Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.
They know that the American people do not want a war
They hate me because I fight. They attack me because I win.
I will do everything I can to protect free and fair elections. I will never back down.
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
Graph showcasing the latest poll by Evanston Roundtable, with a photo of Kat covering her mouth so excited about what she sees. Copy reads: WE HAVE THE JUICE! Daniel Biss: 24% (no change) Kat Abughazaleh: 20% (+3 since last poll) Laura Fine: 14% (-2 since last poll) All others: 10% or less Undecided: 17% (-5 since last poll) March 9-10, 2026 survey of 741 likely Democratic primary voters using text-to-web and IVR phone, commissioned by the Evanston RoundTable.
This is a two way race.
Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.
None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Bering, and Lindsey Graham.
I'll show myself out.
Helps bail out Trump from his own idiotic decisions, while reducing gov revenue and will earn no credit from voters in the process. Brilliant.
Once again: this is @davidjbier.bsky.social, of the [Even the Conservative...] @cato.org, an expert on immigration policy who has been providing data based expertise on the issue of immigration for a while now.
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
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A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
They. All. Have. No. Fucking. Clue. What. They’re. Doing.
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From Paul Waldman, an occasional (and much appreciated) contributor to The Early Edition...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi...
The already threadbare House Republican majority is even more precarious with this many very lame ducks incentivized to either not show up or resign early.
This is how all my nightmares begin now
The bipartisan Iran briefing left the Democratic senator with more questions than answers.
Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of …
newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
A CNN correspondent asked the question. A New York Times White House reporter followed up. And somewhere between the two, the President of the United States admitted he doesn’t know enough about his own weapons program to explain why 175 people, most of them children, are dead in southern Iran.
Trump’s pardons have forgiven $1.5 BILLION in criminal debts. That’s money that was owed to victims and the government.
That number comes from the conservative Cato Institute, by the way.
A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
NEW: 20 White House cabinet members have directed at least $30 million to President Trump through political contributions, property visits, stock holdings and donations to White House-related funds since 2023, according to analysis by CREW.
Holy cow, Ukraine offered to help the US prepare to counter Iranian drones, but the Trump regime turned them down, too focused on pushing the narrative that Ukraine “has no cards” and should surrender to Russia.
But now the US is back, asking for help after attacking Iran and getting fire back.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
The president and his administration have simultaneously relied on and weaponized the law itself to legitimize their violence and their violations.
https://bit.ly/3MUSdVV
From one perspective, this is a story about grit and determination.
From another, it's a damning portrait of a country where someone working full-time at $11/hour lives in a $60-a-night motel with her toddler—then spends evenings DoorDashing with her kid because affordable childcare is nonexistent.
Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?
