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Capitol agenda: Trump's Doral demands ripple through GOP (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/10/congress/trump-save-america-act-elections-bill-gop-midterms-00820224
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p81#a260310p81

I understand, I do. As a straight cis man I grew up with the the anarchist critiques of "anti-capitalism," "something something FREEDOM," and "all that other stuff that you should probably read if you have time." That failed me and left massive holes in my analysis that I'm still working frantically to patch.
I understand how we got here, but I don't understand why we aren't, specifically at this time, doing better.

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/st…

Sage raises $65 million to expand AI-assisted care for ageing Americans
Sage, a senior care technology firm, secured $65 million in new funding. This capital will fuel the expansion of its artificial intelligence platform. The technology aims to assist caregivers in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Sage's AI scans for distress and alerts staff in real time.

Trump’s Sons Roll in the Drone Industry Dough
Powerus, a drone firm funded by President Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.,
received an Air Force contract for an unspecified number of interceptor drones last week.
Bloomberg reported last month that Powerus is also in talks with the United Arab Emirates about a potential sale of drones that can counter Iranian attacks.
In recent months, the Trump brothers have gone all out on defense tech, lining themselves …

Five shameless moments of Iran war opportunism & grifting
War brings out the best — and worst — in Americans, especially in industry, Capitol Hill and Wall Street

The thing that is eroding Trump's power more than anything right now is his connection to Epstein. Everything in "the Epstein files" is absolutely toxic to the entire structure of power... the *exact* structures we want to dismantle.
The right has seized on this, but their analysis is just cartoon antisemitism and poor misdirection. They have managed to highlight this thing that unifies so many problems, so many struggles and experiences of oppression, at the same time. The fact that we haven't yet permanently tied his name to the entirety of capitalism and transmisogyny represents an utter failure of anarchists to pay fucking attention.

The coolest marathon in America is in full effect! The Los Angeles Marathon is 70F & runs thru:
✅ World Champion Dodgers Stadium
✅ Grauman's Chinese Theater, Chinatown Dragon Gate & Little Tokyo
✅ Hollywood Walk-of-Fame & Capitol Records Tower off Hollywood Blvd
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(1/2)
#LAmarathon

A capitalists will find a way of benefiting from everything...
'Standard donor forms, like those provided by donor registries such as Donate Life America, make no specific mention of “fat” or “adipose tissue”, they fall under the category of “bone and associated tissue”.
One wonders: would a prospective donor tick that little box while renewing their driver’s license if, say, they knew their adipose tissue was reaped and redeployed for a Brazilian butt lift?'

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

Capitol agenda: Senate heads into a weekend grind (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/20/congress/senate-weekend-session-save-america-act-dhs-00837277
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p24#a260320p24

Capitol agenda: House hard-liner headaches ahead (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/17/congress/house-conservatives-fisa-housing-save-america-act-elections-00831120
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p31#a260317p31