protesters into violent response. bit.ly/3M5fofz

After the 2016 election, comedian D.L. Hughley nailed it: "America is aspirational. To me, Obama is what we would like to be. Donald Trump and his supporters are what we are." The problem isn't Trump. The problem is US (of A). Trump will be gone sooner or later. Then we lose our excuse.

Quote of the day: “We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.” -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-20...

Can US DOJ be charged with obstruction of justice? From Litman's account of this from a prosecutor's point of view, it sounds like the DOJ decision not to investigate AND hoarding evidence, should ought to count as obstruction (says me, untutored as I am in such matters). bit.ly/4qZIps2

And FYI, Theoharis' book on the Civil Rights Movement, "A More Beautiful and Terrible History" is terrific. She peers behind and around the legends and distortions.

As horrifying as it is to watch our government’s brutality and cruelty in the street of Minneapolis, it is even more inspiring to see good people driving armed goons out of their neighborhoods and refusing to give up their liberty without a fight. www.headsupnews.org/p/resisting-...

QoD: “Trump’s very dubious characterization of Renee Good as having been disrespectful is not only factually suspect, but it’s legally irrelevant. The police do not have the right to shoot people in the head because they consider them having acted in a disrespectful way.” -- Jamie Raskin

Dang. Donald Trump apparently is willing to do more to protect Iranians from violent security forces than Americans from ICE. Not sure how this fits into the America First thing. "US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran if security forces respond with force." cnn.it/4puSFqV

ICE = barbarians bit.ly/4qH2B1B

Thank you, NPR, for creating an important archival resource that will help repudiate MAGA revisionist history. n.pr/49GCuC9

You know, if you watch the Jan. 6 videos, then look at the Operation Midway Blitz videos, the behavior of the attackers looks pretty similar. I wonder if anyone has tracked how many pardoned J6ers have been hired by ICE or CBP?

The good old Declaration of Independence, one of those dusty old documents that stands the test of time. bit.ly/3Yo0T9q