David Rotenstein

I saw that John Hammond died last weekend. He was talented and an incredibly kind soul. I interviewed him after a set during a Phila. Blues Festival and I had no voice: allergy induced laryngitis. His compassion for my inability to speak clearly made it one of my most memorable interviews.

What did I miss? Should I go ahead and use all of my Dunkin rewards before the government shuts down Dunkin? Are my coffees really going to kill me?

Louisiana crawfish industry struggles with limited foreign workers, ag commissioner says Crawfish processing plants in Louisiana are at a diminished capacity this year because they haven’t been able to get as many visas for the foreign guest workers who make up their labor force,…

A lack of visas for foreign guest workers has limited the capacity of Louisiana crawfish processing plants to handle this season's harvest.

via @lailluminator.com

And let's not forget the "Donald J. Trump School of Law."

Next up: a special bar exam & licensing regime administered by the DOJ for DOJ attorneys.

Florence, Kentucky, y'all. It's where only certain types of national political discussions are welcomed. Xenophobic racist jokes are okay; taking a position against concentration camps isn't.

praying they don't fix the headline

www.kctv5.com/video/2026/0...

Since moving to Northern Kentucky last summer, I've had fewer respiratory issues than I did while living in Pittsburgh. Less coughing, less congestion, and generally better feeling.

@mortenmorland.bsky.social

I hope these numbfucks don't inspire a headline that reads "... the first time Americans have used nuclear weapons since World War II."

That doesn't look like Corey Lewandowski!

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

Personally, I would have gone with "concentration camps" or "internment camps." But hey, what do I know ...
nkytribune.com/2026/03/flor...

I wish that I could ID the troll who subscribed me to this crap.

Props to my former US Rep. Jamie Raskin!

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

The war is about trying to make DJT look good.

That’s it.

So the dead should be ignored.

The bloody immorality…

Raskin tears Kristi Noem a new one: "Apparently when your blankie was left on one of the govt jets and not transported to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fight the pilot -- mid air!"

‘Cheap’ and ‘Appalling’: Trump’s Ballroom Plans Receive a Flood of Negative Comments

‘Cheap’ and ‘Appalling’: Trump’s Ballroom Plans Receive a Flood of Negative Comments
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

I wonder if the story I just wrote would be published sooner if I tagged it as a "press release"?

Ann Telnaes

No code of ethics, no style guide — that’s not journalistic freedom. That’s just dumb.

Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.

In a normal country, this level of corruption would generate huge headlines across the media landscape.

Hero Donald Trump and Iran

Hero
Trump and the war with Iran
by @deAdder
Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Here’s where National Park material is under review A leaked database of proposed revisions, mapped.

Took that leaked database of proposed changes to the historic presentations at national sites and mapped them. www.pbump.net/o/heres-wher...

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Sarah Kendzior Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Calculated Iran Move

"Trump has no ideological commitment. He likes his foreign policy 'one and done': kidnap Venezuela's prez, drop a MOAB on Afghanistan. He sees it like reality TV: these are plot twists in his season finales. I’m worried the war on Iran is a series finale — for Earth."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

Unsolicited advice for freelance journalists: Get a contract. If the newsroom refuses to give you a contract, move on. The temporary loss in income will be far less than the potential legal costs you'll incur trying to enforce the terms of a handshake deal or email agreement. Bonus advice: If you can afford an attorney to review th contract, go for it. You won't regret it.

Unsolicited advice for freelance journalists: Get a contract. If the newsroom refuses to give you a contract, move on.

Fitch Downgrades Paramount After Warner Bros. Deal Announcement The $81 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery is highly complex and poses credit risks, Fitch Ratings said.

After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status

Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk

www.wsj.com/business/med...