1 in 4 voters potentially affected by this.🤬🤬🤬🤬

BREAKING: At least 50 people injured, 35 of them seriously, in fire at Daejeon, South Korea factory. - Yonhap

Gold set for third weekly fall on hawkish US Fed, elevated dollar reut.rs/4sUZh43

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. n.pr/4uG99Am

Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu suggests need for ‘ground component’ in Iran war

Finkelstein reveals: Iran and every other Middle Eastern state agreed to a weapons of mass destruction free zone. The only country blocking it? Israel. The only one refusing to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty? Also Israel. So who's really blocking peace in the Middle East? The answer is clear.

Fire breaks out at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery due to drone attack, state petroleum company says; multiple units shut down https://www.factal.com

NEW: Israeli strikes on Iranian internal security forces, including decapitation strikes, have likely caused shock and confusion within the Iranian internal security apparatus and disrupted internal security operations to some degree. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...

Air defenses in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait responded to missile fire early Friday, authorities said, while Saudi Arabia reported intercepting drone attacks.

There is a PHOTOEX going on off the coast of Australia. I count 24 ships. 🇦🇺🇨🇰🇨🇦🇫🇯🇫🇷🇮🇩🇮🇳🇯🇵🇰🇮🇲🇾🇳🇿🇵🇬🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇭🇼🇸

I'm sure this is fine: A single TV company will serve 80% of American households.

This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!

NEW | Ukraine has been imposing increasing challenges on Russia at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels since the beginning of 2026. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

BREAKING Emirati and Kuwaiti air defences responding to missile fire early Friday, authorities in the Gulf states say, while Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted drone attacks

The U.S. is accelerating the deployment of thousands more Marines and sailors to the Middle East, according to NBC News.

Man it is SO HOT 25 degrees above average for this time of year Absolutely nuts

BREAKING: DOJ appeals Tuesday ruling that would send Voice of America employees back to work next week. The appeal goes to the D.C. Circuit. Earlier brief at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/i/190855012/... DOJ notice of appeal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Six major international powers say they are ready "to contribute to" ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, though three stressed that any initiative would take place post-ceasefire u.afp.com/SLLP

Kuwait is responding to incoming missile and drone attacks.

UAE dealing with incoming missile threat.

UAE says it dismantled 'terrorist network' funded by Iran and Hezbollah reut.rs/4uH3FoT

Aliya Rahman, whose arrest during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis went viral, will not face charges after she was arrested at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in February.

For Trump’s next trick, he’s going to make a much of MAGA supporters (who told you not to vote for Harris because she would send your kids to war) cheer for a land war in the Middle East.

Betancourt: I got invited to the vigil outside of Alligator Alcatraz because I’m not going to sit here knowing that my dad is in the infirmary unit at Alligator Alcatraz, shackled by his waist, his legs, and his arms to a bed 24 hours a day.

Pete Hegseth is using the deaths of American servicemembers to push his own political agenda. A Gold Star father explicitly says he never told Hegseth to “finish the job” in Iran, despite Hegseth’s claims. Exploiting grieving families with lies is a disqualifying lack of integrity.

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Saudi Arabia’s oil officials are working frantically to project how high oil prices might go if the Iran war and its disruption of energy supplies doesn’t end soon—and they don’t like what they are seeing.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

When are we getting these new Trump Freedom Cities?

“.. The indictment says the defendants used a company based in south-east Asia .. to ship Nvidia’s chips from Taiwan .. to China using third-party brokers. The scheme included repackaging Supermicro’s servers and placing them in unmarked boxes ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d605...

Quite a headline.

Colombian town of Facatativa hit by floods after heavy rain and river overflow 📸 Raul Arboleda

Trump is seeking to lower the profile of his deportation push, telling advisers to focus more on arresting criminals and less on broad “mass deportation,” which he believes voters dislike, the Wall Street Journal reports.

*walks into the Nazi bar, stays there for several years* ”hey, this place is full of Nazis”

It should be illegal for one of the best Dallas dive bars, which serves excellent Vietnamese food, to have a kitchen takeover serving Tex Mex. I already have enough access to Tex Mex.

What a paragraph. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Rocket notifications around Haifa

Zamani: Democratic backsliding often intensifies before it reverses, so it can feel like things are worse, but what works is sustained visible opposition. Our presence has a real consequences. Our absences would have allowed for further escalation

The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important. The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Shrinkflation takes a bite out of Easter eggs as shoppers pay more for less

Im shocked that Hegseth would lie about this. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The Israeli prime minister said the war ‘will take as long as necessary’ for Israel’s goals to be achieved, but added in response to a question: ‘I see this war ending a lot faster than people think.’ ft.trib.al/8suhct4

SCOOP: Nashville Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released From ICE Detention migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-n...

I like to tell students that AI is designed to find the average and delivers exactly that -- the most common observations, written in the blandest prose. But this actually seems *below* average.

EU exec to propose lower electricity taxes to counter Iran price shock reut.rs/4uE8FKT

“Leave a Future” is the University of Minnesota’s first new tagline in 20 years. People aren’t quite sure what it means, or what to think of it.

Stephan: This is really not about red versus blue. It is not about conservative versus progressive. It is about democracy versus authoritarianism. It is about freedom versus tyranny. It is about love and solidarity versus greed and hate.

One of the few counties that voted against Trump in 2024, and is now in ICE's 287(g) program, is Montana's Gallatin. (=Bozeman.) I'd identified it as a pivotal sheriff election for that reason: see below. Well: The filing deadline has passed. No one ended up challenging GOP incumbent Dan Springer.

The FCC has signed off on broadcast station owner Nexstar’s $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival company Tegna, a merger that would create the largest operator of local television stations in the country. - NBC

I am a commercial contracts attorney and I have seen agreements obviously generated by AI. Do not do this unless you enjoy being sued.

FUNDSTRAT: “.. For now, it’s right to be defensive, as trends are bearish .. and have gotten worse in recent days, while momentum is negatively sloped and there’s no evidence of any counter-trend exhaustion, nor capitulation. .. “.. it should pay to be very diversified and not ‘take big bets’.”