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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

15.03.2026 00:07 👍 11303 🔁 3632 💬 269 📌 197

Just remembered that for the promo for Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents Dinner several years ago, I joked that President Trump was going to Hell.

He seems pretty committed to that goal these days.

14.03.2026 23:51 👍 482 🔁 101 💬 23 📌 3

Miami Beach native son Ron Dermer will be managing the Israeli end of the invasion of Lebanon while, get this, Tiffany Trump's f-i-l Massad Boulos will be handling the American end.

14.03.2026 12:38 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 3

Post I linked to below was deleted. Axios on Israel's invasion of Lebanon:
www.axios.com/2026/03/14/i...

14.03.2026 15:01 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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Bit of trivia - Charlie Kushner served less than 18 months in prison by claiming he was an alcoholic. His b-i-l Richard Stadtmauer tried for early release by claiming he was a drug addict but was turned down.

14.03.2026 20:18 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

DOGE bros Nathan Cavanaugh & Justin Fox are partners in a Miami based company, Special Holdings Inc. per sunbiz.

14.03.2026 20:51 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Lobbyist Arrested in Extortion Attempt of Client Who Received a Trump Pardon

Lol. I have history with Josh Nass, arrested for extortion in connection with Trump's pardon of nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz. Had to do with Sam Nunberg, Baruch Rosenfeld & Moshe Lax. More later. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...

14.03.2026 21:32 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 0

I am generally a (very) critical person when it comes to legacy news media. Having said that, what is otherwise one of their worst qualities—their oppositional defiance disorder in the face of criticism—is likely gonna kick in hard in response to this threat & make them push Iran coverage even more

14.03.2026 18:27 👍 228 🔁 43 💬 22 📌 2
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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Smirnov was a GRU asset assigned to assist Trump in the 2020 election by making lies surrounding the Burisima scandal seem more credible. He was convicted, sentenced, and now the Trump administration is helping him ge out. link.motherjones.com/public/44694...

14.03.2026 23:14 👍 238 🔁 150 💬 4 📌 11
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Lobbyist Who Helped a Client Pursue a Pardon is Arrested on an Extortion Charge

SCOOP: Josh Nass, a lobbyist who worked to secure a pardon from Trump for a client, was arrested Friday & charged with attempted extortion, apparently for trying to collect an additional $500k he was owed by the pardoned client, Joseph Schwartz.

14.03.2026 14:46 👍 546 🔁 155 💬 39 📌 11

I've studied the way broadcasting was censored by Главлит in the Soviet period, and by the Ministry of Propaganda (Роскомнадзор) under Putin. Trump's system is far, far cruder.

14.03.2026 22:37 👍 43 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 0

I attempted to asked U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro whether she thought Judge James Boasberg — when deciding the Federal Reserve subpoenas issue before him — factored in her office’s prior attempt to indict six Democrats over their political speech.

14.03.2026 15:16 👍 909 🔁 162 💬 63 📌 3
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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

14.03.2026 21:52 👍 21343 🔁 9759 💬 1845 📌 853

Can the mayor get a restraining order against Michael Powell of the Atlantic? Because this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession

14.03.2026 22:12 👍 1631 🔁 228 💬 31 📌 3

Feels like every single Democratic official should be loudly pointing out that the president is a dementia-ravaged thug who needs to be impeached and removed from office, even if just to cover their own asses for when he inevitably tries to nuke the Oscar ceremony or whatever.

14.03.2026 22:18 👍 3274 🔁 679 💬 86 📌 17

“With all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation’s press.”

- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 406

14.03.2026 22:30 👍 698 🔁 309 💬 20 📌 4
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

torrents are undefeated:

www.404media.co/the-removed-...

14.03.2026 16:01 👍 7536 🔁 2283 💬 148 📌 144
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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

14.03.2026 20:51 👍 4458 🔁 1979 💬 146 📌 141
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Where Mamdani Has Refused to Moderate The New York City mayor is not soft-pedaling his views on Israel.

The thesis of this article is that "opposition to Israel is central to Mamdani's worldview" and the evidence is that he posted a single photo with Mahmoud Khalil

14.03.2026 20:16 👍 2692 🔁 348 💬 112 📌 45
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One week ago. 🤡

14.03.2026 17:27 👍 6146 🔁 1475 💬 490 📌 141

“I alone can’t fix it.”

14.03.2026 17:24 👍 904 🔁 161 💬 38 📌 12
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Barry Blitt’s sketchbook.

@airmail.news
airmail.news/issues/2026-...

14.03.2026 18:21 👍 1524 🔁 484 💬 38 📌 9
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"Help! Help! SOS! Mayday! Please send ships. Pretty please! We kicked a hornet's nest, and we can't handle the consequences!"

- The Most Embarrassing President Ever

14.03.2026 18:28 👍 521 🔁 181 💬 52 📌 12

This very much reads like a guy who sold a felon a pardon from Trump tried to extort another $500K from the felon he felt he was owed.

14.03.2026 16:41 👍 464 🔁 135 💬 5 📌 4
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Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official.

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14.03.2026 18:22 👍 4735 🔁 1892 💬 447 📌 141
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(NYT) - The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad urged all American citizens to leave Iraq immediately on Saturday after the embassy was attacked overnight for the second time since the war with Iran started.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

14.03.2026 20:42 👍 557 🔁 215 💬 32 📌 20

And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?

14.03.2026 20:21 👍 709 🔁 137 💬 9 📌 6
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Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rock...

An FAA rule proposed during the Biden administration would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove spacecraft from orbit within 25 years of launch.

The Trump administration recently killed the rule.

14.03.2026 21:12 👍 742 🔁 349 💬 45 📌 38

Today in "Things that should have ended this presidency within 24 hours"

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