Gillibrand: "How they missed this was a girls' school is very concerning to me. If Sec. Hegseth did not cut the funding for this area of review by 90%, if he did not continually try to undermine the rules & procedures our service members & generals take - I think he should resign bc of this failure"

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

DHS agents are still here in our community in plain clothes scouting out immigrant owned businesses on Central, knocking on neighbors doors, swapping out licenses plates in cars without registration, and driving dangerously in our community.

More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted:

More and more rot.

US struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq: Officials Some U.S. staff were flown out by the British air force, officials said.

wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...

Zelensky accused Hungarian PM Orban of siding with Putin, blocking money, weapons, and Ukraine's path to EU membership while spreading Russian propaganda. "There is only one thing he does not do," Zelensky said: "attack us with missiles, drones, or soldiers." #Ukraine

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

BREAKING: ABC News, citing sources: The United States is facing difficulty evacuating its personnel from facilities under bombardment in Iraq

We have gained so many new friends during the Trump presidency.

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) #ELB Using data from the indispensable Open Secrets, I have been able to calculate how much corporate contributions to Super PACs have grown. (Such contributions were treated as legal after the D.C. Circui...

Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) electionlawblog.org?p=154802

Intel shareholder claims board gave US an equity stake to avoid Trump’s social media attacks Lawsuit also criticised law firm Skadden for advising both Intel and the government

Lawsuit: The 10 percent/$11 billion stake in Intel given to the U.S. government is an "unlawful contract" granted "for no meaningful consideration in response to extortionary threats by the government."
www.ft.com/content/5506...

NEWS: Trump officials are floating a supplemental spending bill for the Iran War - while Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon just spent $6.9 million on lobster in a single month, $1,844 on an office chair, $26,000 on “sushi preparation tables” & $98,329 on a grand piano.

www.levernews.com/cvs-threaten...

AI Lobbyists Are Flying Congressional Staffers Around the Country on Luxury Trips The Innovative Future Collective, packed with corporate lobbyists for AI industry giants like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, has been paying for House and Senate staff trips to San Francisco, Los Ang...

In the middle of an energy crisis…

as faulty AI may be to blame for killing hundreds of children…

Chuck Schumer & other crypto/AI friendly Dems are letting lobbyists fly them around on luxury trips.

Utterly shameful.

readsludge.com/2026/03/11/a...

Scoop by @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social

In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.

After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

Well, luckily we have a *checks notes* prepubescent boychild who wasn't even alive during 9/11 overseeing terror prevention efforts here in the United States. You can tell he's gonna get the job done by the super-serious eyebrow arch. No terrorism will pass by that vigilant caterpillar.

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say

Note: "Trump administration officials reportedly failed to include nuclear technical experts in their negotiation teams with Iran prior to the war, adding to the uncertainty."

Brutal Reality of Pentagon Pete’s Massive Cuts Is Exposed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s brutal staff cuts at the Pentagon have impacted the departments that would have investigated the fatal strike on a girls’ school in Iran. President Donald Trump, wh...

Pete Hegseth gutted Pentagon oversight, calling the rules of war "stupid." He slashed the Middle East casualty team from 10 experts to one.

Then came the Minab strike: 170 girls and 14 teachers dead.

The Pentagon’s "inability to confirm" its role is the outcome Hegseth engineered.

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

For too long, this kind of behavior has been tolerated and normalized. Not just by politicians who willingly accept corrupt money and allow lobbyists to “persuade” them. But by the general population. The equally corrupt Supreme Court said it was okay to accept bribes. Doesn’t mean they have to.

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

BREAKING NYT:

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million

💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million

Have a great day!

PSE is raising electric rates for 1.3 million customers and cutting them for their only “special contract” customer.

That customer is Microsoft.

Residential: +16.75%
Microsoft: -12.49%

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Reporter: On the Iranian school, why did Trump say yesterday that Iran may have Tomahawk missiles when there are only three US allies, plus the US, that have those missiles?

White House: Trump has a right to share his opinions with the American public.

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

YES. In the same sentence he said the war was complete, he proposed a policy that would vastly enlarge the war! Media reported the first half, and then later reported a different part to make it seem like a change! But it was incoherent, nonsensical slop all along.

This, too, is sanewashing!