Georgia woman charged with murder for taking abortion pills
Republicans believe women are only for fucking, birthing babies, and making pot roast.
Everything that makes America ‘exceptional’ has always been a lie.
Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms
Cruelty first, cruelty always, cruelty forever.
AND NOW THE NEWS
#593
MARCH 21, 2026
Chief Justice John Roberts says that hostility toward judges has ‘got to stop’
Fuck off, you fucking fraudulent fucker.
Cesar Chavez, a civil rights icon, is accused of abusing girls for years
Excerpt: Even before this article was published, upon learning of the reporters’ inquiries, the UFW canceled its annual celebrations honoring Chavez, a response to what the union he once led called “profoundly shocking” accusations.
Me again: So Cesar Chavez was a perv. To hell with him; it’s always about the movement, not any one leader. Hurry up and change Cesar Chavez Avenue and Cesar Chavez Day to Farm Workers Ave & Day.
Trump’s handpicked arts commission approves gold coin with his face on it
Excerpt: The coin, which is supposed to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary, shows Mr. Trump with his fists pressed against a desk and a glowering expression on his face. The back of the coin features an eagle.
It is one of at least three coins featuring Mr. Trump’s face, including a $1 coin that will circulate as currency, that the administration is planning.
… Ms. Sullivan said the Treasury had not yet determined the size of the coins or how much they would be valued, but she suggested they would be worth hundreds of dollars each. Members of the panel encouraged her to make them as large as possible.
“I think the president likes big things,” said James C. McCrery II, the vice chairman of the panel.
Trump regime plans removal of bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall
Excerpt: The Trump administration has previously said grants that include “reducing lane capacity for vehicles” with bike lanes or pedestrian infrastructure are “hostile” to cars and “counter” to the Department of Transportation’s “priority of preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles.”
… After the project was installed, all roadway crashes along the corridor decreased by 46 percent, and bicycle injury crashes decreased by 91 percent, according to the study. The DDOT spokesperson called those statistics “a tremendous testament” to the safety impact of protected bike lanes.
The 15th Street bikes lanes also improved the flow of traffic. After the project was installed, speeds increased by 17 percent, with peak northbound travel time decreasing by 36 seconds and peak southbound travel time decreasing by 40 seconds on the corridor, according to the study.
“This project is doing all the right things,” Krumpos said. “The data shows that the project is working and that there is not a negative impact for people driving.” Krumpos said she believes the decision to remove the lanes was a political one.
“This is a demonstration of power. D.C.’s lack of statehood makes it really difficult for us to stand up for ourselves,” she said. “This is a project that clearly was implemented for safety reasons. The results show that it had safety impacts, but we believe it’s being taken out because of political reasons.”
Me again: A few more dead Americans, every year, with no bright side to the equation unless Trump is one of them.
Trump says he will send ICE agents to airports on Monday
Probably this is more complex than my senile brain can grasp, but at first blush I’m lovin’ it. Sure, please, have America’s most savage and untrained cops, ICE, fill in for DHS performing useless airport security theater. Better to have them hassling comparably well-off Americans than abducting random foreigners off the street.
Excerpt: The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring their children with them, in apparent violation of its own policies, a major report has found.
In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were detained, without a chance to arrange for the care of their children.
According to the report by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), parents were forced to leave their children under the informal care of friends or family members who were also vulnerable to deportation. Others were separated from young children and toddlers – including a mother who was deported without her two-month-old baby.
Immigration officials “didn’t ask me anything”, one 22-year-old mother told researchers in Honduras, where she was sent without her two-year-old child. “They never said: ‘You have a daughter, you can bring her,’ because I would have brought [my daughter], she is very attached to me.”
ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they’ve arrested
Excerpt: Ben, who requested NPR only use their first names because he fears retaliation from the federal government, stood on the side of the road filming the officers, who were back inside their car and looked like they were about to leave. “But they stopped and got out of the car,” he says. “And that’s when I got tackled.”
Video of the incident, reviewed by NPR, shows a masked federal officer running at Ben and slamming him to the ground. Three immigration officers pinned him down and dragged him to their vehicle. Ben says he was held in custody for about three hours. Before his release, officers photographed and fingerprinted him. Then, before Ben realized fully what was happening, an officer ran a swab, similar to a Q-tip, along the inside of his cheek.
