LEADS

Gun Sales 2021: Boulder, Atlanta Mass Shootings Will Make Firearm Manufacturers Richer
https://www.ibtimes.com/gun-sales-2021-boulder-atlanta-mass-shootings-will-make-firearm-manufacturers-richer-3168488

The Greater the Disaster, the Greater the Profits: The Border-Industrial Complex in the Post-Trump Era
https://tomdispatch.com/the-greater-the-disaster-the-greater-the-profits/

Exclusive: Biden wants to keep Trump policy that boosted armed drone exports - sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-drones/exclusive-biden-wants-to-keep-trump-policy-that-boosted-armed-drone-exports-sources-idUSKBN2BH1CA

Drone Manufacturers Are Amping Up Surveillance Capabilities In Response To Demand From Government Agencies
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210318/16202646450/drone-manufacturers-are-amping-up-surveillance-capabilities-response-to-demand-government-agencies.shtml

Drone Company Wants To Sell Cops A Drone That Can Break Windows, Negotiate With Criminals
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210318/13031246449/drone-company-wants-to-sell-cops-drone-that-can-break-windows-negotiate-with-criminals.shtml

Lockheed Martin Unveils Land, Sea, and Air Launchable Counter-Drone System
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/03/23/lockheed-martin-morfius-c-drone-system/

Russian Radar System Counters Small, ‘Silent’ Combat Drones
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/03/24/russia-radar-system-c-drones/

Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious 'Drones' Off California Over Numerous Nights
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights

Philippines, Vietnam press China over vessels massing in South China Sea
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-china-southchinasea/philippines-vietnam-press-china-over-vessels-massing-in-south-china-sea-idUSKBN2BH13R

North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles into sea near Japan
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/north-korea-fire-projectile-ballistic-missile-japan-sea-south-us-14484914

Pentagon Picks Lockheed, Northrop-Raytheon Team to Develop Missile Interceptors
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2021/03/next-generation-interceptor-thing-contract-announced/172870/

AI-Controlled F-16s Are Now Working As A Team In DARPA's Virtual Dogfights
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39899/darpa-now-has-ai-controlled-f-16s-working-as-a-team-in-virtual-dogfights

Marine Corps F-35B in Arizona Damaged by Round Discharged from Jet Cannon
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/24/marine-corps-f-35b-arizona-damaged-round-discharged-jet-cannon.html

The F-35 and Other Legacies of Failure
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/03/the-f-35-and-other-legacies-of-failure/

The Iraq War Anniversary Should Remind Us the War on Terror Failed
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/iraq-war-anniversary-should-remind-us-war-terror-failed/172794/

Partisan lines blur as Congress tries to curb Biden's war powers
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/congress-biden-war-powers-477873

SASC Barely Advances Nominee For Pentagon’s Top Policy Job With A Tie Vote
https://www.defensedaily.com/sasc-barely-advances-nominee-pentagons-top-policy-job-tie-vote/congress/

Manchin Caves, Votes to Advance Biden’s Disastrous Colin Kahl Pick
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/manchin-caves-votes-to-advance-bidens-disastrous-colin-kahl-pick/

The GOP’s Fake Controversy Over Colin Kahl Is Just the Beginning
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/gops-fake-controversy-over-colin-kahl-just-beginning/172907/

GOP Lawmaker Cites Military Satire Site 'Duffel Blog' at Extremism Hearing
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/24/gop-lawmaker-cites-military-satire-site-duffel-blog-extremism-hearing.html

Where are some Republican Congress members getting their news? From far-right users on Twitter.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-congress-news-diet-study/

Hundreds Of Far-Right Militias Are Still Organizing, Recruiting, And Promoting Violence On Facebook
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/far-right-militias-facebook-recruiting-report

New evidence suggests ‘alliance’ between Oath Keepers, Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/24/oath-keepers-proud-boys-alliance-capitol-riot-477741

New evidence in Capitol rioter case exposes the role of Facebook Messenger
https://www.protocol.com/policy/capitol-riot-facebook-messenger

Chinese Hackers Used Facebook to Hack Uighur Muslims Living Abroad
https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/chinese-hackers-used-facebook-to-hack.html

Facebook and Twitter must do more to fight anti-vaccine misinformation, a dozen state attorneys general demand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/24/facebook-twitter-attorney-generals/

12 people are behind most of the anti-vaxxer disinformation you see on social media
https://mashable.com/article/disinformation-dozen-study-anti-vaxxers/

Krispy Kreme’s Free Doughnut Promotion Has a Strange Provision for Anti-Vaxxers
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/krispy-kreme-free-doughnut-antivaxxers.html

49% of Republican men say they won’t get vaccinated. These wives and daughters are on a mission to change their minds.
https://www.thelily.com/49-of-republican-men-say-they-wont-get-vaccinated-these-wives-and-daughters-are-on-a-mission-to-change-their-minds/

A ‘mentally disturbed’ man with a gun allegedly ran a National Guard vaccine convoy off the road in Texas
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/national-guard-texas-coronavirus-vaccine/

A Man Drove His Car Through A Crowd At An Anti–Asian Violence Rally And Yelled “Fuck China”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/man-car-anti-asian-violence-rally-diamond-bar

Amazon delivery drivers have to consent to AI surveillance in their vans or lose their jobs
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22347945/amazon-delivery-drivers-ai-surveillance-cameras-vans-consent-form

The Growing Movement to End the Surveillance Economy
https://prospect.org/power/growing-movement-to-end-the-surveillance-economy/

Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players
https://www.citizen.org/article/big-tech-lobbying-update/

