Except for timely election info, the extensive list of voting resources will now be at the end.

“There’s a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to become the People.” ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)

“If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm …” ~ Governor JB Pritzker famously said a few months ago (“JB Pritzker BLASTS Trump: POWERFUL SPEECH protecting Illinois’ largest city”, August 26, 2025)

Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago (August 26, 2025)

[1m 02s] Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig on KPFT Houston at 90.1-HD2, Galveston 89.5-HD2, and Huntsville 91.9-HD2. KPFT is Houston’s Community radio.

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On this show, we discuss local, state, national, and international stories that may have slipped under your radar. At my website, THINKWINGRADIO-dot-COM, I link to all the articles I read and cite, as well as other relevant sources. Articles and commentaries often include lots of internet links for those of you who want to dig deeper. I try to fact-check myself and include the links I use to do so.

It’s the 34th week of Trump’s military occupation of Washington DC; and 23 weeks since those states’ governors deployed National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana, at Trump’s request, which is where they remain for now.  

While the next gubernatorial election in Louisiana is in 2027, the next gubernatorial election in Tennessee is in about 7 months. I really want to see how that one turns out.

I’m providing a link in this show post at ThinkwingRadio-dot-com to a USA Today story that explains the current state of the occupations.

Due to time constraints, some stories may be longer in this show post than in the broadcast show itself.

1. There’s a Special Election coming up for City Council District C on April 4^th:
   1. Early Voting Centers will be open through Tuesday, March 31. All centers will be open 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.; except on Sunday from Noon – 7:00 p.m.
   2. Other than voting by mail, the absolute easiest and most stress-free way to vote is by early voting, when you can vote at any polling station without regard to your particular precinct.
   3. Polling Centers will accept voters on Election Day, Saturday, April 4 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
   4. As always, if you’re on line to vote by 7PM, you CANNOT be turned away.
   5. You can get more information at HarrisVotes-dot-com.
   6. REFERENCE: Blue Voter Guide
2. A plan to limit Houston police cooperation with ICE is moving forward, without a key provision; By Matt deGrod, Staff Writer | HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM | March 27, 2026. TAGS: Houston Police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Mayor John Whitmire, Houston City Council,
   1. A proposal to change the way Houston police officers work with immigration agents looks set to move ahead with two of its three original provisions after the City Attorney’s office rejected one of them, saying it would have violated state law.
   2. The proposal from a trio of council members would eliminate a requirement that officers wait a full 30 minutes for federal agents to pick up people on non-criminal administrative warrants issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and would require police leaders to compile reports on the department’s cooperation with ICE.
   3. City attorneys rejected a third provision that would give officers discretion on when to call ICE, saying it might violate state law.
   4. Council members Alejandra Salinas, Abbie Kamin, and Edward Pollard on Friday said they were working to refile the proposal, while saying they “strongly disagree” with the [City attorneys’] legal ruling. Other Texas cities have made it discretionary for their officers to call ICE.
   5. [The council members wrote in a joint statement,] “It is out of step with other major Texas jurisdictions, and without this provision, under current policy, Houston police are forced to go beyond what state law mandates – pulling officers away from patrol and straining resources.”
   6. However, the statement [went on to say], “This remains a strong ordinance that delivers real protections and transparency for Houstonians. We are moving forward because our communities cannot afford to wait.”
   7. It’s unclear why City Attorney Arturo Michel’s office rejected the provision, given that Austin and Dallas have changed their policies to reduce how often officers call ICE for administrative warrants.
   8. The Chronicle has reached out to the city attorney’s office for a copy of the ruling, but had not received a copy Friday afternoon.
   9. The ruling brings the proposal, which sidesteps Mayor John Whitmire’s authority, one step closer toward appearing on a city council agenda.
   10. Whitmire and Chief Noe Diaz earlier this month had already issued slight tweaks to department policy on ICE administrative warrants after a Chronicle report found at least two cases where officers directly transported drivers to immigration agents – actions Whitmire said violated city policy and that legal experts said may have been unconstitutional.
   11. Administrative warrants are civil documents often issued in deportation cases that do not on their own give officers the authority to make arrests.
   12. Diaz’s directive said officers must call their supervising sergeant to the scene every time they come across someone with an administrative warrant and give federal agents a 30-minute window to pick up the person.
   13. The next week, the three council members brought forward their proposed ordinance under Proposition A, a 2023 charter amendment that lets any trio of council members add an item to a meeting agenda as long as it’s legal. The [Houston City] charter typically only gives the mayor the power to place items on the agenda.
   14. Whitmire did not respond to a request for comment on the city attorney’s ruling. His office hasn’t returned any Chronicle reporter’s requests for comment since Aug. 17.
   15. The swirling debate over the city’s handling of administrative warrants started when officials in President Donald Trump’s administration added 700,000 noncriminal administrative warrants to a national law enforcement database in the first months of his second term as president.
   16. Immigration advocates have questioned whether it would violate the U.S. Constitution for local officers to … detain people based solely upon the [administrative ] warrants, and both national police associations and Houston leaders have said police shouldn’t make arrests on immigration violations alone.
   17. MIKE: Personally, I think it’s reprehensible that Mayor Whitmire feels himself so above the public right to know that he hasn’t agreed to any of the Chronicle’s requests for comments in almost eight months.
   18. MIKE: It just goes to show how deeply the authoritarian mindset has established itself in the minds and habits of some Texas politicians.
   19. MIKE: As far as this proposed city ordinance regarding HPD policies and ICE civil warrants, it sounds like a step in the right direction. Let’s see how it goes.
