March 13, 2026

California sues over Trump demand for college race, test score and GPA admissions data

Source: LA Times

California and 16 Democratic states are suing to challenge a Trump administration policy requiring higher education institutions, including University of California and California State University campuses, to collect data — including student grade-point averages — to prove they don’t illegally consider race in admissions.

Atty. Gen.Rob Bonta is among the state attorneys general who filed the suit Wednesday against a Department of Education rule that asks colleges to submit “the race and sex of colleges’ applicants, admitted students and enrolled students.” Bonta called the requirement a “fishing expedition” that is “demanding unprecedented amounts of data from our colleges and universities under the guise of enforcing civil rights law.”

“This is the same administration, I’ll remind you, that gutted the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, leaving thousands of civil rights complaints and investigations in limbo,” Bonta said in a statement. “This latest sham demand threatens to turn a reliable tool into a partisan bludgeon. California is committed to following the law — and we’re going to court to make sure the Trump administration does the same.”

The policy, announced in August, requires schools to submit disaggregated data on gender, race, grade-point averages and test scores of applicants, admitted students and enrolled students by March 18.

The Trump administration is requesting seven years of data and says it wants schools to prove they are not illegally considering race as a factor in admissions — a practice struck down nationally after a 2023 Supreme Court case involving Harvard. In that case, justices said colleges may still consider how race has shaped students’ lives if applicants share that information in their admissions essays.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-12/california-sues-trump-over-policy-requiring-colleges-to-submit-race-test-score-admissions-data

March 12, 2026

Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are

WASHINGTON—In a heated exchange that laid bare a growing schism at the highest levels of Republican leadership, President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly clashed in the Oval Office Thursday over the question of where they were, with McConnell insisting they were at church and Trump maintaining with increasing irritation that they were on “my beautiful airplane” or, at other times, “my beautiful golf course.”

According to White House sources, the confrontation began shortly after the 84-year-old former Senate Republican leader entered the Oval Office, looked around the room, and commented, “Looks like we’re early for the Easter service.” Trump, who had spent the previous few minutes poking the wall in an effort to press the flight-attendant call button, is said to have taken offense at McConnell’s remark and told him to stop undermining the party line by claiming they were in a chapel when they were “clearly on the fairway of one of [his] golf courses.” The president then reportedly gestured toward a grandfather clock and introduced it as his caddy, Peter.

Sources confirmed the long-tenured senator doubled down on his stance that they were in a church by loudly singing the hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” only to be drowned out by Trump repeatedly shouting “Fore!” while swinging around the briefcase containing the nuclear codes. Tensions later cooled when McConnell froze up and stared off blankly for several minutes and Trump fell asleep atop the Resolute desk.

After aides managed to stir the GOP leaders from their respective stupors, the pair appeared to resolve their differences, cordially shaking one another’s hands and smiling, with McConnell saying, “It’s an honor to finally meet you, Mr. President,” and Trump replying, “Yes, I am the president. Who are you?”

https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/

March 12, 2026

Which Of Trump's Dumbest Lawyers Are In Big Trouble With The Bar Today?

Lindsey Halligan and Ed Martin, currently tied for first dumbest lawyer in the whole Trump regime.


These ones

Meet the newest candidates for the Rudy Giuliani Award For Excellence In Getting Disbarred For Committing Crimes And/Or Violating The Constitution For Donald Trump!

Who will be the first lawyer in Trump Regime 2.0 to fully throw away their ability to practice in their chosen career for the sake of that liquid-shitting orange fistula in the White House? Who will be the next Trump idiot to one day hear Satan utter the words “You’re not licensed to practice law in hell either!” just like Trump’s original mentor/ethically bankrupt lawyer Roy Cohn did, on the day he went through freshman orientation in hell?

We don’t know, but it could be the former US Attorney from Baywatch Lindsey Halligan, because she’s under bar investigation in Florida. Or it could be needy tryhard and breathtaking dumbass Ed Martin, who has failed out of so many Trump regime positions we can’t even keep up anymore. He’s in big trouble with the DC bar.

Let’s start with the dingus Lindsey Halligan, since her latest news of shame happened first. Has it been almost two whole months since Lindsey Halligan stormed out of the Eastern District of Virginia shouting “YOU CAN’T FIRE ME TWO MONTHS AGO, IIIIIIIIIII QUIT”?

