@markwelch
• ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him • law, journalism, education, security, privacy, surveillance tech, AI fairness, bias, face recognition, Blue Dot, LFL • Springfield MO <NorCal <NH <MA <WI • UC Berkeley JD'89; UMass Amherst BA'83
Wow: Should we spend over $2,000 to replace the failing clutch in my 2013 Chevrolet Spark?
Lowball: I asked Carvana and KBB (Kelley Blue Book) for the sale or trade-in value. Both responded with a value of just $1,000.
A quick Google search turns up a range from $3,500 to $6,000.
Since Friday, I've knocked on about 70 doors in my neighborhood. I left a letter at each home.
I'm urging folks to get more politically engaged, before it's too late.
Please talk to your neighbors, friends, & family about the attacks on democracy and freedom by 47 and his MAGA cultists.
A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.
37 pages ... that we know about.
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
We just found a $150 transaction for "Home Depot" on my U.S. Bank checking account. Once we reported the illegal transaction, US Bank says they must immediately lock out the account, and we must open a new account.
Our new accounts will NOT be at US Bank.
Since Friday, I've knocked on about 70 doors in my neighborhood. I left a letter at each home.
I'm urging folks to get more politically engaged, before it's too late.
Please talk to your neighbors, friends, & family about the attacks on democracy and freedom by 47 and his MAGA cultists.
I've created a presentation of "Guidelines for Protesters" in advance of #NoKings on March 28. It's specific to me and to Springfield, Missouri, but folks are welcome to adapt it for other audiences.
www.markwelchblog.com/2026/02/27/s...
I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
Wow: Should we spend over $2,000 to replace the failing clutch in my 2013 Chevrolet Spark?
Lowball: I asked Carvana and KBB (Kelley Blue Book) for the sale or trade-in value. Both responded with a value of just $1,000.
A quick Google search turns up a range from $3,500 to $6,000.
“.. The advice signals a recalibration by the White House — and reflects growing concern among some Republicans that Democrats are successfully framing Trump's immigration policy as overly sweeping and indiscriminate.”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/03/10/w...
The mismatch between how fast chips improve and how long data centers take to build poses risk to entire AI infrastructure trade.
OpenAI is ending plans to expand a partnership with Oracle because it wants newer generations of Nvidia GPUs, a person familiar with the matter tells CNBC.
#AI
#Layoffs
Coincidentally, this week’s Scratch newsletter is a candid discussion about how the four of us are getting by financially as freelance writers. We talk numbers, money, time, motherhood, chronic pain, and relentless exhaustion. www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
DMV! Save the date: March 19. I’ll be speaking about Chain of Ideas with Leah Greenberg, the co-founder of Indivisible, which is organizing the next “No Kings” demonstrations on March 28. We’ll discuss the great replacement theory powering the rise of authoritarianism.
🎟️: www.ibramxkendi.com/events
On Monday evening, I knocked on another 20 doors in my neighborhood. I urged them to get more politically engaged, before it's too late.
Please talk to your neighbors, your friends, and your family about the attacks on democracy and freedom by 47 and his MAGA cultists.
As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.
From meme coins to our nation’s 250th Anniversary, Trump continues to enrich himself off the backs of working Americans.
www.notus.org/donald-trump...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
The Trump administration has shown that it will keep violating court orders until courts force it to stop. Judges are starting to remember their responsibilities to enforce the rules by which everyone else must abide.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and several Democratic officials and voting rights organizations have denounced the FBI’s decision to subpoena records related to the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s Maricopa County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding President Donald Trump’s administration unveil their plans, if any, for deploying federal officers or troops on election day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy
"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Is he advocating here for the killing of ICE agents?
Fascinating: Gemini CoPilot, and ChatGPT all refuse this prompt:
Please find and show me 15 examples of campaign signs with the message "oust the MAGA cultists"
"Part of the problem is that the number of people who are insiders is very large," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells me. “We are incentivizing lots of people to use their knowledge of classified information for their own benefit.”
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Imagine your car insurer deciding, while you're driving on Highway 80, that your insurance is no longer valid while in Iowa.
"Traffic through the critical waterway has since ground to a near halt, with vessels being attacked and insurers dropping maritime coverage."
