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USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Important deep dive into the inhumanity behind eliminating U.S. Agency for International Development. Little Marco claims that not a single person died because the U.S. cut funds. A lie. Hundreds of thousands of children have already died.
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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...

The Navy says NOPE www.reuters.com/world/middle...

BREAKING: The Florida House passed the sweeping and dangerously vague “Anti-Diversity in Local Government” bill (HB 1001 / SB 1134) by a vote of 77-37, sending another bill rooted in anti-LGBTQ animus to Governor Ron DeSantis’s desk for final signature.

Full press release: eqfl.org/2026-florida...

No, you sycophantic chode. He’s not stopping the threat, he’s encouraging an attack.

yup...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Why am I not in the least surprised. Still, very angry....
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Opinion | Stephen Miller is down but not out A recent shift in tactics from ICE in the aftermath of Minnesota can’t be seen as Trump's overall deportation goals changing.

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ICE Barbie and Bovino are sidelined, but the carnage continues...
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The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Aimed at America Isn't a Missile It's the deliberate, systematic destruction of your ability to know what's real...

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"The first page of that fascist playbook is always the same: “Destroy the concept of shared truth.” We got more lies this morning from the Pentagon. They’re now up to 17 different rationalizations for the Iran attack, none of which makes sense."
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I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.

Taco Donny shits the bed in Iran bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk!

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Now that it’s all blown right the fuck up into his big, dumb pumpkin face, Donny is doing the most Donny thing ever: he’s TACOing — chickening out, pretending he won, and declaring victory.
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Smartmatic says it’s being targeted by Justice Dept. to bolster false 2020 claims The voting machine company asked a judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging a vindictive and selective prosecution.

FAFO: A voting machine company at the heart of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election accused the Justice Department on Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about that vote.

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The Pete Hegseth Exception Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

The backstory a year after Signalgate. Fascinating.

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What Anthropic’s Clash With the Pentagon Is Really About Who will take responsibility for the technology?

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Trump officials are using this new tactic to detain immigrants Officers have repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the United States illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely.

Misinterpreting the law on purpose: Of the 66 cases The Post examined, 52 involved immigrants with pending applications for asylum or another legal status. None had final deportation orders. Some were legal refugees. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Anthropic sues Pentagon over national security risk label The move comes after Trump ordered agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI, amid a bitter feud over how its chatbot Claude might be used in war.

They call it retaliation because it so clearly was...
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How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Georgia Warehouse Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.

If we're going to deport them why do we need to warehouse 8,500 of them in a single building? The inhumanity is breathtaking.
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Trump’s War Becomes World’s Latest Economic Hazard

It may be a conflict of President Trump’s making, but it is becoming the world’s latest economic headache, one that has sent foreign leaders scrambling for ways to contain the possible fallout.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/b...

Markwayne Mullin's Departure Allows Tommy Tuberville to Secure Title of Dumbest Senator The jubilant Alabaman celebrated his new title.

I think @borowitzreport.bsky.social may be understating this: Tuberville is likely now the dumbest member of Congress, not just the Senate!
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Preznit Fuckwit golfs while oil hits a hundred dollars a barrel don’t disturb Donny while he’s enjoying his ‘executive time'

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the entire world is coming apart at the seams right now — all because of Donny’s unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran — and the oblivious fuck is cheating at golf, as if he hadn’t a care in the world.
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I can't imagine the pain of the parents ....

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

At least France's Newspapers are able to report the truth.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony Fox News has apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony as part of its coverage.

FoxNews fucked around and found out they were being watched.

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Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

How’s it going?

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