The Green Spotlight

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

Trump’s BLM is going all-in on resource extraction - High Country News The agency’s new plan for ecologically significant areas of western Oregon is not responsible forest management.

The agency’s new plan for ecologically significant areas of western Oregon is not responsible forest management.

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰19-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

White House mulls defunding civil rights election observer program that aims to protect minority voting rights, sources say The federal observer program sends neutral observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.

White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote

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We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating.

“We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming”

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

A lot of IR & political psychology theories of why leaders start foreign policy adventures and wars are being confirmed by Trump II:

-old age
-low approval ratings
-authoritarian worldview
-narcissism
-unexpected prior military success 🇻🇪
-small coterie of sychophantic advisors
-zero-sum thinking

Less than 4 weeks until April 7.

If you can’t make it to the polls, request your absentee ballot NOW. Every vote matters in this race for Northwest Georgia.

Let’s bring new leadership to Washington. #GA14

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Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Weather West update on a prolonged and very likely record-breaking March heatwave in the western U.S. that will begin Thursday in some areas & actually not reach its peak for another 7-10 days in some spots. This forecast is truly extraordinary for March.

Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004 Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

More people have died in ICE custody since October 23rd than died in the whole prior fiscal year. The most recent death was of a 56-year-old Haitian man held at an immigration detention center in Arizona. He died in a hospital after going into septic shock. www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

If you run into any problems voting today — don’t leave.

Call 888-730-5816.

Live voter protection volunteers are standing by to answer questions, address issues, and make sure your vote is counted.

Know your rights. Protect your vote. #GA14

States Are Using Policies From The 1600s To Punish Women For Miscarriages Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

NEW: Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

Here's what happens when miscarriage is recast as murder:

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

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#nuclear #nukes #war

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store"

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

“The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in America they rarely do, is that elite impunity is an American national project,” Adam Serwer writes:

Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.

Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID.
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

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The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Striking signal for much above-normal temperatures across California, the Great Basin, northern Rockies and Desert Southwest from March 15-20. Temperatures will be more typical of summer than early spring (potentially 25 degrees above normal) in many areas and monthly records could be shattered.

Women's Organizations and Resources:
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#womensrights

I feel like it should be bigger news that Trump is now openly considering a military draft. Young men haven't been called up for a draft since 1972. Not during the Gulf War. Not during Iraq or Afghanistan. He received five draft deferments but is now open to drafting your kids.

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Reuters confirmed that the elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab was bombed TWICE by the US military, 40 minutes apart.

This was intentional.

They did not "accidentally" drop two bombs 40 mins apart,
Killing 168 children and 14 teachers.

Worth remembering

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Women's Organizations and Resources:
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#womensrights

#InternationalWomensDay:
"Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls"

#womenslivesmatter
#bodilyautonomyisahumanright
#womensrightsarehumanrights
#EndMisogyny
#endrapeculture #HoldRapistsAccountable
#equalpay
#reproductivehealth

This mass killing of children is unconscionable. It bears the hallmarks of a war crime.

Trump & Hegseth must answer for the US's role & they must be held accountable. People deserve the full truth. There must be an immediate & transparent investigation.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...