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The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump says when oil prices go up, “we make a lot of money.”
Just to be clear: “we” is not you.

Fox hasn’t been this ridiculous hour after hour since they ran with Trump’s election conspiracies in 2020-21 before they got sued and paid $737 million. It’s a jingoistic alternate reality custom designed for right-wing boomers.

Covering sessions daily at the Commission on the Status of Women this week, one question keeps coming up for me: How can responsible media better amplify the institutions trying to address global crises? Too often we are not meeting the moment — we are being entertained by it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & @DrTed...• 6h Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.

This is Director of WHO. And that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make all day every day this week.

MAGA Republicans suddenly hate whomever Trump and Rupert Murdoch tell them to hate. Now it's Canadians and Brits.

DAY AHEAD: Big fight to stop Trump from shuttering and gutting the Kennedy Center YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports

DAY AHEAD: Big fight to stop Trump from shuttering and gutting the Kennedy Center

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Best Twitter riposte of the day.

She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”

Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”

More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair

Democrats join legal challenge to Trump’s planned 250-foot arch “This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said, citing a law that certain monuments must receive Congress’s approval.

Our national parks and public lands are not a canvas for a president’s offensive vanity projects. Attempting to bypass Congress to put up a massive Arch de Trump on federal land is absurd and a slap in the face to every working family and Oregonian struggling to get by.

Americans deserve better.

It's instructive to view this Karp sound bite alongside Rep. Andy Ogles's recent tweet calling pluralism "a lie."

The folks in power right now want a white, Christian nation that excels at killing people. That's their vision for the U.S.

This is beyond dangerous.

Let’s make this go viral and bring everyone’s attention to these candidates

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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

More lethal than bombs: TRUTH.

This is backed up by NY Times reporting last week: “A state-led inquiry into Mr. Epstein’s actions was taken over by federal prosecutors in 2019, and then apparently fizzled, according to New Mexico officials and recently unsealed records.” NY Times Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Couldn't agree more. ⬇️

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

Penn medical student with rare genetic form of ALS on mission to develop gene therapy Yentli Soto Albrecht has a rare genetic form of ALS and is working on research at Penn that could one day prove life-saving.

People are motivated to do good things for so many different reasons. This young woman is on a mission to save herself from dying of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Penn medical student with rare genetic form of ALS on mission to develop gene therapy - CBS Philadelphia share.google/ERSdrz7XlHVn...

Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease By watching Alzheimer’s-related protein clumping unfold second by second, researchers have uncovered new clues about the role of metal ions.

This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
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BREAKING: Fed suit over Jan 6 plaque will CONTINUE. Police argue plaque is hung in “hidden” location YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports

BREAKING: Federal lawsuit over Jan 6 plaque will CONTINUE. Police argue plaque was hung in “hidden” location that’s no better than a basement storage room

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Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount The Republican president made the purchases as he talked Netflix down in the press, calling into ​question whether the deal would withstand antitrust scrutiny.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump bought more than a million dollars in Netflix and Warner bonds while he was holding those companies' fates in his hands. This was via a trust managed by his kids.

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Kai Trump, 18, Takes Secret Service to 'World's Most Expensive Grocery Store' President Donald Trump's 18-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump took to YouTube to show viewers the luxury grocery store Erewhon, remarking, 'I'm gonna need to file for bankruptcy' while looking at price...

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump's granddaughter made a video of herself going to a very expensive grocery store, posting it with a title flaunting her taxpayer-provided security detail: "I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon."

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A screenshot of a business registry webpage for a company named SK2 LLC. The page displays a "Details" tab under a header titled "General Information." The business is listed as a Domestic, For Profit, Limited Liability Company with the Register Number 532054. The record indicates the entity's status is DISSOLVED. Key dates include: Formation/Effective Date: June 6, 2024, at 11:20 AM. Termination Date: February 20, 2026, at 2:21 PM.

The image is a screenshot of the Articles tab for the company SK2 LLC on a business registry website. The section is titled Registration and Organization and features a list of documents filed for the entity. Each entry in the list shows a uniform Effective Date of 20-Feb-2026 02:21 PM. The documents listed include a Payment Receipt [EN], an Other (Uploaded) file, and a Certificate of Dissolution. There are also entries for Articles of Dissolution [EN], an Administrator Resolution (Uploaded), a Certificate of Dissolution [EN], and a final entry for Articles of Dissolution. Navigation links for "Details," "Annual Filings," and "Certificates" appear at the top of the page above the main header.

A review of Puerto Rico business records shows that SK2 LLC — the firm ICE hired in November to broker the purchase of warehouses around the U.S. — filed to dissolve the company in February.

The company had just been added to the WEXMAC TITUS contract vehicle in January.

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?

Opinion | Latin Americans Already Have a Serious Partner — and It’s Not Trump President Trump’s efforts to force the Western Hemisphere into alignment will keep falling short.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Far from choosing sides between the U.S. and China, “Latin American leaders are increasingly adept at performing the public rituals of alignment required by Washington while quietly doubling down on their commercial ties with Beijing,” writes Oliver Stuenkel.

Update: Trump’s War in the Middle East YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

I know so many of you are scared, angry, and downright pissed off about what’s happening with Trump’s war in the Middle East. 
So, I want to give a little breakdown on what’s happening, Congress’s authority, and what comes next.

Trump administration says cost of Iran war's first two days was $5.6 billion, source says U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it used $5.6 billion in munitions during ​the first two days of strikes against Iran in ‌a report provided to U.S. congressional committees, a source familiar with the information said on Tuesday.

Trump administration says cost of Iran war's first two days was $5.6 billion, source says reut.rs/4bBAQmf

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."