"we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear ... An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law." -- Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for a 6-3 SCOTUS majority
Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) announced for Senate & leaves open #OK01 (Tulsa), which was Trump +22 in 2024
Last 10 US House members to say they're retiring or seeking other office have all been Republicans.
Last D retirement: Julia Brownley (CA) & Steny Hoyer (MD) Jan. 8 (Delegate Norton of DC Jan. 27)
You are forgiven if you thought that Donald J. Trump is a leader
"The Justice Department is investigating Iran’s use of Binance to evade U.S. sanctions ... The inquiry puts the world’s largest crypto exchange back in the legal spotlight after its founder ... received a pardon from President Trump in October."
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Cornyn gets defensive with NBC News reporter
Three asterisks to an otherwise decent CPI report:
1) This was before the economic fallout from the war in Iran
2) The very favorable data imputation in the October report (due to the govt shutdown) unwinds after March.
3) Core PCE is running much firmer than CPI, and that wedge widened in Feb
Endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004!
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the coarsening of political discourse, blame Woodrow Wilson for I-Said-Good-Afternoon-ing the boss of the New Jersey Democratic Party machine
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
My lord all we’ve heard from hawks over the last 20 years was there are no Iranian pragmatists so diplomacy is futile. Now these chucklenuts decided the pragmatists were there all along we just have to murder their leader & bomb them to oblivion so they will emerge from the rubble.
Because you sickos love this, here's the updated flip count in legislative seats since the start of Trump's second term, following tonight's Dem win in New Hampshire:
Democrats: 28
Republicans: 0
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
With all of the early vote reporting in the #GA14 (Trump+37) special election:
Shawn Harris (D)- 43.4%
Clay Fuller (R)- 32.3%
Colton Moore (R)- 8.8%
14 Others- 15.5%
This one is almost certainly going to a runoff, but great start for the Dems in NW Georgia.
Decision Desk HQ projects Clayton Fuller and Shawn Harris to advance to a runoff in the special election for Georgia's 14th congressional district.
#DecisionMade: 8:03 pm ET
Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/603734
An Iranian guest commentator said Trump is fighting for “the Epstein Class”
I’m watching the @aljazeera.com stream and they’re all over Lindsey Graham’s we’re-in-it-for-the-oil comments
A related speculative thought
Per NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u... Khamenei "preferred to stay in place and become a martyr" than go "into hiding"
So it wasn't hard to kill him but it made his death harder to cause regime collapse. He made dying for the cause more glorious than quitting.
"Vance’s supporters have alleged in recent months that right-wing influencers are being paid to criticize the vice president online."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
@billscher.bsky.social: US War Hawks helped instigate the war of 1812 because they were too young to remember history and "believed plucking Canada from the British Empire would be a cakewalk." Youth is no excuse, however, for Trump, Netanyahu "and their hype squads..."
Thank you!!!
Many politicians are willing to do the easy thing today and leave the hard thing for someone else tomorrow, but Trump is unusually disinterested in near-term and mid-term consequences
Thank you!
“the Taliban kept fighting for two decades until they…regained power…Iran is a government similar to Afghanistan’s Taliban regime except…it’s much bigger and more deeply entrenched …even if it did fall, we have no reason to believe its followers would vaporize” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/i...
"Starmer’s MPs sound positively buoyant to be at odds with Blair, as large sections of the Labour Party agitate for a move to the left."
“Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback” — my latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/i...
30¢ jump overnight at my corner gas station
Senate Majority Leader Thune still doesn't see a successful way to pass the SAVE America Act via forcing Dems to use a talking filibuster
“Having studied it, researched it pretty thoroughly, you have to show me how in the end it prevails and succeeds. Because I think what has been promised...
noted by @lkrozen.bsky.social
A Public Policy Polling internal poll from Senate Majority PAC sent to PunchBowl shows Talarico in a statistical tie with Cornyn AND Paxton in Texas's Senate race. #TXSen
-Cornyn beats Talarico 44% to 43%
-Talarico beats Paxton 47-45
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The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records
I was curious how Qatar-owned Al Jazeera was going to cover the Iran war as Iran has been attacking Qatar. Well...
