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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

How Pete Hegseth spends your tax dollars:

- $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home
- $5.3 million for Apple devices
- $15.1 million for ribeye steak
- $6.9 million worth of lobster tail
- $124,000 for ice cream machines newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

Leavitt Admits SAVE Act Will Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote Karoline Leavitt accidentally admitted what opponents of the act have long warned against.

Married women will need to update their identification documentation in order to vote if the SAVE America Act passes Congress, admits White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. newrepublic.com/post/207593/...

What Americans think about the war in Iran, according to recent polls Americans are divided along party lines on U.S. military action against Iran, according to polls conducted since the war began, with most polls showing opposition is higher than support. Polls sugges...

Majority of Americans:

- Oppose Trump's war in Iran
- Don't trust Trump's judgment
- Are anxious about soaring gas prices
- Oppose sending ground troops into Iran

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump Forced to Crawl Back to World Leader He Humiliated With Embarrassing Plea After ridiculing Ukraine’s president, Trump is now seeking the anti-drone help his team waved away.

Major Embarrassment: Trump runs begging to Zelenskyy for help after starting war he didn’t know how to fight www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

While Trump launches us into a new forever war, he’s quietly preparing to take over our elections at home and rig the midterms in his favor.

He knows he can’t win on the merits, so he’s preparing to cheat. We won’t let him get away with it.

Trump Is The Danger He Warned Us About Based on his own tweets, he's incompetent and dangerous.

unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/trum...

Trump Is The Danger He Warned Us About Based on his own tweets, he's incompetent and dangerous.

As he misleads us into ever-increasing dangers at home and abroad, Trump has become the president — and the existential threat — he's spent the past 15 years warning us about.
unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/trum...

Internet meme mocks Trump claim that "We've already won!" with photoshop version of Bush "Mission Accomplished" photo shoot

Bigmouth Strikes Again: unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/bigm...

Republicans are the party of protecting pedophiles and bombing children.

Trump told us who he was in 2012. Will we finally believe him today? Trump has always been an election denier. He has always vilified voting. He has always started with lies, escalated to the courts, and ultimately embraced violent rhetoric.

One of the most important things I have written in a while. I hope you read, learn and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

As Iran war disrupts oil prices, consumers could be 'hammered,' economist says The Iran war may impact U.S. consumers far beyond the gas pump, raising inflation expectations and causing an uptick in the yield on the 10-year Treasury note.

Trump's war set to "hammer" consumers in a moment of rising unemployment and inflation, surging healthcare and child care costs www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/i...

Iran war threatens catastrophic consequences for the oil market, Aramco CEO says Saudi Aramco beats profit estimates and keeps $85 billion payouts as oil prices surge again.

Trump's war threatens catastrophic consequences for the oil market www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/s...

Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation.

“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

2 Teen Mariachi Musicians Released From ICE Detention

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.

Army sergeant from Kentucky killed in Saudi Arabia ‘gave ultimate sacrifice’ Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky., died from injuries sustained during an enemy attack on Saudi Arabia.

Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky., died from injuries sustained during an enemy attack on March 1. Pennington was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, Fort Carson, Colo. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

MTG on how Trump is screwing the American people while waging a costly war in the Middle East that no one asked for.

Putin Says The Energy Crisis Has Arrived, Russia Ready To Work With Europe Oil prices exceeded $100 per barrel on Monday, reaching peaks unseen since 2022, as the Iran war triggered a global energy crisis.

Putin says he will be happy to sell oil to Europe now that his US affiliate has successfully driven the price to $100/barrel www.huffpost.com/entry/putin-...

Trump says Iran war will end 'very soon,' predicts lower oil prices U.S. stock market indexes rose earlier in the day after an initial report that President Donald Trump said he believe the Iran war was largely finished.

Man who promised to end the war in Ukraine on "Day One" now claims he may be able to finish the unnecessary war he started at an unspecified date in the near future. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/t...

Nuclear experts undercut White House claims about Iran reactor at heart of case for war The Trump administration sent negotiators without nuclear expertise to lead talks on Iran’s enrichment program. Now, its public case for war centers on a facility that experts say cannot do what offic...

Nuclear experts reveal that Trump lied us into an unnecessary and unprovoked war in Iran the same way Bush and Cheney did in Iraq www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Reading 1984 in 2026 is like watching the news.

Arendt's "Lying in Politics"

via @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.

This is exactly right.

Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.

We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.

Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.

South Korea to impose fuel price cap to shield economy from energy shock South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Monday that authorities would cap ​domestic fuel prices for the first time in ‌nearly 30 years to contain a spike in prices after the conflict in the Middl...

South Korea to cap domestic fuel prices as the #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis goes global www.reuters.com/business/ene...

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Katie Johnson alleged Trump raped her in 1995. This predates that by several years.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Iran war threatens $11.7 trillion global travel industry as passengers get caught in crossfire Travelers who are far from falling missiles, drone attacks and other geopolitical flashpoints aren't immune to ripple effects.

Trump's illegal war in Iran threatens $11.7 trillion global travel industry as passengers get caught in crossfire www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/i...

United CEO Scott Kirby says higher airfare could be ahead after fuel price spike United CEO Scott Kirby said demand remains high but that fuel prices will hit first-quarter results.

Airfares set to soar as Trump's illegal war in Iran sends fuel prices higher #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/u...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but South Koreans took 6 hours to stop their insurrection, 10 days to impeach the president behind it, and just 6 weeks to convict him. He was sentenced to life in prison 2 weeks ago. Their country's stock market shot up 10%.

Exactly 💯