CURE News Digest: Monday, March 16, 2026
CURE News
3-15-26 Open Windows - Ann Telnaes
“It’s not the public interest Carr cares about” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist & visual storyteller)
“The FCC Chairman wants to make the boss happy”
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/its-not-the-public-interest-carr3-14-26 We (the people) Dissent
“Finding the Stars in Dark Times” by K. Starling
“Times are dark. Read stories of hope from the past couple weeks.”
https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/finding-the-stars-in-dark-times
3-16-26 The Grassroots Connector
“Art in Action” by Nancy Allison (includes 7-minute audio)
“The Center for Artistic Activism teaches imaginative protest”
https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/art-in-action3-14-26 Lincoln Square Media
27-minute video recording featuring Susan J. Demas & Congressman Adam Smith
“Congressman Adam Smith on Trump’s Lies about the Iran War”
"’Trump's a bullshitter. It's the one thing that he's like really good at ... But again, if you're fighting a war, the details matter.’"
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congressman-adam-smith-on-trumps
3-16-26 Letters from an American
“March 15, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
“Today, as the country enters its third week of war against Iran, President Donald J. Trump was on the golf course, illustrating the observation of journalist E.J. Dionne in the New York Times that ‘from the very beginning of this war, we got a sense that there wasn’t a great deal of serious thought put into it by the president of the United States about how it might end, what our objectives were, what needed to be done to protect Americans who are in the Middle East, what might happen to oil in the Strait of Hormuz.’”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-15-2026
3-16-26 To the Contrary
“The Girls of Minab Were Given ‘No Quarter’” by Charlie Sykes
“When their parents sent the girls to school that morning, they had no reason to think their country was under attack. By the time they rushed to the school after the bombing, most of their children — aged 7 to 12 — were dead. The death toll, which included the girls’ teachers, is believed to have reached 175.”
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-girls-of-minab-were-given-no
3-16-26 Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
“The Memefication of War” by Anne Applebaum
“What happens when your enemies, and your own soldiers, aren’t treated as human beings”
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/the-memefication-of-war
3-16-26 Popular Information
“Kushner breaks pledge, seeks $5 billion or more from foreign governments” by Judd Legum
“Kushner’s claim that he would not raise additional money during Trump’s presidency to avoid conflicts turned out to be a lie.”
https://popular.info/p/kushner-breaks-pledge-seeks-5-billion3-15-26 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
“Attacking the First Amendment on Repeat”
“The deference presidents show to the First Amendment, both out of respect for first principles and because they can afford to, is dead with Trump. He doesn’t seem to realize that inaccurate reporting has its own price—the inevitable need for correction and the loss of reputation that comes with it. The same is true when it’s the president who is putting out false information, and in any event, it’s reprehensible for a president to accuse the press of being un-American when it’s just doing its job.”
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/attacking-the-first-amendment-on
3-15-26 Lincoln Square Media
“Kevin Kiley’s Profile in Chickensh*t” by Rick Wilson
“”The California Congressman didn’t leave the Republican Party. He changed the label on the box.”
Kiley is the Ugg boot of MAGA…and has apparently decided that the best way to convince voters he’s a bold independent thinker in a moment the MAGA brand is increasingly radioactive, is to stage the political equivalent of a fake breakup on Instagram. You know the type.”
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/kevin-kileys-profile-in-chickensht~John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States