What's Happening

For the Week of 17 March 2026

Tuesdays at this Substack, we look at current events through a more serious lens. Many of these items could fit, arguably, in the Monday Damage Report or Wednesday’s This Week in Stupid… but here we are anyway.

This week, we talk about talk about the Michigan synagogue jihadist, John Alford has been found dead (and nobody minds, so much), New York City’s subway is a carnival of horrors, Tucker Carlson continues to beclown himself, a Utah children’s book author poisoned her husband, and Niantic got paid to use you to train future robots whose manufacturer is also paying them. There’s probably another story or two in there, too. It’s all behind the paywall, which you won’t notice if you’ve already a paid subscriber.