3. There’s been a viral news report and video of an ICE raid on some roofers in Cambridge, Maryland, and there have been many conflicting reports on exactly how and why it came to pass. Some reports claim that the woman living in the house called ICE on the roofers. There have even been allegations that the woman called ICE after the roofers were finished so that she wouldn’t have to pay them. This city of Cambridge is in Dorchester County in eastern Maryland. The following article was published Friday by a newspaper that covers that area. I thought that it would be useful to get a report of these events from a news organization local to them. From MYEASTERNSHOREMD-dot-COM — ICE refutes viral claims Cambridge woman tipped them off to make arrests; By LILY TIERNEY ltierney@chespub.com | MYEASTERNSHOREMD.COM | March 27, 2026. TAGS: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Cambridge City (MD),
   1. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has pushed back on a viral claim that a Cambridge woman called the agency on six men she had hired to work on her roof, saying the arrests were the result of a pre-planned targeted operation and not a tip from the homeowner.
   2. In a statement, ICE said [that on Monday, March 23,]it “conducted targeted enforcement operations near Cambridge”. [The statement read that,] Six people were arrested, “several have final orders of removal — a felony — and one has been previously convicted of illegal reentry.”
   3. [The ICE statement added, “This was a targeted enforcement operation, not a tip from a caller.”
   4. In an interview Friday, Cambridge City Manager Glenn Steckman said the city had no prior knowledge of the operation.
   5. Video of the arrest shows agents detaining the men while they were working on the roof of a residential property in the area of Bayly Road in Cambridge. The footage was livestreamed for about 30 minutes by Bryan Polanco, according to his Facebook account where the video was originally posted but has since been made unavailable.
   6. In the video, men on the crew could be heard yelling in Spanish as agents arrived, “She called the damn law on us and now we’re totally screwed.” During the encounter, Polanco the videographer, can be heard calmly asserting his right to film.
   7. [He tells an immigration agent,] “I have every right to record. … I’m not doing anything wrong either.”
   8. Widespread social media posts have accused a woman visible in the video of reporting the workers to ICE after they completed the job, allegedly to avoid paying them.
   9. Karen Trevino, a Cambridge woman who says she’s received harassment over the video, says she did not call ICE on the men. The property is owned by her father, not Trevino herself. She previously lived at the property, she said.
   10. Trevino denied any involvement when reached by The Star Democrat on Friday.
   11. [Ms. Trevino wrote in a text,] “I will say this. I don’t own the property. I wasn’t there. … I am being harassed and threatened.”
   12. In the video, the homeowner, Trevino’s father, can be heard saying, “first of all, I’m pro-ICE. I don’t think illegal people should be here.” [He added,] “I think they should come in properly. I’m a retired Marine, I’ve been to combat, I’ve fought to protect our rights.”
   13. ICE officials described their account of the arrests in a statement.
   14. [The ICE statement read,] “During the encounter, the aliens refused to comply with lawful orders, taunted officers and attempted to flee. … The illegal aliens ultimately complied and were taken into custody.”
   15. Near the end of the video, Polanco turns to the camera and says, “Seeing it is not the same as experiencing it. I’ve seen many videos, and sadly today I had to experience it.”
   16. Steckman, the city manager, said the city was caught off guard by the operation.
   17. “The city had no involvement with that,” he said, adding that he was unaware ICE would be in the community that day.
   18. Steckman also addressed a permitting issue connected to the property. The roof replacement had begun without the required permit, but the contractor had since obtained one, he said.
   19. Steckman identified the company as Allied Remodeling, who obtained the roofing and siding permit for the home. Steckman noted that only about 15% of the job had been completed at the time of the arrests.
   20. As of Friday afternoon, Allied Remodeling did not respond to a request for comment.
   21. MIKE: I’m intrigued by the ICE assertion that the roofers attempted to flee. Is the claim that these men tried to flee before or after they got off the roof?
   22. MIKE: This is a clear case of “he said, she said, they said”.
   23. MIKE: The woman living in the house says that she did not call ICE. The father didn’t say on the record whether he did or he didn’t, but seemed okay with the ICE raid on his roofers.
   24. MIKE: ICE claims … well, you can take ICE’s claims with whatever amount of salt you may or may not choose, but ICE claims that they were already planning this raid on these presumably dangerous criminal roofers.
   25. MIKE: This is now the third show in a row where I’ve discussed how ICE raids are impacting home construction and repair in Texas and the US.
   26. MIKE: Let’s see how many unemployed or under-employed native-born US roofers and construction workers step in to take up the slack created by Trump’s police force.
4. I thought that the following two articles were an interesting contrast in how to report news. First, part of the story from The Hill, which is a right-of-center news organization — Philly DA threatens to arrest ICE agents if they break the law; by Lindsey Granger, Opinion Contributor | THEHILL.COM | 03/26/26 2:40 PM ET. TAGS: Airports Donald Trump Homeland security ICE Larry Krasner Shutdown TSA
   1. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is escalating a warning that’s getting national attention — and directly aimed at ICE agents now stationed at airports.  
   2. His message is simple: Follow the law in Philadelphia, or face prosecution.
   3. [DA Larry Krasner said,] “This is how it works. You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works. No, I don’t take a phone call from president saying, ‘Let them go.’ No, the president cannot pardon you. And yes, I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom and, if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved the criminal homicide of unarmed, innocent people. We are not having that.”  
   4. This all comes as Donald Trump deploys ICE officers to airports nationwide — not for immigration raids, but to help fill gaps left by TSA workers during the ongoing Homeland Security shutdown. Keep in mind they’re not trained to do screening or airport security, so they are doing things like crowd control.  
   5. Hundreds of TSA agents have reportedly quit in recent weeks, and thousands more are calling out. The strain is visible at airports across the country.  
   6. Unlike TSA, though, ICE agents are being paid, through funding tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, while the rest of the Department of Homeland Security remains caught in a political standoff. Democrats want reforms to how ICE operates, including judicial warrants, body cameras, and banning face coverings. Republicans are holding the line, refusing to separate ICE funding from the broader DHS budget.  
