Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from March 1-26, 2026
Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:
- Iran War
- 2026 Election
- Wokeness
- Judgefare
- Progressive Media
- Abortion Watch
- AI Watch
- Trump Deportations
- Voter ID
- Mamdani Terror Attack
For regular news updates throughout the week, go to mindfulintelligence.news, our news research hub, curated news aggregate center, and MIA report archive site.
A. TRENDING
- TRUMP PUSHES FOR END TO IRAN WAR AS MARKETS FEEL BURDEN OF BLOCKED STRAIT – President Donald Trump has put together a 15-point peace proposal to what’s left of the Iran regime. Alleged representatives of the regime are telling corporate news media they have already rejected the deal. The President has fired back, threatening he will “unleash hell” if Iran “fails to understand that they have been defeated.”
President Trump announced, “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.”
Read more about the Iran War in our Situation Report on pg. xx.
GO DEEPER ON IRAN WAR
- DOJ CLOSES BIDEN AUTOPEN INVESTIGATION, SOURCE CLAIMS – After another round of much sound and fury signaling nothing, the GOP’s Department of Justice has allegedly quietly shut down its Biden autopen investigation in much the same way it has tried to bury the Epstein Files investigation. The claim comes from the Washington Examiner, which cites an anonymous source. The Department of Justice has refused to comment when asked by the press about the claim.
GO DEEPER ON BIDEN AUTOPEN
- FBI ADMITS MORE THAN 100 TERABYTES OF EPSTEIN EVIDENCE WERE DELETED – Whatever the DOJ has on hand that it is calling the “Epstein Files,” it is hardly as much as what it could have been. According to a just-now discovered testimony in 2024 by FBI Agent Aaron Spivack, a hack into their NY Field Office during the 2023 Superbowl led to the FBI losing access to more than 500 terabytes of data. 100 Terabytes would turn out to be lost for good.
GO DEEPER ON EPSTEIN FILES
- EPSTEIN WAS A FINANCIAL BOUNTY HUNTER FOR THE U.S.? – Jeffrey Epstein was officially a U.S. government agent according to a memo released among the Epstein Files. The claim comes from an unsigned memo that states, “At some point in time, Jeffrey Epstein worked for the United States government as a financial bounty hunter. He has retained significant political connections with both Israel and the United States.”
The memo’s credibility comes from another part of the note recommending further information about Epstein from other federal agencies. It also accuses Epstein of violating child exploitation and sex offender traveling laws, The memo gives more credence, though not a smoking gun, to the claim Epstein was a government agent.
B. DOMESTIC TERROR
- ISLAMIST SHOOTER KILLS 3, INJURES 17 IN TERROR ATTACK ON AUSTIN, TX BAR – 53-year-old Islamist Ndiaga Diagne opened fire on an Austin, Texas bar, killing 3 and injuring 17 others before being killed himself by the police. He was wearing a “Property of Allah” shirt and has connections to a local Islamist community with suspicious ties to Islamist terrorist organizations. The attack came just after the Ayatollah Khomeini was confirmed killed in aerial strikes, leading many to believe this was related to the war on Iran.
GO DEEPER ON AUSTIN IRAN SHOOTER
- MEDIA, MAMDANI PROTECT ISLAMIST IED ATTACKERS WHILE VILIFYING WHITES, CHRISTIANS – The media coverage of the IED attack by two Islamists on a Christian anti-Muslim rally not only accused the Christians of being white supremacists (which they appear to actually be, in this case), they also accused the Christians of throwing the IEDs themselves. Mayor Mamdani of New York focused his ire on the “white supremacists,” while only condemning the IEDs being tossed. He failed to mention the Islamists behind the attack.
The attack was caught on video, so the internet already knew the Islamists were behind the attack, The two suspects are Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, both of whom come from wealthy immigrant parents. They screamed “Allahu Akbar” when they threw the IEDs, which were all verified to be real. Had any one of them gone off (there were three total, two near the mayor’s mansion), it is highly likely there would have been multiple casualties. We covered this story in more detail in the Final Thought of our Friday, March 13 MIA Issue.
