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Marianne Bertrand

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I can’t stand all this crap reporting about Trump looking for “exit ramps” or a “quick end” to the war he started with Iran. Do people think we can just peace out and everything will be fine? We just bombed a large nation and killed a slew of civilians. They’re not going to just let it go. FFS.

10.03.2026 04:08 👍 753 🔁 170 💬 50 📌 9
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Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”

NEW: An inmate overheard guards talking about covering up Epstein’s death. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

08.03.2026 07:12 👍 9876 🔁 4429 💬 343 📌 242

Russia is helping Iran target U.S. troops.

Ukraine is helping the U.S. protect them.

The contrast couldn't be clearer.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 | 🇺🇸🇺🇦

07.03.2026 05:02 👍 139 🔁 57 💬 5 📌 5

350,000 peoples’ lives hang in the balance. A majority entered the U.S. legally and have never been in violation of any immigration law. They’ve had to go through multiple background checks. And yet they’re hanging on by a thread, even though the situation in Haiti hasn’t gotten any better.

07.03.2026 05:12 👍 1526 🔁 436 💬 9 📌 6

White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.”

Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.

07.03.2026 02:39 👍 10285 🔁 3526 💬 201 📌 94
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NOEM: Joe Biden failed North Carolina

ROSS: Listen to me!

04.03.2026 19:16 👍 1778 🔁 458 💬 105 📌 57

They.
Just.
Lie.

05.03.2026 02:59 👍 998 🔁 268 💬 34 📌 6
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AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

05.03.2026 01:34 👍 21553 🔁 5924 💬 393 📌 220

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

04.03.2026 19:03 👍 23832 🔁 9403 💬 1245 📌 614

The air quotes around “Mr Lewandowski is your ‘special advisor,’ correct?” are brilliant. That’s my Norwich neighbor! But facts of this blatant and massive heist are stomach curdling.

04.03.2026 02:44 👍 1181 🔁 244 💬 29 📌 6
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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 24792 🔁 6086 💬 1098 📌 759
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After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

02.03.2026 14:49 👍 568 🔁 363 💬 16 📌 32

Special military operation

02.03.2026 23:58 👍 238 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 2
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Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

03.03.2026 02:17 👍 19711 🔁 6229 💬 611 📌 261
Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:

Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

02.03.2026 23:33 👍 6114 🔁 932 💬 279 📌 178
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

02.03.2026 12:45 👍 7578 🔁 2226 💬 102 📌 107

It’s not the president’s job to know what the fuck he is trying to do, Lindsey Graham?

01.03.2026 18:16 👍 7890 🔁 2013 💬 801 📌 154

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

01.03.2026 20:34 👍 12186 🔁 3672 💬 397 📌 110
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US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation
01.03.2026 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Just wanted to make sure this wasn't lost.

The connection between Epstein, the Dubins, and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Vile stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 08:09 👍 1693 🔁 833 💬 65 📌 50
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😕

01.03.2026 05:39 👍 11033 🔁 2471 💬 256 📌 102
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

28.02.2026 20:55 👍 2104 🔁 715 💬 76 📌 51

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

28.02.2026 16:07 👍 24193 🔁 7252 💬 1320 📌 345
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28.02.2026 17:35 👍 3273 🔁 1227 💬 77 📌 49

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson writing to James Madison, extolled the Constitution for instituting “one effectual check on the Dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body.”

28.02.2026 11:28 👍 468 🔁 183 💬 4 📌 12

let them eat liver

28.02.2026 04:55 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 0
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With the SAVE Act stalled in the Senate, Trump is preparing to turn to Plan B: outright stealing our elections.

Trump's never been more unpopular, so, he's trying to take away the last remaining check on his power: the will of the people.

27.02.2026 00:31 👍 448 🔁 182 💬 21 📌 6
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Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount to be superior.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

26.02.2026 23:01 👍 5052 🔁 1480 💬 267 📌 105

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

27.02.2026 02:21 👍 5800 🔁 1403 💬 73 📌 138
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Netflix exits bidding war for Warner Bros after Paramount offer Netflix said it was backing from buying Warner Bros Discovery's streaming and studio assets, saying the deal was no longer financially attractive.

Netflix drops its bidding war for Warner Brothers and Paramount will soon own CNN and will turn into another CBS. This is a consolidation media which is against anti trust laws and will benefit the regime. Please call your AG esp if you have a democratic one and demand they sue to stop this.

27.02.2026 03:31 👍 482 🔁 284 💬 32 📌 19