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Trump officials moving onto military bases is a ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate thing, and the NYT story that credulously credited claimed threats as justifying such a move is also ridiculous.

11.03.2026 21:27 👍 1630 🔁 340 💬 31 📌 12
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Jill Biden's new memoir will offer her perspective on the decision to end Biden's 2024 reelection bid A political spouse for nearly 50 years, Jill Biden said she has never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week stretch when her husband ended his political career, instead saving her thoug...

A political spouse for nearly 50 years, Jill Biden said she has never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week stretch when her husband ended his political career, instead saving her thoughts for the pages of her soon-to-be-released memoir.
https://to.pbs.org/4lrpIfc

11.03.2026 22:02 👍 67 🔁 14 💬 8 📌 3
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FAFO.

When will these guys admit they fell for a con to own the libs? Good job, Joe.

11.03.2026 22:03 👍 520 🔁 131 💬 67 📌 16

Two days ago, Trump lied and accused Iran of owning Tomahawk missiles and bombing the school.

Today, despite the evidence, he continues to reject responsibility and accountability.

Congress can't turn a blind eye. We must hold the warmongers accountable.

11.03.2026 21:57 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Weather West update on a prolonged and very likely record-breaking March heatwave in the western U.S. that will begin Thursday in some areas & actually not reach its peak for another 7-10 days in some spots. This forecast is truly extraordinary for March.

11.03.2026 21:49 👍 78 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 8

Chat, why is the Commander-in-Chief who is not campaigning holding a weekday campaign rally during wartime?

11.03.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is it.

11.03.2026 21:38 👍 572 🔁 131 💬 10 📌 3
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FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.

11.03.2026 21:17 👍 2222 🔁 579 💬 132 📌 77

Fossil-fuel billionaires’ takeover of the Republican Party means they pull all the strings.

🧵

11.03.2026 21:25 👍 170 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 2
Rubio wearing red clown shoes

Rubio wearing red clown shoes

11.03.2026 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

eat, and I can’t emphasize this enough, shit jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

11.03.2026 19:39 👍 2337 🔁 273 💬 70 📌 36

You might not agree with the ADL, but they've done a great job ending anti-semitism recently

11.03.2026 19:41 👍 585 🔁 44 💬 14 📌 0
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ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

I'd love a long read on exactly what in God's name happened to the ADL

jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

11.03.2026 19:51 👍 812 🔁 81 💬 59 📌 21

Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.

11.03.2026 19:55 👍 678 🔁 125 💬 12 📌 1
Marco Rubio wearing a navy suit and black dress shoes. He's looking down at his feet.

Marco Rubio wearing a navy suit and black dress shoes. He's looking down at his feet.

"i think he bought the wrong size"

11.03.2026 20:08 👍 7897 🔁 907 💬 729 📌 153
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GOP Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill to ban the abortion pill mifepristone.

11.03.2026 20:21 👍 40 🔁 36 💬 27 📌 10
An elephant seal pup, right, rests next to female elephant seals on a beach at Año Nuevo State Park in Pescadero on Jan. 16, 2026. Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez, AP Photo

An elephant seal pup, right, rests next to female elephant seals on a beach at Año Nuevo State Park in Pescadero on Jan. 16, 2026. Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez, AP Photo

Stay away from sick seals. That’s the warning state health officials are giving Californians after making an unprecedented discovery: elephant seal pups infected with H5N1 bird flu. cal.news/46Vpw1J

📸 Godofredo A. Vásquez, AP

11.03.2026 20:30 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2

I do expect these guys to vote for competence this election, and the next election, and those going forward.

11.03.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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MS NOW airs compilation of farmers reacting to rising fertilizer costs from Trump's Iran war

11.03.2026 20:28 👍 63 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 4

WOOHOOO

11.03.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reuters: U.S. APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BID TO OVERTURN NEW YORK TUNNEL FUNDING RULING

11.03.2026 20:06 👍 1960 🔁 431 💬 21 📌 18
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Seems like it was a bad idea to put a sociopathic megalomaniac in charge of the most powerful military in human history

11.03.2026 20:17 👍 728 🔁 219 💬 32 📌 14
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A year into Hegseth’s cuts, defense civilians report ‘degraded performance’ and low morale And the hiring freeze is still keeping overseas civilians from taking new jobs stateside.

Who coulda guessed?

www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/...

11.03.2026 20:07 👍 119 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 0

Republicans just wasted an entire afternoon in this committee on Donald Trump’s sham attempt to overturn birthright citizenship.

Let’s save the time.

Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. Period.

11.03.2026 20:12 👍 100 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0
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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. n.pr/4biTu17

11.03.2026 19:44 👍 324 🔁 135 💬 20 📌 12
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EPIC FAIL How Trump has managed to take himself hostage, and is trying to use our military to gain his release ...

📌Since returning to our White House, Trump has misplayed every card on his table, and is now turning that table upside down, and treating it like so many bottles of ketchup.

📌He is cornered, failing, and has taken himself hostage. He is capable of anything, because he is a completely incapable man.

11.03.2026 19:51 👍 171 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 1
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ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

fuck the ADL

11.03.2026 19:52 👍 2333 🔁 290 💬 57 📌 29
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Gov. Shapiro: They clearly did not have a plan to deal with soaring costs for fuel when Donald Trump started this war. There's a pattern here where he creates chaos, he increases prices, and he creates a lot of problems.

11.03.2026 19:58 👍 66 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0
When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he brought this tic with him. The plan to fire federal employees was ahead of schedule in March 2025, and bringing gas prices down was ahead of schedule a month later. Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was ahead of schedule in May and then again in July. 

In October, the country learned that Trump had authorized the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the first step in a massive project aimed at building a ballroom for official events. This would be a $200 million project, the White House website assured Americans, and — sure enough! — would be completed ahead of schedule.

“It’ll be under budget, ahead of schedule,” Trump said in March. “It’ll be $400 million or less.”

The project was delayed after preservationists sued to keep it from moving forward. But when a “schedule” exists solely as a rhetorical device, an abstraction that the president can be ahead of, such delays get shrugged aside as easily as a doubling of the budget.

When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he brought this tic with him. The plan to fire federal employees was ahead of schedule in March 2025, and bringing gas prices down was ahead of schedule a month later. Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was ahead of schedule in May and then again in July. In October, the country learned that Trump had authorized the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the first step in a massive project aimed at building a ballroom for official events. This would be a $200 million project, the White House website assured Americans, and — sure enough! — would be completed ahead of schedule. “It’ll be under budget, ahead of schedule,” Trump said in March. “It’ll be $400 million or less.” The project was delayed after preservationists sued to keep it from moving forward. But when a “schedule” exists solely as a rhetorical device, an abstraction that the president can be ahead of, such delays get shrugged aside as easily as a doubling of the budget.

For Trump, everything is always "ahead of schedule" for the same reason that everything is the "greatest" and has "never been seen before": it's a boastful superlative he has internalized regardless of whether there's any connection to reality.
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

11.03.2026 19:16 👍 284 🔁 53 💬 23 📌 5

Very good piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. It does a fine job of showing how the war demonstrates connections between conservatism now and then, pushing against the thesis that MAGAism was a staunch break with Neoconservatism...

newrepublic.com/article/2076...

11.03.2026 19:09 👍 93 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 1