JUST IN: Judge Rossie Alston (Trump/EDVA) dismisses for 2nd time fmr Trump-Kennedy Center chief Richard Grenell's libel suit over ex-Pence aide Olivia Troye's claim that Grenell tried to get Pence to meet white supremacists in Germany. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Live updates: Senate Democrats have made their latest counteroffer to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Wednesday, continuing the back-and-forth aimed at ending the stalemate on Capitol Hill.

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

$1.5 billion. Five minutes before Trump's post. On a Monday morning with no scheduled news. Somebody knew. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Holy shit www.wsj.com/tech/meta-an...

“If the U.S. wants to reopen the Strait, it has only two real options: reach an agreement with Iran—or use overwhelming force. There is no third option.” Danny Citrinowicz Former head of Iran branch of Israeli defense intelligence Citrinowicz publicly warned against the Iran War before it began.

counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.

President Trump's approval rating fell in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House, hit by a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/4rXCELx

ALERT: State of Minnesota files federal civil lawsuit against Trump Admin They’re seeking court order to force Admin to hand over records about killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti Here it is, you can read thru it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, accusing its top law enforcement agencies of withholding evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

At the same time the Trump administration is gutting the number of civil servants, we have never had more political appointees. Some of this violates the law (e.g. not more than 10% of the Senior Executive Service are supposed to be appointees). ourpublicservice.org/publications...

Eliot Jacobson: Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024. This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.

The 'green' fuel market supplying Europe with used cooking oil, appears to be rife with fraud. An investigation by SVT has uncovered that the world's largest producer of biofuel for aviation, Neste, is likely receiving virgin palm oil instead of recycled frying oil.

Cory if they're not doing what they need to do to stop what this administration does then they are NOT GOOD PEOPLE. Thank you for listening to my TED talk

Then they aren't "really good people"; they're over-privileged cowards.

Booker: "There are really good people in the Senate on both sides of the aisle, and I have these private conversations with my colleagues about what's wrong. But they're afraid or unwilling to say these things publicly. And that is the crisis that we're in. It's a crisis of conviction."

There are a lot of rich and powerful people who enabled, funded and took part in Epstein’s crimes. Trump is protecting the Epstein class because he is part of the Epstein class. He says so himself.

Zooming out, it’s clear that Epstein was the head of a major criminal enterprise. Sex trafficking, money laundering, probably drugs. Trump, Bondi and Blanche want to shut down all investigation and keep it quiet.

There is a lot more to read here, including Black’s abuse of tax shelters and the possibility that he and Epstein’s lawyers conspired to violate U.S. tax laws.

Epstein met with Russian government officials and Russian state-owned entities more than a dozen times between 2015 and 2017. Many of those meetings took place within hours of separate meetings between Epstein and Black.

Documents also show Epstein was in contact with a prominent Russian government official and provided the location of a woman who was on Black’s payroll. Epstein asked for “suggestions” on how to deal with her.

Major mid-day update: ICE agents run from photographers at airports out of fears of being photographed. Trump rejects deal to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard—telling Republicans to tie the SAVE Act to TSA funding and to do it for Jesus. Supreme Court poised to gut mail in ballots.

Apparently San Francisco

- Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (San Juan, Puerto Rico) - Newark Liberty International Airport - Philadelphia International Airport - Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - Pittsburgh International Airport - Southwest Florida International Airport (Fort Myers, Florida)

- John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York) - LaGuardia Airport (New York) - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

These are the airports where ICE is currently present: - Chicago-O'Hare International Airport - Cleveland Hopkins International Airport - Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - Houston's William P. Hobby Airport - Houston's Bush intercontential

This was part of the plan, by dismantling and removing mail sorting machines. Here in Bozeman, Montana it took 10 days to send a local envelope - from the time it was put in outgoing mail, to the time it was received by the recipient.

NEW: The fate of mail ballot grace periods remains unclear as the Supreme Court appeared split on the question of when a vote is actually made — when a ballot is cast or when election officials receive it? If it decides the latter, tens of millions of mail voters could be disenfranchised.

okay maybe i'll make posters

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Bondi: "I think the unsung hero in all of this is Stephen Miller. Stephen is the architect of making all these plans work."

The bad news is they’re going to kill people, the good news is probably not that many people?

Survey says…

Dem Senators Fetterman and Heinrich voted in favor. Senators Booker, Coons, Durbin, Gallego, Kaine, Kelly, Paul, Peters, & Shaheen did not vote.

By a vote of 54-37, the Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary of @DHSgov.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Robert Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, died on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. He was 81. www.ms.now/news/former-...

You have to love GOP and MAGA now telling people to work from home because of gas prices. I'm old enough to remember when that weak woke lib stuff

I feel the same!! It can’t come soon enough!

Not a bonespur in sight

Yikes! I've had copyeditors who seemingly have never set foot outdoors (or in Florida) "correct" plant and place names and add back a period after every Rd and St in a guidebook after I made it clear no periods needed for those abbreviations in an address. But dialogue corrections? Egads!

I see the "writer" whose novel just got tanked for being "AI" is blaming it all on an editor who allegedly rewrote substantial portions of the novel using an LLM. So, a) why would you use an "editor" like that, b) I reread reach my novels a dozen times during the pre-pub process, this excuse is bunk

As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.

Tribune editorial: ICE is a murderously rogue federal agency and they have no need for a massive detention center in Utah. Once it’s built, though, you can be sure they will fill it, one way or another.

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CATO: “.. After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/strateg...

Republican says he lied about racist posts on porn site to protect Trump

What's telling here, of course, is that Trump has always insisted Mueller CLEARED him Trump's psychotic reaction here suggests: even TRUMP knows Mueller DID NOT clear him

NEW: Public hearing scheduled for Tuesday for here in DC led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) & Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) featuring "young Americans will offer testimony about their personal experiences being assaulted or separated from their families by DHS agents"