GO DEEPER ON MAMDANI TERROR ATTACK
- ISLAMISTS ATTACK AMERICAN SYNAGOGUE, UNIVERSITY ON SAME DAY – On Thursday, March 12, 2026, two separate Islamists attempted to murder Americans, with one succeeding and the other being stopped before he could do further harm. Islamist Lebanese “immigrant” Ayman Mohammad Ghazali attempted to murder Jews at a Michigan synagogue. He was killed by security after driving his car into the synagogue.
Islamist Mohamed Jalloh was successful in his attack on Old Dominion University. He killed one and injured another before ROTC members stopped him and killed him with their bare hands, according to reports. The Islamist killed one man, Lt. Colonel Brandon Shah.
GO DEEPER ON DNC ISLAM
C. U.S. ELECTIONS
- FBI SEIZES 2020, 2024 ELECTION RECORDS FROM NOTORIOUS MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.
Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”
GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD
- DEMS FLIP FLORIDA STATE HOUSE SEAT IN TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO DISTRICT – The Florida state house district President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate resides in will now have a Democrat representing it after a special election saw Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly beat Trump-endorsed Republican John Maples. Trump won in this same region by 11 points in 2024. The special election was needed to replace retired Republican Mike Caruso, who won his last election by 19 points in 2024.
GO DEEPER ON 2026 ELECTIONS
- TEXAS PRIMARY FINISHES CROCKET, KEEPS CORNYN ALIVE – The Texas Senate Primary races were the main feature of March 3, 2026’s midterm primaries, which were also held in Arkansas, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. In Texas, DNC race hustler Jasmine Crocket lost to James Talarico, a far-left “Christian” who claims God is non-binary and ok with abortions.
In the GOP race, Senator John Cornyn failed to get a majority vote, so a run-off race between himself and his closest challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton, will happen in May. Paxton had offered to drop out of the race if Cornyn commits to passing the SAVE Act, even if it means voting to change the filibuster rule to require it to be verbal, not merely procedural. That offer is now void because the deadline for Paxton to withdraw has passed.
D. U.S. POLITICS
- VA DEMS MOVE TO TAKE GUNS, CONTROL HISTORY NARRATIVES, AND CODIFY ANTI-WHITE RACISM – The Democrat Party of Virginia has moved aggressively to make the state in Progressive US’s image, passing numerous bills aimed at curbing American liberty. They passed one bill that freezes white men out of government contracts, another bill that takes “assault weapons” from Americans, and another one which mandates J6 be taught to children as only being an insurrection.
The three bills reflect Progressive US’s anti-white racist ideology, its disrespect for freedom of thought, and its fear of an armed citizenry it knows it is preparing to attack.
GO DEEPER ON VIRGINIA INSURRECTION
- JUDGES SET FIRE TO TRUMP AGENDA IN A SERIES OF BRUTAL RULINGS – Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more.
In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Democrat activist judges while shaming any critique of these same rulings. Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.
GO DEEPER ON JUDGEFARE
- ANOTHER VICTIM OF FISA DECEPTION, THIS TIME BY THE MUELLER TEAM INVESTIGATING FISA DECEPTION – Walid Phares faced a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018 under a scrutinizing FBI microscope empowered by a deceived FISA court. The prosecutors withheld evidence that would have exonerated Phares and rendered the FBI’s search warrant requests invalid. The prosecutors were attorneys of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating the Russian Collusion Hoax.
An investigation into why this evidence was withheld was never included in the team’s final report, even though it is directly tied to it. This deception mimics the very deception that triggered the Russian Collusion Hoax in the first place, manipulating and withholding evidence to FISA court judges to get the results the prosecutors wanted, the power to spy on domestic political opposition.
Newly released transcripts of a testimony from an unnamed FBI agent reveals his attempts to include the anomaly of the Phares case in the report was rejected by a senior member of Mueller’s team, Kevin Clinesmith. After the agent attempted to include not just the Phares FISA anomaly, but others, Clinesmith told him, “We can’t send this to DOJ.”
