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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Amazing! My home state actually got something right.

I wish I could say I was surprised

www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

Dumbest news of the week so far, and that’s saying something

Russia committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in deporting Ukrainian children, U.N. says The U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has so far confirmed 1,205 cases of Russia deporting or transferring children from occupied areas of Ukraine.

Moscow's deportation and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia is a crime against humanity, a United Nations team of investigators said.

Yikes! That thing looks scary...is it eating or just hanging out?

Just sucks. The little guy can't catch a break, even in his own backyard.

What are the growing conditions? I have 1 & it's struggling

Congress Is Betraying America's Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The Constitution gives Congress the power to check the president. Lawmakers have punted on their duty since Donald Trump retook office.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to check the president. Lawmakers have punted on their duty since Donald Trump retook office.

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There is nothing dignified about a president who wears a baseball cap.

People got real mad at Biden for looking at his watch during a dignified transfer.

Looking forward to the same outrage at Trump for wearing a fucking hat

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

The evidence is strong that Trump’s central claims about Iran are false, not merely that they haven’t been sufficiently explained to lawmakers. trib.al/8AvyVti

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Monday that the United States faced an "imminent threat" from Iran - but only if Iran was first attacked by Israel. "The imminent threat was that we knew if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded," Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill, where he was briefing lawmakers.

So Rubio said we had to bomb Iran bc Israel was about to and all hell would then break loose.

If only there were some big, powerful country that could have stopped Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The fuck kind of answer is this

Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan and UAE, satellite images show | CNN New satellite images from several key military bases in the Arabian Peninsula suggest that Iran is seeking to degrade air defenses by destroying US-made radars that detect incoming missiles and drones...

Oof. Multiple THAAD radar systems have reportedly been destroyed by Iran. That’s bad.

I’ve also seen some surprise that Russia is providing Iran with targeting data for US forces, but that was expected. We’ve been providing Ukraine with targeting data for 4 years.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/m...

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*

Arkansas state house special election.

Flip from R to D.

Just a thought, maybe SecDef shouldn’t jerk himself off on live television at the thought of casualties in war.

War isn’t something to be giddy about. Were the most powerful nation on the planet. We’re supposed to be the quiet professionals, not carnival barking morons.

Of course

Bunch of Senators on both sides sounding the alarm about possible boots on the ground in Iran after their classified briefing today.

I was told Kamala was going to send my children to fight in Iran. What happened?

All for the rebuild/construction

Is this why he went into Venezuela? Oil supply

Is this why he has been withholding on Ukraine? Munitions supply

Bastard

A sign in front of a downtown plant store in Raleigh says “ORCHIDS DON’T LIKE (picture of ice cube) AND NEITHER DO WE” - a picture of solidarity. The store is called Copperline Plant Company.

#Raleigh #Photography #Orchids #Gardening

Copperline Plant Co. - Raleigh, NC

🧊 NO ICE! 🧊

I don't like ice cubes on my feet either!

#Orchids are #flowers, too.
Paphiopedilum lowii.

My favorite paph species- just lovely.

So for all you “leave NATO” dummies out there, wanna explain how we defend ourselves without them?

Britain, France, Germany, the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman) are currently knocking down Iranian missiles and drones.

And this is just Iran. Not a peer.

Lovely! Im jealous ;)

Looks like bamboo orchid- Arundina graminifolia

Cowards

Looks even more like an ass with that hat.