Last year: e-cigarette makers donate to Trump's bangin' ballroom.
This year: Trump admin says it'll allow e-cigarette makers to offer more, delicious flavors.
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Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
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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/
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Time to end ‘use it or lose it’ budgets. It does show they don’t need their budget increased.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike
The number of Pentagon employees who focus on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped from 200 people to less than 40. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Officials at DHS removed career staff at CBP after they refused orders to mislabel surveillance records to block release under FOIA.
Those forced out include CBP’s top privacy officer & FOIA director after a lawful disclosure angered political leadership.
#ProudBlue
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And just plain uniformed arrogance
General Joshua Rudd's nomination to lead the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command has sparked controversy due to his lack of specific cyber experience. Typical. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Makes me think @schumer.senate.gov has a hand in the betrayal
Read she’s not seeking re-election … disgusting.
Holy Mother of God; Jesus, Mary and Joseph - the whole gang!
Lots of Trump agenda repeat supporters in this list. Regret till I die my Senator vote for @schiff.senate.gov vs Porter. Won’t make that mistake again. Fetterman is steadfast
in his support of incompetence and cruelty.
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There’s a theme here - if they die, they die; if grocery prices rise, they rise …
It gets weirder still. Attorney General Pam Bondi, a former lobbyist for foreign governments herself, ordered a halt to almost all of these "foreign agent" cases. And yet this one has continued, even though it has roped in Rubio ... and her former lobbyist boss.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
And how much do teachers make?
Also consider fetal sequela to maternal rubella. Vaccines protect more than the child receiving the vaccine.
Some MAGA saying that this would happen even with vaccines because the MMR is given around 1yr. My response is if other children were vaccinated and did not fall ill with measles the threat to infants is eliminated. ExPhysician Andrew Wakefield did a grave injustice to humanity.
California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
They can’t use what they don’t have - no intellect, moral reasoning, critical thinking, impulse control … etc etc
Ladies and gentleman - Witkoff, the man on the inside, speaks.
EISEN: How do you see this war ending?
WITKOFF: I don't know
The use it or lose it mentality is outdated and fraught with waste. They don’t need more money in their budget. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housegop.bsky.social
Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files.
Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life."
