Source: Reason
by Jeffrey A Singer & Patrick Eddington

“Consider this scenario. You’ve recently received a government-subsidized biowearable. Accordingly, the authorities now know when you’re sleeping, because the device reports your sleep cycle, location, and daily movements in real time to a cloud server accessible through a legal process. It knows when you’re home. It knows when you leave. Those data are then obtained by an FBI field office (either through direct purchase or, if necessary, a legal process), because a federal prosecutor has decided that your criticism of immigration enforcement operations and your social media posts supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters constitute ‘incitement to violence’ against federal agents. Under the Trump administration’s elastic (and legally dubious) domestic terrorism definitions and designations, that is enough to open a criminal investigation. And because the government has known for weeks when you’re at home sleeping, it knows exactly when to break down your door.” (03/19/26)

https://reason.com/2026/03/19/the-feds-are-investing-in-wearable-health-trackers-that-could-put-your-private-data-at-risk/

Source: Grist
by Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

“There are no wind turbines on the Great Lakes — and it isn’t for lack of wind. This titanic network of interconnected freshwater lakes with a surface area larger than New England, New York, and New Jersey combined is theoretically ideal for wind farms. Winds sweeping across the lakes are stronger, more consistent, and less turbulent than those over land. The National Laboratory of the Rockies has estimated that the Great Lakes states have enough offshore wind potential to generate more than three times their combined annual electricity consumption. … the vast inland lakes remain untapped largely due to a lack of streamlined permitting processes at the state level and economic hurdles.” (03/19/26)

https://grist.org/energy/the-great-lakes-are-ideal-for-wind-energy-so-where-is-it/

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The Iran war is a betrayal of both U.S. interests and constitutional principles. This is a war initiated on the president’s whim. The people do not support it, Congress never authorized it, and our treaty commitments prohibit it. It should never have been allowed to start, but we can end our part in it by refusing to fund it.” (03/19/26)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/not-one-dime-for-aggression

Source: Washington Monthly
by Mike Lofgren

“We’re depleting our big, expensive, Cold War-inspired defensive weapons on Iran’s cheap drones, and if Tehran expands its underwater drone program, look out.” (03/19/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/19/asymmetric-drone-war-in-iran-how-trump-and-the-u-s-are-being-played/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Jay Michaelson

“They distrust the right but are pained by the left.” (03/19/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/progressive-jews-are-deeply-distressed