“It was super casual,” Ben says. “It was just like, ‘okay, yeah so we’re going to take this now.’”
NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who described similar occurrences in recent months. In statements made under oath as part of lawsuits against the Trump administration’s handling of immigration enforcement, they said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA.
“Are six cases enough to be concerned as a pattern? I think yes, because history tells us that what law enforcement is permitted to do, they tend to do more of,” says Erin Murphy, a law professor at New York University.
Teenager dies in ICE jail in south Florida
Pregnant in ICE jail: Handcuffs and pleas for medical care
Leaked video from inside ICE detention shows women trapped in desperate conditions
‘Just think about it’: ICE agent who searched detained woman’s phone later texted her for a date
ICE abducts DACA recipient on his way to see baby in hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit
Trump has racked up at least 157 extrajudicial boat strike murders in the last 6 months
U.S. encourages flow of Iranian oil while it battles Iran
Because lower gas prices are more important than whatever imaginary reason explains this war.
Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers
Sex-crimes prosecutor’s repeated pleas for Epstein’s arrest were denied
Excerpt: Marie Villafaña, a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in South Florida, had spent a year listening to teen girls detail how Jeffrey Epstein had recruited and paid them for sex acts at his Palm Beach mansion. He was a danger to children, she told her bosses in May 2007, and begged them to urgently seek his arrest by the FBI.
She proposed a 60-count indictment that charged Epstein and some of his assistants with sex trafficking and other crimes. Her supervisors — Alex Acosta, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and his criminal chief, Matthew Menchel — didn’t act.
Two weeks later, Villafaña pressed her case again. Epstein was flying from the Virgin Islands to New Jersey, she wrote. They should arrest him immediately. This time, Menchel delivered the verdict: Request denied.
“I’m having trouble understanding — given how long this case has been pending — what the rush is,” he told Villafaña in an email. Acosta, he went on, “wants to take his time making sure he is comfortable before proceeding.”
Bags of shredded documents at New York jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI
Excerpt: “They are shredding everything,” the inmate told one of the guards, adding that he was asked to give the officials, whom he did not recognize, a hand with the shredding.
“Make sure you get that box too,” one of the men allegedly told him.
The inmate wasn’t the only one who found it out of the ordinary. A corrections officer at the detention facility called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center that same night, a Friday, at 6:28 p.m. to report that he had “never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of MCC.”
A back gate corrections officer was also troubled by what he witnessed as the inmate brought down “bales” of shredded paper, according to a memo he wrote to investigators three days later, on Monday, Aug. 19.
“I believe that this conduct may be inappropriate for [an] investigative team to be shredding paperwork related to the investigation and you may want to investigate why BOP employees are destroying records,” the correctional officer wrote on Aug. 19 around 11 a.m.
Trump buddy pulls strings to have ICE deport his girlfriend, ending custody battle over teenage son
Joe Kent, a top US counterterrorism official, resigns over the Iran War
I guess Joe Kent was “a top US counterterrorism official,” just by rank, but the headline and general tone of the article is that he’s some kind of expert, which is bullshit. His only area of expertise is wingnuttery — he pushes “deep state” conspiracy theories, pals around with militias, stoked fears of forced COVID vaccinations, etc.
Of course, FBI investigates Joe Kent, whose resignation over Iran war angered Trump
Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows
No way it’s going to take ten years. I’m surprised every morning it’s not 1929.
I predicted the 2008 financial crisis. What is coming may be worse.
Excerpt: Our current financial system fails not because any one thing goes wrong. It fails because different shocks propagate through the same structure and in ways that are hard to anticipate. When something eventually goes wrong, it spreads faster than it can be contained.
It is critical that our policymakers realize that private credit is not just a parallel risk sitting alongside the A.I. boom. A.I.’s data centers, chips and infrastructure have been built largely on private loans. Investors in those loans cannot easily sell their positions. So if there is any quake in the system and they find they need to raise cash, they will do what investors do when they can’t sell what they want to sell: They sell what they can. And what they can sell easily are the large, publicly traded technology stocks that dominate the major indexes.
FCC green-lights Nexstar’s $6.2B merger with rival TV station owner Tegna
Excerpt: In a news release Thursday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency waived a rule that bars a single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households. The combined entity would cover at least 60%.