Well here is the latest good news for her mom and dad to put in their family “what happened this year” letter they send to relatives at Christmas.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/which-of-trumps-dumbest-lawyers-are

March 12, 2026

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

Lately, Manu Ebert has been trying to keep his A.I. from humiliating him.

I recently visited Ebert, a machine-learning engineer and former neuroscientist, at the spare apartment where he and Conor Brennan-Burke run their start-up, Hyperspell. Ebert, a tall and short-bearded 39-year-old with the air of a European academic, sat before a mammoth curved monitor. Onscreen, Claude Code — the A.I. tool from Anthropic — was busy at work. One of its agents was writing a new feature and another was testing it; a third supervised everything, like a virtual taskmaster. After a few minutes, Claude flashed: “Implementation complete!”

Ebert grew up in the ’90s, learning to code the old-fashioned way: He typed it out, line by painstaking line. After college, he held jobs as a software developer in Silicon Valley for companies like Airbnb before becoming a co-founder of four start-ups. Back then, developing software meant spending days hunched over his keyboard, pondering gnarly details, trying to avoid mistakes.

All that ended last fall. A.I. had become so good at writing code that Ebert, initially cautious, began letting it do more and more. Now Claude Code does the bulk of it. The agents are so fast — and generally so accurate — that when a customer recently needed Hyperspell to write some new code, it took only half an hour. In the before times? “That alone would have taken me a day,” he said.

He and Brennan-Burke, who is 32, are still software developers, but like most of their peers now, they only rarely write code. Instead, they spend their days talking to the A.I., describing in plain English what they want from it and responding to the A.I.’s “plan” for what it will do. Then they turn the agents loose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.mkEt.3YH37wLlokrE&smid=url-share

March 12, 2026

Pentagon Bans Outside Photographers Because Pete Hegseth Ugly

New most embarrassing thing about Pete Hegseth just dropped, you ready?

It is in the Prissy Pete category, like his special makeup studio where he goes to apply just the exact right amount of whatever to make himself look like a MANLY Prissy Pete.

This is better than that, though.

Remember how a few months back, Pete queened out and kicked out all the real journalists in the Pentagon and replaced them with ball-licking sycophants? Well, some photographers insufficiently committed to Hegseth’s delicate sensibilities and image-conscious insecurities got back in for the first Iran briefing, and they took pictures that made Manly Prissy looked not his manly prissy best!

Now, those photographers who took the “unflattering” pictures have been banned, and off with their heads! What is wrong with these peasants, did they not get the memo about which cheek the Diva Of Defense considers his good side?

https://www.wonkette.com/p/pentagon-bans-outside-photographers

March 11, 2026

DeSantis' Free State of Florida is a joke

Legislature poised to grant new powers after court’s rebuke.

If you want to see what freedom looks like in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Free State of Florida,” look at two remarkable events last week.

First, a federal judge in Florida ruled March 4 that DeSantis violated the U.S. Constitution by unilaterally designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote that the First Amendment bars the governor from continuing “the troubling trend of using an executive office to make a political statement at the expense of others’ constitutional rights.”

DeSantis issued an executive order in December designating CAIR, one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups, as a terrorist organization, barring CAIR and “any person” who provided support or resources to CAIR from receiving any state contract, employment funds or other benefits. One week later, CAIR filed a lawsuit against DeSantis, arguing that the governor had usurped his authority and penalized the group in violation of its constitutionally protected free speech rights.

Walker granted the preliminary injunction sought by CAIR, halting enforcement of the governor’s order while the lawsuit moves forward.

Securing an injunction against the government is no small thing. Courts give wide deference to the executive branch, and judges don’t hand out injunctions without believing that a plaintiff will likely prevail at trial.

Still, everyone should have seen the court’s rebuke coming. As the judge wrote, DeSantis violated even a governor’s own expansive power, declaring CAIR a terrorist group “with no substantive explanation of his authority to do so, no legislative involvement and no mechanism for judicial review.” Walker noted that CAIR “continues to suffer” its public standing from DeSantis’ use of the bully pulpit,” noting — in an extraordinary footnote — that the governor “is choosing to be a bully.”

https://www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2026/03/11/desantis-free-state-florida-is-joke-column/

March 10, 2026

Trump's Pardon Goon Slapped With Ethics Charges Over Threatening Letter

Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin has been slapped with an ethics charge over a threatening letter he sent to Georgetown University about its diversity and inclusion policies.