   7. So what we’re watching is more than just a staffing solution at airports. It’s a collision between federal authority and local enforcement. …
5. Now for contrast, here’s how Fox News reported that same story — Soros-backed DA Krasner threatens ICE agents at Philly airport: ‘I will put you in handcuffs’; District Attorney Lawrence Krasner says he will prosecute any ICE agent who commits crimes in Philadelphia, calling their TSA role ‘stupid but lawful.’ By Charles Creitz Fox News | FOXNEWS.COM | Published March 25, 2026 12:23pm EDT. TAGS: Philadelphia County District Attorney Lawrence Krasner, ICE Agents, Trump Administration, TSA Officers, Department Of Homeland Security (DHS),
   1. Philadelphia County District Attorney Lawrence Krasner criticized the Trump administration for dispatching ICE agents to airports to assist TSA officers who have gone unpaid for weeks amid a Democrat-forced funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security.
   2. Krasner, a Democrat whose campaigns received funds tied to left-wing Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, has criticized President Donald Trump and DHS for months over their immigration enforcement measures and previously threatened to “hunt down” ICE agents he believed violated city laws if there were to be a Minnesota-style situation in Pennsylvania.
   3. On Tuesday, Krasner spoke from the airport, saying Trump administration officials have tried to confound the public and agents themselves as to what is legal behavior and what is not.
   4. Krasner said he will not accept any phone calls from President Donald Trump asking for leniency:
   5. “The president cannot pardon you and yes I will put you in handcuffs, and I will put you into a courtroom, and if necessary, I will you put you a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis,” Krasner said, addressing agents.
   6. He claimed that situation involved “the criminal homicide of unarmed, innocent people” and that Philadelphia would not accept such actions.
   7. “My job is to enforce the law: so this is how that works — because I know there have been efforts to confuse you, including by the Vice President of the United States. This is how it works. You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you.”
   8. Vice President JD Vance declined to comment. But, the White House lambasted separate comments from Krasner as he stood in front of a “Wooder Ice” mural for a video message.
   9. Backed by ominous music, Krasner said Philadelphians enjoy Water Ice because it “doesn’t break the law [nor] bother us at an airport.” The “Rapid Response 47” team called Krasner’s video “sick and deranged,” adding, “If you don’t like it, Larry, tell your fellow Democrats to fund DHS.”
   10. Krasner also noted during his airport remarks that there are law-abiding agents within DHS ranks. …
   11. MIKE: The FCC has very little, if any, regulatory power over Fox News because it’s typically broadcast on a privately-owned cable network and not government-regulated airwaves, but I wonder if the FCC has jurisdiction when Fox News is received by a satellite dish using radio bandwidth that is regulated by the federal government. I have never seen that legal challenge made about that segment of Fox News’s broadcasts.
   12. MIKE: Now as it happens, on Friday, I tossed this idea out on Threads to get some thoughts and, to make along story short, respondents told me that the FCC can’t regulate satellite broadcasts. So on Saturday, I checked the FCC site about satellite broadcasts specifically. Here’s what the FCC site says in part: “The Communications Act requires a license for any commercial communications transmitted via satellite to, from and within the United States.  Satellite transmission involves both a space station and an earth station to complete the transmission link. Thus, the commission licenses both space stations and earth stations.”
   13. MIKE: So again, perhaps the FCC can regulate satellite transmissions of Fox News.
   14. MIKE: But that question aside, might the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have some authority over “fake news”?
   15. MIKE: The FTC web site says this: “When the Federal Trade Commission finds a case of fraud perpetrated on consumers, the agency files actions in federal district court for immediate and permanent orders to stop scams; prevent fraudsters from perpetrating scams in the future; freeze their assets; and get compensation for victims. When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or television, or anywhere else, federal law says that ad must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence. The FTC enforces these truth-in-advertising laws, and it applies the same standards no matter where an ad appears – in newspapers and magazines, online, in the mail, or on billboards or buses. The FTC looks especially closely at advertising claims that can affect consumers’ health or their pocketbooks – claims about food, over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, alcohol, and tobacco and on conduct related to high-tech products and the Internet. The FTC also monitors and writes reports about ad industry practices regarding the marketing of alcohol and tobacco. During the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the FTC has been sending warning letters to companies that may be violating the FTC Act, to warn them that their conduct is likely unlawful and that they can face serious legal consequences, such as a federal lawsuit, if they do not immediately stop.”
   16. MIKE: So the FTC, both in its stated mission and long legal precedent, has some authority over commercial speech when that speech is ruled to be misleading to potential customers.
   17. MIKE: In my personal opinion, the very fact that Fox News calls itself “news” in its name might be construed as false advertising to its news “customers’, but FTC power is very narrow in this type of instance.
   18. MIKE: In a couple of court cases relating to Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs, Fox lawyers are quoted as saying in part, “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that Fox cannot be held liable for fairly reporting and commenting on competing allegations in a hotly contested and actively litigated election,” Fox lawyers said in a statement.”
   19. MIKE: In this show post at ThinkwingRadio-dot-com, I’ve included the link to the story that includes that quote as well as many other links I used to write this commentary.
   20. MIKE: The First Amendment to the Constitution creates very strong guarantees against government interference in speech, but is there a legal case to be made for the FTC to scrutinize and, to some degree, regulate false news claims?
   21. MIKE: When searching the web, I did find some legal and scholarly discussion on this very topic.
   22. MIKE: The most comprehensive and scholarly that I could find was a 36 page paper titled, Fake News and Intent to Distribute: How the FTC Can Stop the Spread, from the University of Florida—Fredric G. Levin College of Law. This may have been the author’s doctoral thesis. I’m only going to read the Abstract and conclusion and omit the 30-odd pages in between with extensive footnotes, but I’ve linked to it if you want to read it.
