CURE News Digest: Sunday, March 15, 2026
CURE News
3-13-26 e pluribus cartoonum
“Dire Strait” by RJ Matson (editorial cartoonist)
“Iran War Costs Are Blowing a Whole in the Federal Budget”
https://rjmatson.substack.com/p/dire-strait3-13-26 Musings & Amusings
“The Government Departments Under Trump” by Robert S. McElvaine
“Every day is ‘Opposites Day’ in the Trump regime. Here are some appropriate names for agencies in his regime.”
https://robertsmcelvaine.substack.com/p/the-government-departments-under
3-14-26 Musings & Amusings
“The Dire Straits of Homuz? – ‘Patently Ridiculous’” by Robert S. McElvaine
“Everything members of the Trump Regime say must be read in a mirror. Call it Oppositespeak. As Pete Hegseth has been demonstrating, their whole M.O. is bald-faced and open-mouthed lying.”
https://robertsmcelvaine.substack.com/p/the-dire-straits-of-hormuz-patently
3-13-26 Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
“The Trump Administration Wrongly Took $160 Billion and Won’t Give It Back” by Elie Honig
“After its tariff loss, a futile act of symbolic protest threatens to backfire”
https://staytuned.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-tariff-repayment
3-14-26 Robert Reich substack
“So What Does Trump Do Now?”
“He’s cornered in the Strait of Hormuz.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/so-what-does-trump-do-now3-2-26 Popular Information
“The money behind the new Iran War” by Judd Legum
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3-13-26 The Bulwark
“The Trump War Glossary: What He *Really* Means About Iran” by William Saletan
“Keeping up with Mr. ‘I Have the Best Words’ as he twists the English language.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-glossary-iran-words3-15-26
“Letters from an American”
“March 14, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
“I was not a great student in college. I liked learning, but not on someone else’s timetable. It was this story that woke me up and made me a scholar. I found it fascinating that a group of ordinary people from country towns who shared a fear that they were losing their democracy could figure out how to work together to reclaim it.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-14-20263-15-26 Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
“Sunday Hopium – Trump Begs the World For Help, Ukrainian Wartech To The Rescue, Senate Rs Getting Worried The Chamber May Flip”
“Trump’s terrible, fascistic ‘Make It Really Hard For Everyone To Vote’ bill comes to the Senate this week”
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-trump-begs-the-world
3-15-26 Lincoln Square Media
“Corporate Media Is about to Get So Much Worse” by Kristoffer Ealy
“A $110 billion merger between Paramount and WBD, an FCC built for leverage, and the slow corporate rewrite of what ‘news’ is allowed to be.”https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/corporate-media-is-about-to-get-soEnd of CURE News Digest: Sunday, March 15, 2026
~Robert Reich