2026.03.10

[lsanderson]

Can we expect to see more U.S. citizens denaturalized?
Immigrants with citizenship and other legal status worry about losing the protections they rely on to live in Minnesota.
by Nora Hertel
https://www.minnpost.com/greater-minnesota/2026/03/can-we-expect-to-see-more-u-s-citizens-denaturalized/

Ex-Missouri house speaker sentenced 21 months for misusing Covid relief funds
John Diehl admitted using federal pandemic loans for country club dues, cars and other personal expenses
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/covid-fraud-missouri-house-speaker-john-diehl

Texas welder called ‘highway hero’ for stopping unconscious driver
Rene Villarreal-Albe averted possible crash by pulling truck up to car and halting it as driver faced medical episode
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/texas-welder-stops-unconscious-driver

Trump cheers FBI subpoena of Arizona 2020 election records
Request for records related to election audit appears latest part of Trump effort to spread false claims about voting
Sam Levine in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/trump-fbi-subpoena-arizona-election

Democrats must defund Trump’s imperial war
David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher, Laura Krantz and Ron S Doyle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/10/democrats-trump-iran-war

How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality. But no one flourishes in a repressive police state
By Eve Fairbanks
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/10/how-the-us-far-right-bought-into-the-myth-of-white-south-africas-persecution

Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir
From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/10/liza-minnelli-memoir-sex-scorsese-sondheim-moonwalk-michael-jackson-arrested-development

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Lady Gaga and David Gest are among those who get ferocious dressings-down in this brutally candid memoir
Fiona Sturges
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/10/kids-wait-till-you-hear-this-by-liza-minnelli-review-a-heady-brew-of-gossip-glamour-and-defiance

Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission
Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable
Peter Bradshaw
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/10/project-hail-mary-review-ryan-goslings-charm-carries-unserious-last-ditch-space-mission

I’ll also be back as Conan: Arnold Schwarzenegger to make third Barbarian film 44 years after original
The 78-year-old has announced a return to the action hero role that made his name in 1982, promising ‘all kinds of madness’
Catherine Shoard
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/10/arnold-schwarzenegger-return-conan-the-barbarian-film

Tim Walz is "Petty As Hell" After Kristi Noem Firing | Pivot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVle7t5Qnc

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Missouri proud!

[chefxh]

Boy howdy, Missouri in the news!