A 40% increase to $1.5 trillion dollars for defense. In recent days the president has said it's not possible to fund Medicare, Medicaid and childcare because "We're fighting wars". www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Some good news for good journalism in this story. Super happy to read about the growth of the Sahan Journal of Minneapolis. I had an opportunity to meet with its founder when he was a Star Tribune reporter doing a story on an organization I worked for. Also happy to see MinnPost on this list!

What a great story. Just read it when you have a few minutes. (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/s...

I learned two things from this: Big commercial interests apparently cut their losses and run when it comes to bees, and there are great humans in the world doing their best to save as many bees as possible. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order creating a nationwide list of verified eligible voters, a move that is sure to draw legal challenges as the president continues to demand further restrictions on voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Hmmm. If only the U.S. had a way to reach these people, as well as those cut off from the internet in Iran. We could call it - Voice of America! Oh, wait.... Trump gutted it. I wonder how much Putin paid him to do that? (GIFT LINK)

Hey - people in the U.S. who love our democratic republic - what is your plan for tomorrow? I will be there with my U.S. flag, my cowbell (we always need more) and my voice. We sure could use yours as well. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Even the author of the SAVE Act admits it will make it harder for married women to vote. Also older folks - try to get a decades old birth certificate that was never digitized from a state in which you no longer lives. Every time you move, you need to prove you are a citizen to re-register.

President Trump took advantage of mail-in voting this week in a special election in Florida, even as he criticized mail-in ballots as 'cheating' in his push for national legislation to enact new voting regulations reut.rs/486n9cR

Musk’s own posts on X were cited as part of the lawsuit's claims that the executive branch made an “extreme legal error” in allowing him to assume an outsized government role.

The Trump S$%t Show will be harming American health for years to come. It will be interesting to see if life expectancies fall in the U.S. as the result of this, or if the rate of diseases or bad outcomes from diseases go up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Funny how it was not a problem to bring it up daily with Biden - but off limits for MSM when it comes to Trump. That's what happens with a corrupt regime. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

From Snopes - a Canadian mom with a valid work visa and her daughter taken into ICE custody. Trump's vision of the "worst of the worst". Great job MAGA voters! Still cheering for mass deportation as they await their tariff checks. www.snopes.com/news/2026/03...

DOGE boys took all our social security info for a reason. We were never told where that info went. Heather Cox Richardson covers the Epstein Files in the first part of her dispatch - damning enough. But do read on to the part about DOGE. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"The fact that people are betting on wars and conflict and people dying is gross. This is war, not a game." - Journalist Emanuel Fabian commenting after he received death threats from gamblers for accurately reporting on an Iranian missile launch. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

COMMENTARY: For communities looking to move on from honors for Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta is right there. She's always been right there.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The United States is sending a 2,500-strong Marine expeditionary force to the Middle East, signaling deepening American involvement in the 2-week-old Iran war. bit.ly/3Pae3Fs

As Trump and the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) work feverishly to Make America Third-Rate, scientists are searching for new avenues to pursue their research. It shouldn't be this hard. (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

What's at stake for Anthropic and all U.S. businesses under the regime's mafia tactics (GIFT LINK) www.wsj.com/business/ant...

Trump concedes to Putin (again)- suspending oil sanctions against Russia. Big win for Putin - while industry experts say it's not going to help mitigate the oil shortage caused by Trump'a Iran war in any meaningful way. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days. The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished. Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me. My latest for @nbcnews.com

The Trump regime has already approved three new PFAS pesticides for our food. And it appears PFAS is all over our non-organic fruits and vegetables: www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/h...

Al Jazeera has a very good tracker of the deaths and injuries in the Iran war. It would be striking, however, if they ran a separate tally for guest workers, bc by far the most frequent victims in the Gulf states are guest workers, often from S Asia. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

"Even before the war began, most Republicans privately acknowledged that keeping the House would be challenging. Now they will be forced to defend a war that, polls show, Americans didn’t want. Already, seven U.S. soldiers have died, and approximately 140 more have been injured."

Trump's corrupt pardon industry is alive and well with pardon seekers offering to pay as much as $1 million or more in hopes of securing their freedom.

We knew this would happen the minute Elon Musk’s college interns were given access to our Social Security data and immediately moved it offsite to an undisclosed location - over the objection of longtime staff. Musk should be held liable if this is true and people should be jailed.

An attack on Iraq’s Basra port killed at least one person and caused authorities to halt operations at all the country’s oil terminals, officials said Thursday.

'Doomsday plane' performs exercises in Fresno, stoking fears as war escalates

The rank-and-file career federal prosecutors at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division who specialize in excessive force cases are not playing any role in the investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by two federal agents www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-civ...

BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms. This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.

This seems like a monumentally bad idea. Life on earth is the result of an incredible sequence of events that came about by happenstance. Messing with the night sky to light up some solar panels seems like a great way to add to the earth's stressors. (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...

Welp. 60 Minutes reporting that the CIA covered up Havana Syndrome and that undercover DHS agents secretly acquired a small pulsed microwave device from the Russians, tested it on animals, and found the same injuries that the victims have. GREAT youtu.be/C1jmAj9OUOs?...

Article from CJR brings interesting perspective: Independent journalists are more of a threat to the regime, because there is no corporation to threaten on a regulatory front. Article considers evident Lemon and Fort might not be facing charges, had their reporting been pro-regime.

BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed his father as Iran's next supreme leader

Trump's dislike of renewable energy is likely because Big Oil lines his pockets. But I've long thought about renewables in terms of national security AND an environmental win. I'm not the only one. Paul Krugman has more on how trump's policies are dumb & dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Robot vacuum army, anyone? "The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing." www.popsci.com/technology/r...

Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike

I don't think that the SAVE act includes anything about points 4 or 5? I think he's just throwing in some anti-trans stuff into his post for the fun of it?

We know the patriarchy has been damaging to women. I believe it's damaging to men as well. I had not thought of it in terms of the Epstein Class - but it's an obvious connection. This article takes a few minutes - but it's very interesting. open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

The Pentagon on Tuesday said that Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake was among those killed during an “unmanned aircraft system attack” in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. It remains under investigation. Amor had served in the military for more than 20 years.

What the United States has become for too many - a place to leave. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

I saw this last night and I’m still nauseous