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The Rachel Maddow Show - March 9 | Audio Only YouTube video by MS NOW

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REPUBLICAN RISING STAR QUITS THE PARTY! YouTube video by Keith Edwards

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter) If you ever have difficulty trying to explain the many, many reasons you’ll never support Traitor Trump and hate everything he stands for, this video will do the trick. It’s an intelligent, no-bullsh...

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THIS ISN’T GETTING NEARLY ENOUGH ATTENTION

U.S. intelligence intercepted an encrypted transmission believed to be from Iran, possibly an operational trigger for sleeper cells.

🚨Government alert: Iran may be activating sleeper cells.

With Trump and Hegseth running the show, we’re screwed.

😡😡

The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

"Comically unqualified, intensely partisan, & unflaggingly devoted to whatever ridiculous thing bubbled out of Trump’s mouth 5 minutes ago, as the next DHS secretary, Mullin will fit right in what will undoubtedly be regarded as the worst presidential cabinet in history." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Trump won't say if he'll send armed agents to the polls. So Dems are suing to find out “Trump wants to bully and cheat his way through a midterm election that he knows Republicans will lose, but we won’t let him,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin said.

🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding President Donald Trump’s administration unveil their plans, if any, for deploying federal officers or troops on election day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Oil prices have nearly doubled since the start of the year, and the cost to fill up at the pump has risen by 17% since Trump launched the first strikes on Iran. ⛽️⛽️

Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 167
Active Redistricting Cases: 50
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 92
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32

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Camp East Montana is a massive tent camp sitting on Fort Bliss military base near El Paso, Texas. It opened in August 2025 and almost immediately became the largest ICE detention facility in the entire United States holding over 2,700 people. In tents in the Texas heat.

Sen. Joni Ernst on the deaths of Iowans fighting Trump's war against Iran: "Even with great loss, we are seeing great success"

Sen. Joni Ernst: "We shouldn't be sending conventional forces into Iran. But certainly the use of our special operators is a tool that we will also keep in our tool belt. They can be strategically inserted ... if the president chooses to use them, good on him."

Sen. Ashley Moody: "President Trump and everyone working with him have done everything they can to avoid armed conflict"

Ted Cruz: "I'll confess -- I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic. Claude is one of the many AI tools that can be very helpful ... I don't think government should be picking winners and losers"

Ted Cruz on Iran: "I think the administration is going to continue applying force, military and otherwise, until they get a regime there that is not a radical Islamist regime that is waging war with America ... I'm not interested in an Iran run by an Ayatollah"

Opinion | We Are Being Governed by Unserious People

“She used government resources in questionable ways. She treated public service as private amusement. That’s not how true professionals behave. But it’s how many senior officials in the Trump administration do.”

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Ted Cruz: "Twice the ayatollah has hired hitmen and sent them to try to murder President Trump, and so I think President Trump made a very reasonable decision that he was going to act as commander in chief to stop this threat to America"

Ted Cruz: "I don't think there's any possibility that this becomes a long, protracted military engagement"

Rand Paul: "I think we've gotten overextended. This is our second war in a month, and these wars are very very expensive not only in the lives that are lost, but also in treasure. I'm very very concerned about the debt. Half a trillion dollars for the military budget is fiscally irresponsible."

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

What happens when we elect idiots? (gift article)

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Rand Paul: "The 2026 elections, already we are behind the 8 ball. If you add in high gas prices, high oil prices, and if we're still bombing Iran with kinetic action -- people don't want to call it war -- I think you're gonna see a disastrous election."

Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."

F.B.I. Subpoenas Records in Arizona in Expansion of 2020 Voting Inquiry

wtf?

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Ukraine Helps U.S. Bases in the Mideast With Stopping Drones

Of course

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Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year Snubbing Ukraine's offer ranks as one of the U.S.'s biggest tactical miscalculations before the war, officials say.

EXCLUSIVE: 7 months ago, Ukraine tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made drones.

The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week after more-than-expected Iranian drone strikes.

Social media campaign from CDC. On the right, is a photo of a cassette tape. (Remember those?!) On the left: “If you made a mixtape - it's time to get vaccinated against shingles. Adults 50+ should get two doses of the shingles vaccine."

Shingles is more than just a rash — it can cause long-term severe nerve pain.

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1/ On March 7, Trump posted that “Iran has surrendered,” which, as dictionary.com notes, means “to yield or resign in favor of another.”

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Opinion | Stephen Miller is down but not out A recent shift in tactics from ICE in the aftermath of Minnesota can’t be seen as Trump's overall deportation goals changing.

Stephen Miller is down, but not out

A recent shift in tactics from ICE in the aftermath of Minnesota can’t be seen as Trump's overall deportation goals changing.

Hegseth: "Ultimately, the aftermath is gonna be in America's interests. Our interests. We won't live under a nuclear blackmail scenario of conventional missiles that can target our people."

Q: Can you detail the specific measures the Pentagon is taking to minimize civilians casualties in strikes inside Iran?

HEGSETH: No nation takes more precautions to ensure there is never targeting of civilians than the US. Where things happen that need to be investigated, we'll investigate.