GO DEEPER ON RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX
- MULLIN CONFIRMED HEAD OF DHS, HIS SENATE SEAT GIVEN TO ENERGY EXECUTIVE – The now former Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has been confirmed by the Senate in a 54-45 vote to take over as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. He takes over for Kristi Noem, who was reassigned to a South America project.
The Governor of Oklahoma, Republican Kevin Stitt, has chosen an energy executive, Alan Armstrong, to take the now-vacant seat. Stitt said of his selection, “He’s a strong business leader who understands the power of free markets and limited government. He’s spent his career fighting for Oklahoma’s energy industry and providing affordable, reliable energy to all of America.”
GO DEEPER ON DHS FUNDING
- FBI RAN ROUND RIVER CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT CLAIMS OF THE BIDENS’ UKRAINE CORRUPTION – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed in a press release that the FBI ran a disinformation campaign in 2020 to protect the Biden family from potential prosecution. This operation was called Round River. It was so secret not even the then FBI Director, Bill Barr, knew of its existence.
Grassley claimed, “in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”
GO DEEPER WITH BIDEN WATCH
E. WORLD
- VENEZUELA BECOMES A DE FACTO U.S. ALLY – The United States and Venezuela have officially restored diplomatic and consular relations that President Trump claims will lead to favorable oil and rare earth mineral deals for the U.S.. These deals freeze Russia and China out of the Venezuela equation.
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said of the agreement, “When we are working together it can only mean two things, which is prosperity for the people of Venezuela and for the citizens of the United States, and it also brings peace and stability for the world.”
GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA WATCH
- AS RUSSIA RACES TO SAVE CUBA WITH OIL, CUBA NEGOTIATES WITH THE U.S. – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal has affirmed former President Raul Castro has been negotiating with the U.S. about making the changes the U.S. is requesting in order to lift the decades-long embargo on the island nation. As Cuba struggles to keep the lights on, Russia has sent oil tankers to rescue them, tankers expected to reach Cuba early next week.
GO DEEPER ON CUBA WATCH
- CUBA TOTTERS ON DISSOLUTION, BUT LEADER REMAINS DEFIANT AS RUSSIA, MEXICO RUSHES TO ITS RESCUE – Russia is sending oil tankers to Cuba to rescue it from its crippling energy crisis that has left the island in a blackout condition. As dissent grows from within, the Trump administration hints it could take Cuba whenever it wants to. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.” Mexico has just announced plans to attempt to “come to Cuba’s aid,” sending a relief supply flotilla and promising to figure out how to get oil to the communist country.
- EU COURT COMPELS ALL MEMBER STATES TO “RECOGNIZE” TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES – The highest court in the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union, has ruled that all 27 members states of the union must allow all citizens to have photo IDs that match their “lived gender.” The ruling is sure to bring the differences between progressive globalism and traditional Europeanism to a head.
GO DEEPER ON WOKENESS
- ENCRYPTED MESSAGES FROM IRAN MAY BE ACTIVATING SLEEPER TERROR CELLS IN U.S. – American intelligence agencies have intercepted encrypted messages from Iran that appear to be “operational trigger(s)” for “sleeper assets.” In the wake of the massive illegal alien invasion under the Biden administration, there is reason to believe this message could be reaching hundreds of teams. DHS Security advisor and Secret Service supervisor Charles Marino suggested the size of those teams could be as much as 20 people.
F. MARKET
- CONSEQUENCE OF SCOTUS RULING ALREADY HITTING COURTS AS TRUMP ADMIN PLEDGES IT WILL PAY INTEREST ON TARIFF REFUNDS – Should the Trump administration lose in the courts and be forced to refund “American” businesses, they are committed to pay interest on the refunds, they informed the courts.
Judges have already signaled a willingness to fast-track the process, as we predicted would happen in our Bellwether DeepDive from our March 6, 2026 MIA issue. In addition to the refunds for U.S. companies, foreign companies are also lining up for their cut of the SCOTUS plunder. Revenues collected through these struck-down tariffs are estimated to be around $170 billion.
