A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

He wants to break down the liberal international order.
He wants to break apart NATO.
He wants to go back to a world of spheres of influence.
I’m talking, of course, about Vladimir Putin.

Pentagon Sending Thousands of Additional Marines to Middle East The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East, even as President Trump insists he won’t put American boots on the ground in Iran, according to U.S. offi...

More than 2,000 Marines from Camp Pendleton are now headed to the Middle East as the Iran War shows no signs of slowing.

Alarm bells should be ringing across America, with the prospect of boots on the ground.

Every day raises the risks of a new forever war.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

UNT cuts more than 70 programs, minors to trim $45M deficit Degrees in linguistics and Latin American and women’s and gender studies will be phased out. LGBTQ, Mexican American, Africana and Asian studies are among 25 undergrad minors that will also be cut.

The University of North Texas is cutting or consolidating more than 70 academic programs, minors and certificates as it works to close a projected $45 million budget shortfall.

I will NOT do Medicare Advantage - it is an HMO for seniors!

Two men in suits talking to weach other with microphones while sitting in leather chairs. On the right is a woman doing sign language.

Jay Bhattacharya currently hosting lab leak proponent Matt Ridley at an NIH conference.

Ridley admits that he has performed no experiments and there is no direct epidemiological evidence for lab leak. Whoever asked that question is my hero.

De Niro: It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent—no one, no one voted for new wars. No one voted for higher prices at the pump. No one voted for higher prices in grocery stores, and no one voted for government-masked thugs shooting down our citizens in the streets.

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative."

He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

And so it begins...

These need to be handed out at every No Kings rally on March 28. Millions of them.

This measure of geopolitical risk just hit levels that put the current moment in the same league as the most dangerous moments of the 21st century.

Women and girls are taking Grok to court over sexualized AI deepfakes A new lawsuit filed Monday joins two others centered around nonconsensual explicit images allegedly made by the AI chatbot.

We have hit a critical mass of lawsuits against xAI for Grok's generation of sexualized deepfakes, imo 19thnews.org/2026/03/wome...

Photo of a child with measles.

South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 997 cases.

Read more about the outbreak: ow.ly/olhH50YvzYK

Things are not okay.

The Ides of March have come.

And every Republican in Congress should reflect on Cassius’s words:

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

The whole story behind the proposed CDC funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau from the Bandim Project continues to unfold.

What is described, frankly, are shocking “research” practices far outside normal ethical norms or conduct.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Are Having a Hard Time Getting Help From the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

Americans in the Middle East calling the U.S. State Department hotline after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Americans to contact it were hearing an automated message saying, “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas The agency said it's closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with public health authorities while the facility has been closed to visitors and attorneys.

At least 14 cases of measles have been confirmed at the nation’s largest ICE detention facility, an agency spokesperson told NBC News in a statement.

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

With @texastribune.org

‘What Black hair product is safe?’ | CNN Many people suffer from rashes or other negative reactions to hair used for braiding. Turns out that many hair extensions are full of known hazardous chemicals, which could be harmful to Black hair st...

Almost every Black woman or girl has purchased hair extensions for box braids, boho braids, twists, faux locs and other styles. The latest research shows that many of those extensions are full of known hazardous chemicals, which could be harmful to Black hair stylists and their clients.

Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?"
Me: "It's that he's lying."

Texas gave voter rolls to the DOJ so the DOJ could audit for voter fraud.

Wrong. Republican voters are now getting this mailing.

Trump Treasury official to exit after objecting to Minneapolis crackdown John Hurley’s exit follows internal disputes over the White House-backed push to target alleged fraud in the Somali community.

Breaking WaPo:

A top Trump Treasury official is leaving his post after privately raising objections to White House-backed plans to crack down on alleged fraud within the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota, according to seven people familiar with the matter.

Bleak Research Report Stokes A.I. Debate on Wall St. In a widely circulated note, Citrini Research painted a dire picture of job losses and stock market sell-offs, though many analysts and economists questioned its conclusions.

A report that described what would happen if A.I. upends white-collar work and the U.S. economy — saying well-paid professionals would be forced to become Uber drivers and miss mortgage payments — was cited as one factor fueling a decline in the S&P 500 on Monday.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Advanced AI models are willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival.

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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

A horror story of greed, corporate deception and corruption, as well as failure of governments to hold the company to account for the toxins.
🧪 #PFAS #Pollution #3M #Environment #Toxicology
www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Trump to SCOTUS: ‘You better not take away my tariffs…’

SCOTUS: