Rep. Jayapal brought 4 Americans into the hearing room, detained by ICE, never charged, never asked about citizenship, arrested simply for protesting.

Noem's response? "Context is critical."

Jayapal's response: resign, be fired, or be impeached. 170+ Americans detained.
Time for consequences.

Kavanaugh stops are unconstitutional.

The Terrifying Tentacles of Paramount’s Media Empire The Ellisons are building a multicorporate network of data mining, surveillance, news, and entertainment. What could possibly go wrong?

That Ellison video is part of this excellent Ringer essay by @brianphillips.bsky.social. Highly recommended reading.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

I recommend watching this entire episode of the latest "Last Week Tonight." It emphasizes, among other things, that cameras are only as good as the people who control the data and the release of that data. (the opening sections on Patel and Bongino are exquisite and bonus)

What a terrifying and dystopian vision of the future by the guy who is about to own a huge swath of everything on our screens. This is from 2024.

Lawless authoritarianism:
-"How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times"
-"Officials Violated More Than 50 Court Orders in NJ"
-"ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January"
-"The judge then provided an additional count of 113 more court orders violated in 77 more cases"

Tim Apple, Epstein-friend Bill Gates Microsoft and corp criminal drug pusher Eli Lilly are all so antisocial they register their corps in Ireland to avoid/evade US taxes ie escape funding public interest projects for Americans

Thom Tillis angry face.

Now Thom Tillis laying into Noem.

US Commanders Want to Make War With Iran as ‘Bloody’ as Possible to Bring About Biblical End Times, Officers Report | Common Dreams One noncommissioned officer said he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was "anointed by Jesus" and that war with Iran was "all part of God’s divine plan" to bring about armageddon.

“Many of their commanders,” he added, “are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be, zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end-of-the-world eschatology.”

Sadistic psychopathic Maga

The NIMBY anti-ICE. Being property-owners, they’re likely to find conservative judges sympathetic to their cause, besides everyone else already troubled by or opposed to the Trump admin patterns and plans for human rights and law violations.

There's a bias at The Atlantic.

From my essay, "The plan is to have no plan." May 2020. pressthink.org/2020/05/the-...

The $$$ transfer in the BBB to the top, to the military, to the AI exploiters, to the weapons manufacturers and the prison industrial complex paints a terrifying picture. Few people are bringing all these pieces together under a Christian Supremacist movement. Remember Project 2025 & Project Esther

The PNAC Cheney Bush admin got & used 9/11 to justify their desired regime change wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus an endless war of terror for MIC profits.

70% believed the neocon lies, but Trump is already despised, and a false flag or legit threat won’t change his or Maga Gop’s prospects.

Cheney, Bush, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al had to tell 935 lies on over 500 occasions to pimp their bogus ‘Iraq WMD & terror’ war for oil & hegemony.

Trump is more brazen, with flimsier pretexts and more obvious lies, but unlike the PNAC neocons, he *may* not escape accountability.

New York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to “support any news organization dedicated to original reporting” The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has voiced a new ad encouraging listeners to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting — even if it's not the Times. It's Sulzberger's...

"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting."

A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed

AYMAN: Where?

LUNA: Are you serious right now?

AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

Read these two screen shots from businessinsider.com

Today would be a GREAT day to remember to meditate, even for just five minutes.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I say five minutes because perfectionism is a killer of progress, and I know the odds of you sitting longer than five greatly increase if you just get there!

Each one of the 100-plus schoolgirls murdered by Zionist-Crusader missiles is worth more than the dead mass murderer Khamenei. Note too that the Zionists are using the distraction to reinforce the hunger genocide in Gaza and the burning and land theft in the West Bank.

OpeanAI Altman, irredeemably antisocial garbage

Sickening, disqualifying statement from #Ohio Democrat Greg Landsman. Defending an illegal war and the murder of 80+ school children should be career-ending
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

Landsman needs to lose the May 5th Dem primary

Support his opponent, Damon Lynch: FriendsOfDamonLynch.com

That famous line from "Anchorman" comes to mind today: "Boy, that escalated quickly." But with Netflix and Warner, "that fizzled quickly."

If you're a media watcher who wants to know what happened yesterday, I recommend a careful reading of @brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter's attempt at explaining it, "CNN braces for a new owner."

Suspend without discarding your assumptions is my advice.

view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

Washington Post:

"Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Press critic @froomkin.bsky.social:

“Extremists urge Trump to claim election power based on fictitious national emergency.”

presswatchers.org/2026/02/at-t...

Will Gov DeWine save Ohio from this Columbus Democrat? A Democratic senator from Columbus just passed a voter suppression bill through the Ohio House

TAKE ACTION — Help stop #Ohio from banning and punishing Ranked Choice Voting:

www.rachelcoyle.wtf/p/with-democ... #rankedchoicevoting #rcv

The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios As media empires, from The Washington Post to CBS News, continue to be dealt significant blows, uncertainties abound about the remaining strength of a once robust American press lands...

From @onthemedia.bsky.social A rocking interview about media capture from mid-19th century to now. Clear, detailed, with helpful comparison to systems other than ours. Can't say enough about it. With @victorpickard.bsky.social, a brilliantly accessible expert.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Should have been in public.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Netflix drops out of bidding after WBD deems Paramount’s takeover bid ‘superior’ | CNN Business Netflix said Thursday afternoon that it has “declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros.” after the Warner Bros. Discovery board determined that Paramount has submitted a “superior” offer.

Netflix drops out of bidding after WBD deems Paramount’s takeover bid ‘superior.’

by @brianstelter.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/m...

"The announcement means that Paramount has suddenly moved much closer to taking over CNN and the rest of the assets owned by WBD."