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Oregon State University graduate, Oregonian who lived in San Francisco for 20 years. Australian Rules Football fan and St. Kilda tragic. Proud Democrat. Love of my life, Donna Hood.

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Oil could hit $150 amid Gulf shutdown, Wood Mackenzie says War in Iran is currently cutting Gulf oil and oil products supply to the ​market by some 15 million barrels per ‌day (bpd) which could raise crude prices to $150 per barrel, research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie said on Tuesday.

Oil could hit $150 amid Gulf shutdown, Wood Mackenzie says reut.rs/4cBwWuN

10.03.2026 18:35 👍 34 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 4

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 140 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including 8 severely and 108 who returned to duty, Pentagon says.

10.03.2026 18:36 👍 990 🔁 447 💬 68 📌 32

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

09.03.2026 02:01 👍 19282 🔁 4828 💬 231 📌 141

Or that school.

07.03.2026 17:16 👍 1079 🔁 279 💬 61 📌 8

Sounds familiar.

07.03.2026 17:27 👍 2720 🔁 955 💬 100 📌 28

Another document in the Epstein files shows that in September 2016, the FBI alerted its legal attaché in Paris that Epstein planned to travel there, underscoring how federal authorities continued to track his movements after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida.

07.03.2026 17:25 👍 278 🔁 139 💬 4 📌 5
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I have a simple tip for Americans:

If far-right tech oligarchs who openly despise democracy, and promoters of pyramid schemes, are backing a candidate, do not vote for them.

People like that will absolutely ruin your country

07.03.2026 17:25 👍 81 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
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Trump thinks his little roundtable today is going to come up with a "salary cap" system that will go into effect for the upcoming college football season

06.03.2026 21:28 👍 573 🔁 110 💬 153 📌 62
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Exclusive | China Suspected in Breach of FBI Surveillance Network The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks.

News: U.S. investigators believe Chinese hackers are behind a cyber intrusion on an internal FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders, in what would be the latest Chinese compromise of wiretap systems www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

06.03.2026 22:42 👍 61 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 11
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Two people confirmed that Moscow had provided Tehran with intelligence on the location of US military assets in the region, including planes and warships. ft.trib.al/cZbGDEU

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 168 🔁 86 💬 13 📌 8
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Even Fox News is pointing out Donald Trump losing 92,000 jobs in February.

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06.03.2026 18:13 👍 914 🔁 319 💬 41 📌 17
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“You’re a U.S. senator!”

Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽

This should go great

05.03.2026 20:11 👍 9410 🔁 3522 💬 1115 📌 527

US Central Command say internally that the war on Iran is likely to last through September, longer than the 4 days, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks previously announced. Multiple Gulf nations are also rumoured to be privately reconsidering their US investments and are reluctant to aid US operations.

06.03.2026 03:45 👍 671 🔁 217 💬 50 📌 15
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Apparent use of AI in Iran war raises daunting questions, expert says An expert on artificial intelligence and robotics said it was likely the U.S. and Israel had used AI to identify targets in Iran, raising a host of moral and legal questions.

Suspected widespread use of AI to select targets and launch attacks on Iran raises questions and fears that human control of war machinery could be slipping, according to a leading expert.

05.03.2026 04:06 👍 35 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 3

there's no excuse for putting your hands on someone like this unless they're trying to hurt someone. all of these people should be fired. all of them should face charges.

05.03.2026 03:57 👍 571 🔁 127 💬 18 📌 2
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Nike is moving jobs to low-wage regions of Indonesia Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country.

Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country.

04.03.2026 00:30 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 2
Jonathan Karl: Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.
"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Jonathan Karl: Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

“So successful”

02.03.2026 03:16 👍 1451 🔁 271 💬 79 📌 60
MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026

OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov

HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE

38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026

@CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

01.03.2026 14:00 👍 1306 🔁 386 💬 38 📌 31
Trump Hoards the Money He Stole
Trump Hoards the Money He Stole YouTube video by emptywheel

Trump is attempting to hoard the money he stole from American consumers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8XM...

01.03.2026 15:21 👍 366 🔁 156 💬 13 📌 6
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Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

EXCLUSIVE: A draft executive order that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over federal elections is reportedly being circulated with the White House.

Democracy Docket obtained a copy.

Read the full, 17-page order below👇

28.02.2026 21:09 👍 835 🔁 562 💬 54 📌 28
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‘Diversionary war’: Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home | Christopher S Chivvis From Epstein to tariffs: the strikes function as an attempt to hijack the global narrative and drown out domestic scandal with the thunder of cruise missiles

‘Diversionary war’: Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home | Christopher S Chivvis

28.02.2026 20:42 👍 274 🔁 96 💬 23 📌 11
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AI poem and committee swapping: How Utah Republicans helped an anti-vote-by-mail bill get traction Republican lawmakers manipulated Utah’s legislative process to ensure a bill that would impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots would gain traction in the Legislature.

GOP Rep. Jefferson Burton admitted he moved his bill targeting mail-in voting from one committee where it was floundering to an unrelated committee for no reason other than to give it a better chance of moving forward.
“That’s how sausage is made up here,” Burton said.

28.02.2026 20:46 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1
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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom | TechCrunch Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

28.02.2026 20:46 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1

$182 for the year. That’s just for Fox Footy. No other channels are included but you do get every game and the Fox Footy shows.

28.02.2026 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have Watch AFL so I can watch Fox Footy and all the games. I watch all the Saints games and the weekly footy shows. Thanks for the offer!

27.02.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Go Saints!

27.02.2026 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump says this is not happening. Which is why he spent his State of the Union speech honoring sports teams and awarding military medals.

27.02.2026 14:13 👍 2103 🔁 797 💬 73 📌 32
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Meet Bari Weiss’s Israel Flag-Waving News Correspondent The CBS News editor's latest hires has other staffers wondering if they work for the 'we love Israel' network. Plus, Sean Hannity’s stolen valor and David Ellison finds a new MAGA friend.

While HR has told staff that clothes that could be seen as pro-Palestine makes people "uncomfortable," Bari Weiss's CBS News just promoted a reporter who wears Israeli flag socks, whose brother was in the Israeli military, and who had a big Israeli flag draped on his cubicle:

26.02.2026 16:40 👍 228 🔁 67 💬 4 📌 2
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Newsmax's Greg Kelly on potential US attack on Iran: "A very well-informed person told me" it will happen Friday "after Wall Street closes"

Newsmax host says that the US will attack Iran today after Wall Street closes — and that Trump does not need to try to convince Americans that the strikes are a good idea, attacking "fake members of Congress" for asking for the president to explain his decision. www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...

27.02.2026 14:23 👍 134 🔁 66 💬 26 📌 17
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Wall St Week Ahead AI disruption looms over markets with US jobs data on tap Prospects for artificial intelligence to disrupt business sectors should keep the U.S. stock market on edge in the coming week, as Wall Street looks for more insight into how the emerging technology will reverberate through the economy.

Wall St Week Ahead AI disruption looms over markets with US jobs data on tap reut.rs/4qWecK1

27.02.2026 14:25 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1