   23. Abstract — The proliferation of fake news through targeted social media disinformation campaigns originating in the United States and abroad threatens the hallmark of a well-functioning democracy—“a well-informed electorate.” This Note will describe the most damaging type of fake news—knowingly false stories made with the intent to distribute in return for advertising income. First, this Note will provide an overview of fake news and explain why current legal frameworks are insufficient to effectively deter the spread of fake news. Then, this Note will argue that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to address this issue and will recommend the FTC adopt a rule based on a theory of intent to distribute. Finally, this Note will discuss how the proposed rule will better equip the FTC to combat the proliferation of fake news and deter its dissemination from the source …
   24. CONCLUSION — Gone are the days of reliance upon printing presses, distribution centers, and delivery channels to place the news at your front door. There now is greater freedom to distribute information because the Internet and social media have empowered individual actors to inexpensively publish statements within seconds. Unlike traditional press distribution and television broadcasting, the barriers to distribution on the Internet are low — there is no publisher, editor, broadcaster, or cable operator to act as a gatekeeper to the dissemination of information.
   25. Anyone can establish a legitimate-looking website, create a Google AdSense account, write share-worthy falsehoods, and make money from the distribution of fake news. Now that most people obtain their news online, social media has become the main source of news for many. Through these modern channels of media consumption, the harms of fake news can be spread instantaneously around the globe. This recent, rapidly developing phenomenon poses serious public policy concerns for a democratic society.
   26. The rulemaking authority of the FTC, this Note argued, provides the best option for stopping the spread of for-profit fake news. By focusing on for-profit fake news, action taken by the FTC is likely to survive a Constitutional challenge because commercial speech receives no First Amendment protection when it is inherently false or misleading. An industry-wide rule promulgated by the FTC should clearly define what constitutes improper conduct, so as to precisely and effectively disincentivize the actions and consequences associated with disseminating fake news.
   27. The FTC should model its rule on a theory of criminal possession with intent to distribute, while penalizing offenders with civil fines instead of criminal prosecution. Possession with intent to distribute provides a useful analogy to the for-profit fake news industry. By focusing on an author’s knowledge of the falsity of the story, actual or constructive authorship, and intent to distribute the falsehoods to as many people as possible to maximize profit, the FTC’s focus will fall solely upon those individuals who pose serious public policy concerns while also not exceeding the scope of the FTC’s authority under the FTC Act.
   28. Additionally, criminal possession with intent to distribute jurisprudence is built upon decades of varying theories for proving the elements of intent to distribute, many of which can be analogized to the issue of fake news. Such possession with intent to distribute frameworks thus serves as a strong foundation for the development of an FTC rule addressing the fake news epidemic.
   29. MIKE: All the preceding is legal theory or my speculation. We have no idea if a rule could be written to address “fake news” that will pass legal and Constitutional muster, or if a case could be brought to the courts that might force the FTC to instigate such a rule, but I think that it’s past time that we try. I’m also including links to a couple of reference articles about Fox News memes that have circulated online. You can judge for yourself.
   30. MIKE: If you want to read more on this subject, I’ve included five reference links at the bottom of this story in today’s show post at ThinkwingRadio-dot-com.
   31. REFERENCE: FCC: Satellite Transmissions — FCC.GOV
   32. REFERENCE: Did Fox News Change Its Accreditation from ‘News’ to ‘Entertainment’? — SNOPES.COM
   33. REFERENCE: Fact Checking a Claim That Fox News Says Its Programming Is ‘Entertainment,’ Not News — THEDISPATCH.COM
   34. REFERENCE: Friends Don’t Let Friends Share “Fake News”: FTC Cannot Effectively Regulate “Fake News,” So It’s up to Us to Make News True(ish) Again — By Samuel E. Bordoni-Cowley (Rutgers Law Student) | RIIPL.RUTGERS.EDU (Copyright © Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Posted February 28, 2017, in Blog.
   35. REFERENCE: 6 facts about Fox News — By Katerina Eva Matsa and Michael Lipka | PEWRESEARCH.ORG | July 17, 2025. TAGS: Media & Society, Fox News,
6. Next, from AXIOS-dot-com — Dems eyeing White House lean into their childhood traumas; Alex Thompson, and Holly Otterbein | AXIOS.COM | March 22, 2026. TAGS: Potential 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidates, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Childhood Trauma,
   1. Some potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates are introducing themselves to voters in a striking way: by documenting their childhood resentments, family chaos and fights with their parents.
   2. … Many presidential hopefuls carry painful memories from complicated childhoods. But few have discussed them as openly as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
   3. Their frankness about their formative years and family dynamics is a way to shape their public stories before journalists do. It’s also a sign of shifting taboos and a growing desire for candidates to appear relatable to voters.
   4. … In preparing for potential 2028 campaigns, the governors have opened up about how their difficult relationships with their parents still shape them:
   5. [In Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s] recent book, “Where We Keep the Light,” Shapiro writes that he “had a happy childhood and, at points, an unhappy childhood home.”
   6. He says his mother, Judi, could be unstable, and that he and his siblings believed that “if we were good, we could stop the chaos and the yelling.”
   7. Shapiro notes that he wrestled with whether to discuss such private family matters, but ultimately did because others have lived through similar experiences — and because his mother’s behavior influenced his leadership style.
   8. [Shapiro writes,] “It explains why I always sought to solve problems. … I had to anticipate a problem or a pain point before there was a blowup.”
   9. When CBS’s Gayle King pressed him on that passage last month, Shapiro said: “In many ways, and I hope she’s able to see this one day, my mom is the hero in that book.”
   10. Shapiro’s complicated family dynamic also was evident in his X post on Mother’s Day last year, when he expressed gratitude to his mother-in-law, “who showed me unconditional love,” and his mom, “who raised me to care about the world around me.”
   11. [California Governor Gavin Newsom] is even more candid about his at-times fraught relationships with both parents, which he says left him caught between two worlds and fully accepted by neither.
   12. In his new book, “Young Man in a Hurry,” Newsom recounts having dyslexia and how his mother, Tessa— who carried most of the burden of raising him and his sister — tried to console him over his struggles in school by saying: “It’s okay to be average, Gavin.”
   13. Newsom writes that although she meant to comfort him, he recalls no “crueler words.”
   14. He also says that after his parents’ divorce, his father, Bill, was often absent, leaving him looking to give his father “reasons to be a bigger part” of his life.
