Corinne Fisher talks the dangers of plastics in our everyday lives, Markwayne Mullin being vetted to be the next head of DHS and why it sounds like he will not be an improvement over his predecesor, the astronomical ammount of money NYC spends on its homeless population with little to show for it, an update on veterans being forced to perform surgery in school, the scheduled Pentagon prayer session cancelled at the last second, a list of new places ICE is targeting for warehouses, Kat Abughazaleh losing her primary, AI money already working its way into the midterms and more before diving into the main story of the week, the horrible abuses commited by union leader Ceasar Chavez.

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What I watched: The Plastic Detox on Netflix

https://decider.com/2026/03/16/the-plastic-detox-documentary-netflix-microplastic-exposure-receipts/

ENEMY OF THE STATE: Markwayne Mullin

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/mullin-secretly-abetted-hundreds?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2270025&post_id=190524320&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6ki7zm&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

WACO mailbag

NYC Homeless

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/17/homeless-costs-new-york-unsheltered-subway/

Cuties Corner

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/mar/17/washington-state-university-veterinary-school-chan/

GODWATCH

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/pentagon-prayer-session-delayed?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b989c2b-1998-477d-8486-44c3488ad42a_3024x1960.png&open=false

ICEWATCH

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/still-on-the-list-an-update-on-ices?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7128088&post_id=191252511&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6ki7zm&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Primaries

Illinois House Seat

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5751169/illinois-primary-ninth-district-daniel-biss-kat-abughazaleh

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5749361/takeaways-from-yesterdays-primary-elections-in-illinois

AI money

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/12/ai-funding-midterm-elections/

AI Netanyahu

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/technology/netanyahu-ai-video-iran-israel.html

GUUURL

LAB LEAK on White House Website

https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

@n0twoke posted a video about underage migrant girls being sent to an island, THE ISLAND PART HAS NO BASIS IN FACT, but the underage pregnancy part is true

https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/wrc-news/the-girls-of-san-benito-the-center-where-trump-sends-pregnant-migrant-minors/

COULD BE WORSE

Cuba is Dark

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07j40dyx53o

MAIN STORY - Cesar Chavez (SAYZAR CHAHHVEZ)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-17/la-me-cesar-chavez-allegations

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html

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