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Chubb set as main U.S. insurer for Persian Gulf shipping amid Iran war The insurance giant will work with the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to help backstop shipping.

The same company that bonded Trump out in his defamation trial has been tapped to help the government provide shipping insurance in the Straight of Hormuz war zone.

Not to kink shame but it is pretty crazy how much The United States, a whole ass nation, paid so some random dude named Corey Lewandowski could get pegged by his lady on an airplane.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters The far-right Center for Security Policy, led by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney, is best known for pedaling conspiracy theories.

"A researcher at a far-right think tank helped Justice Department prosecutors craft their indictment for terror charges against an alleged 'north Texas antifa cell,' the researcher testified Monday."

So much for this Trump propaganda @axios.com cut and pasted less than a week ago. www.axios.com/2026/03/03/t...

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So the Pentagon blew through >$50B in five days of September — "more than the total military budgets of Canada and Mexico combined" — on stuff such as lobster tails and a grand piano … but wants Congress to hand it another $50B to fund Trump's stupid war in Iran?

No. Hell no. Absolutely not.

This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime

"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."

Dublin Teachers Association Asks 3.5 percent increase in health benefits Reduction in class sizes Cost-of-living adjustments Protect elementary counselor jobs

700+ teachers are on strike in Dublin after the district rejected their offer and did not offer a counter.

My step-mother was a public school teacher at Dublin Elementary for years.

It's a tough job and teachers deserve our support. Dublin teachers have mine.

WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING HIM TO STOP THE DEPORTATION OF IRANIANS THAT HAPPENED A WEEK BEFORE THE FUCKING WAR STARTED. Including a gay couple.

he's a psychopath

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

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Some states are going to have school vouchers. I have tried to warn about them—the problems are all predictable and predicted.

But now that they are here, some of those problems are entirely correctable.

More oversight of taxpayer dollars goes a long way.

Death threat

Event was taken offline and presented on zoom.

A month and a half ago, when the organization that I sit on the board of was doing a panel at Harvard was doing a panel on the Israel, Iran and the Middle East I got an email along with participants with a real, honest-to-god terroristic threat about what would happen if the event went on.

"Trita Parsi, Lobbyist for Iran" - by Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic. Nov. 13, 2009

In the Atlaantic a few months after the green uprising, where i had worked closely with Trita to get persian language news, sources out of Iran about the regime's crackdown to the press list I had built while working at the DNC. Then as now, it was a crime to be a "lobbyist for the regime"

You'll be surprised that Jeff Goldberg used to go around claiming Iranian Americans who advocated for talks with Iran to deal with nuclear program and other issues like their behavior were lobbyists for the Iranian regime. A slur regularly promoted by his close friend Eli "Chalabi stenographer" Lake

Trade-Offs: Taxpayers in the United States and Iran War - $1 Billion/ Day Use NPP's Trade-Off tool to reallocate taxpayer dollars.

Iran War is costing taxpayers $1Billion/Day. Here's what that $ could have paid for instead:
3.88mil Elementary School Teachers for 1yr
2.73mil Registered Nurses for 1yr
21.24mil Head Start Slots for 1yr
9.77mil Borrowers Receiving Forgiveness for 1yr
www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-...

one of the cruel things the Iranian gov't does is jail dissidents in exile. Sending them across the country away from family and support network. a practice we have very openly copied for immigrants.

UPDATE: Sunny, a U.S. citizen, is on her way home after being shipped across state lines overnight.

How the hell did this happen?

Press conference tomorrow at Broadview, where we will hear Sunny’s side of the story. More details soon.

Justice Department releases missing Epstein files related to Trump : The NPR Politics Podcast It was another busy week in Washington. We discuss Kristi Noem getting fired from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security and the new release of missing Epstein files related to President Trump...

who is going to be the last soldier or civilian who dies because Donald Trump and Republicans are covering up Trump's history as a predator? www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

The way this works is that the U.S. now has to put troops on the ground, invade, overthrow the Iranian government and then nation-build OR Iran is going to withstand this aerial barrage and come back stronger.

That's the position these idiots have put us in. They've endangered the whole world.

Why Target is at the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Great interview on why boycott Target. workdaymagazine.org/why-target-i...

Gosh. This same Dr. Drew? What a surprise.

www.techdirt.com/2020/04/06/d...

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

Trump’s Iran War is as unpopular as the Iraq war was…in 2014.

“No president in modern polling history has launched a major military operation with the public already against him.”