Michael Gauger

Was it the same person who said that he was glad Trump won so they could say the r word again?

Gas prices have risen for the 11th day in a row since Trump started war with Iran.

The national average has risen 20%, now at $3.58 a gallon.

When I asked Grassley about Trump saying there are almost no more targets in Iran, he says “Why don't you ask me your question and leave Trump out of it?”

Please tell me that someone has created a “Jim Cramer index” comprised of stocks he’s promoted. I would be interested to see how it has performed historically.

Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

“An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than has previously been revealed, with dozens suffering injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns.”

Did DoD soft pedal?

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"But he can't do that"

Yes, like he can't do all the other things.

Again, it is not doomerism to ponder these scenarios, which are obviously illegal & unconstitutional, because the institutions are not self-enforcing, & he's gotten away with all the other things so far.

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Funding for this essential birth control and repro health program expires on April 1. But HHS hasn't even sent out the GUIDANCE that groups need in order to apply for the next round. That was supposed to happen by the end of 2025 👀

NEW: Confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to a new low, according to the latest NBC News polling.

Details:
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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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We did an OKC bombing except on children.

And leadership cowering in the Mad King’s Ill-fitting Florsheim shoes will lecture us about necessary sacrifice, and call the Iranian people evil.

21" CENTURY PRES: INDEPENDENTS' NET APPROVAL ABOUT THIS POINT IN 2ND TERM BUSH -26PTS SOURCE: ENTEN'S AGGREGATE OBAMA TRUMP -18PTS -38PTS

Nadia Schadlow…yet another uninformed Ivy League grad who we allow to run our country because of Ivy League social networks.

How Trump’s War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up Another Middle East war is exactly what the young voters and voters of color who flocked to Trump in 2024 did not sign up for.

Trump's Iran war is breaking up the MAGA coalition. Among young and nonwhite working class, only *one in five* approve, per new data I've obtained. That's extraordinary and heartening to see. It's also delivering another blow to Trump's "realignment." 1/

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Trump says random, contradictory things about his war because he is not OK in the head, and these buffoonish NYT reporters think he is playing three-dimensional chess with the stock market. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/b...

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?

Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

Opinion | Trump Is the Anti-Trump

Fantastic @jamellebouie.net column with the Neustadtian take on Trump and what it means going forward. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

I'm not a military strategist but it seems less than ideal if we have to spend about a thousand times more to shoot down one of their drones down than they cost to build.

Trump Officials Move Into Military Residences in D.C. Area

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved into a home at Fort McNair traditionally reserved for the Army’s vice chief of staff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others also now live in military housing.“

Try not to be so despised that you have to live behind barricades.

Paul Bremer ran Iraq for Bush. His emails show what really happened ‘I am now officially the government of Iraq,’ Bremer wrote to his wife in private messages from 2003 unearthed by The Sunday Times. In frank detail, they show the dangers of waging war without the rig...

Incredible story of what Paul Bremer—for unknown reasons—decided to stash in a Yale archive: emails that told a true account of hubris in Iraq, most concerned with DC infighting. Feels like there is a similar record happening right now about Iran on Signal somewhere www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

When White House aides are leaking furiously to the media about how all this isn’t their fault if only someone had listened to them is that usually a sign that insiders are confident the policy is going well

Bill Kurtis retires from 'Wait Wait...' NPR quiz show after 12-year run The 85-year-old former CBS anchorman will lend his sonorous, familiar voice to a final show on May 23.

News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May.

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Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

Just to show how stupid this was, a project on Harriet Beecher Stowe's religious writing got flagged as DEI.

Sen. Rick Scott: "Unfortunately, prices are gonna be up for a while"

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims...

NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.

Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made a comparison of Muslims to dogs

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Censorship inside Israel is massive so the fact news of these Hezbollah successes is coming out is a big deal

Another crazy thing is that this doesn't really seem like a joint operation but rather two separate tangentially related forces attacking the same enemy. It all sounds like there isn't really any command over this.

Again, Elon Musk & ~everyone else involved in this unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crime needs to go to jail for the rest of their lives.