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Friday, March 27, 2026
NO KINGS - PROTEST TOMORROW, SAT. MARCH 28 - DEMOCRCY NOW! REPORTING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PVW9mvVhc
Randi Weingarten gets strident, and it is an annoying style. The speaker from Indivisible, Leah Greenberg, much better.
Maddow, reporting about the rally tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vURlV_a9Bn8
UPDATE:
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FURTHER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57jsUtKW5w
The reporting does overlap. But the even is of major import. It is a chance to add a presence in the streets, or on sidewalks, to say, "No Kings" With somebody particular in mind, unnamed here for now, but guess.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally intervened to stop four officers from rising in the ranks. Before I tell you, guess - gender and/or race.
The officers were originally on a one-star promotion list of about three dozen officers consisting mostly of white men, The New York Times reported Friday.
Hegseth had been pushing Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove the four officers for months, but given their years of exemplary service, Driscoll refused, military officials told the Times. Hegseth finally removed their names himself, likely without the legal authority to do so.
As per military policy, the defense secretary is technically only supposed to approve or reject the entire list to prevent discrimination and prejudice—two things the former Fox News host has embraced in his catastrophic stint as defense secretary.
Since he was appointed in January 2025, Hegseth has gutted diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, pledged to remove women officers from combat, and banned trans people from serving in the military. “For too long, we’ve promoted too many uniform leaders for the wrong reasons—based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts,” he said in a speech last November.
A similar feud over race happened last summer when Maj. Gen. Antoinette R. Gant was selected to command the Military District of Washington. Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, was furious. He told Driscoll that Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the Times reported.
Trump and Hegseth are twin sons of different mothers. In 2028 we'll need a broom wide enough to sweep out both, and then, one whole of a hell of a lot more.
Sanitization. And who knows, possibly some cash clawback.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Who's thinking and talking about Kash Patel these days, and what's he saying?
Only a one minute blurb, but things can grow legs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZqBz16D4U
And Kash? Tune time.
"In Thiel’s framing, the Antichrist is not an outwardly malevolent figure, but rather a comforting administrator, one that promises tighter control of innovation to stamp out the risk of runaway technology—particularly artificial intelligence—replacing humanity. This positioning is a farce, in Thiel’s telling, as the Antichrist is in reality quietly consolidating power and control over society. He has criticized groups wary of technological progress, including AI skeptics and environmentalists such as Greta Thunberg, for being pawns of the Antichrist. Thiel’s vision paints Silicon Valley technologists not only as architects of humanity’s future, but as protectors of civilization, often grounding his arguments in his Christian beliefs. His argument blends theological language with Silicon Valley’s anxieties over AI, transhumanism, and decay of meaning, and has been greeted with muted praise by some tech figures, such as fellow Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale."
The lengthy headline is a run-together of two early paragraphs of a Yahoo repost of a Fortune report:
Peter Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to Rome — and Italian politicians are calling his ideas ‘scandalous’
Tristan Bove
So, within that context, and in a who-do-you-trust mood, this.
Think of Peter Thiel as the man who bankrolled JD Vance into the mainstream. (With a bit of help but not really much from JD being his charming and compelling self.)
"The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we dread. But there’s one threat that haunts me more than any other: the collapse of the global food system. We cannot predict what the immediate trigger might be. But the war with Iran is just the right kind of event."
The headline is the opening paragraph of: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran
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