POLITICS and FLEAS

How Biden’s First Presser Became A Big Effing Deal
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/03/25/bidens-first-presser-became-big-effing-deal/

NY Post Readers Livid After the Conservative Paper Sides with Biden on Gun Control
https://secondnexus.com/new-york-post-weapons-war

Noem Spokesman Blasts ‘Conservative Cancel Culture’ after Transgender Bill Criticism
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/noem-spokesman-blasts-conservative-cancel-culture-after-transgender-bill-criticism/

Colorado baker who won Supreme Court battle calls gender transition cake case 'a trap'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-baker-court-cake-celebrating-gender-transition-trap

Dr. Levine confirmed by Senate, makes history as first openly transgender Federal official
https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/dr-levine-confirmed-by-senate-makes-history-as-first-openly-transgender-federal-official/article_2c7b2004-8d69-11eb-a03f-63c5a61068d9.html

Kamala Harris Given First Major Task by Joe Biden: Solving Border Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/biden-summons-mayorkas-becerra-to-discuss-migrant-surge

Kamala Harris and Bill Clinton touting girls' empowerment together is a bad joke
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kamala-harris-bill-clinton-touting-girls-empowerment-together-bad-joke-ncna1261977

CNN defends Chris Cuomo for seeking COVID-19 help from Andrew Cuomo
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/544863-cnn-defends-chris-cuomo-for-seeking-covid-19-help-from-andrew-cuomo

Amazon Exec Taunts Bernie Sanders as Less Progressive Than His Company, Gets Buried by Reports About Awful Working Conditions
https://www.mediaite.com/news/amazon-exec-taunts-bernie-sanders-as-less-progressive-than-his-company-gets-buried-by-reports-about-awful-working-conditions/

Biden May Be the Most Pro-Labor President Ever; That May Not Save Unions
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/economy/biden-union-labor-amazon.html

The Unions Are Hemorrhaging Members. Thanks, Janus
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/the-unions-are-hemorrhaging-members-thanks-janus/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Grounded Suez Canal mega-ship is blocking shipments worth $9.5BILLION per day with 'enormous' consequences for global economy as rescue chief warns it could be stuck for WEEKS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9400977/Suez-Canal-Grounded-ship-stuck-weeks-rescue-chief-admits.html

Suez canal blockage scrambles global oil and gas movement
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/3/24/suez-canal-blockage-scrambles-global-oil-and-gas-movement

Oil drops as demand concerns outweigh Suez Canal disruptions
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-drops-as-demand-concerns-outweigh-suez-canal-disruptions-idUSKBN2BH062

OPEC+ Will Keep A Lid On Oil Production
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/OPEC-Will-Keep-A-Lid-On-Oil-Production.html

Oil: Whether Iran Gets U.S. Deal Or Not, It Will Pump To OPEC’s Detriment
https://www.investing.com/analysis/oil-whether-iran-gets-us-deal-or-not-it-will-pump-to-opecs-detriment-200569146

Follow the Oil: After Anchorage, China Will Make Iran Its Gas Station if America Turns a Blind Eye
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/follow-oil-after-anchorage-china-will-make-iran-its-gas-station-if-america-turns-blind-eye

Washington’s plans to torpedo Russia-Europe gas pipeline will blow up in its face
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/24/washingtons-plans-to-torpedo-russia-europe-pipeline-will-blow-up-in-its-face/

U.S. Thirst for Russian Oil Hits Record High Despite Tough Talk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/russia-oil-demand-hits-record-high-in-u-s-amid-rising-tensions

The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Lining Up Behind Far-Right Authoritarians
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fossil-fuels-fascism-narendra-modi

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

'Superbugs' kill more than 35K people in the US each year. Doctors may be partially to blame, study suggests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/25/superbugs-kill-more-than-35-k-americans-each-year-doctors-blame/4796184001/

Sounding the Alarm on Resistant Strains of Staph Spreading Between Pigs Raised on Factory Farms
https://globalbiodefense.com/2021/03/19/sounding-the-alarm-on-resistant-strains-of-staph-spreading-between-pigs-raised-on-factory-farms/

As regulations vanish, one Missouri county is ground zero for factory farming debate
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/as-regulations-vanish-one-missouri-county-is-ground-zero-for-factory-farming-debate/article_7b2192b8-88d9-11eb-858e-2bc1583774fe.html

Cattle Farming Is One of the Most Destructive Industries on the Planet
https://sentientmedia.org/cattle-farming/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

How Do Plague Stories End?
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-do-plague-stories-end

Weaned on Hollywood endings, Americans now face a messy one
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-coronavirus-pandemic-e311cadbb86f7165e7d21498548c1768

Hollywood’s Obsession With Rewriting History
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/hollywoods-obsession-with-rewriting-history/

ODDS, ENDS

Dolphin Awareness Month: It’s Time to Turn Our Back on the Captive Dolphin ‘Entertainment’ Industry
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/dolphin-awareness-month-its-time-to-turn-our-back-on-the-captive-dolphin-entertainment-industry/

Thanks for all the fish: The search for dolphin intelligence and the quest for alien life have moved in historical lockstep. What does the future hold?
https://aeon.co/essays/dolphin-intelligence-and-humanitys-cosmic-future

Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien
https://www.quantamagazine.org/arik-kershenbaum-on-why-alien-life-may-be-like-life-on-earth-20210318/

Welcome to the Very Real World of Alien Egg Implantation Fetishes
https://www.insidehook.com/article/sex-and-dating/alien-egg-implantation-fetishes

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