2/2 Alfa-Bank, in case you’ve forgotten…
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2/2 Alfa-Bank, in case you’ve forgotten…
www.justsecurity.org/72262/the-tr...
1/2 Watching Senator Whitehouse’s epic journey through the connections between Epstein and Russia, I was reminded of the mysterious Alfa-Bank-Trump Tower connection that surfaced during the 2016 election and its aftermath.
www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...
It’s something. But it’s not enough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
“A report by the National Intelligence Council completed before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran assessed that even a large-scale military assault on the country would be unlikely to topple its theocratic government…”
In case you were thinking that there was a valid point to any of this.
“The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin”: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.
Flew out of Detroit yesterday morning and she was still looking down on the security line like some malevolent, off-brand saint.
“Tehran has supplied the Kremlin with thousands of Shahed attack drones used to bombard Ukraine’s cities and critical infrastructure.”
Ah.
www.ft.com/content/19be...
Meaning that Iran was/is supplying weapons to Russia? Or that Russia was/is storing weapons on Iran’s behalf?
You get the sense the Secretary of War is Hell spends a lot of his time testing lines in front of a mirror?
“In making her the first cabinet official to be pushed out of a job in his second term, Mr. Trump did not condemn the mass deportations and aggressive tactics Ms. Noem enthusiastically embraced under the watchful eye of Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda…”
Her blanky?
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Someone has to stop this madman.
Of course, Orwell never said it:
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/rough-men-st...:
Good news. Noem is out.
Bad news. She’s being replaced by… Markwayne Mullin.
Karma?
Also:
Always impressed by AOC’s candor and clearheadedness.
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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...
Hegseth wants the people he sends to fight trump’s war of opportunity to die in anonymity.
Probably so. Just not the situation he means.
“The school was next to a naval base belonging to Iran’s most powerful military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The school building was once part of the military site, satellite images…show, but by 2016, the building had been walled off and was no longer connected to the base.”
“The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to three Iranian officials…”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
For the record:
Proactive:
“creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.”
A titillating exhibition of 50 year old graphic design posters of Malcolm Garrett, Peter Seville et al proves punk was modernism’s last breath.
“I don’t think the administration has sought to mislead, but one does get the sense that they are building the aircraft mid-flight.”
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“President Trump, speaking Monday, said the U.S. was running out of time to ‘eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime…’”
I read this and thought, “Right on!”
Then I realized that he was not talking about his own administration.
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A preemptive strike?
