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| Veteran, Mom & Texan | Older, Tireder & Less Filtered | 'But appeasement of fascism is what led to everything,' - Stephen B. Jacobs |

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“'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...

11.03.2026 19:48 👍 1381 🔁 566 💬 75 📌 28

Perhaps it was a bad thing to give a scumbag abuser the power to decide life and death all around the world

11.03.2026 20:02 👍 441 🔁 82 💬 20 📌 1
The Federal Government has not
demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits or “serious legal questions” coupled with a balance of hardships tipping decidedly in its favor. Any harm from the investigation- specific disqualification is abstract at best, whereas granting a stay would reinstate an official who acted without lawful authority -- a clear injury to the State Government. The public interest likewise favors ensuring that governmental power is exercised only by officials with lawful authority. Each factor, and all four taken together, weigh against granting a stay.

The Federal Government has not demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits or “serious legal questions” coupled with a balance of hardships tipping decidedly in its favor. Any harm from the investigation- specific disqualification is abstract at best, whereas granting a stay would reinstate an official who acted without lawful authority -- a clear injury to the State Government. The public interest likewise favors ensuring that governmental power is exercised only by officials with lawful authority. Each factor, and all four taken together, weigh against granting a stay.

Another defeat for another unconstitutionally appointed Trump DOJ prosecutor:

Ex-Trump campaign lawyer John Sarcone will remain disqualified as U.S. Attorney for Albany, and his subpoenas to Letitia James' office will stay quashed.

He's not likely to succeed on appeal, a judge finds.

11.03.2026 19:54 👍 479 🔁 147 💬 6 📌 6
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Do I Have the Right to Film ICE? Despite government attacks against protesters and the press, documenting interactions with law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the First Amendment. Here’s what you need to know.

Yes.

ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.

11.03.2026 20:02 👍 522 🔁 214 💬 11 📌 5
Unflattering hegseth photo

Unflattering hegseth photo

Pentagon bars photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hahahahahaha

11.03.2026 18:00 👍 58 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 10

The law actually says to treat these kids as legally present for determining eligibility. It just doesn't require keeping them actually present so that it matters whether their presence is legal or not.

11.03.2026 19:20 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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‘RINO hack’: MAGA melts down over Thune’s SAVE America Act ‘betrayal’ Leading the charge is election denier Cleta Mitchell, who has spent days unleashing increasingly unhinged posts on X accusing Thune of sabotaging the bill.

MAGA is beside itself with fury after Sen. Leader John Thune said he plans to bring the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor next week — but won’t use a procedural move that President Donald Trump and anti-voting activists have been demanding to ram the bill through.

11.03.2026 19:36 👍 601 🔁 156 💬 48 📌 14

"There are only a few itsy-bitsy mines. No big deal."

11.03.2026 20:03 👍 205 🔁 31 💬 31 📌 2
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Statement from National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. on the Pentagon barring news photographers after images of Defense Secretary Hegseth were deemed unflattering.

11.03.2026 19:46 👍 294 🔁 75 💬 36 📌 5
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DoD has now banned press photographers from briefings on the war with Iran after Pete Hegseth’s staff deemed “unflattering” pictures that were published of the defense secretary from the March 2nd Pentagon briefing.

11.03.2026 18:06 👍 152 🔁 55 💬 58 📌 32
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Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent

futurism.com/artificial-i...

11.03.2026 18:19 👍 768 🔁 182 💬 31 📌 129
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Federal judge signals ICE arrests in DC not meeting probable cause standards While warrantless immigration arrests in the nation’s capital slowed down amid severe winter weather, advocates argue agents are leaving out key information in arrest forms when detaining immigrants.

Federal judge signals ICE arrests in DC not meeting probable cause standards @ryanknappy.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/federal-judg...

11.03.2026 20:05 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Report Confirms Columbia Ignored Decades of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse Columbia commissioned the report after ProPublica’s investigation into how the university protected former OB-GYN Robert Hadden. The school also announced the resignation of two top doctors who were i...

