The corruption of the Trump Administration remains so massive while also being so obvious that people just don’t know what to do. If Kushner was merely shaking someone down for $5,000 using his govt role, there’d be an outcry. But do it for $5,000,000,000 and mostly there’s 🤷♂️
#TrumpCorruptionWatch
Map of the ME showing the two straits
Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.
The new Lego movie sure took a turn
Goldman forecasts that Brent will average $98 in March and April, 40% above its 2025 mean, before falling to $71 by the end of the year.
They now expect 2026 headline inflation to run at 2.9%, and have lowered their GDP growth forecast to 2.2%.
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The day begins with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at the media over his own failings and ends with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at a judge over her own failings.
Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz built an elegant chair that holds your half-dirty clothes while still functioning as a seat. www.wired.com/story/simone...
This is a bizarro world sentiment by BlackRock. First, the economy was trouble before the Iran “excursion” with rising costs, fewer jobs and exploding debt (State and household). Second, per recent polling, the only ‘high’ used in a sentence with AI should have the word skepticism after it.
Graph showing that the number of consumer complaints that credit bureau Experian closed with relief dropped significantly after Donald Trump's inauguration. The chart also shows the total complaints received has continued to rise over time. The x-axis shows year from 2021 to 2025 and the y-axis shows number of monthly complaints from 0 to 200K, with tick marks at increments of 50K.
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3OY2qBw
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
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A full yellow daffodil laden with a fresh wet snow. Seen next pushing greens of tiger lilies.
Poor little daffodil.
If you want to take credit for stopping a war, you need to call it a war now, not an excursion.
That should give Savannah Guthrie and her family so much comfort.
Can’t believe i lost a 65 game streak on that.
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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
And a good response to Thune arguing, “on one side of the aisle, people won’t come to the table.” Well, there are many solid reasons, including this one.
This is how we got to this mess, not prosecuting guys like Trump early and every subsequent time they break the law.
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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In the last 24 hours, Iran has:
- Struck three ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, disabling a Thai cargo ship
- Blown up a large oil storage facility in Oman
- Struck two oil tankers at harbor in Iraq, setting both ablaze.
- Blown up oil storage tanks next to Bahrain’s main airport
Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...
“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”
Speaking my language. #Maryland
Intel shareholder claims board gave US an equity stake to avoid Trump’s social media attacks
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(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
BREAKING: Major escalation in Iran conflict.
Iranian military command says it will target US banks and financial institutions in the Middle East.
🚨It tells civilians to keep a distance of 1km from all US banks in the region.
[SOURCE: REUTERS]
A CNN screengrab with headline that reads “Iran publishes hit list of tech companies” The screen shows google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, oracle and palantir
JFC. Iran has also announced that western tech companies (and their data centres!) are also now targets.
Iran has worked out exactly how to cripple the western world of oil, food, fertiliser, finance and data.
Trump has unleashed carnage - and he CANNOT put it back in its box.
BUCKLE. UP.
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
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:
BLACKROCK’s “Chart of the Week”:
Over the past nine months — without health-care — job creation is net negative 347,000. 👀
In Trumpspeak: The ships are at either the beginning or the end of their journey. Or both.