   15. As part of his book tour, Newsom released an hourlong podcast with his sister, Hilary, in which they frankly discussed their parents’ divorce, their different relationships with each, and the deaths of each.
   16. Newsom also recalls being absent at times during his mother’s final struggle with cancer, until she left him a voicemail in spring 2002 telling him that if he wanted to see her, he should do so before Thursday — “because that’s going to be my last day on Earth.”
   17. She had arranged for an assisted suicide, and Newsom writes that he realized he had been “hiding from her, hiding from myself” because he didn’t want to face her dying.
   18. When he and Hilary joined their mother on her final day, Newsom writes, she had a picture of the two siblings propped on her chest and said, “My works of art.”
   19. [Illinois Governor JB Pritzker] hasn’t written a memoir, but [he has] has spoken openly about losing his father, Donald, to a heart attack when he was 7 and his mother to alcoholism when he was 17.
   20. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Pritzker recalled his mother, Sue, trying to explain her alcoholism when he was 8 or 9, and promising to overcome it.
   21. “But, [he said,] unfortunately, she was never able to overcome it, and it overcame her and took her life.”
   22. As an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, that left Pritzker both an orphan and extraordinarily wealthy.
   23. Not every likely 2028 candidate is leaning into family trauma.
   24. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, for example, describes a far warmer childhood in his upcoming book, “Stand.” He dedicates it to his mother, writing: “Thank you, Mom, for giving me a lifetime of transcendent love. I stand because you and Dad so love me.”
   25. MIKE: I have to admit, I can relate to some of these stories. And I think that while some people are born to be extremely empathetic, others learn empathy through their own trials and tribulations.
   26. MIKE: As a window covering installer for 20 years who has been in over 8000 homes, I’ve had the chance to have lots of long conversations with thousands of people.
   27. MIKE: I can’t tell you how many times people have told me that they wish they had a “normal” family. From this experience, I’ve concluded that all these stories of complicated family relationships and various kinds of childhood trauma actually describe normal families.
   28. MIKE: The Norman Rockwell image of happy families seated around a Thanksgiving dinner table describe an aspirational family rather than a “normal” family.
   29. MIKE: From all these experiences — mine and the thousands of people I’ve met professionally and socially — I think that the empathy of many Democrats is shaped, if not born, by their own life challenges and by the analogs they see in others of their own hardships, sadnesses, and regrets.
   30. MIKE: For all these reasons and more, I think that the personal revelations of Shapiro, Newsom, and Pritzker are not only revealing. I think they’re important as being among the reasons they govern as they do, and why they advocate their policies the way they do.
   31. MIKE: Pritzker’s story may be among the most interesting because it shows that even money literally can’t buy happiness, although — as the old joke goes — it might make misery more tolerable. But then again, if you remember the story of Richard Cory, which was later turned into a song by Simon and Garfunkel, even that may not be entirely true.
7. Just a headline from FEDERALNEWSNETWORK-dot-COM — Trump signs order to pay TSA employees amid shutdown standoff; By Justin Doubleday (@jdoubledayWFED) | FEDERALNEWSNETWORK.COM | March 27, 2026 3:27 pm. TAGS: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), President Donald Trump,
   1. MIKE: While I’ve linked to this story in today’s show post for those who wish to read it, I only wanted to make one point. If Trump did this now, he could have done this at any time he wanted instead of punishing TSA agents and air travelers, essentially using them as pawns in his spiteful political machinations.
   2. MIKE: Remember in November.
8. From AXIOS-dot-com — Mysterious trading patterns follow Trump into war; By Zachary Basu | AXIOS.COM | Mar 25, 2026. TAGS: Politics & Policy, Suspicious Trading, Iran War,
   1. … An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump’s most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets, according to exchange data.
   2. … As the Iran war sends prices soaring for ordinary Americans, a select few appear to be profiting in plain sight. It’s precisely the kind of alleged corruption Trump built his political career railing against.
   3. Democrats, favored to win the House in November, already are laying the groundwork for investigations into whether insiders are trading on Trump’s market-moving decisions.
   4. … The pattern has become impossible to ignore, spanning both traditional financial markets and fast-growing prediction platforms.
   5. On Monday, $580 million in oil futures flooded the market in a sudden spike — with no public news to explain it — roughly 16 minutes before Trump announced a pause in strikes on Iranian power plants.
   6. On the Friday before the war began, an unusual surge of more than 150 Polymarket accounts placed hundreds of bets predicting a U.S. strike on Iran by the next day, according to a New York Times analysis.
   7. On Jan. 2, a trader turned roughly $32,000 into more than $400,000 by betting on the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro before it was announced the next morning.
   8. Last April, a surge of bullish stock trades appeared minutes before Trump announced a dramatic 90-day pause on the “Liberation Day” tariffs that were roiling the market.
   9. … Because these accounts are anonymous, it’s unclear whether they involve insiders with advance knowledge, coordinated traders or independent speculators.
   10. [White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement,] “All federal employees are subject to government ethics guidelines that prohibit the use of nonpublic information for financial benefit. However, any implication that Administration officials are engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting.”
   11. … There’s no evidence that Trump knew about the suspicious trades or that any officials were involved. More broadly, his presidency has coincided with business and investment activity involving allies, donors and family members, some of which has been historically lucrative.
   12. The Trump family’s crypto venture has generated billions — with investors including a Chinese crypto mogul who later settled his SEC fraud case, and an Emirati royal lobbying Washington for AI chips.
   13. Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have invested in drone companies competing for Pentagon contracts. Jared Kushner — Trump’s son-in-law and one of his Iran envoys — is seeking to raise billions for his private equity fund from Persian Gulf governments entangled in the war.
   14. Over two terms, Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 donors, allies and other people convicted of fraud — including one pardoned after his family donated $3.5 million to a Trump super PAC.
