Movies that cost less to make than disgraced former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's $220M ad campaign:
Iron Man
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Top Gun: Maverick
Barbie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)
The Hunger Games
Oppenheimer
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
"As Derek Thompson explained, the Trump regime [has been] doing a Ctrl+F for “monarchy” on the body of American law. They have looked for any statute, ruling, or argument that would allow them to assume suprademocratic powers.
They have been fairly successful."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and Representative Reverend Adam Clayton Powell notwithstanding.
Yes. This should become SOP in confronting Speaker Johnson. On anything. Come armed with printouts and video clips. Of course, he’ll find some other grounds to avoid answering. But force him to confront the thing he pretends not to know anything about.
Here's my deep dive on the 5-year mark of Jan 6 -- The ongoing impact on victims, the lies ... and the continued malignant corrosion of democracy As aired on..... The BBC
All one needs to know about why Scott MacFarlane -- one the of the network's most high-profile and respected correspondents -- left CBS News is spelled out in this tweet of his in January, where he unsubtly calls out his network for not airing his J6 deep-dive report.
It aired, instead, on the BBC.
Ogles: "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie."
Remember in 2019 when GOP Rep. Steve King defended white supremacy? GOP leadership stripped him of his committee assignments.
Now Republicans don't even bother to pretend. Rep. Andy Ogles tweeted today that “Muslims don't belong in American society,” and we all know GOP leadership will do nothing.
Feel for the Iranian people. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w... Gift link.
Timothy Snyder has also been making this point. But, he notes, it doesn’t seem to be working for Trump. At least so far.
Great points from @donmoyn.bsky.social here: Dems will at some point have to break Musk's control over the US government.
"The scale of Musk’s power makes it hard to dislodge him from government, even as the extreme nature of his views make it unsustainable to treat him as a neutral contractor."
War is a tragedy for some Americans but an exciting business opportunity for others.
The piece is actually understated. And every major news organization around the globe should be writing daily about how manifestly unfit Hegseth AND Trump are to be leading a war.
NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane just announced to the newsroom that he's leaving the network after 20 years.
Here's his goodbye note:
Do you read Sam Kriss? Densely clever British writer just posted a brilliant essay on our war. And the hubris of empire.
open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...
I agree that he cares. But does he care enough to change any of his policies?
If you, or one of your loved ones, are one of those people who likes to eat food, you need to read this story.
Because farmers from Poland to Australia to South Dakota are starting to freak out over the insane spike in fertilizer prices.
Gift link ⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's our story on Bari Weiss's increased obsession with Mamdani playing a part in her "Propaganda-palooza" on the Iran War.
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Price of Brent Crude Oil $100 per barrel 90 80 March 3 March 4 March 5 March 6 March 8
“Oil is now around 50 percent more expensive than it was before the United States and Israel began attacking Iran on Feb. 28.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...
Democrats want to get TSA agents paid, but we won't help Republicans cut a blank check to help Stephen Miller terrorize Americans.
And I won’t let Trump blackmail Democrats into funding rogue ICE agents just because he started a war with Iran.
Screenshot of an X post by Jeremy Loffredo saying Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash that liberating the Iranian people is not a goal of the war and that he would accept an undemocratic religious leader if they treated the U.S. and Israel “fairly.” Below is a CNN image of the White House with a graphic saying Trump told CNN he is not worried whether Iran becomes a democracy.
So, like Venezuela, but a lot bloodier and costlier. Great. All for what?
Graham thinks big: once the US has occupied and annex Venezuela and Iran, it will have nearly one-third of all the earth's oil and gas.
2,000 lbs bombs delivered by Trump to Netanyahu without congressional approval are being used right now to destroy Beirut apartment blocks.
Trump’s about-face on the ICE operation in Minneapolis was his first defeat in the 14 months of his second term, and has provided a model for other communities to resist federal cruelty.
https://bit.ly/46FNkXj
“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.”
@postandcourier.bsky.social
www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...
Not just “a“ baseball cap. “The” very baseball cap you can buy at the Trump store. Get’em while they’re hot.
Why? Because he never passed up an opportunity to hawk the merch.
Nothing says dignified transfer quite like hawking your merch over their coffins. Yes. You can have your own for the low, low price of $55.
It’s not just that he’s wearing a hat. He’s hawking his merch
