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The extraordinary spending in Montana is part of a new era of political power for the rapidly growing number of billionaires minted over the past eight years. The Times analysis found that 300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion - 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees. Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero - 0.3 percent, to be precise. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that billionaires contributed through dark money groups that do not have to disclose their donors.

Since Citizens United, Billionaires’ GOP Donations control US elections.

In 2024, ~300 billionaires gave 19% ($3b!!!) of all reported federal campaign contributions. (In 2008, it was just .3%)

Of $3b, the GOP received $2.5b—or 5/6 of billionaire💵. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u... What democracy?

Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia Every president wants favorable press coverage. Most feel a surprising level of...

Step back and the picture comes into focus:
"Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/borde...

Come 2029, let’s have no Merrick Garlands dilly-dallying about investigating & charging rich & powerful men and NO Gerald Fords pardoning the accused before trials occur! I want an administration of Jack Smiths!

Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.

Probably not the outcome most of us were hoping for.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let’s have no Merrick Garlands dilly-dallying about investigating rich & powerful men and NO Gerald Fords pardoning the accused before trials occur!

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

- Zoox's partnership with Uber to debut in Las Vegas this summer

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The Colbert Report is long gone, but the allure of truthiness is eternal.

I don't even own a television and the political slam ads are driving me nuts. It's going to be a long damned year.

#MEpolitics

Yes it is. And the glut of money in political campaigns that Citizens United AND the $billionaire “ruler of the universe” phenomenon that’s growing in our political arena means the consultant-driven advertising is going to be near intolerable. (ex: CA’s Tom Steyer 4 Gov’s focus-grouped campaign.)

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

He is as confused and dazed as he looks. He also hates this photo, so don’t spread it around the web 😉

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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

Thanks for this. Took your invite to post it around.

This “stupid shit” taunt coulda used this answer when AG Pam Bondi threw it at Dems on the Senate committee when they were grilling her, coupla weeks ago:

Another word you might use for it is "looting".

"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?

TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged

LANDERS: It wasn't though

TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own AG said it

TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter

LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

I've read Iran has very quiet submarines but wouldn't expect them to have the range or logistics to patrol our West Coast.

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

I was suggesting this was a likelihood last weekend, but I expected Washington DC or Mar A Lago to be targeted (right at 'im!), not California! (There's a large - maybe largest - Iranian expat community in LA, but...) Head's up, Beverly Hills!
abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns...

What a twat

Total nazi prick aside, what blows my mind is that he got the american flag tattooed backward. I mean, seriously, what a tool

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, describes an 11-minute standing ovation for Stalin where the first person to stop clapping was arrested and sent to the Gulag

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.

Here's the Post's story on the vanity our thin-skinned "Secretary of War." wapo.st/3OZLeeY

SecDef's skin isn't very TOUGH -- even thinner than Donald's? Press photographers have been banned from 'live' briefings by Pete Hegseth because he found Iran War briefing pix "unflattering." Well, here's a Stock Photo he's obviously proud of the International Press can use:

I guess they'll have to rely on their library of Stock Photos -- Here's a 'characteristic pic' they can use:

The fragile insecure flower is crying again.

Oh! So now the hard work begins, eh?