   15. … White House counsel David Warrington told Axios,] “The president has no involvement in business deals that would implicate his constitutional responsibilities. President Trump performs his constitutional duties in an ethically sound manner and to suggest otherwise is either ill-informed or malicious.”
   16. [A White House official said,] “Any contributions an individual makes does not impact the president’s pardon decisions. Anyone spending money to lobby for pardons is foolishly wasting their money.”
   17. … The Trump administration has systematically dismantled much of the machinery designed to catch insider trading and white-collar fraud.
   18. [According to NOTUS (an acronym for ‘News of the United States’),] The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section — created after Watergate to prosecute corrupt officials — was reduced from 36 lawyers to two last year, and stripped of authority to file new cases.
   19. In 2025, the administration canceled 159 federal enforcement actions against 166 companies — more than 30 of which donated to Trump’s inauguration or White House ballroom, according to Public Citizen.
   20. Reuters, citing three anonymous officials, reported that the SEC’s top enforcement official resigned last week after agency leaders blocked her from aggressively pursuing cases touching Trump’s circle. A spokesperson said the SEC applies securities laws faithfully in every case, and that debate among staff is “common and encouraged.”
   21. …The administration points to its aggressive pursuit of benefits fraud, including through a new DOJ division and anti-fraud task force led by Vice President Vance.
   22. The White House says the effort targets waste in federal programs regardless of party — though critics note the crackdown has focused almost exclusively on Democratic-led states.
   23. … Trump came to power promising to destroy a system rigged for the wealthy and connected. Many of his voters are still waiting for the payoff.
   24. MIKE: Compared to potential corruption that seems to be lurking just under the DOJ’s desire to check their radar and sonar, the Teapot Dome scandal was, to use a phrase, a tempest in a teapot.
   25. MIKE: Some of you may have learned about this scandal in American History. Some of you may not, or may have forgotten the details, so as a refresher, here are some excerpts from Wikipedia that explain that scandal:
   26. WIKIPEDIA: “To ensure that the Navy would always have enough fuel, President Taft designated several oil-producing areas as naval oil reserves. In 1921, President Harding issued an executive order to transfer control of [the] Teapot Dome Oil Field … and the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Oil Fields … from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior.
   27. WIKIPEDIA: “[The following year, 1922,] Interior Secretary Fall [Albert B. Fall] persuaded Navy Secretary Edwin C. Denby to implement the order.
   28. WIKIPEDIA: “Later in 1922, Fall leased oil production rights at Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, a subsidiary of Sinclair Oil Corporation.^[5] He also leased the Elk Hills reserve to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company. Both leases were issued without competitive bidding; leasing without bids was legal under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.^[6]
   29. WIKIPEDIA: “The lease terms were very favorable to the oil companies, and secret transactions associated with the two deals made Fall a rich man. He received a no-interest loan from Doheny of $100,000^[7] in November …^[8]. He received other gifts from Doheny and Sinclair totaling about $404,000 …^[8]. While the leases were legal, these transactions were not. Fall attempted to keep them secret, but a sudden improvement in his standard of living raised suspicions. …
   30. WIKIPEDIA: “Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison, but no one was convicted of paying the bribes. …
   31. WIKIPEDIA: “Before Watergate, Teapot Dome was regarded as the ‘greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics’.^[2] In response to the scandal, Congress subsequently passed permanent legislation granting itself subpoena power over tax records of any U.S. citizen, regardless of position.^[3] These laws are also considered to have empowered Congress generally.^[4]”
   32. MIKE: According to both US Inflation Calculator-dot-com and the S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2026 dollars, the $910 thousand that Secretary Fall took in bribes would be equal to over $17 million today.
   33. But Secretary Fall’s ill-gotten gains from the Teapot Dome scandal could make that sum little more than a rounding error compared to the potential profits from possible insider trading by people who may be in, or orbiting around, the Trump regime.
   34. MIKE: This is only one reason why the 2026 Congressional elections are so important. We need not only a Congressional body that can stop some of Trump’s and the Republicans’ worst policies. We need robust investigations to begin as soon as possible to root out and punish potential high crimes and misdemeanors by Trump and Trump officials, and to criminally penalize any individuals that have committed them.
9. Deutsche Welle — DW — is Germany’s state-funded, public international broadcaster, delivering news, analysis, and information from a German and European perspective. It might be considered Germany’s version of the BBC. I have found it to be a good non-American source for news from a European perspective. So this next story from DW-dot-com should sound an alarm for Americans — US government ‘chipping away’ at press freedom; By Matt Pearson | DW.COM | March 27, 2026 (TAGS: US Government, Press Freedom, Media Concentration, MAGA, US Pentagon, Trump administration,
   1. The increased hostilityin the Pentagon’s treatment of the press is the latest escalation in a pattern of behavior from the Trump administration that is creating a “significant chilling effect on journalism,” a US press freedom expert told DW.
   2. On Tuesday, The New York Times accused the Pentagon … of ignoring “both in letter and spirit” a court ruling that unpicked most of the restrictions journalists were asked to agree to in a new set of policies last October in order to maintain access. Those guidelines had included prohibiting “solicitation” of information and led to many outlets returning press passes, saying the Pentagon’s policy “threatens core journalistic principles.”
   3. US District Judge Paul Friedman, who ruled on the case, said the “undisputed evidence” was that the policy aimed to replace “disfavored journalists” with those “on board and willing to serve” the government.
   4. In the absence of these traditional outlets, the press pack, down to 26 journalists after the walkout, was replenished with 60 new accreditations in November, mostly from pro-Trump and MAGA outlets such as Turning Point USA and RedState. 
   5. But the White House’s interim policy, released after the judgement, has largely flouted the court ruling, according to the newspaper’s lawyers.
   6. … [The Times statement read,] “Among other things, for the first time in history, the interim policy bars reporters with press passes from entering the building without an escort, sets up unprecedented rules governing when a reporter can offer anonymity to a source, and leaves in place provisions that this court’s order struck.”
   7. The Pentagon also plan[s] to shut the reporters’ work space, known as “Correspondents’ Corridor,” and move reporters to an annex away from the building.
