Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...
It used to be a pretty rare thing to call a president directly. But since the US attacked Iran two weeks ago, Trump has answered more than three dozen phone calls from journalists representing at least a dozen outlets. By Michael Scherer @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Anti-Regime Iranians Turn on Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
(I think she means "corrupt.")
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Gerontocracy rules everything around me
Competitive authoritarianism watch. Ominous.
Competitive authoritarianism watch
You know the war is going well when JD Vance’s allies are leaking that he was opposed to it all along. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"career-pressured officers 'detour' through repressive units not because they are fanatics, but b/c the detour is the only viable path upward. The regime does not need to recruit extremists. It only needs to create the right organizational conditions and then let ordinary career anxiety do the rest"
What Trump doesn't get about asymmetric war--why he's bashing Iran but not winning. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Ukraine’s US air defenses are at risk in Iran war
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/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?
The Times study 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.”
It further found that the “typical 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 ....”
He should do some photo ops of him sailing through the strait himself, just to prove how safe it is
Bad character turns out to be a form of weakness. Who knew?
The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties:
-Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one?
-Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him?
-Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?
I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
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...
RFK Jr.’s advisers had a plan to target covid shots. Then it fell apart.
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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos
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KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
