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"I dreamed I was a perfect smile" Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago? Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing world, art world, book world, tv news & entertainment world.
Reminder the Senate is expected to vote on the Save America Act this week. Please contact your senator and urge them to vote no. You may be seeing a lot of apparent “support” for the bill on social media, but it is not organic. Bot accounts have been flooding senators pages urging them to vote yes.
New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...
"Ceasefire has become a new term for continuing to kill, and everybody's attention is focused elsewhere, on Iran."
Deep dive into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch by @jonschuppe.bsky.social and me: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
At least 10 women and girls say they were groomed, and that’s just what’s publicly documented.
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change! Trump "Truth": Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.
"Like the Potato Famine, the Dust Bowl, and other monoculture crises, none of our problems are inevitable. Today, they are the result of a decade of one-party rule—a political monoculture—remaking our state in its image: fragile, isolated, and vulnerable"
‘This Is the Door - The Body, Pain, and Faith’ by Darcey Steinke
‘I Give You My Silence’ Mario Vargas Llosa’s final novel, translated by Adrian Nathan West
Special Report: Public Libraries America’s first public library is almost as old as America itself. A look at how libraries are inventing vital new civic roles.
From Deb Fallows on the Our Towns site, how libraries are continuing to step up, in under-reported ways, to meet the civic needs of this moment.
www.ourtownsfoundation.org#special-report
NEW: A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”
www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...
From March 5th -
“US Congress hasn't officially declared war since WWII. Here's how presidential war powers have played out since then”
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Very interesting stuff here. A new supplemental funding bill, notionally to pay for the Iran War, will be a back door way for the White House to claim Congress retroactively authorized the war itself talkingpointsmemo.com/news/for-tru...
The Trump administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business, delivering it a windfall for keeping the popular social-media app alive in America. The payment is part of the agreement through which investors friendly with the administration gained control of TikTok's U.S. operations from Chinese parent ByteDance, people familiar with the matter said. It comes in addition to the investments made to create a new entity to run the app in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that the administration was expected to get a multibillion-dollar fee. The $10 billion payment would be nearly unprecedented for a government helping arrange a transaction, historians have said. Vice President JD Vance previously said the new TikTok entity running the U.S. operations is valued at about $14 billion in the deal, which some tech analysts have said dramatically undervalues the company.
This still doesn’t really explain exactly what is happening — raising further questions about the repeated use of “Trump administration” and “administration,” as opposed to “paid to the federal government.”
www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
Exclusive 1m ago The Trump administration will receive a $10 billion fee for brokering the deal that kept TikTok alive in the U.S.
JFC.
Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.
Disturbing.
And not just because I vote from Canada.
Yet another example of his making everything he says sound like sexual assault.
He's outright admitting Ellison bought CNN to turn it into a propaganda outlet for the regime.
If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
NEW: House Oversight Committee wants to interview Epstein prison guard -- interview request comes after
@miamiherald exclusively reported that she was overheard by inmate talking about covering up his killing. Here is a free link to our story: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Unlocked:
Hegseth’s Boasts of ‘Maximum’ Engagement Authorities Face Scrutiny After School Is Hit
The defense secretary has disparaged restrictive rules for opening fire that are aimed at reducing the risk of mistakes and civilian casualties.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members
emptywheel.net/2026/03/13/t...
"A calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders.”
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...
SigmundAI.eu now writes most of its own code. I give directions and feedback on design and implementation. This article is a pretty accurate description of what #AI #coding means in different situations (e.g. existing vs new code). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
'His experience is not unusual; many software developers these days berate their A.I. agents, plead with them, shout important commands in uppercase — or repeat the same command multiple times, like a hypnotist — and discover that the A.I. now seems to be slightly more obedient'
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
Our obit of the extraordinary Walid Khalidi. by Clay Risen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...
El arquitecto chileno Smiljan Radic ha sido laureado con el Premio Pritzker, el máximo honor de la arquitectura.
The lack of mention of Taiwan in the NDS 2026 and the domiciling of TSMC semiconductor production in the US denoted a significant shift from considerations of China as a primary belligerent threat before any of the Middle East events began to take place.
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I would say that the Trump administration's retreat from any defensive considerations for Taiwan precede the current Middle East conflict. www.thetimes.com/article/b355...
Perhaps the Trump admin should read oil price dot com.
Here it is, 23 days ago…
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