   8. [Said National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. …,] “Closing the Correspondents’ Corridor and forcing escorted access undermines independent reporting at the Pentagon at a moment when the public needs clear, unfiltered information about the US military. … For decades, that corridor has been central to independent reporting on the Pentagon. Eliminating it and requiring escorted access would sharply limit how journalists gather news, build sources and cover one of the most powerful institutions in government — reducing what the public is able to see and understand about decisions made in its name.”
   9. It is the Pentagon’s position on standard journalistic practices that most concerns Seth Stern, from the New York-based Freedom of the Press Foundation.
   10. … [Said Stern, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s chief of advocacy,] “The notion that journalists are not entitled to ask for information from unauthorized personnel, that journalists have a responsibility to help the government keep secrets […] that’s antithetical to what the First Amendment stands for in the United States. …” Under the US Constitution, the First Amendment provides for the protection of fundamental freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
   11. A few days before the ruling, it became clearer still that the administration, and particularly Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, disagrees. Hegseth has consistently criticized reporting on the US-Israel war with Iran in his press conferences.
   12. [Said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on March 23,] “The court removed every provision that allowed the Department to screen press credential holders for security risks and every provision that allowed the Department to deny, revoke, or suspend a press credential based on security considerations — while simultaneously ordering the Department to immediately reinstate press credentials for the New York Times. … The Department always complies with court orders but disagrees with the decision.”
   13. For Stern, this is all part of a pattern of governmental behavior that seeks to “criminalize much of what journalists do every day.” If unchecked, he said, its effects on the freedom of the press and information could be dramatic.
   14. [Said Stern,] “If courts don’t push back and give their rulings teeth — issue sanctions, issue contempt findings, not just a slap on the wrist — so the administration can find an opportunity to try again on different facts in front of a different judge, there is that risk that journalists feel that they risk prosecution for criminal solicitation or for violating the Espionage Act or for violating the Computer Fraud Act by doing what in the past was considered routine. … Even if they’re not ultimately convicted, nobody wants to be arrested, nobody wants to stand trial.”
   15. … While the court broadly ruled in favor of press freedom this time around, the backslide is clear. The US was ranked 57th for press freedom in the last annual Press Freedom Index in 2025 and will likely fall further when next year’s results are published.
   16. [MIKE: There is an accompanying graphic showing where the US places on their “Press Freedom Index” relative to other countries. Right now, the index says that we place between Sierra Leone and Gambia in press freedom. Digest that while I continue with the story …]
   17. Compilers [from] Reporters Withour Borders have said “the country is experiencing its first significant and prolonged decline in press freedom in modern history, and Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is greatly exacerbating the situation.”
   18. Stern said this is an attempt to create an environment where reporters must be willing to sacrifice their freedom to tell the truth. [He said,] “It will certainly become a lot more difficult, a lot more dangerous, and will limit the pool of people willing to do journalism to those that are exceptionally courageous and heroic and don’t mind risking prison.”
   19. As well as individuals, the Trump administration has often sought to sue news organizations, and is currently pursuing cases against The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the BBCand CNN, among others. ABC and Paramount have previously settled with the president for about $16 million each. But Stern said the money isn’t the point.
   20. [Stern said,] “The outcome is the creation of a significant chilling effect. They know they’re unlikely to succeed on a lot of the legal theories they bring before the courts. If they didn’t know that going in, they know it now because they lose cases all the time. … But if they lose, it doesn’t really cost them anything. They’re not paying their legal fees, [the US taxpayer is]. Why not throw it against the wall and see if it sticks? And if they win one out of 10, or one out of 100 cases, then they’re chipping away at the constitutional rights of journalists and of the public. They’re opening doors that they can barge through.”
   21. … The press freedom advocate also has grave concerns about what he characterizes as the “shattering” of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the Trump administration. The government cut the budget and staff levels for FOIA in early 2025, and the FOIA backlog rose by 42% last year to more than 30,000 cases across the department, according to government figures. A case is considered to be in the backlog if there is no response within 20 days.
   22. Stern said previous presidents paved the way for this dismantling of a vital journalistic tool, and turning back the clock will be difficult, whoever wins power next.
   23. [Said Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Seth Stern,] “Convincing a future administration to even rebuild FOIA back to where it was before Trump, let alone make the much-needed improvements that were called for decades ago, is going to be a tall order. … That’s because generally there is not much appeal to politicians of helping the public find out about and air their dirty laundry. I suspect that after Donald Trump has destroyed FOIA, that’ll be a slow rebuild that’ll require a lot of political pressure.”
   24. Despite the increasingly bleak picture for press freedom in the US, Stern did find some hope in Trump’s definition of the press.
   25. [He said,] “Trump, being a product of the 1980s, is focused largely on the major broadcast networks. And that is not necessarily the source of news that most Americans and particularly younger generations are relying on. So there is still a lot of very good journalism going on below Trump’s radar. That is a positive sign.”
   26. MIKE: I want to reiterate a point that I made earlier: Relative to other countries, the “Press Freedom Index” says that we place between Sierra Leone and Gambia in press freedom. That is both extremely alarming and terribly pathetic.
   27. MIKE: There’s a saying that if anyone recognizes the arrival of fascism, it’s the Germans, and I subscribe to that belief.
   28. MIKE: The article also collectively blames the Trump regime, but it’s not just Trump. It’s every official working for him, and the elected Republicans who agree with these constraints of the press, or are just afraid to go against Trump.
   29. I think that we should all pay close attention to German reporting on the situation in the MAGA America of Donald Trump and his sycophantic MAGA Republicans.
   30. MIKE: You know how we’ve heard for decades that a particular election was the most important in US history, and how people kept treating that as hyperbole?
   31. MIKE: Well in hindsight, each time people said it, it was true, but the seriousness of the danger was so incremental that it was hard to see.
