Jason Redmond

BREAKING: after Melania Trump unveiled the world's first AI-powered robot at the inaugural Fostering the Future Summit this morning at the White House - neither the First Lady nor the robot have been seen since.

BREAKING: USPS will impose its first-ever surcharge on packages — an 8% fee to cover the rising cost of fuel.

Virginia Sen. @MarkWarner told #AxiosAISummit that he believes AI's economic disruption "is going to be exponentially bigger" than he thought just a few months ago. "The recent college graduate unemployment is 9%. I'll bet anybody in the room it goes to 30 or 35% before 2028."

Disney’s OpenAI Washout Exposes Hollywood’s Vulnerability To Big Tech Whims Disney’s $1 billion partnership with OpenAI and Sora was seen by many as a template on which to build, bridging the divide between “the artsy people and the techie people” and potentially leading to other deals to end the exploitation of human creativity by unscrupulous AI models. For Disney, it also represented a leap of faith and an exercise in trust. Deadline’s Jake Kanter writes that it’s hard to escape the feeling that the trust has been trashed — a shame not just for Disney but potentially the whole of Hollywood. Read more here: deadline.com/2026/03/disney…

Andrew Garfield says he’d love to see a live-action Spider-Gwen film starring Emma Stone and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. (via: @hitsradiouk)

NEW: Ted Cruz endorsed an essay calling traditional Catholics “parasites.” Bishop Barron called a conservative war skeptic “absurd” and “preposterous.” Pete Hegseth’s pastor wants to ban public Masses as “idolatry.” Donald Trump's war on Iran has blown apart the Catholic-evangelical alliance that built MAGA — and the wreckage threatens JD Vance’s path to the presidency. thelettersfromleo.com/p/trumps-war-i…

🎉Gene Shalit turns 100 today

The family has informed me that a Memorial Gathering for our friend Tia Mitchell Close will be held at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815, on March 27, 2026, from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. She will be dearly missed.

Reuters confirms why I’ve been saying: the U.S. has been allowing fuel in to Cuban private businesses like foreign-operated hotels but barring it from hospitals and other publicly run institutions. I’m sure that the NYT and The Free Press, which produced entire articles about Hasan Piker’s hotel, will do a follow up now

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-…

Alien mural, 1978, by H.R. Giger

Iran just gave Trump a big gift? Buckle up.

Name a TV show or movie that better defined an era than Miami Vice and the 1980. You can’t. Don’t even try. Just stop… youtu.be/-aMCzRj3Syg

Imagine how badly Israel must be losing in US politics that *Cory Booker* is turning down AIPAC cash.

I’m begging you to watch the part where Pete puts his hand on the imaginary “throttle” and says “as long as it’s hard as is necessary” and watch Trump raise his eyebrows LMAO

Native son David Begnaud skips MSY chaos, praises Lafayette airport TSA in viral post theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/…

Are they OK?

Say YES to Work from Home.

Fred M. Wilcox’s FORBIDDEN PLANET hit theaters on this day in 1956. And it IS coming to #4K #UltraHD sometime soon(ish). @thedigitalbits

It has gone largely unnoticed that the chief enforcement official, for the SEC, Margaret Ryan, left suddenly last week. She had been restricted from investigating sketchy trades and investments involving the Trump family and close associates.