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Trump Interferes in Brazilian Presidential Election By Labeling Brazilian Groups "Terrorists" By designating the groups as terrorists, the Trump Administration could more easily deport Brazilians in the United States by accusing them of being “narco-terrorists.”

Trump is interfering in this fall's Brazilian presidential election against Lula.

He's sent a top envoy w/ white nationalist ties to visit Bolsonaro in jail & is labeling some Brazilian groups as "terrorists"

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UFC Fighters to Hold Training Event for FBI Agents The two-day event shows how President Trump and his allies have embraced the mixed-martial-arts league known for brutal combat.

"When Kash Patel said in one of his first video calls as FBI director that he wanted agents to train with UFC cage fighters, many officials thought he was joking. He wasn’t."

Trump Brags About High Oil Prices as Americans Balk at the Pump: ‘When Oil Prices Go Up, We Make a Lot of Money’ Before the ongoing conflict with Iran, Donald Trump bragged about bringing down gas prices. But on Thursday, the president turned that brag on its head.

Trump Brags About High Oil Prices as Americans Balk at the Pump: ‘When Oil Prices Go Up, We Make a Lot of Money’
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Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of the county’s vote.

Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say
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Iran escalates attacks on infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf | First Thing Oil prices again rise over $100 a barrel as Iran threatens long ‘war of attrition’. Plus, San Francisco slashes air pollution

Stat of the day:
San Francisco cut levels of two key air pollutants by more than 20% between 2010 and 2024. It was the only US city that reduced levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) by more than 20%, according to an analysis of nearly 100 cities around the world.

Right-Wing Attacks on James Talarico Are a Reminder That Christian Extremism Is Official Republican Policy The reaction to Talarico's Christian rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which far-right theology is about underwriting misogyny and racism.

The right's attacks on James Talarico reveal the "ever-stronger fusion between extremist right-wing Christianity and the Republican Party."

Great from @aselrod.bsky.social. Really underscores importance of his campaign as an antidote to Christian nationalism:
www.liberalcurrents.com/right-wing-a...

Opinion | I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.

Good & frightening reporting by Goldberg. She labels his talk "nationalism tinged with socialism, if you will" and a "sneering, adolescent sort of Nazism." Now do Trump.
Gift link.
I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

Results from WashPost poll on IRAN WAR
42% support; 40% oppose
Huge partisan split:
Support by ideology:
Democrats 16%; Independents 34%; GOP 75%

Microsoft Just Backed Anthropic's Fight Against the Pentagon—and Issued a Stark Warning to the Department of War Microsoft has filed a court brief backing Anthropic after the Pentagon labeled the AI company a “supply chain risk,” warning the move could disrupt military AI systems and ripple across the U.S. tech ...

Microsoft Just Backed Anthropic’s Fight Against the Pentagon—and Issued a Stark Warning to the Dept of War
MS has filed a court brief backing Anthropic after the Pentagon labeled the company a “supply chain risk” warning the move could disrupt military AI systems and ripple across the US tech sector

First week of Iran War cost more than $11.3B, Pentagon tells Congress: report Democrats, frustrated with a lack of public details about the war, are calling for hearings on Capitol Hill

First six days of the Iran War cost more than $11.3B, Pentagon tells Congress in closed-door briefing: report
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Officials Throw Cold Water on FBI Claim That Iran Sought to Attack California With Drones
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‘Worst person’: Trump slams Massie, boosts primary foe during Kentucky stop Amid an unpopular war with Iran and slumping poll numbers linked to a sluggish economy, President Donald Trump resorted to name-calling Wednesday in a bid to boost Ed Gallrein in his GOP primary again...

Fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to get to the bottom of the Epstein files rewards you with:

“He’s disloyal to the Republican Party. He’s disloyal to the people of Kentucky, and most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America,”
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Five days ago. Five.

Trump ditched plans to avoid civilian casualties before Iran strikes: report The Trump administration has pushed to increase the ‘lethality’ of U.S. war operations, a move critics say will lead to more civilian deaths

Before the Iran war, the Trump administration reportedly gutted a series of initiatives aimed at reducing civilian casualties, according to insiders.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Joe Rogan Says He’s ‘Spooked’ By Trump Turning 80: Scary to Have ‘Old Leaders’ Making Decisions When Their ‘Death is Imminent’ Joe Rogan said he is "spooked" by the fact that President Donald Trump is turning 80 and groaned it is concerning "old leaders" are making big decisions

Joe Rogan Says He’s ‘Spooked’ By Trump Turning 80: Scary to Have ‘Old Leaders’ Making Decisions When Their ‘Death is Imminent’
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They need to drop the egos

Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibuster, is locked in a competitive GOP runoff in Texas against Ken Paxton, who has aligned with Trump on the issue.

A man of breathtaking commitment to principle.

Apparently, now that he wants Trump's endorsement, nuking the filibuster to override state election law is good, but it was bad in 2022. The difference: the composition of the Dem caucus.

How many current Dem senators weren't there in 2022, John?

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.

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

That deadly attack on US service members also left "dozens w/ injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns. At least one may require the amputation of a limb."

More than 30 are hospitalized.

And credit where due: This is a strong story from CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

FT confirms the existence of a highly leveraged Kremlin influence operation designed to insure the re-election of Viktor Orbán in Budapest. Orbán remains key to Putin's realization of his plans to collapse NATO and the EU. www.ft.com/content/34df...

BREAKING: Per WaPo, a new whistleblower report alleges a former DOGE member said he kept his SSA computer & credentials, giving him “God-level” access to Social Security systems.

Meanwhile, Trump wants to force every state to rely on SSA data for voter roll purges under the SAVE America Act. 1/

Tan Don!

Isn’t it odd how all these gun-toting, truck driving, uber-alpha, mouth-breathing MAGA bros have never had an issue with supporting a guy who wears makeup and dyes his hair?

Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibuster, is locked in a competitive GOP runoff in Texas against Ken Paxton, who has aligned with Trump on the issue.

New: Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement

www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Mojtaba Khamenei was hurt in strike that killed his father, Iran’s Cyprus ambassador confirms Alireza Salarian says Iran’s new supreme leader was lucky to survive strike that killed six of his family members

Mojtaba Khamenei was hurt in strike that killed his father, Iran’s Cyprus ambassador confirms
Alireza Salarian says Iran’s new supreme leader was lucky to survive strike that killed six of his family members
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

He doesn’t ask their shoe size, he just guesses. How perfect for a wasteful and addled malignant narcissist.

The judges that received death threats because of Trump deserve to be there instead

⬇️ For your consideration: Watch to learn about the $220M taxpayer-funded ad campaign that's tied to a mysterious Delaware LLC and a horse named Gill.

More details: propub.li/4uoc28E

Elon Musk is on trial for securities fraud in San Francisco right now.

~40 jurors were dismissed for bias. His lawyers just filed for a mistrial. And the jury has seen emails from his own bankers suggesting he use the threat of walking away to drive down Twitter's price.

My 2,000-word breakdown: ⬇️