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demmiblue's JournalFine arts panel urges Mint to make Trump gold coin 'as large as possible'
Source: MS Now
Members of a federal arts commission voted on Thursday to create a 24-carat commemorative gold coin featuring President Donald Trump — and to make it “as large as possible.”
The Commission of Fine Arts, a seven-person panel appointed by the president, passed a motion calling for the U.S. Treasury to manufacture the coin. The gold piece would feature Trump leaning over the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on one side and a bald eagle on the other.
Trump personally reviewed and approved the proposed designs for the coins, Megan Sullivan, acting chief of the Office of Design Management at the U.S. Mint, told the panel.
The committee’s vice chairman, James McCrery II, the initial architect for Trump’s White House ballroom project, called for the motion to pass “with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter” — the biggest size the Mint has available.
Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/federal-arts-panel-mint-trump-coin-as-large-as-possible
New @ms.now: Members of a federal arts commission voted today to create a 24-carat commemorative gold coin featuring Trump — and urged the U.S. Mint to make it “as large as possible.â€
— Julianne McShane (@juliannemcshane.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T20:48:51.875Z
This is the same group that greenlit his WH ballroom plans AND a design for a coin emblazoned w/ Trump's face.
Elizabeth Warren Endorses Graham Platner for U.S. Senate
"Graham Platner is going to flip Maine and then actually deliver change for working people in the Senate."
Boston, MA — Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren today endorsed Graham Platner's campaign for U.S. Senate in Maine, where he is running to defeat Senator Susan Collins.
"Graham Platner is going to flip Maine and then actually deliver change for working people in the Senate," said Senator Warren. "He's a combat veteran, an oyster farmer, and has inspired people with his populist agenda for a government on the side of working families—not the billionaires and giant corporations. Graham will fight every single day to make life better for the people of Maine in the United States Senate. I'm proud to endorse him."
"It is an honor to be endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren," said Graham Platner. "Senator Warren has spent her career fighting those who use power and wealth to take advantage of working families. She's been an inspiration and I look forward to working by her side in the Senate to take on Wall Street, monopolies, and the corruption in Washington."
Testing Governor Gretchen Whitmer's Music Knowledge - The Track Star Podcast
Through artists like Madonna, Aretha Franklin, and Eminem, Whitmer reflects on growing up in Michigan, the state’s deep musical lineage, and how Detroit became a global center for sound, from the Motown assembly line to rock and hip-hop.
The conversation also opens up into something broader: how listening shapes leadership, why asking questions matters more than having answers, and how the small, often invisible systems of everyday life, from roads to water to schools, shape whether people have the space to create at all.
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences.
As a young mother in the 1960s, I experienced two separate sexual encounters with Cesar. The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him, and I didn’t feel I could say no because he was someone that I admired, my boss and the leader of the movement I had already devoted years of my life to. The second time I was forced, against my will, and in an environment where I felt trapped.
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I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.”
https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
Source: NYT
The reporters interviewed several women who told their stories for the first time, as well as more than 60 other people, including Cesar Chavez’s top aides and relatives. The reporters also reviewed hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails, photographs and other material.
Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.
He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. “Don’t tell anyone,” he told her afterward. “They’d get jealous.”
The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html?nl=breaking-news&segment_id=216850
Late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez accused of sexually abusing young girls in the movement for years
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2026-03-18T14:19:06.189Z
Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her.
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Markwayne Mullin: "To be able to have the love of my life behind me. Somebody I literally fell in love with in third..."
Markwayne Mullin: "To be able to have the love of my life behind me. Somebody I literally fell in love with in third grade. *gets emotional* I knew I was gonna marry her in 8th grade. She didn't know that yet. We had to work that process."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-18T13:55:52.195Z
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico:
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
— Right Wing Watch (@rightwingwatch.bsky.social) 2026-03-17T18:09:48.776Z
Fred
Yoopers are a hardy bunch, and while some in Michigan's blizzard Monday found it "ruff," others were dogged about their routine.
Jenny Paltzer lives in Negaunee Township, near the Dead River Basin in Marquette County, an area that was buried under several feet of snow Monday.
But that didn't stop her neighbor's dog, Fred, from making his daily trip to her house in search of pats, playtime and treats.
Jenny's photo of Fred peering into her home while buried neck-deep in fresh snow had Facebook users laughing about his dogged dedication on a day when schools and offices were closed and snowplowers had their work cut of for them.
"Fred is like a old Keweenaw yooper ain’t nothing stopping him from his routine," one user commented under the photo, shared by Mark and Walt in the Morning, a radio program heard daily on Sunny 101.9 FM.
"Fred is safe, Fred got treats and Love before heading back home," the radio show posted.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/weather/2026/03/16/dogs-blizzard-snow-drifts-michigan-upper-peninsula/89189166007/
NEWS: Trump says no NATO countries want to help him with his war and that he doesn't need or want their help anyway
NEWS: Trump says no NATO countries want to help him with his war and that he doesn’t need or want their help anyway
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-03-17T15:27:06.024Z
Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war in Iran.
Kent said on social media Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote.
As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208
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