GO DEEPER ON TRUMP TARIFFS
- SOCIAL MEDIA HIT HARD IN TWO LANDMARK U.S. CASES, BOTH ADDRESSING CHILD SAFETY – Meta and YouTube have each faced legal setbacks that could portend badly for the social media industry as a whole. The first case saw Meta lose a $381 million lawsuit over child exploitation and safety, the second saw YouTube and Google lose $3 million each for not preventing child addiction. Both cases are expected to set off copycat cases, including against other social media platforms.
- OPENAI ENDS BILLION DOLLAR DISNEY DEAL, SHUTS DOWN VIDEO AI APP SORA – OpenAI is facing existential pressure after having to cancel a $1 billion Disney deal that would have allowed the media company to use their video AI app Sora to develop content. The app was ended due to an inability to prevent it from creating dangerous deepfake videos, including pornographic ones.
Disney said of the severed deal, “We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”
GO DEEPER ON AI WATCH
G. HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
- NEW MIT STUDY GIVES CREDENCE TO 2020 ELECTION FRAUD CLAIMS – MIT Data reveals the Democrat Party saw a 23 million vote drop in mail-in ballot votes from 2020 to 2024. Meanwhile, its other voting data mostly held steady from 2020 to 2024. The spike in Democrat votes in 2020 has never been explained. This recent finding suggests the answer may be where many thought it was the whole time, in the post-election-day ballot “counting” behind windows covered with pizza boxes.
GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD
- CHINA’S NEW ETHNIC UNITY LAW READS LIKE NAZI LAW – China’s National People’s Congress approved a new law called the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The law aims to harmonize the country’s 55 state-recognized ethnic minorities with the Han majority. The law was passed on March 12 and was signed into law by Chairman Xi. The law takes effect on July 1st.
It is feared that the law will be used to further crack down on these minorities, leading to more genocidal pogroms such as were carried out against the Uyghurs (and are still going on). Some of the tactics of the past include forcing minority groups to have more abortions, taking children and raising them as Han, and banning the use of the minority group’s languages and artistic traditions.
GO DEEPER ON CHINA ETHNIC UNITY LAW
- UK MOVES CLOSER TO SHARIA AS IT MOVES CLOSER TO CRIMINALIZING DOGS – The United Kingdom has fallen to Sharia. The evidence becomes more and more clear as the tiny island nation may have surpassed China in arrests of people for saying bad things online. The top protected class in the UK is the Muslim, then the Islamist immigrant, then the Rainbow Coalition, with Trans and non-binary as the stars of that group.
Now, the UK wants to make dogs illegal for the sake of its growing Muslim nation within, a nation that despises dogs. To prepare the British for the loss of their dogs, Starmer’s cabinet is working on legislation that would ban 67 dog breeds in the name of safety and health.
GO DEEPER ON UK SHARIA
- KIDS ARE CHEMICALLY “TRANSITIONING” THANKS TO ONLINE PHARMACIES – The Daily Caller Foundation has released a report that exposes “online pharmacies” as being sources for children to get access to “transition” drugs. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at DNH, summarized the report, claiming it “reveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.
“From websites listing online vendors across the globe to marketplaces for ‘homebrewed’ hormones, we found a multitude of troubling pathways that appear to bypass basic safeguards and regulatory oversight. Gender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks. These hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible.
We urge the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated,” Miceli continued. “Protecting minors from unsafe and unregulated access to powerful cross-sex hormones must remain a priority.”
GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY
- CANADA APPROACHES 100K EUTHANIZED, WHILE THE POOR ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR MAID, AND CHILDREN MIGHT SOON BE – Amir Farsoud, 54, is being guided towards state-assisted suicide through Canada’s MAiD. While he suffers from chronic back pain, his reason for applying for MAiD was because he can no longer work, and Canada does not give him enough money to avoid becoming homeless. He’d rather die than become homeless, and now, in Canada, you can legally be killed for that fear alone.
So far, almost 100,000 Canadians have been murdered (aborted) by the state, legally, according to a report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. That same group is now recommending “mature minors” be allowed to consent to suicide as well.
