Geoff

one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl

The same company behind Alligator Alcatraz was just paid $313 million to build another one in Surprise, Arizona.

I’m fighting to get the answers the community deserves.

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

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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...

FWIW, folks went after Warnock's liberal-leaning faith too — particularly his self-ID as a "pro-choice pastor."

The attacks failed, partly because support for abortion rights is the *majority* position of every major U.S. Christian group — except white evangelicals. religionnews.com/2020/12/18/r...

This is it.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes.

“This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.”

With @texastribune.org

Was he carrying sidewalk chalk?

Kindergarten

Whenever I see the shit this administration is doing, I think back on Stephen Colbert’s WH Correspondents Dinner speech in which he referred to the administration as rearranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg.

Escalating Hormuz Crisis Raises Specter of Prolonged Closure Hopes for quickly reviving trade through the strait are dimming without U.S. naval escorts as Iran steps up attacks.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

But, can we send Glacier Park Grizzlies to Iran?

For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

Matthew and Woody are not doing another true detective season. They’re just going to make stupid ai commercials. Sorry to be the one to tell you

"Hello? Help please. We started and war and then realized we don't understand how anything works. What do we do now?"

You are paying more for electricity so Trump’s White House can post this AI slop

All I remember about south of the border was that somehow I’ve been there, but we still haven’t gotten there yet

A restaurant chain cannot have personal values or a lifestyle.

But if Chili's *were* a person, it'd be a divorced MAGA dad wearing a South of the Border t-shirt.

With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work.

Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.

This escalated fast, in a good way.

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position

They’ll learn the wrong lessons again, like every time

All the Democrats had to do was crib from the playbook the GOP used against Clinton, Obama, Biden. Instead they’ve been accommodationists to a fault. Sure they’re not fascists like the right, but they’re soft on fascism.

Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

The Independent

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Me neither, but they’ll learn this war won’t end just bc Trump decides he doesn’t want to play with this toy anymore. Why would Iran reopen the strait with the threat of renewed attack hanging over them? Or with Israel continuing to bomb? They killed or discredited the pro-negotiations faction.

Luckily, there are enough unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth on Getty Images to last a lifetime

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...