I just saw the warning for Washtenaw - nightmare scenario, middle of the night. Hoping for no major damage and everyone is safe 🙏🏻

One of the first matters the new government in #Hungary must address: return Central European University home to #Budapest from exile in Austria

Academic freedom, free speech & expression of oneself, a critical press, & functioning courts will build back #democracy for Hungarians long in waiting!

Last year, I noticed a trend in #Germany ‘s local elections: significant shifts away from the #AfD across the board

To colleagues, I cautiously said far-right populism may finally be losing steam

Today’s elections in #Hungary validate that observation

#Trump will face the same backlash

Procedurally, Republicans & Trump’s cabinet are the only ones who can stop the president. This volatility will be their legacy, taking our nation down a profoundly un-American path

Putin has plotted revenge against the West since the fall of the USSR. With this, Trump might give him what he wants

Serbia says explosive found near pipeline to Hungary, days before crucial election Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s main opponent suggested the incident could be a “false flag operation.”

Straight out of the #authoritarian playbook: conjure up a national security “crisis” just before an #election …and, in #Orbán ‘s case, employ your neighborhood, like-minded authoritarian buddy

#Hungary #Serbia #Vučić #Srbija #Balkan

www.politico.eu/article/serb...

#Republicans in #Congress must prevent this from happening, lest they be complicit in #war #crimes

We are the United States - not a rogue pariah state

At the very moment the country could have paused in relief over the successful rescue of our pilot shot down in Iran, Trump instead delivers this, on the holiest of day for Christians following the Gregorian calendar

If #Trump cannot rescue our pilots shot down in #Iran - if Iran captures them first - he is done

This is why #Congress is the body with the sole authority to declare #war: it forces a president & their administration to demonstrate a coherent & strategic plan to get the needed majority support

Trump's anti-birthright citizenship crusade evokes the Dominican Republic's 2013 cruelty COMMENTARY President Trump's Supreme Court intimidation bid on birthright citizenship risks reminding the justices — and the world — of the Dominican Republic's thuggish repeal of jus soli 13 years ag...

“There’s a reason 30 of the 35 nations that confer #birthright #citizenship are in the western hemisphere…it reflects the New World’s democratic ideal that the humblest newborn belongs as surely as the offspring of aristocrats do”

www.wlrn.org/commentary/2...

Yowza, #Balkan (yes, you, too, #Slovenia): that “dobrodošli” needs some pronunciation work - bot’s not even trying to roll the “r”

(Also, I have no clue why the link’s video jumps into #Macedonian in its introduction. Pure coincidence 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

By their own admission, the government has found a loophole for mass surveillance and tracking of Americans: buy your #data - cellphones, AI use, all of it

This bypasses requirements for a warrant

Fourth Amendment concerns regarding privacy are legitimate

www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

I’ve been reading a lot lately about the #Kennedy political machine, how forcefully it championed justice & equality during an era of intense social & political upheaval - what today would be labeled “culture wars”

Perhaps the loudest voices were Robert & Ethel

What would they say of their son?

If #mail-in-ballots are taken away, then election day must become a national holiday

Otherwise, we will have voting lines that stretch for hours on a day when people still have to work

How many Americans will never make it to #vote, particularly those that work multiple jobs to make ends meet?

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.

fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...

At some point, #investors & #markets will stop believing the boy who cried wolf

Market turbulence - whether deliberate or the product of incompetence - is welcomed by no one

And #Trump ’s now-routine Friday-to-Monday reversals show he is very afraid of market backlash & pressure from big business

Snapshot of #Nikkei at the opening bell

How many more trillions will this #war of choice in #Iran wipe from investor confidence and market stability?

#Republicans have constitutional authority to stop this. What remains unclear - though increasingly puzzling - is why they choose not to

If he puts #ICE in #airports, given their record of abuse & lack of training, it’s certain to not go well & cost #Republicans more House seats, if not the #Senate

#Democrats introduced multiple clean bills to fund #TSA separately from #Trump’s budget bill

Republicans refused to consider every one

30+: “Significant fear/panic; often aligns with market corrections or high-stress economic events”

#VXN #VIX keeps rising. Today’s snapshot

This #economy is one of fear, insecurity, incoherence and incompetence

#Republicans can and must stop #Trump. Enough

#Iran #war #inflation #interestrates

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Bog da gi prosti

A za taa žalna država — koja, za razlika od Bosna, Hrvatska ili Slovenija, stekna nezavisnost bez eden metak, a se uništi odvnatre — ќe se pišuva mnogu

#Kočani #Makedonija

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How awful for #Florida ‘s Congressman Dunn and his family

Just unconscionable

Happy for Susie #Wiles that previous presidents funded the #NIH and #university programs conducting #cancer research, drastically increasing survival rates for #breastcancer

It would be good for her to remember this the next time university or research funding is threatened

The United States was not attacked

#NATO allies have no reason to engage, and it is unreasonable for #Trump to think allied military forces are his to command/direct in his #war of choice

Bottom line re: #Iran: he is in trouble and knows it

Self-inflicted quagmire: not good for anyone, anywhere

Pre-Markets Where the stock market will trade today based on Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures and implied open premarket values. Commodities, currencies and global indexes also shown.

All #futures are down, #market still communicating lack of confidence re: #Trump ‘s war in #Iran

#Oil > $100; scroll down to #commodities

Unsustainable

Again, Trump overplayed his hand. Business leaders will begin giving him ultimatums - but will he listen?

www.cnbc.com/pre-markets/

UF College Republicans forced to disband - The Independent Florida Alligator The disbandment comes after the statewide organization found some members of the university branch violated its rules and values, including by engaging in “a recent antisemitic gesture.” 

@ufl.edu @fiu.bsky.social

#UF has every right to disband a student group that promotes hate & violence toward an entire sector of the student body

#Republicans must ask why #fascist messages/activists keep finding a home in the party, particularly among the young
www.alligator.org/article/2026...

Like most boys in #Nazi Germany, #Habermas was enrolled in the Hitler Youth

His later work became central to the postwar period’s intellectual reckoning with #authoritarianism, developing theories of the public sphere & democratic deliberation to understand how societies resist the evil of #fascism

#Japan’s #Nikkei plummets - again

#Markets aren’t the whole #economy, but they’re a real-time barometer of corporate confidence in global stability

This signals no confidence in #Trump’s war in #Iran

He has overplayed his hand. How long before #business leaders move to contain the damage?

Massive #job loss
Plummeting #markets
Ever increasing gap between wages & cost of living
Rising #inflation
Multiple military operations in #Venezuela & #Iran loaded with incoherence, #Cuba on standby
#DOJ circumventing the full release of #Epstein files

Real & measurable failures

Unsustainable

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

A state’s primary obligation is to keep its people alive

“I guess” is a dereliction of that obligation

This is horrendous

(NB: #Trump keeps saying “war”. cc: #Congress and #Republicans)

people.com/trump-says-i...

This horror - the killing of elementary school girls - stains the integrity of the US military, putting personnel in an awful position. No serving member signed up to bomb schools of innocent children

#Rubio & #Hegseth must atone and recalibrate. A plan would be welcomed, to start.