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Speaker Johnson could call the House back and vote to fund TSA today.

Let’s be clear: long lines at the airports are a direct result of Republicans insisting ICE be able to defy court orders, kidnap and murder people and face zero consequences.

Assembly Required: A Conversation with Lorelei Kelly on Deliberative Technology and Congressional Reform In this conversation with Elana Banin, Lorelei Kelly argues that rebuilding democratic resilience requires redesigning the institutional infrastructure connecting citizens to Congress. Drawing on cons...

To restore democracy, we must bring the First Amendment into the modern world--Assembly and Petition are the duties of Congress working with the American People. Here's an interview about my research on how we do this: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/assembl...

Join us for the 3rd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

🗓️ Friday, March 27, 2026
🕐 2:00pm – 4:00pm**
📍 OSEI (HFSC Garden Level) - Hilltop Campus
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💻 **New editor or need a refresher? Training offered beforehand from 2:00pm-3:00pm

#Edit-a-thon

👀 Technology that serves society and democracy => The Cloud Computing Public Utility Act. Nice work, Vermont! 👏 (This is how we build a world where tech feudalism loses) #PublicAI too. Read it here: legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/20...

US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026 that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime, H...

New Human Rights Watch report finds that the US Israel massacre of an elementary school in southern Iran has to be investigated as a war crime. The US and Israel had sufficient information and intel to know whether it was a school or not.

www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”

Image of a New York Times web version story preview. Headline: Trump Wants to ‘Take Over’ Elections. These States are Prime Targets. Subheadline: President Trump thinks Republicans should control voting procedures in parts of the United States. But where? Here are some possibilities.

No mention in the headline/subhead that Trump’s takeover plot is wildly unconstitutional.

The story is better & discusses GOP election subversion but still doesn’t note a fed takeover is unconstitutional (or that NC’s GOP takeover attempts were ruled illegal until they flipped the NC Supreme Court)

NEW REPORT maps how Tech Oligarchs have captured the media system through ownership, financial influence and platform control. mediajustice.org/resource/med...

Snow on the Rocky Mountains from the air

Mountains and valleys after fresh snow in Colorado.

At long last! Snow in Colorado!

Tell Congress: No Additional Pentagon Funding for Trump’s Illegal War Against Iran

Who needs healthcare? Tomahawk missiles,made by the military contractor Raytheon, cost taxpayers $1.3 mil per missile. The Trump regime launched 400 missiles in the first 72 hours of its war against Iran. That’s over half a billion of our taxpayer $ to Raytheon act.citizen.org/page/95042/p...

Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.

UK scoop: Trump regime blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war. This means local law enforcement will be blind. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Anthropic’s Standoff With the Pentagon Is a Test of U.S. Credibility The terms under which American AI tools are deployed in warfare are being set by some men in a room, with no democratic input.

The revenge regime will come for you too: Boeing, Lockheed, Palantir, Amazon, Google, major investors and the rest of the defense industrial base. Have some self respect! Say something publicly about the Rule of Law! www.worldpoliticsreview.com/anthropic-pe...

The problem here/real damage, is long-term & that is the world used to operate on the 🇺🇲 operating system: our laws/we settled trades in dollars/we protected the shipping lanes—We just torpedoed a ship—we used to be the nation protecting others from rogue nations—we are the rogue nation.

Thread 3/5🧵

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

At long last wapo.st/4aYkbco

One authoritarian leader removing the authoritarian leader of another country and demanding uprising within their country is extremely ironic and will not end well.

Trump DEMANDS Uprising in Iran — History Says This ENDS BADLY (ft. Tim Snyder) YouTube video by Raging Moderates

TRUMP DEMANDS UPRISING IN IRAN — HISTORY SAYS THIS ENDS BADLY (ft. Tim Snyder) Raging Moderates @jessicatarlov.bsky.social

What does history tell us about where Trump’s war in Iran could be headed?

Does bombing a country weaken authoritarian regimes or harden them?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pDKX...

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Regime Financial Disclosure Database @propublica.org a projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Here's what I'm able to share from yesterday's classified briefing.

Pay attn to who counts: Trump regime disappears LGBTQ Americans from the evidence data @thecensusproject thecensusproject.org/2026/03/03/s...

💪🇺🇸 Good stuff: Guiding Principles for Public Data: apdu.org/apdu-guiding... @apduorg.bsky.social

How Philanthropy Can Help Grantees Get Into New Media Now A new piece and a new playbook

Wonks who work on peace and security need help communicating in the modern world! open.substack.com/pub/rachelkl...

Clearinghouse Severs Relationship With Student Voting Study Since 2013, researchers from Tufts University have studied college students’ voting habits using data provided by the National Student Clearinghouse. Now, the clearinghouse is pulling out of the partn...

Deleting data that allows for pattern recognition and comparison is critical for dictatorships to disrupt, deny, destroy. #Elections2026 www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

Top Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on War with Iran Congress and journalists should demand answers to these questions, many of which should have been answered prior to the war beginning

Top Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on War with Iran

What Congress, journalists, and the public should ask

By @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @k8brannen.bsky.social @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Making Americans Unsafe Again

We should not allow people to gamble on war or on human lives. Full stop.