NEW: Decades after patients first warned Columbia University that one of its doctors sexually abused them, the school is acknowledging a culture of silence that allowed the abuse to continue and some school administrators are finally facing consequences.

11.03.2026 20:06 👍 207 🔁 84 💬 13 📌 6
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DOJ losing experienced counterterrorism minds at a critical time, say current and former officials On the heels of an ISIS-inspired threat in New York, a look across the Justice Department finds a purge of national security expertise at the FBI and other divisions.

“The Kash Patel-led political retribution purge of the FBI is the equivalent of institutional decapitation,” said former FBI agent and MS NOW national security contributor Christopher O’Leary, who worked in counterterrorism and now speaks to former colleagues across the country. 

zurl.co/hQEu9

11.03.2026 17:12 👍 31 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1

The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

09.03.2026 18:31 👍 582 🔁 139 💬 14 📌 4

Just a coincidence.

11.03.2026 14:09 👍 251 🔁 110 💬 16 📌 7

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million

💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million

Have a great day!

11.03.2026 12:56 👍 272 🔁 128 💬 11 📌 7
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'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

09.03.2026 22:33 👍 4208 🔁 1712 💬 173 📌 205
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um, he left out a couple

11.03.2026 12:11 👍 80 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Trump is now blaming Hegseth, Jared, Witkoff, and Rubio for his decision to attack Iran.

11.03.2026 11:42 👍 337 🔁 129 💬 79 📌 82
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that."  

Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

09.03.2026 23:42 👍 1292 🔁 336 💬 14 📌 19
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States Are Using Policies From The 1600s To Punish Women For Miscarriages Even some of the strongest anti-abortion lawmakers don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

Vital reporting from @alannavagianos.bsky.social, who you can always trust to cover these stories with care

www.huffpost.com/entry/miscar...

11.03.2026 14:00 👍 92 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 4
A crew is hard at work tying the branches of almond trees.

A crew is hard at work tying the branches of almond trees.

A crew is hard at work tying the branches of almond trees. This is done to provide structural support and prevent branches from breaking under the weight of a heavy nut crop. It also "trains" the shape of young trees. #WeFeedYou

11.03.2026 14:00 👍 170 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 0

I don't think this summary is quite right. Cramer wasn't confused about who won the Vietnam War. Clip is below.

11.03.2026 14:02 👍 802 🔁 146 💬 90 📌 23
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Lies, Damned Lies, and American Citizenship We shouldn’t ignore the protofascism brewing on the JD Vance-aligned right. But the status quo ante isn’t good enough either.

If the “heritage American” idea sounds equal parts stupid and dangerous, you’ve understood it correctly.

11.03.2026 14:02 👍 83 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 2
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Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Iran and ‌prospects for peace in Ukraine on Monday, hours after the Kremlin chief warned that a global energy cr...

Future historians are going to need a lot of help from pyschoanalysts to understand Trump's awestruck paralysis whenever he comes into Putin's orbit. Either that or access to Russian intelligence files.
www.reuters.com/world/kremli...

10.03.2026 12:43 👍 152 🔁 60 💬 21 📌 7
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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.

11.03.2026 12:00 👍 407 🔁 271 💬 22 📌 33
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Trump Organization wants to trademark president’s name with America’s 250th birthday Designs for potential logos submitted to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office find President Donald Trump seeking to put himself front and center of summer anniversary celebrations

Trump has filed to trademark America’s 250th anniversary celebration with his name—opening the door for Trump and his family to personally profit off a national holiday.

11.03.2026 13:56 👍 154 🔁 105 💬 33 📌 29
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Q: "The president said yesterday that President Putin told him he wanted to be helpful in the Middle East…How does the president think Russia could be helpful?"

Leavitt: "I'll leave it to the president to divulge any more of that conversation."

10.03.2026 19:40 👍 2354 🔁 703 💬 483 📌 121
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That’s a rare downbeat note from Kudlow.

11.03.2026 11:52 👍 1540 🔁 368 💬 113 📌 33