   32. MIKE: Now, we’re there, and the Germans see it for us. Listen to them.
10. From the EURASIANTIMES-dot-COM — Does America Have Enough Weapons To Fight Iran? What’s Driving The 5-Day Pause on Iran Strikes?; By Prakash Nanda | EURASIANTIMES.COM | March 26, 2026. TAGS: Middle East, Iran, Israel, United States, Munitions Shortages,
    1. [The] conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States in the Middle East is fast changing, [but] one of the possible reasons behind President Donald Trump’s five-day pause is the reported depletion of America’s munitions to fight a prolonged war against Teheran without risking the safety and security of America and its allies in the far more crucial region of the Indo-Pacific.    
    2. According to Seth G. Jones, President of the Defense and Security Department at The Center for Strategic and International Studies … ,] “The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think”, and “The conflict with Iran is an urgent reminder that the U.S. needs a defense industrial base that can wage a high-intensity war against American adversaries — especially China”.
    3. … [After the Iran] war began on February 28], the Trump Administration … was bullish about U.S. military capacity. … Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured that “We’ve got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need”, [and] General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, “We have sufficient precision munitions for the task at hand, both on the offense and defense”.
    4. And, writing on his social media platform Truth Social on March 2, President Trump said that the United States possessed a “virtually unlimited supply” of medium and upper-medium grade weapons, and it was prepared to fight “forever” … ”. …
    5. However, the American experts are not convinced. …
    6. As regards the high-end weapons, the President did, in fact, acknowledge some weaknesses when he said: “We are not where we want to be.”
    7. [The U.S. is using more than 20] high-end weapons against Iran during the ongoing operations ….
    8. [A] prolonged campaign against Iran will deplete the inventory of … high-end weapons…
    9. [Though the exact size of the inventory is classified, there are numerous reports in the American media of critical shortages of air-defense interceptors, specifically Patriot and THAAD missiles, which are essential for countering threats in the Middle East. …
    10. Added to all this are also reports that meeting the demands from Ukraine in its war against Russia has already depleted stocks of 155mm artillery shells, Stinger missiles, and Javelin anti-tank systems.
    11. [MIKE: I’ve read previous reporting that the US had to buy 155mm artillery shells from South Korea because we are nowhere near able to make them fast enough just for Ukraine. Continuing …]
    12. … US-style warfare doesn’t come cheap. Apparently, the first six days of the Iran conflict cost America more than $11 billion. It is said that Washington spent about $779m in the first 24 hours, with a further $630m for the pre-strike build-up – moving aircraft, deploying more than a dozen naval vessels, and mobilising regional assets. …
    13. [It’s been reported that each Patriot missile that the U.S. has [used] costs around $3 million.
    14. And it is here that stockpiles are fast depleting. According to Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, stocks are being used up quickly.
    15. [He said,] “At the beginning, I think there were about 1,000 Patriots, and I think we’ve chewed into that inventory quite a bit now.” He estimated that 200-300 Patriot missiles have already been used.
    16. Cancian argues that high-grade weapons like this take time to build, [saying,] “Lockheed Martin delivered just 620 PAC-3 interceptors in all of 2025. If you went to the company today and said, ‘I want to buy one more Patriot’, it would take at least two years for that Patriot to show up.”
    17. [No wonder] the Pentagon is reportedly seeking an additional $200 billion for the Iran war. The rationale is that the extra funds will address the shortage of precision munitions and spur the defense industry to restock supplies quickly. …
    18. [That] $200bn request is in addition to the department’s annual budget of $838.7 bn, which Congress approved in January. That was separate from … $188 bn in funding for aid to Ukraine …
    19. … Lockheed Martin made 620 PAC-3 interceptors for the Patriot air-defense system last year and plans to make 650 this year. But its stated goal of producing over 2,000 annually won’t be reached until 2030. …
    20. … [Apart] from being unable to manufacture arms [and] weapons [fast enough] due to their high consumption [in] conflict zones [around] the world, … American military industries are beset by what [are called] “Structural Manufacturing Limits”.
    21. [T]here are supply chain bottlenecks due to shortages of specialized components … [and] there have been “Labor Unrests” …
    22. [In May] 2025, nearly 1,000 Lockheed Martin employees who assemble missile components, surveillance systems, and other defense hardware walked off the job … after failing to secure a new labor contract. … The unrest [got worse] when about 3,000 additional defense workers joined the strike, and another 2,500 employees building nuclear submarines came close to walking out before a last-minute deal was reached.
    23. [A] recent  U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) report has highlighted the need to modernize the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
    24. The contemporary DIB, which encompasses a large number of government and private organizations and facilities that support a diverse array of military requirements, sells mostly to the federal government, creating what is said to be a monopsony
    25. Over the years, there have been five firms, the so-called “Big-5”, that dominate … major defense contracts. … The Big-5 are Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Boeing.
    26. [Against] this background … the CRS study has posed the following questions: Do suppliers have adequate capacity to meet U.S. defense needs?; What is the appropriate degree of regulation for the commercial defense industry?; How resilient should defense supply chains be?; [and] What role should sourcing, content, and production requirements play in government stewardship of the industrial base?
    27. The is whether the U.S. should expand and diversify its DIB. Reportedly, the Trump Administration has initiated some remedial measures, such as the Pentagon’s commitment to rebuilding what it calls the “arsenal of freedom” and placing the defense industrial base on a wartime footing.
    28. [A] Munitions Acceleration Council was established in 2025 to increase production of 12 critical weapons, including Patriot interceptors and Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles.
    29. … President Trump has pledged to increase the defense budget by $500 billion for fiscal year 2027. The U.S. defense budget for FY2026 is projected to be around $961.6 billion, … already the world’s highest military expenditure and accounting for roughly 40% of global defense spending.
    30. But then experts like Jones think that all this is not enough as “more needs to be done — and fast.”
    31. MIKE: I’ve discussed the shortcomings in our military-industrial base on this show for years. They’re nothing new, but I think it’s about to hit the fan.

There’s always more to discuss, but that’s all we have time for today.