'Made in USA' and Department of Defense codes imprinted on weapons fragments used to make American Tomahawks and seen in photos by Iran near bombed school. Latest story w/ @trbrtc.bsky.social and @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Don’t let the battlefield optics fool you:
Despite our nation's current penchant for combat engagements, the U.S. has become a second-tier military power, writes retired Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak. | Opinion
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The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics.
Thank #SCOTUS, they did it with Citizens United.
Money is NOT speech.
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"The NBER, founded in 1920, has grown into the world’s premier research organization for academic economists. Much of that was due to the efforts of the late Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, the former NBET president and Summers’s doctoral adviser.
gift link:
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More than $1 billion a day in Iran. WTH?
Josh Marshall: "Iran’s strategy is to absorb the punishment from the skies and keep sending waves of drones into neighboring counties until the U.S. stockpiles are run dry"
We are going to be over spending on defense and debt ballooning to $50 billions soon and the fiscal hawks won't say shit
Search comes after the release of investigative files renewed attention to sex offender's activities at the Zorro Ranch.
Unlike in Past Conflicts, Most Americans Oppose Iran Attacks www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
"An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from U.S military contractor" techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...
Representative Frost was fabulous in this interview.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well to defend democracy.
The economy wasn’t doing great before Iran and it sure isn’t doing well now. Fool’s Golden Age.
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Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid, the single most produced chemical on Earth. Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. No gas, no power, no chips. Then food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today exist because of synthetic nitrogen. Sulfur, semiconductors, food. That makes three supply chains, one 21-nautical-mile chokepoint, and zero domestic alternatives at scale.
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David Copperfield announced the closure of his show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The news comes weeks after he was named in the latest Epstein-files drop.
According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...
MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.
One of the most important things I have written in a while. I hope you read, learn and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
“What is happening now is the administration is making new policy, but then insisting that the new policy take effect immediately before a challenge about its lawfulness is determined,” Jackson said. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Breaking NYT:
Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.
Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
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@wyden.senate.gov speaking now to oppose the nomination of Gen. Rudd to lead the NSA, and on the dangers of unqualified, unaccountable leadership of agencies that conduct sprawling government surveillance - www.senate.gov/legislative/...
EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Here's a slightly more accurate and definitely more readable chart.
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Trump's Iran War has generated the world's largest oil shock.This chart compares with the next five greatest oil shocks - today is 4x-5x as bad as in 1973.
In 1973, there were lines at USA gas pumps for HOURS. Today's oil shock is 4x-5x as bad as in 1973.
As a sweeping generalization, yes, because we can read a LOT faster than we can listen.
This is nonsense.
In 1976, studies showed that less than 40% of jobs in America paid enough to support a family of four on their own.
Even in relatively low cost of living southwest Georgia, both of my parents worked. And my mother was the primary breadwinner for years. I'm an only child.
