Live: Senate voting on reopening mining near Boundary Waters Sen. Tina Smith spoke for hours to oppose the measure Wednesday night. If passed, the legislation would head to the president’s desk.

The U.S. Senate is currently voting on the measure to reopen mining near the Boundary Waters. Follow along for live updates:

As we await Hungary's election both for the liberation of its people and as portent for our own, let us recall the role that ridicule, resistance and refusal has played. Yes, elections can be turning points but only if movements make them so.

No one says it better than @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

The worst case scenario here is that Trump effectively cedes the Presidio to tech oligarchs so they can build the first "freedom city", which are essentially factory towns exempt from federal regulations:

www.wired.com/story/startu...

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

The cover of the book ON TYRANNY

Good Trouble Book Club today with elections in Hungary and what ever the fuck Cheetolini is doing right now ON TYRANNY by @timothysnyder.bsky.social feels extra appropriate today!

So just to recap the last five days:
-Trump agrees to let Iran charge $2million to pass thru Strait of Hormuz, not do a genocide

-Trump says there was no deal

-Trump says US might go in with Iran for a cut of the money

-Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz

25th Amendment now!

The Punching Yourself in the Face theory of foreign policy. Iran is blocking the Strait, so in response he's blocking the Strait. It'd be like George W. Bush announcing after 9/11 that we were retaliating by crashing another airplane into a New York skyscraper. That'll show 'em.

“cease fire”

Zero in on Stephen Miller as a supervillain Democrats should make Trump’s unlikable adviser the face of the GOP

As I argued in a recent Stop the Presses newsletter, the media and Democrats should focus on Stephen Miller as the ugly poster child of the Trump regime's cruelty and corruption.

Donald Trump Needs to Be Removed He is becoming increasingly dangerous and unable to perform the duties of his office, requiring the invocation of the 25th Amendment

“…our nation (and the globe) faces increasingly grave danger by allowing this man to continue to control the levers of America’s awesome power…the responsibility resides not just with Republicans but with every member of Congress…to remove Trump from power.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

I can’t wait! So cool, i seriously had been wondering about how auto-pods would look!

Trump signs an executive order to create federal voter lists The order, which is expected to be quickly challenged in court, is the president's second effort to use executive authority to shape the country's election rules.

Elections expert says Trump's new executive order on elections “will be blocked by the federals courts before the ink is dry."

🔥🔥🔥🔥This is an awesome two-fer!👇

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

The marches had no shortage of skeptics. In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king. "He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said. "And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president." He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr. Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.

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The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.)

But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

FACTS! I always skim those bits!

I can’t abide by Tom Bombadill on screen

My updated list of games I’d like to run a campaign of:
Blades in the Dark ( maybe Blades ‘68)
Shadowdark
Wildsea

The entire article is damning, and the depressing thing is that it likely would have forced Hegseth out even during Trump's first term.

Seriously I keep wondering if Metro Surge part 2 is going to happen as our weather improves. I want to know what the interiors are for all the hundreds of new vehicles that have been brought into Whipple since the “draw down”

picture of reported ICE agent talking to a Black woman at MOA

reported ICE presence at the Mall of America today

"Seen near Log Chute ride at Nickelodeon Universe. Agent wearing normal clothes, with badge in the middle of chest. He stopped a woman, asked her for US ID and raised his voice."

Opinion | Americans Deserve the Truth About Iran

The only sentence I disagree with in this @nytimes.com editorial is “There is a reasonable debate to have about the wisdom of this war.” No, there really isn’t. But that one sentence aside it’s very good! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

trump absolutely determined to fight a two-front war, against Iran and also America

Rep. Ralph Norman on ICE agents: "They were doxxed. Their homes were raided by the agitators." (This never happened -- Norman is just straight up making stuff up.)

Periodic reminder that gross negligence in office can be an impeachable offense and elected Republicans can end this any time they wish

Happy St Urho’s Day to all!
#sainturhosday