“Waiving that rule here is consistent with longstanding FCC authorities and doing so promotes the underlying purpose of the FCC’s media regulations by promoting competition, localism, and diversity,” Carr said in a statement.
The FCC’s announcement came less than a day after a coalition of attorneys general for eight states, including California and New York, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the merger, arguing that the tie-up violates federal antitrust law.
Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck
Why was this deathtrap ever allowed on the road? Who did Elon Musk bribe, to get past all the safety regulations?
Ohio firm must pay $22.5 million to mom whose baby died after she was denied work-from-home
‘Robbing them blind’: Live Nation employees joked about fees
‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
Excerpt: This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people’s data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information — including location data — from ordinary consumer phone apps and games, per Politico. At the time, then-FBI director Christopher Wray told senators that the agency had bought access to people’s location data in the past but that it was not actively purchasing it.
When asked by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, if the FBI would commit to not buying Americans’ location data, Patel said that the agency “uses all tools … to do our mission.”
“We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us,” Patel testified Wednesday.
Wyden said buying information on Americans without obtaining a warrant was an “outrageous end-run around the Fourth Amendment,” referring to the constitutional law that protects people in America from device searches and data seizures.
Excerpt: A single word can tell us a great deal. The journey of bitch, from a literal term for a female dog to one of the most charged words in the English language, shows how language shifts alongside changing ideas about gender, power and identity. In this case, it suggests that sometimes you really can teach an old dog new tricks.
Tow tells a Seattle story. But how well does it represent the city?
Excerpt: Directed by Stephanie Laing, Tow — which is playing at Seattle-area theaters — follows the real-life story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who was caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare in 2017 when a towing company stuck her with a $21,634 bill after recovering her stolen car. Instead of giving up on her 1991 Blue Toyota Camry (valued at less than $1,000), which she lived in, Ogle fought the company and got her car back over a year later. Laing’s adaptation of Ogle’s story highlights the ways anti-poor bureaucracy stacks up against homeless Seattleites.
… In the film, when Amanda first appears before the court asking Kaplan Towing to return her stolen car and waive the initial $273 charge, the judge asks if she is experiencing homelessness. While Amanda demurs, she asserts a powerful truism about life in Seattle.
“Minimum wage in this city is 11 bucks an hour. So if you’re not a software developer or, I don’t know, a judge, you could be hit with a fee like this, and even if you’re not homeless, it could make you,” she says. It’s an observation that lands impactfully in the film, underscoring the emotional crux of Amanda’s fight against the tow company.
Nobody knows more than Donald Trump
Afroman wins: Jury rules mocking cops who raided your home is protected speech
Arkansas: Over a stolen vehicle, cops chase driver into wreck, killing two
DC: Over traffic violation, cops chase driver into wreck, killing two
Delaware: ACLU sues Dewey Beach seeking police body cam footage
Hawaii: Legal action expected after HPD commander allegedly leaked teen sex assault details
Louisiana: Over traffic violation, cops chase vehicle into wreck, killing passenger’s unborn child
Boston cop charged with manslaughter after lying about fatal shooting of carjacking suspect
Michigan: Detroit police sergeant led ‘double life’ as serial rapist, prosecutor says
Horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ canceled over suspected AI use
Excerpt: In an email to The Times late on Thursday night, Ballard denied using A.I. to write “Shy Girl,” contending that an acquaintance she hired to edit the self-published version of the novel had used A.I.
“This controversy has changed my life in many ways and my mental health is at an all time low and my name is ruined for something I didn’t even personally do,” she wrote, noting that she could not elaborate on how the book had been edited with A.I. because she was pursuing legal action.
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
Colorado River may deliver just a third of normal water supplies this spring, projections show
Excerpt: Lower-than-expected water supplies can lead to fallowed farm fields, drought restrictions in cities and difficult decisions for water managers tasked with divvying up the meager supplies. All of western Colorado relies on water from the river and its tributaries. Front Range communities, too, need the river. Half the supplies used by Denver Water’s 1.5 million customers comes from the Colorado River.
