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You think you are hurting at the pump? Spare a moment to remember those with private planes.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Three more vessels hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, showing merchant ships remain in firing line Three more vessels have been hit ​by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security and risk firms said on Wednesday, bringing the number of ships ‌struck in the region since the Iran ...

Three more vessels were hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security and risk firms said, bringing the number of ships ‌struck in the region since the Iran conflict began to at least 14 reut.rs/4uGupWT

Anthropic has strong case against Pentagon blacklisting, legal experts say Anthropic's lawsuit challenging its Pentagon blacklisting is likely to test the reach of an obscure law aimed at guarding military systems against sabotage, and legal experts say the artificial intell...

Anthropic's lawsuit challenging its Pentagon blacklisting is likely to test the reach of an obscure law aimed at guarding military systems against sabotage, and legal experts say the artificial intelligence lab appears to have a strong case bit.ly/4rwbpaB

BREAKING: Iran targeted three cargo ships in the Straight of Hormuz, a key point in the world's oil supply. 

MS NOW's Josh Einiger reports the latest from Dubai.

The merit-based administration strikes again America, meet your new super-qualified member of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors . Is it someone with military experience? Nope. Maybe some post-secondary education experience? Wrong again.�

Erika Kirk has been appointed to the Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors.

Her listed experience includes real estate, modeling, and a Bible-based streetwear brand.

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Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...

Indivisible Reminder: Democrats have offered to fund all of DHS with the exception of ICE and CBP but the GOP won't allow a vote.

Republicans will not allow a vote because they are using the DHS funding as a "look at those horrible Democrats" point. They have no interest in keeping us safer.

Probably will be as many on that as his endless "reasons for war" list

CNN's Annie Grayer:
"The House Oversight Committee has begun its deposition with Epstein's longtime accountant

It has reviewed 44k documents from JPMorgan & Deutsche Bank including payments to women, tuition to universities & large routine cash withdrawals for unknown purposes, per source" 👇

"One month after Epstein died in a jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase reported to Treasury more than $1 billion in transactions it viewed as suspicious from October 2003 until July 2019, according to court records"

I wonder if he is even paying for them. He usually pays very little to nothing

Courtiers wearing shoes that don't fit because Trump insisted he knew their sizes -- I don't think even Stalin could have come up with it.

Trump Crazy Stock Returns Won’t Finance Your Retirement Trump officials claim newborn investment accounts could grow to $590,000 or even $2.5 million, but basic stock market math shows that is unrealistic.

Trump crazy numbers on the returns for his Trump accounts won't pay for your kids' retirement cepr.net/publications...

Sheldon Whitehouse can be insufferable, but we should all stop short of saying he "delegitimized himself." His speech on the link between Trump, Epstein and Russia is vital to the national interest. He is an ally, however frustrating he may be at times.

You really just have to laugh lol

“Misfits and losers” describes his cabinet perfectly.

Trump said this week that Iran was 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. This is what he said in July.

Not really breaking any news here.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 325. 3/10/26 … Pete Hegseth gave a press conference this morning where he continued to call almost exclusively on luminaries from right-wing outlets like Gateway Pundit and OAN.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 325. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

He never should have been allowed to run again or be put in charge again or anything

This is all part of his plan to fuck with the 2026 midterms and exact revenge on those who stopped him from trying to overthrow the 2020 election. When people ask me why Trump is America’s enemy, I always start here. He’s at war against OUR elections. He’s our enemy.👇

Why Isn’t Trump (Even) Less Popular? There are two reasons.

Trump's got about 39% support right now. How is that possible?

two things:
1. fascism has a constituency
2. partisanship is powerful

I talk about both at some length here. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-isnt-t...

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here.

Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the “Blue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

A masterclass by @davidjbier.bsky.social on how to maintain your composure and principles in the face of people unable to do either.

We don't need to yell or mock because the facts, the law, and common decency are on our side, as David made apparent before someone unfit to hold the seat he's in.

Dear Latino & Hispanic voters,

The Republican Party believes that masked federal thugs lawlessly roaming our streets, racially profiling brown & black people, and terrorizing immigrants & citizens is just a “little hiccup.” I thought you should know.

Best,

A Former Republican

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.