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Told y’all Elon’s DOGE team weren’t data analysts.

They were hackers!

A whistleblower says a DOGE engineer stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, including personal information on hundreds of millions of Americans.

People need to go to prison for this shit.

Italy beats the USA 8-6

This press conference gave me chills. And not the good kind.

It’s not the Save America Act, it’s the Stop Americans Voting Act.

QUESTION: What the hell does “no men in women’s sports” have to do with voting?

ANSWER: Absolutely nothing. Republicans are trying to force Dems into bad optics.

Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’ A new Bureau of Prisons move requiring that transgender inmates be tapered off their hormones could bring serious health consequences, physicians and advocates warn.

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger.

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Bless your heart. 🙄 No, I played college tennis and coached. College players wouldn’t get away with what she pulls. This wasn’t a one off. So please spare me your condescension lol. Your reply tells the world you knew it was an excuse and deflected 😂

Still no excuse for those actions along with hitting herself when things don’t go her way and attacking her coach. She is a professional.

Trump and Hegseth bombed a school killing over 160 kids. That’s avoiding armed conflict like Trump avoids Big Macs. She’s truly the 1984 meets The Handmaid’s Tale.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew

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Out of work and with 2 teens, this mom may lose food stamps under Trump's changes Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families.

Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families. n.pr/40Zw63G

Trump’s claim that Iran was to blame for a deadly strike on an Iranian girls school is contradicted by video footage showing US was likely to blame.
I asked him if the US would now accept responsibility — and he walked back his claim and said it’s being investigated.

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Iranian security official tells Trump: 'Be careful not to get eliminated yourself.'

Hypothesis: on US government servers there's thousands of Anthropic wargaming outputs and a bunch of them (based on scraped analyses from experts) basically say all this would happen, and the Trump admin can't figure out how to just delete them all, hence rushing to rip the whole system out.

Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.

Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next? A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder. n.pr/4riWRef

Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales Plans to curtail the number of jury trials in England and Wales have been described as “unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced” by thousands of lawyers who have written to the prime minister. The letter to Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, from 3,200 lawyers, including 300 senior barristers, comes as his government faces the prospect of one of its most serious backbench revolts since coming to power. Continue reading...

Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials

Singer CMAT performing on a stage and singing into a microphone. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "CMAT wins prestigious Album of the Year prize for Euro-Country". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".

Euro-Country, CMAT-world 👏 Read 👉 buff.ly/4Dxa9I6 #GCNnews

@paulthedogman.bsky.social draws the connection between Trump's (spurious) arguments about Iran's election interference and the prospect he will try to leverage the war to drive his voter restrictions agenda here.

FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry The Republican leader of Arizona's state Senate said he shared election-related records with the FBI last week.

FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry

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Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheahan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name and 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.

Artificial intelligence company sues Trump administration Political commentator Sue O’Connell says the Pentagon designated Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system, a supply chain risk to national security because it refused to remove safety limits written into the technology.

Political commentator Sue O’Connell says the Pentagon designated Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system, a supply chain risk to national security because it refused to remove safety limits written into the technology. on.nbcboston.com/R35tRcY

If I was Conchita, I would fire Andreeva. What an awful display of character and sportsmanship - yelling at Conchita in the box. She’s a brat. Seems she cussed the fans on way out too.

He finally gets a little pushback on his lie and then he’s got nothing. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Q: You promised the Iranian people you would help them, but it sounds like you're willing to end this fight. Isn't that a betrayal?

TRUMP: Will I help them? I'd like to if they can behave. But they've been very menacing.

tweet from Mark Meador @MeadorFTC on Mar 5 People who argue that age verification requires collecting and retaining massive troves of personal data are not operating in good faith. They're just paid by people who want to prey on your kids.

Trump's FTC Chair posts that people opposing age-verification surveillance are just shills being "being paid by people who want to prey on your kids."

The lengths this administration goes to delegitimize dissent is staggering.

Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside the country, alert says The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets."

Someone at the CIA noticed a new numbers station on the shortwave, and the administration is determined to revive fears of an Iranian fifth column illegals.

Come on guys. abcnews.com/US/iran-acti...

oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!

America's fascist right has pulled a 180 and is selling the idea that expensive gasoline is a good thing. Americans have failed a lot of intelligence tests in the last decade. This is another one.

2/ Just last night, Hegseth's 60 Minutes interview, also on CBS News, ended with these words about the Iran war:

"What I want your viewers to understand is this is only just the beginning."

Trump says "the war is very complete," and he's considering taking over Strait of Hormuz President Trump told CBS News the U.S. war with Iran is "very complete," and said the U.S. "could do a lot" about the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump on Iran: "The war is very complete, pretty much."

After supporting the Kurd ground offensive, then not.

Supporting Iranian people's desire for regime change, then not.

Going after nuclear assets, now not?

Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheahan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.

Wild story from @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social:
ICE "wasted millions" to buy "thousands of employee vehicles that the agency cannot use to arrest illegal immigrants"

The problem: the vehicles are marked with ICE logo and motto

“ICE has never had marked vehicles,” person familiar said