Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion 💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million Have a great day!

This is Hazel. She did some minor redecorating while you were out. Hopes you like it. 12/10 (TT: kelly_smith02_)

DTF ST. LOUIS is pretty great so far.

Powerful, gripping new story by @garrettepps.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com, about the reaction in small-town coastal Oregon when ICE and the "deportation industrial complex" arrived. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/09/i...

In the 1980s, I taught ESL in Taiwan, where Chinese students would often choose odd names for themselves: Rambo, Pretty, etc. One guy went with Hero and I told him, "Yeah, that's not a name." You either die correct or live long enough to be wrong about everything. www.imdb.com/name/nm28420...

I wrote on @boingboing.net about Minnesota cartoonist Steve Sack storming out of retirement to take on ICE... and he had to do it with his left hand @stevesack.bsky.social - boingboing.net/2026/03/09/m... h/t @derfbackderf.bsky.social

Your semi-annual reminder that we tried going permanent DST in the winter of '74 and parents freaked because kids were walking to school in pitch dark. I was one of those kids. Anyway, I don't mind changing time twice a year. I get the logic behind it. And it's not hard to do.

As though we needed any more evidence that Fox "News" is a mendacious propaganda machine and not remotely a serious journalistic enterprise. Still, this is pretty astounding.

The government’s official story would unravel in court — refuted by video surveillance, crime scene photos and witness statements.

Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Trump has urged the 92 million people of Iran to rise up and seize control of the country. A draft dodger whose mythical bone spurs allowed him to avoid serving in Vietnam, he wants average citizens trapped within war to summon a courage he will never know.

This is beyond pathetic, but the hypocrisy is overwhelming, too. Once again, the conservative right is using the images of a business, moviemaking, that it disparages daily as "liberal Hollywood."

“War-a-Lago” By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com

Trump and Hegseth are making Captain Stillman look like Patton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shtn...

This is gonna be a good look in the Middle East.

All the firms who caved, hang your heads. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

What is David Cronenberg KNOWN FOR? IMDb: Cronenberg? Yeah, he's a bit actor who does mostly uncredited work, but he did get a credit for playing the gynecologist in the 1986 horror flick “The Fly.” Also directs a little. eriklundegaard.com/item/what-is...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

No justification, no authorization from Congress, and no clear objective. But none of that matters to Donald Trump — and apparently neither do the safety and lives of American service members.

The NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/medicaid-funds-minnesota.html

WHAT WERE THOSE “NOTES”? I’m tired of new euphemisms for “racist rantings of a racist” dropping all the time. “Familiar notes.” My god.

Trump celebrating that they changed the name of Fort Bragg back to once again honor Braxton Bragg, a white supremacist traitor who waged war on the United States so he could keep owning other human beings, and whose incompetence as a general was matched only by his cruelty to his own soldiers

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

I've got three. eriklundegaard.com/item/how-man...

Jesus, @nytimes.com. You’re hopeless and unfixable. He does not “vow to maneuver around the decision”; he’s vowing to ignore the law. How credulous can you possibly be?!? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

NYT finally comes through with a skeptical look at Trump’s basically nonexistent case for war against Iran. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

"The expulsion of Heraskevych ensures that, as in 1980, the lasting memory of the 2026 Games will be absence." Great article.

I know it's later undercut by the smallpox quarantine scene, but the shots of the immigrants arriving in NY Harbor in GODFATHER II is inspiring, and, given Trump's immigration/deportation policies, devastating.

Ride the Tesla RoboTaxi: only one out of every three will get into an accident! sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

Exactly

“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

The concept of “lying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

Administrative warrants are hall passes written by the bad kids at school

It's called PROJECTION, and Trump does it daily. Blaming others for what he is doing, has done, or will be doing. PROJECTION.

Dear IMDb, Amazon, assholes, can you do nothing right? This is on Robert Duvall's IMDb page. Can you not even fucking subtract anymore?

This is so great.

100%

"Duvall’s essence was found in the flicker between mischief and sorrow, between the hope of overcoming the past and the longing to return to it. ... I’m torn between gratitude for what he showed me and sadness that he won’t do it again. Here’s to the sunny slopes of long ago."

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

Kuz takes his boots-on-the-ground reporting to his native Mpls. and its battles with ICE. “Unlike them, we obey traffic laws,” said Tuna, 35, a teacher by profession. He had reverted to a calm classroom tone. “I’m a noise instigator. I try to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible.”

The breadth of underground aid networks in Minneapolis — like the dogged efforts of legal observers tracking ICE — inspire MAGA conspiracies of Democratic leaders orchestrating the strategies of residents. The notion amuses Marion. “They’ll say we’re paid protesters. Nah. We’re just neighbors.”

From Edward G. Robinson's post-blacklist time in the wilderness. Leaving HBO soon. 📽️ eriklundegaard.com/item/movie-r...