Amanda Becker

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

Adam Johnson: I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Crisis Pregnancy Centers Series | News From The States Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

Many outlets have written about CPCs over the years, but surprisingly few people understand what they are, even those who are well-informed about the political landscape around reproductive care.

We've tried to lay out a foundation to build on with these first pieces.

Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

Inside the underground safe houses in Springfield planning to shelter immigrants from ICE
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GOP senator compares Kristi Noem's DHS leadership to that time she shot her own dog Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tore into the Homeland Security secretary during a hearing Tuesday, saying he will hold up Trump's nominees until he gets answers from her department.

During a tense public hearing, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation.

And he blasted her for killing her dog that she had described in her memoir as "untrainable," as well as a goat.

My nearly 16yo OG baby - Birdie - who just got near-perfect bloodwork back from the vet. ❤️🙏🏻💪🏼

Would you want to do it yourself or drop off and pick up service?

And a play area…

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Very “no good deed goes unpunished”

@gingergibson.com should we become laundromat tycoons????

I thought about the bar concept - particularly in a college town or area - but I see a fair number of those now. But still a possibility…

I’ve long been fixated on the idea of owning a laundromat (no idea why really) but want to come up w/ a twist. Do yall think a “pet laundromat” focused on handling large dog beds & the stuff you aren’t supposed to take to laundromat & doesn’t fit in home washers could be a thing in the right market?

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

ProPublica sues Education Dept. for withholding records about discrimination in schools: www.propublica.org/article/educ...

A record share of U.S. workers now have access to paid leave There’s still no federal paid leave policy in the United States, but 14 laws now extend coverage to an estimated 46 million people.

A record share of U.S. workers now have access to paid leave 19thnews.org/2026/03/paid... via @19thnews.org

Re-upping this from a few days ago

is everyone on glue

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms

“Four firms — Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey — fought the orders, quickly receiving favorable rulings from district court judges. Nine others struck deals with Mr. Trump, most notably Paul Weiss” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms

Trump abandons attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to him, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House. @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families as the state weighs dissolving home-based care: 19thnews.org/2026/03/idah... via @19thnews.org

This is my only hope 🙏

Trump on the Medal of Honor: "I tried for myself. I've tried numerous times to get one by myself. I keep getting shut down."

As someone who canceled Paramount+ due to CBS News shenanigans and basically only uses HBO at this point, this presents an ethical hurdle. I guess I could just give up TV entirely and read even more books...

I watched a handful of episodes of the allegedly good procedural drama The Hunting Party and I need to just give up on network TV but come on, allegedly best profiler? Blondie falls into the clutches of the serial killer in 50 percent of episodes!

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Aight that’s enough catching up on what happened today. Gonna turn on the cozy, G-rated flick 2001: A Space Odyssey and spend some time in a happy space.

Getting more and more difficult to argue humanity is worth saving.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

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