Marilyn Peake

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

BREAKING Container ship struck off UAE coast by 'unknown projectile', says UK maritime agency

Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Defense Department allegedly blew through $22 million on lobsters and ribeye steak in a Sept. 2025, end-of-year spree.

We shut down USAID but:

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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Trump is doing foreign policy like a private equity firm doing a hostile takeover: strip a public entity, sell its parts for profit, and run what's left of it into the ground.

I’m working with Governor Gretchen Whitmer on trying to save The Great Lakes from the rather violent and destructive Asian Carp, which is rapidly taking over Lake Michigan, and all of the beautiful surrounds. I’ll be asking other Governors to join into this fight, including those of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York and, of course, the future Governor of Canada, Mark Carney, who I know will be happy to contribute to this worthy cause. Separately, I am also working to save The Great Salt Lake, in Utah, which, in a short period of time, if nothing is done, will have no water. This is on top of everything else I am doing. Only “TRUMP” CAN DO IT! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump refers to Prime Minster Mark Carney as "the future Governor of Canada"

Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos First responders at San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management are fed up with having to deal with blundering Waymo robotaxis.

"Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management, warned that the frequency that police and firefighters have to respond to immobilized Waymos was becoming a public safety issue."

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Trump Is Obsessed With These $145 Shoes—and Won’t Let Anyone Leave Without a Pair — The Wall Street Journal The president has started doling out dress shoes to friends and advisers: ‘All the boys have them’

So with everything else going on, WSJ reports Trump is obsessed with giving people dress shoes and guessing their size and those who get them are too frightened not to wear them.

Antarctica Is Hiding Mountains and Rivers Under 3 Miles of Ice

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate change.

Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’ A new Bureau of Prisons move requiring that transgender inmates be tapered off their hormones could bring serious health consequences, physicians and advocates warn.

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger.

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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

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DOJ Sitting on Documents Involving 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Pressure is increasing on the DOJ to declassify documents that detail interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her.

Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a high schooler are being kept under wraps.

Exclusive: As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war, sources say As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old ​war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.

Exclusive: As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4sCslwW

US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident’ No injuries reported but security boosted at US and Israeli diplomatic buildings in Toronto and Ottawa

"Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident’" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."

'This Goes Beyond Dementia': Donald Trump Mocked for Saying People Who Died From Bombs 'Are Walking Around With No Legs or Arms' Donald Trump was mocked on social media for making another flub during a Monday, March 9, press conference in Doral, Fla. The president was addressing bombing victims when he said, "They were very str...

And yet he remains in office. 😡 "The president was addressing bombing victims when he said, '...all of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms.'" www.aol.com/articles/goe...

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Trump on Cuba: "It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn't matter."

Gen. Schrödinger's War

NYPD: Device Thrown During Protest Near Mamdani’s Residence Was An IED NYPD: Device Thrown During Protest Near Mamdani’s Residence Was An IED

Two people were taken into custody in connection with the device.

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else.”

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of Trump's stated war objectives.

Axios reports that Trump wants to seize Kharg Island to grab Iranian uranium stockpiles. But Kharg Island houses 90% plus of Iran's export petroleum, and that's what Trump really wants. www.axios.com/2026/03/08/i...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Trump rejects settling Iran war, raises prospect of killing all its potential leaders U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once Tehran no longer has a functioning military or any ​remaining leadership in power.

Trump rejects settling Iran war, raises prospect of killing all its potential leaders reut.rs/4bbnCv1

Q: “Can you give us an idea of what unconditional surrender looks like?”

TRUMP: “When they cry uncle or there’s nobody around to cry uncle.”

Y’all.

(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

ABC: “Police arrested 6 after a smoke-generating "suspicious device" was thrown during a protest at NYC mayor's residence. It was not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani or his wife were inside Gracie Mansion at the time.”

(Video from @scootercasterny.bsky.social )

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I wrote almost exactly this word for word in January: www.wired.com/story/donald...