What Caught My Eye forMarch 26 - April 1 (#10)

Some of the articles that caught my eye that I felt were worth sharing from March 26 to April 1.


An Open Letter To Members Of The United States Congress

By Mike Brock techdirt.com

So as you look back on history, and think toward the future — do you simply have no shame? Do you feel nothing for the suffering you are permitting to persist? For the crimes that continue to accumulate? For the breach of sacred faith with those who gave the full measure of their devotion to this country, so that it might be free?

You can stop this. You have the power. The Constitution gave it to you precisely for moments like this one — precisely because the founders understood that executives with unchecked power tend, in time, toward exactly what we are watching now. They designed a remedy. They placed it in your hands.

In so many ways, the US Congress is so much more powerful than the President. Yet they just let Trump destroy the country, the economy, and use the Constitution as toilet paper. Shameful, the whole lot.


Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

By Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, & Adam Entous nytimes.com

Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.

How many examples of this racism and misogyny are we going to see before people finally get what Trump stands for.