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Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.

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I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

06.03.2026 12:43 👍 2197 🔁 319 💬 88 📌 35
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Trump Announces He Is Replacing Noem With Oklahoma Senator

The correct headline would be Trump says he is nominating MWM to replace - pending senate approval.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 15:33 👍 68 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

05.03.2026 23:02 👍 1439 🔁 515 💬 26 📌 44

The economic story just changed dramatically.

Payrolls fell -92k in Feb. Jan growth was revised down by -4k to +126k. And Dec revisions subtracted -64k to -17k.

Unemployment rate up a tick to 4.4%.

Recession questions are back on the menu

06.03.2026 13:32 👍 1194 🔁 507 💬 77 📌 51
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Workshop on Investigating Prison Book Bans In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to request records, clean up data and shed light on carceral book bans.

For incarcerated people, #books are power are hope. #Bookbans are acts of oppression. Challenging them requires understanding them.

3/18. 1p EST. 👇🏽

@themarshallproject.org hosts a virtual event teaching you how to investigate book bans.

06.03.2026 13:20 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4% Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 50,000 in February while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.

It's Trump's economy now.

Released this morning:

U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/f...

06.03.2026 13:35 👍 199 🔁 76 💬 12 📌 6
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On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of America’s Broken Health Care System — Inside Climate News American farmers are drowning in health insurance costs, while their German counterparts never worry about medical bills. The difference may help determine which country's small farms are better prepa...

Super-interesting discussion of how the US health care “system” leaves farmers less able to invest in better farming practices

apple.news/AX3yxgq3nQHy...

06.03.2026 13:22 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a statement from Rep. Tony Gonzales, reading:

"At 18, I swore an oath to defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. During my 20 years in the military and three terms in Congress, I have fought for that cause with absolute dedication to the country that I love. From overcoming the border crisis to taking a stand with my communities after the worst school shooting in Texas’ history, my philosophy has never changed: do as much as you can, and always fight for the greater good. After deep reflection and with the support of my loving family, I have decided not to seek re-election while serving out the rest of this Congress with the same commitment I’ve always had to my district. Through the rest of my term, I will continue fighting for my constituents, for whom I am eternally grateful. God has a plan for all of us."

Screenshot of a statement from Rep. Tony Gonzales, reading: "At 18, I swore an oath to defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. During my 20 years in the military and three terms in Congress, I have fought for that cause with absolute dedication to the country that I love. From overcoming the border crisis to taking a stand with my communities after the worst school shooting in Texas’ history, my philosophy has never changed: do as much as you can, and always fight for the greater good. After deep reflection and with the support of my loving family, I have decided not to seek re-election while serving out the rest of this Congress with the same commitment I’ve always had to my district. Through the rest of my term, I will continue fighting for my constituents, for whom I am eternally grateful. God has a plan for all of us."

Embattled Rep. Tony Gonzales announces he's dropping out of the runoff resulting from his close second-place finish last Tuesday in his re-election primary.

(Does anybody believe Mike Johnson would have asked Gonzales to drop out if Gonzales had decisively won his primary?)

06.03.2026 04:51 👍 92 🔁 19 💬 9 📌 0
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YOU ASKED FOR THIS!

Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

06.03.2026 03:22 👍 1522 🔁 510 💬 62 📌 107

This is quite an amazing thing for a sitting US senator to say.

05.03.2026 21:32 👍 1238 🔁 252 💬 48 📌 9

Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.

05.03.2026 20:21 👍 1513 🔁 281 💬 23 📌 27

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 👍 5389 🔁 1265 💬 45 📌 46

….huh??

05.03.2026 19:18 👍 586 🔁 64 💬 27 📌 4

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 👍 38914 🔁 8814 💬 1443 📌 293

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

05.03.2026 19:40 👍 2704 🔁 751 💬 55 📌 78

Markwayne Mullin won over 60% of the vote in his most recent election in Oklahoma. He could be in the US Senate the rest of his life in all likelihood. Why would he give that up for DHS?

05.03.2026 19:34 👍 4228 🔁 513 💬 1247 📌 179
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Jeffries calls Kristi Noem "a living breathing article of impeachment"

05.03.2026 19:23 👍 5117 🔁 992 💬 234 📌 80

hahahahahahaha

05.03.2026 19:24 👍 2105 🔁 187 💬 48 📌 1

Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.

05.03.2026 19:17 👍 2152 🔁 473 💬 127 📌 35

It seems exquisitely Trump that Trump allowed Noem to go up to Capitol Hill and get asked on the record if she was doing the wild thing with Corey with only one day left on the job

05.03.2026 19:25 👍 592 🔁 87 💬 13 📌 3

Read the story wot did it*

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

*I mean, it helped

05.03.2026 18:44 👍 115 🔁 36 💬 8 📌 5

always the worst possible people

05.03.2026 18:49 👍 63 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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Middle East war unleashes a new economic shock Since March 2, gas prices in Europe have increased by 50% and oil by 12%, while the Paris stock market has fallen by 4.7%. The economic impact depends on how long the conflict will last, but stagflati...

Since March 2, gas prices in Europe have increased by 50% and oil by 12%, while the Paris stock market has fallen by 4.7%. The economic impact depends on how long the conflict will last, but stagflation is likely.

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

05.03.2026 18:48 👍 87 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 2
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17015 🔁 5936 💬 508 📌 493
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NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

05.03.2026 03:43 👍 1871 🔁 578 💬 75 📌 46
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Neguse: “Where's Safe America Media headquartered?”

Noem: “I don’t know.”

Neguse: “I don’t know either. We can't find it…You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that a $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquart

04.03.2026 19:35 👍 3383 🔁 1106 💬 110 📌 66
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Right Wing Radio Host Wants Someone To 'Take Out' Gov Walz Milwaukee radio squawk show host Dan O'Donnell wants someone to assassinate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

crooksandliars.com/2026/03/righ...
Right Wing Radio Host Wants Someone To 'Take Out' Gov Walz ...

Milwaukee radio squawk show host Dan O'Donnell wants someone to assassinate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

05.03.2026 01:19 👍 318 🔁 98 💬 28 📌 18
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 👍 5502 🔁 2635 💬 280 📌 576

O man

05.03.2026 02:01 👍 95 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 0
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ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

According to eyewitnesses, the agent went on to order the colorful tableau of smiling community members to “stop cooking and playing guitar” and “get the fuck on the ground,” after which he was seen scraping the skin off his knuckles

theonion.com/ice-agent-in...

05.03.2026 01:35 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0