On April 5, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps, a cornerstone of the New Deal.

Headline "Bill Ackman says it's one of the best times in a long time to buy quality stocks."

And who could you possibly trust more than this guy...

/s

QUINNIPIAC: “.. 71 percent of white-collar workers and 73 percent of blue-collar workers think advancements in AI are likely to lead to a decrease in the number of job opportunities ..”

@quinnipiac.bsky.social
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.

A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman. n.pr/3PZGlTn

The divide between rich and poor in America is the widest it’s been in at least a generation — and growing. The amount of wealth held by the top 1% increased at more than double the rate of the bottom 90% in the first nine months of last year, according to Federal Reserve figures. nbcnews.to/47ULZfL

Mueller.

@nytimes.com #RIP
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is:

* start with a true statement

* introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion

* true statement again

The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.

“.. Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion.”

@time.com
time.com/article/2026...

WNBA, players reach verbal agreement on new CBA after marathon negotiations After more than a year of often tense negotiations, the WNBA and the players' union have reached a verbal agreement.

From @theathletic.com: The WNBA and its players' union reached a verbal CBA agreement after more than a year of negotiations. Breanna Stewart called it “transformational,” with salaries tied to league revenue for the first time and average pay over $500,000.

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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

"The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

I never thought I would live through that. But here I am.

Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent has resigned over President Donald Trump’s Iran war, saying Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation.”

BREAKING: Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed "no imminent threat to our nation."

This kind of quiet punishment, and continual threat of it, behind curtains is *exactly* why so many women don’t speak out, including about these reactions. It’s a vicious cycle that props up the self-replicating sexual-predation/enabler system.

We need to face and understand this age-old threat too

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "This technology disrupts humanity's train, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society."

And yet we're supposed to believe they were an imminent threat to us?

Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

Preventive health advisory panel meeting postponed for third time The panel, which makes recommendations for cancer screenings and other guidelines, last met in March of 2025.

The March meeting of the U.S. advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover has been postponed, according to a spokesman for the Health and Human Services.

House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had forced the vote in light of allegations that her Republican colleague, Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, sent sexual text messages to a subordinate.

The House voted to scuttle an effort by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace to shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress.

The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters.

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said.

Class

A large crowd, amid which are two vehicles bearing stages and a small elevated monument with people standing on its platform. A headline reads: Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School. Photo by Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency, via Associated Press

A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

Oklahoma public schools used to be excellent. That is not a misspoke.

So, Maureen Dowd. JD Vance…

Two categories of analysts who might take a step back, away from the microphone or keyboard, this weekend:

—Those who assured us that Trump was the real anti-war candidate.

—Those who assured us that invading Iraq was necessary and would work out great.

That is unlikely to happen

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...

Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today.

Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.

Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.