Corporate profits are at an all time high. These profits jumped significantly during the pandemic and never subsided.

One chart can't explain everything but this one says quite a lot.

Force at Full Price What Viktor Orbán's loss can teach us about Donald Trump's fate

Darcy knows things.
burnery.substack.com/p/force-at-f...

Emergency Pod: The Live Nation Ticketmaster Verdict State AGs pick up the Fed's slack and win one for the fans.

We did an emergency pod on the Live Nation Ticketmaster verdict, going through the entire history of Live Nation, how the Justice Department tried to sabotage the case, & what it means for Live Nation and other large companies that state AGs stepped up and won.
www.organizedmoney.fm/p/emergency-...

Campfire Politics | Substack A weekly progressive political digest. The best thinking from across the left, curated with a wry eye and zero patience for bullshit. Like The Week, but with a backbone. Click to read Campfire Politic...

Added to my daily reads

Khan vs. Cutter: A Tale of Two Careers - The American Prospect It was the age of corruption, and maybe, it was also the age of integrity.

Choices.

VOUCHER SCAM: “Welfare for the wealthy. We just gave $300 MILLION for private school vouchers.”

MEMPHIS Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on why he oppose the @WilliamLamberth @GovBillLee voucher expansion bill that passed the house tonight.

(@repgillespie voted yes)

How the Iran War Threatens the AI Economy - The American Prospect Supply chain disruptions threaten the flow of computer chips, which power AI models.

Many of the components stuck in the Persian Gulf (with now double blockades) specifically impact the semiconductor sector, which was already devoting more attention to AI data centers than consumer electronics, making everything we buy costlier. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story.

Today was a very long, but very good day. Honored to help @flyingwithsara.bsky.social bring her vision into the world. Please follow @unionnow.org and if you can chip in a few bucks to help us organize the shit out of this country.

Citizen I.C.E. by Dropkick Murphys & Haywire 617 on Apple Music Song · 2026 · Duration 1:23

How is it that I have only just started listening to Dropkick Murphys?

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

We got hit with a community standards violation for posting links asking you to contact businesses about the Forest Service dismantling. But it worked Patagonia listened. Because of the issue on FB, we’re building a dedicated website for that kind of action. We’re hoping to have it live by Monday!

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for issuing secret guidance instructing immigration agents to enter homes without a warrant.

Sending masked, federal agents with military rifles and no judicial warrant to invade homes is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

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#BuhBYE

Private Equity’s Great Escape - The American Prospect The industry bought companies for too much money and made a bunch of bad loans. Now they’re scrambling to avoid the reckoning.

I'll need another slow read to absorb this adequately, "extend and pretend" is a handy phrase to help me visualize it.

10 days later out little fluffy nugget is starting to turn into a slightly larger muppet 🪶 🐣

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has:

-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies
-Cracked down on bad landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets

This is what leadership looks like.

Trump “Rewired Their Moral Circuitry” - Digby's Hullabaloo MAGA is at war with conservatism Over the course of the Trump era it has become harder year after year to sympathize with neighbors and family who gave themselves over to Trump and his MAGA movement. ...

It's become harder to sympathize with people who gave themselves over to Trump's MAGA movement. Anderson Clayton, the 28-year-old who chairs the NC Democratic Party, urges better. Clayton said, “I’d pull up a chair and have a conversation with them any day in my life.”
digbysblog.net/2026/03/23/t...

Make ducks, not war.

Organized Money: The Live Nation Case - The American Prospect Why your event tickets are sky-high is even more infuriating than you can imagine.

Worse than the mob, the promoter said. This is an excellent listen.

Dalton Trumbo Bill Stout Interview, January 1959 YouTube video by Mitzi Trumbo

Dig this.

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For some reason, The Handmaid’s Tale didn’t make it into this Venn diagram, but perhaps The Tradwife’s Tale will.

This is one story that should be blasted every day

Senate Democrats Should Kill the Filibuster - The American Prospect Republicans are trying to ram through Trump’s latest attack on voting rights. If they have to abolish the filibuster to do it, fine.

If we can block the SAVE Act with a filibuster, do it. "But if some end run is proposed...Senate Democrats should insist instead on ending the filibuster altogether."

The Curious Case of Election-Denying White Supremacist Freakshow Joe Kent There must certainly be a word-stacking German term for the uncanny feeling...

Every single word of this.

Opinion | Could This Be the End of Dubai?

This from professor Richard Florida about Dubai, but more about identity and place and kinship and the lack of such.

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Elizabeth Warren’s Amazingly Progressive Housing Bill - The American Prospect How the Massachusetts senator enlisted most Senate Republicans to support sweeping legislation.

Says Kuttner: "The substantive strategy of one part regulatory constraints on predatory landlords, one part new federal housing money, and one part eased zoning and other bureaucratic restrictions also perfectly chimed with the “Mamdani moment.” Warren! Love her so very much.

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes.
prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match.

This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.

I hope the pilots flying these planes know they too will be put on trial for their role in this.