… Already, federal officials predict water levels could fall so low at Lake Powell by August that water will no longer flow through the intake tubes for Glen Canyon Dam’s hydroelectric turbines. Lake Powell at the beginning of March was 24% full, while Mead — which is in Nevada and Arizona — was 34% full.
The weather is getting wilder, and some see a dire signal in the data
Excerpt: Scientists who study global warming are currently wrestling with a question that, while seemingly technical, is profoundly consequential: Is climate change accelerating?
The debate spilled into the open this month, after new research found that the rate of global warming has nearly doubled over the last decade. The findings set scientific circles buzzing, and not all researchers agree with the conclusion.
But while the debate about accelerating global warming remains unsettled, a growing number of scientists do agree on another troubling development: The effects of climate change are intensifying in ways that have surprised even experts.
Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change
Arizona community hits 110°, the highest March temperature ever recorded in the US
Experts warn of ‘dramatic development’ as all but two of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated
Excerpt: The latest report from the Austrian Alpine Club reveals significant losses, with the Alpeiner Ferner in Tyrol and Stubacher Sonnblickkees in Salzburg each shrinking by more than 100 metres. The average retreat across the country measured over 20 metres.
Even Austria’s largest glacier, the Pasterze, is experiencing “disintegration of the glacier tongue,” making “the consequences of climate change visible,” the club stated in its 2024-2025 report. It added that the findings “confirm once again the long-term trend: Glaciers in Austria continue to shrink significantly in length, area, and volume.”
Big Oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show
Corpus Christi shows how not to manage water
Excerpt: Corpus Christi, Texas, is about to run dangerously short of water, a development nobody saw coming aside from all the people who have seen it coming for decades.
Climate change drove record winter warmth in the western US
Biggest wildfire in Nebraska history continues to burn out of control
Iowa: 17 years in prison for youth ministry worker convicted of child sex offenses
Kansas: Church of Christ minister raped intellectually disabled woman
Kentucky church worker pleads guilty to four counts of sodomy and two counts of sexual abuse
Michigan: Former Living Word Church youth leader gets 25 to 40 years for child sex abuse
Excerpt: In 2023, the victim filed a report with the Michigan State Police against Randolph, a man she called “Dad” for several years.
She told investigators of the many sexual assaults he imposed on her between 2011 and 2018, from the time she was 12 until she was 19. The victim, now 25, said she delayed reporting because she didn’t think anyone would believe her.
A Midland County jury did believe her and on Aug. 29, 2025 convicted Randolph of two counts of first-degree CSC involving a relationship, three counts of second-degree CSC with a relationship, and one count of second-degree CSC with a child under 13.
Wisconsin pastor arrested & charged with sexual assault, again
James Barnard
biological nutrient removal
John Bengtson
silent-film sleuth
Nicholas Brendon
actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Doug Camilli
baseballer, Washington Senators
Phil Campbell
rock’n’roller, Motörhead
Len Deighton
author, The Ipcress File
Paula Doress-Worters
author, Our Bodies, Ourselves
Bobby Douglas
wrestled with blackness
Paul Ehrlich
prophet of doom
Tom Georgeson
actor, A Fish Called Wanda
Alvin Greene
Senate candidate who wasn’t there
Shigeaki Mori
Hiroshima survivor
Beau Morton
good guy
Robert Mueller
tried and failed to bring down Trump
Chuck Norris
actor, Walker, Texas Ranger
Judy Pace
actress, Peyton Place
Shepherd ‘Shep’ Siegel
the world’s oldest teenager
Robert Rufus Thomas Jr.
forgotten person
Tatjana Wood
comics colorist, Swamp Thing
Nothing will meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
3/21/2026
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Daily Grail, Fat Magic, Jemin Na CPA, Joe My God, Jamie Zawinski, Voenix Rising, What Not’s, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo & John the Basket emeritus, Jeff Meyer, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
News always and only from reliable sources, and I decide what’s reliable — no right-wing bullshit, no Substack because fuck Nazis, and no RawStory, Newsweek, or other clickbait sites. Written news is preferred; video links will be rare, and damned near never to videos where a reporter or podcaster simply reads a script or does improv — that’s show biz, not news.
If you can’t access an article linked here, due to a paywall, forced registration for spam, or any website’s anti-reading layout, please let me know. I’ll reply with the article’s complete text.
Leave a Reply