WHY did I have to keep going down this path? Nate Cavanaugh was part of DOGE outing Mohammed Halimi, who was exiled from Afghanistan.
DOGE accused Halimi of sending money to the Taliban through his work at the Institute for Peace.
The Taliban then kidnapped Halimi’s family.
Before you hit the streets on March 28, make sure you know your rights. Join an @aclu.org training to learn more about your constitutional right to protest and best practices for staying safe at No Kings events.
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
Graph showing that the number of consumer complaints that credit bureau Experian closed with relief dropped significantly after Donald Trump's inauguration. The chart also shows the total complaints received has continued to rise over time. The x-axis shows year from 2021 to 2025 and the y-axis shows number of monthly complaints from 0 to 200K, with tick marks at increments of 50K.
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3OY2qBw
A Republican U.S. senator used insulting and sexist language to demand European countries join America and Israel's war against Iran, saying NATO allies should "take their skirts off, maybe put some boots on and help the rest of the world out.
Trump Women's Month speech: "I didn't read-- I can't prepa-- if I prepare my speeches I won't time to get things done. You ever hear that? I cannot prepare. So I didn't know who the hell I was speaking to, but I walked in and I saw this beautiful woman with the blonde hair."
NEW: The Old Dominion University gunman was identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, an ex-National Guardsman previously imprisoned for trying to support ISIS, sources say.
ICE etc have not left Minneapolis, no matter what mainstream media tells you. And Jacob Frey is useless. Every media outlet who propped him up during all of this should feel deeply ashamed.
🚨BIG STORY: The prosecutor that Trump's DOJ appointed to investigate the Epstein Files was the chairman of - and has ongoing investments in - one of the major companies that has a potentially huge financial stake in the probe's outcome, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
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Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans.
Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The only people getting from rich from high gas prices are oil execs.
The girls' school likely destroyed by an American missile had colorful murals *visible from space* as far back as 2018.
By @pearswick.press & Ryan McNeil:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
"He was vaguely saying things like, 'Really, I can help you out. I can do things for you. ...If you could, you know, give me the names of protest organizers, maybe I can help you out.'" Inside an ICE effort to generate snitches.
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.
Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.
BREAKING: powerful iPhone hacking tools used by Chinese criminals originated from US defense giant L3 Harris.
Their zero-click exploits went to Russian spies too.
Unbelievable harm to our collective security.
Scoop: @lorenzofb.bsky.social, here's why it matters 1/
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Tweet from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: Justice has been done. I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them. This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled. The role of the IDF's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas. I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
I was offered a position as a staff psychologist within a VA outpatient mental clinic in 2018, during Trump 1.0. I was told I’d need to maintain a caseload of 150-200 patients. I turned down the job.
It was hard to imagine care standards getting worse. But it clearly has gotten much much worse.
The IDF will drop charges against 5 soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an incident partially caught on camera.
apnews.com/article/isra...
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
For what it's worth the story is also about finding out that against all odds, you're gonna make it after all. I hope you give it a read. slate.com/life/2026/03...
NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed
VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*
One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*
She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets
How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource::
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Trump: "They knocked out 54 ships in two days. I got mad at my people. I said, 'Why the hell did we kill them? Why didn't we just capture them and use them in our Navy?' They said they wouldn't have qualified for that. One of my generals said, 'Sir, it's a lot more fun doing it this way.'"
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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![It is not irrational for a legislature to forgo Medicaid coverage of arguably ineffective and dangerous procedures and allocate its limited resources to covering other treatments. What's more, States may legitimately recognize and "celebrat[e]" the "inherent differences between men and women." Virginia, 518 U.S. at 533 (internal quotation marks omitted). And it is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens "to appreciate their sex" and not "become disdainful of their sex" by refusing to fund experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. at 516-17.
The Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti forecloses any argument to the contrary. By holding that SB1 passed rational basis review, the Supreme Court made clear that prohibitions on sex-change treatments are not inherently irrational. And West Virginia provided legitimate reasons that rationally related to its policy. Therefore, we find West Virginia's Exclusion easily passes rational basis review.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/bafkreie6baq4m2xemd2sfqgpbchcokinznurztxied4bgyie6mjnfoi6hy)
It is not irrational for a legislature to forgo Medicaid coverage of arguably ineffective and dangerous procedures and allocate its limited resources to covering other treatments. What's more, States may legitimately recognize and "celebrat[e]" the "inherent differences between men and women." Virginia, 518 U.S. at 533 (internal quotation marks omitted). And it is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens "to appreciate their sex" and not "become disdainful of their sex" by refusing to fund experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. at 516-17. The Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti forecloses any argument to the contrary. By holding that SB1 passed rational basis review, the Supreme Court made clear that prohibitions on sex-change treatments are not inherently irrational. And West Virginia provided legitimate reasons that rationally related to its policy. Therefore, we find West Virginia's Exclusion easily passes rational basis review.
3. The justices wrote that states may deny Medicaid coverage for what they called “arguably ineffective and dangerous” procedures for transgender adults and may seek to make citizens “appreciate their sex,” endorsing that aim as rational and constitutional.
Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...