In the letter, which Martin wrote when he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, he told Georgetown Law’s dean that his department would not hire any of the university’s law students after a whistleblower allegedly claimed Georgetown was teaching DEI.

In a complaint filed Friday with the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Board on Professional Responsibility, D.C. Bar disciplinary counsel Hamilton “Phil” Fox III argued that Martin overstepped constitutional boundaries with the letter.

Fox alleged that Martin’s actions violated the First and Fifth Amendments by pressuring the law school to alter both its curriculum and the way it teaches students.

“Acting in his official capacity and speaking on behalf of the government, he used coercion to punish or suppress a disfavored viewpoint, the teaching and promotion of DEI,” Fox wrote in the court filing. “He demanded that Georgetown Law relinquish its free speech and religious rights in order to obtain a benefit, employment opportunities for its students.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-pardon-goon-slapped-with-ethics-charges-over-threatening-letter/

March 6, 2026

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.

But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.

At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve Feinberg, who until last year ran the company and is now the deputy secretary of defense — the second-highest-ranking official in the Pentagon.

Feinberg oversees the office in charge of the Golden Dome for America project, which is modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

Feinberg filed paperwork saying he divested from Cerberus and its related businesses. But his government ethics records contain an unusual clause: He is allowed to continue contracting with the company for tax compliance and accounting services as well as health care coverage, a financial relationship that documents show could continue indefinitely.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg

March 5, 2026

Kristi Noem Leaving On A Sex Plane

Does Corey have to stay and be Markwayne Mullin's fuckpiece, or does he leave too?

Department of Homeland Security Secretary, ICE Barbie cosplayer, luxe air travel enthusiast, and future defendant on a fuckton of human rights violation charges Kristi Noem is out, promotefired suddenly today by Donald Trump for we don’t even know what real reasons. (She got beat up on TV, by Republicans/she said Trump Himself personally okayed $200 million in “Make Kristi Great Again” Super Bowl ads, take your pick but it’s one of those.)

In Trump I, everybody was fired or quitting all of the time — Trump had, at last count in our heads at the moment, 147 attorneys general — but in this somehow worser term, Trump has declined to can even the most embarrassing fucknozzles, so as not to give the media “a scalp.” Somehow Kristi Noem failed to clear the bar, which was under the ground, and so she is cut.

Noem will leave DHS at the end of the month. Perhaps she will take a few more field trips to personally stand in front of scary shaved-headed tattooed inmates in El Salvador (who actually weren’t actually any of our deportees, not that that matters) or to rappel from a helicopter to bash in every door in an apartment building, no warrants required, and put every resident — citizen and immigrant, grownup and child alike — zip tied onto a bus. Fuck if we know why that never made the NYT or WaPo front pages.

She is to be replaced, if Trump gets his request (he presumably will!), by Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who may have secured the job this week when he pretended to know all about War Things like what does war smell like and what does war taste like. Mullin, a wealthy plumbing contractor, has never served in any branch of the military or seen combat, but he’s already demonstrating he has the flair for military cosplay that made Noem so qualified for her job.

Noem herself will take on a new made-up job called “Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” Trump said on his fake Twitter site, describing her new job as leading “our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.” We guess that means she’ll be transferring her war crimes skills from overseeing ethnic cleansing and concentration camps to picking targets for the military to blow up with drones and then claim they were smuggling drugs. Dog breeders in South and Central America, you have been warned.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/kristi-noem-leaving-on-a-sex-plane

March 5, 2026

Tampa Bay Capitol rioter pardoned by Trump gets life for molesting 2 kids

A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, is among several Jan. 6 defendants who have been charged with new crimes since Trump’s sweeping act of clemency for Capitol rioters. On his first day back in the White House last year, Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences or ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the attack.

Johnson, who is from Seffner, was convicted last month of two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child and one count of electronically transmitting material harmful to a minor, according to prosecutors in Hernando County. County Circuit Judge Judge Stephen Toner handed down Johnson’s life sentence.

Sheriff’s deputies began investigating the child molestation allegations against Johnson in July. One of his victims told investigators that the abuse started around April 2024, several months before Johnson was sentenced for his Capitol riot conviction.

Johnson told one of his victims that he expected to be compensated for being a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and would be putting the child in his will to inherit any leftover money, according a sheriff’s office report.

“This tactic was believed to be used to keep (the child) from exposing what Andrew had done,” the report said.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2026/03/05/andrew-paul-johnson-pardoned-rioter-florida/