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Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:

Here's the truth:

Senate Republicans could pay our TSA agents and fund FEMA today. In fact, they could've funded it last week. @democrats.senate.gov brought a simple, clean bill that would fund these essential agencies while we keep negotiating on ICE and CBP.

Republicans blocked it.

The military budget is $217 billion higher than it was a decade ago (after adjusting for inflation).

A significant chunk of that money comes from OBBBA & is still unused and earmarked for things Trump is likely to ask for in the supp. For the rest, there's flexibility to move some funds around.

The Corporate Miscreants Driving the Affordability Crisis These 20 firms all have something in common: Their CEOs get paid millions, their workers are being pushed onto public assistance, and voters are fed up with them.

Brian Niccol of Starbucks took home the award for the most nonsensical disparity between CEO and employee income: He earns $95,801,676, while the median salary for a Starbucks employee was a mere $14,674. trib.al/RMejLDH

"Bloomberg Economics estimates that the oil breakeven price for the OBBB Act's tax refunds is $83/barrel ... meaning oil at $83 would be enough to wipe out the average gains to households coming from refunds"

(via Schwab / Gordon)

AP: “About 140 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including 8 severely.”

@apnews.com

In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:

1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.
2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.
3. Energy Secretary deletes post.
4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.

Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

Holy cow, Ukraine offered to help the US prepare to counter Iranian drones, but the Trump regime turned them down, too focused on pushing the narrative that Ukraine “has no cards” and should surrender to Russia.

But now the US is back, asking for help after attacking Iran and getting fire back.

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating

“The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”

Trump and Putin discuss end to Iran, Ukraine wars on call This was the first call between Trump and Putin since the beginning of the war with Iran.

Let me get this straight. Did Putin replace congress as a voice concerning the Iran war. I guess the puppet master played his hand.

www.axios.com/2026/03/09/t...

Representative Frost was fabulous in this interview.

Schlossberg: If this becomes the new normal and the president is able to trademark America’s birthday and issue his own currency while weakening the dollar, having gold skyrocket, and increasing prices on every commodity and input cost in our economy, we’re getting screwed and he’s getting rich.

A Closer Look at ICE's Enormous People Warehouse Near Hagerstown, Maryland Watch now | I drove out to the site of one of the most controversial new ICE facilities in the country this afternoon, an 825,000 square foot warehouse built with the hopes of being used or sold to a ...

Defund ICE.

"The conversion that ICE is attempting, from warehouse to human storage, is not a renovation so much as a statement about what this administration believes immigrants are."

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Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Meltdowns, Chaos, Vendettas (Gift Article) Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

Patel has fired agents who worked on the Trump investigations and radically changed the bureau’s mission. More than 20% of the F.B.I.’s work force has been assigned to immigration enforcement, pulling agents from investigating
corruption, cybercrime, drug trafficking
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Making War While Making Money Trump’s never-ending grift

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"...the Trump Organization filed multiple trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. They are trademarking the image and name ‘Trump 250’ as well as several variations, which means Donald Trump will profit from America’s 250th birthday." 😡

He went from “unconditional surrender” and “I must pick their new leader” to full “just declare victory and get the hell out” TACO Trump.

Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought European and Asian countries worry the Pentagon is burning through munitions so fast that it won’t have enough to send the weapons they have purchased.

Advantage: Kremlin. US allies are watching in disbelief as DOD reroutes weapons to aid the Iran war, worried long-promised American arms will never come. “The munitions that have been and will be fired are the ones that everybody needs,” said one European official. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

"Trustees said Carter was asked about allegations he had “an inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business”.

"...being asked to prove citizenship on everyday occasions is an intrusion people are sure to notice. Perhaps lawmakers will remember that annoyed bank customers are also voters."

“.. Here's a fun fact: The United States now has fewer manufacturing jobs today (12.573M) than it did in March 2018 (12.576M) when Trump first started his tariff wars:”

- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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‘No’ to a Constitutional Convention keeps special interests from taking our freedoms, rights • Michigan Advance When Michigan voters receive their ballots in November, the first question they’ll see is whether Michigan should hold a state Constitution Convention. It may look like a straightforward chance to mak...

‘No’ to a Constitutional Convention keeps special interests from taking our freedoms, rights michiganadvance.com/2026/03/08/n...

Commentary from Mark Fisk

GOP’s hateful rhetoric comes home to roost as KY to be short 3,000 physicians by 2030 • Kentucky Lantern Kentucky will reap the consequences of its legislature dehumanizing everyone from the LGBTQ community to immigrants.

Commentary by Teri Carter

GOP’s hateful rhetoric comes home to roost as Kentucky can expect to be short 3,000 physicians by 2030.

kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/09/k...

This bar chart shows the distribution of adult workers with and without Medicaid by their relationship to employer-sponsored health insurance, in 2024. Most adults with Medicaid work for an employer that does not offer job-based coverage (52%) or are not eligible for their employer’s coverage (13%).

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of adult workers with Medicaid in expansion states and Wisconsin cannot access job-based coverage because their employers do not offer it or because they are ineligible: https://on.kff.org/4rW1LPG

Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran - emptywheel Donald Trump has a pathological need to avoid being seen as he sees Jimmy Carter's failure to respond aggressively to Iranian radicals, a loser, someone who keeps leeching power over the course of an ...

Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran

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Biden had us on this Path. Trump and the GOP killed it.

After years of delays and blocks by Speaker Johnson, the January 6 plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol is finally installed.

4 a.m.. No ceremony. Just workers bolting it to the wall while DC slept.

Apparently the only safe way to acknowledge J6 in Trump’s Washington is in the dark.

Seventh US service member killed in Iran war is identified as Army sergeant | CNN Politics A US soldier died after sustaining injuries during an attack last week in Saudi Arabia, the military said, bringing the number of American troops killed in the Iran war to seven.

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May he rest in peace. 😢

Use WAR to hide your pedophile CRIMES!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpstineFiles