Democrats are threatening to grind the Senate to a halt until the White House provides answers about the Iran war.
A group of Democrats said they’re prepared to hold up floor business unless senior officials testify under oath before key committees about the operation in the Middle East.
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
Under the stewardship of an alcoholic TV host, this is how the Department of Defense is spending our tax dollars:
“Representative Rosa DeLauro has a bill to FULLY fund the following but Mike Johnson is BLOCKING her bill from the floor until they fund ICE and CBP too: 1. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) including the Disaster Relief Fund; 2. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); 3. U.S. Coast Guard; 4. Transportation SEcurity Administration (TSA); 5. U.S. Secret Service; 6. Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC); 7. Science & Technology Directorate (S&T); 8. Office of Inspector General (OIG); 9. Federal Protective Service.”
“The majority of Americans want reforms in the way ICE and CBP have been operating. The reforms the Democrats are holding out for include: No deportation or detention of U.S. Citizens; Prohibit operations at sensitive locations like schools, houses of worship and polling places; Require agents to get a warrant from a judge before kicking in someone's door; No masks; Clear identifying information on uniforms; End racial profiling; Establish use of force policy in law; Allow independent investigations into misconduct; Mandate use of body-worn cameras.”
House GOP & Trump are responsible for the chaos unfolding at America’s airports.
Dems have a bill to fully fund everything (black slide) but ICE & CBP until reforms (blue slide) are agreed upon.
Johnson is blocking the bill. Trump won’t sign anything until the SAVE Act is passed. Pass it on.
Kansas Republicans have failed very publicly an astonishing number of times. We are the trial-sized version of all their crappy policies. But voters never learn.
I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
It’s like not a single person surrounding Trump studied one thing about Afghanistan. When a bombing campaign intentionally makes life this miserable for civilians, all it does it make hardline leadership more attractive and become bulletin board material for extremist groups.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
"Unfortunately, the appearance of armies of the dead, awakened to wage indiscriminate war on all humankind, could potentially push gasoline beyond $3.50 per gallon."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...
A thousand times yes. And this is why the world will never trust us again. There clear ways to get rid of this mad man. And we don’t.
Staff at the nation’s largest ICE detention site have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide.
There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.
He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
New: Democrats asked a federal court to block Trump's 250-ft arch.
Under law, Congress must approve certain monuments in DC.
“This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” @SenAngusKing said.
They also mocked the "vanity" project.
“This is not Pyongyang,” @RepHuffman told me.
This man is dumber than a bag of hammers. At least he’s out of the senate.
PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?
COLBY: Defer to you
R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'
C: Defer to you
R: That was actually you
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
"Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack. No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page."
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
oh no. just no.
the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial
They thought we would eat this shit up.
ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
He knew this when he voted to confirm her. Little late Tillis.
We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.
That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.
Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.
Oh my. Yes. They're testing the fences
