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Attorney; Editor-in-Chief, @WMassPI.com; #Spfldpoli when you need it; #MaPoli when you want it. "Retweets" ≠ Seal of Approval. Likes = ??? Fasten your seatbelt, please. "You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." -Samuel Beckett Always Eccles. 1:9

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Rep. Stansbury: Pete Hegseth needs to go
Rep. Stansbury: Pete Hegseth needs to go YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

Time to address the elephant in the room: it is time for Pete Hegseth to go. ⬇️

12.03.2026 00:45 👍 654 🔁 184 💬 44 📌 12
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Briefings: Now the Governor's Council Has a Primary in the 413… — Western Mass Politics & Insight Tara Jacobs, the Governor’s Councilor whose district encompasses the 413, shall have primary challenge from her 2022 rival Michael Fenton.

Even the governor's councilors are getting primary challengers in Wester Mass this year! Tara Jacobs to face off against 2022 rival #Springfield City Councilor Mike Fenton. wmasspi.com/2026/03/brie...

12.03.2026 04:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

For comparison, the entire annual budget in fiscal year 2023 for USAID — an agency decimated last year under Trump, whose administration justified slashing the aid effort as “clearing significant waste" — was around $40 billion.

If the Iran war continues, it'll eclipse that in less than a month.

12.03.2026 02:50 👍 145 🔁 75 💬 3 📌 2

The defining feature of this war thus far is that the US and our allies have basically zero appetite for sacrifice or casualties or friction or attrition because, (and I cannot emphasize this enough), this was not a war that anybody actually believed we needed to fight.

12.03.2026 02:18 👍 326 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 0

Jen's getting at something bigger here – a feature of Trump's character. He assumes nearly all precedent exists because those who preceded him were idiots. He does not (cannot?) imagine that sometimes things are the way they are for good reason. That personality defect is a national security threat.

12.03.2026 02:39 👍 603 🔁 150 💬 12 📌 5

this broadly isn't true (though obviously the religious claims about him are a matter of faith)

11.03.2026 13:53 👍 620 🔁 28 💬 25 📌 6

Not an answer to the question, but I'll admit it took me a few seasons to realize Wheeler from Captain Planet was a douchebag, if an honorable one in the end.

12.03.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can imagine it'll be a problem for the fiolks caught up in the run-of-the-mill stuff JAGs often deal with. Bad—or maybe good—time to get a DUI or have the MP called to a domestic incident.

11.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing more important than content and little more than content to show for it.

11.03.2026 22:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US inews.co.uk/opinion/hegs...

11.03.2026 21:29 👍 800 🔁 199 💬 29 📌 12

Hasnt money been flowing?

11.03.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Joe Rogan Says Trump’s Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War

This is important but he real test here is whether or not Rogan or any of the other brocasters will admit that *they* were wrong to trust Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

11.03.2026 20:52 👍 192 🔁 24 💬 30 📌 5
11.03.2026 20:11 👍 51 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1

The only worse than liberal you can be in Wyoming is "from outta town with an agenda." By contrast, Montana loves carpetbaggers.

11.03.2026 20:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Savage

11.03.2026 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Oh they did such a nice job with him. He looks so lifelike. So peaceful.”

11.03.2026 18:02 👍 889 🔁 78 💬 32 📌 1

There was a pundit class determined to insist that Trump had presided over a durable political realignment, because realignments are sexy.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out to have been the normal political pendulum, which pundits hate.

11.03.2026 14:55 👍 438 🔁 91 💬 12 📌 3

The truth might be more terrifying than ignorance ever could be.

11.03.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blisters if they're lucky. Haglund's deformity is not fun!

11.03.2026 17:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.

Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

11.03.2026 15:27 👍 12751 🔁 7343 💬 986 📌 639

Looking great, sir!!

11.03.2026 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He didn't slave over that hot makeup counter in his office for nothing.

11.03.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Image, people! Image!

11.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When they deploy troops in Iran they’re gonna avoid admitting they put ‘boots on the ground’ by making all the soldiers wear ill-fitting Florsheim loafers

11.03.2026 16:35 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

Maybe we as a species should go extinct sooner rather than later.

11.03.2026 16:16 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1

Today at noon I'll be on a panel with the great @nateraymond.bsky.social about how we cover federal courts today. It'll be followed by a panel on state courts and then a panel of judges! Should be a great event—anyone can sign up here and submit questions: tinyurl.com/covering-cou...

11.03.2026 13:52 👍 60 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...

11.03.2026 15:09 👍 1928 🔁 248 💬 24 📌 7

Went from “Trump is going to make everything cheaper” to “suck it up, buttercup” fairly quickly

11.03.2026 15:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The way to own it.

11.03.2026 14:10 👍 671 🔁 146 💬 24 📌 1

Going great, sir!!

11.03.2026 13:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0