GO DEEPER ON EUTHANASIA WATCH
- RING’S SEARCH PARTY IS A POLICE STATE TROJAN HORSE – Amazon’s Ring Camera has added a Search Party feature critics say enables Amazon to build a pre-crime database that the state (or the corporation) could use to quickly tamp down dissent. An email from Ring Founder Jamie Simonoff is giving credence to those concerns.
He wrote, “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there, but for the first time ever, we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”
- 9TH CIRCUIT BLASTED BY OWN JUDGE FOR RULING THAT ALLOWS MEN IN RELIGIOUS WOMEN’S SPACES – After the U.S. 9th circuit court ruled religious groups cannot keep trans men out of women’s spaces, they received a fiery dissent. 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke began his dissent with the phrase, “This is a case about swinging d#%ks.”
He then added, “The fact that the religious owners of a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa are prohibited by law from preventing a naked adult male, who remains sexually attracted to women, from exposing himself to thirteen-year-old girls tragically illustrates the sick and twisted consequences of erasing sex as a coherent legal category
My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia. That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself.”
Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether report on pg. 2.
- DNC MAYOR STAYS IN OFFICE AFTER FIANCÉ CONVICTED OF BEING CCP SPY – The Mayor of Arcadia, CA is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, whose fiancé was recently convicted of being a CCP spy. The fiancé, a green card holder named Yaoning “Mike” Sun, was the fiancé of Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat and potentially STILL a member of the CCP. She emigrated from China more than 30 years ago.
So far, Wang has refused to resign. This type of CCP activity is only a small part of the rising evidence of widespread CCP influence across both political parties, but significantly more substantively among Democrats, their natural “allies.”
GO DEEPER ON DNC-CCP WATCH
- NASA WANTS A MOON BASE – NASA has announced plans to build a moon base that will cost the U.S. $20 billion, according to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. A moon base could replace the need for space stations. The moon base will also be a research and testing facility preparing the technologies needed for an eventual Mars occupation. It will also serve as the eventual departure point for the first landing. The race to Mars appears to be on.
- NEA TRAINING ANTI-AMERICAN INSURRECTIONISTS, NOT TEACHERS – The National Education Association recently held a training session called “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Education” that seeks to establish the oughtness of woke ideology as the oughtness of human life.
This action is sectarian in nature, which is troubling given the nature of the organization. It is one of the largest teachers’ unions in America, with over 3 million teachers. The question is not if the organization crossed the line into political activism, but what, if anything will be done about it.
- MINNESOTA TEACHERS’ UNION SPENDS TIME, MONEY COORDINATING TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ICE AGENTS – According to an investigation by Defending Education, a teachers’ union called “Minneapolis Families for Public Schools (MFPS)” has been coordinating an initiative to effectively help teachers organize resistance to ICE arrests of illegal aliens.
The “initiate” is called “TakeAction Minnesota.” On the website, they claim “We will teach and demonstrate resistance tactics that can be replicated elsewhere, leaving no community undefended. We hope to force an end to ICE’s unprecedented siege of Minnesota — and further the movement to abolish ICE altogether while we do it,”
Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education, stated “The teachers unions continue to prove they are rotten apples that only care about far-left street activism, to the detriment of educating children. Teachers and community groups should be dedicating time to improving learning outcomes for students, not creating strategies and lists of people to attempt to thwart law enforcement.”
GO DEEPER ON ANTI-ICE TERROR ATTACKS
- PSYCHIATRY JOURNALS HAVE AN UNDISCLOSED PAYMENTS PROBLEM – A study published in BMJ Open claims 14.2% of industry payments made to published authors were undisclosed in two major psychiatric journals. The findings put further doubt on the psychiatric industry’s integrity assurance standards. This finding follows a 2020 study that revealed 55.7% of U.S. psychiatrists have accepted pharmaceutical industry funding.
- FEMALE GENDERCIDE IN CHINA – China is committing female gendercide according to its own statistics, which shows there are 133 boys born for every 100 girls born. This statistic does not happen naturally, it only happens through selective abortions, specifically of girls. The statistics come from the country’s own just-released 2024 birth report.
GO DEEPER ON CHINA WATCH
