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Massive war price tag could be a massive problem for GOP leaders The prospect of a ballooning new spending bill has GOP leaders bracing for a messy internal fight.

remember when the political press spent the last year helping Republicans pretend that MAGADOGE was a good faith effort at government efficiency and fiscal responsibility?

Because they don't.

President Trump has reviewed a plan to claim emergency powers in order to issue an executive order that would mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots, The Washington Post reported last week.

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Wut? I thought it was “trillions”?!

Damn reply guys.

Yes, I got that.
Thanks though.

Joe Biden created 15 million jobs during his presidency. That’s over 72,000 jobs per week

These idiots can’t match that figure in two months. Yet they continue to gaslight America about the strength of the economy

“In fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.” — Umberto Eco

"A man who believed he was waging a holy war against the all-seeing eyes of Portland’s automatic traffic enforcement system has been sentenced to two years in prison."
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

WTF ?

He should try again now.

She wanted to protest ICE. Her Utah city tried to charge her $2K to do it. Legal experts say a Utah city's attempt to charge a resident $2,000 in police fees to hold a protest was unconstitutional.

"City Hall tried to charge her $2,000 for “police fees” related to the protest, Inkley pushed back. After First Amendment experts called the fee unconstitutional, city officials said they would back away from charging it."

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...

And since Trump fired the people who were honestly reporting all the job losses under his regime,

This number is surely much higher.

Noem is gone, sort of, but there are lessons to be learned from her tenure, how she was fired, and why it didn’t happen earlier, why the Senate confirmed her in the first place, that we can”t afford to ignore joycevance.substack.com/p/fired-but-...

NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

put it in a museum

Trump envoy 'forever linked to cataclysmic failure of diplomacy': ex-UK special advisor In addition to his work as a journalist, British reporter Ben Judah is known for his work in the U.K. government — where he served as a special adviser to David Lammy in the Foreign Office. And in an article published by the i Paper in the UK on March 6, Judah recalls his initial reaction after learning that U.S. President Donald Trump had chosen real estate mogul Steve Witkoff as a special envoy to the Middle East. "Had Trump really appointed some real estate pal of his to wrap up the Gaza War?," Judah remembers. "There was a mixture of shock and scorn in the ranks at how this could possibly have come about. A few old hands predicted his time in diplomacy would be a failure. He'd fail to launch. But Witkoff kept on rising, as the Democrats levelled accusations he sought to enrich himself and the Trump family with fabulous real estate deals in Russia, even Iran, once he'd landed those prize-winning peace deals." Judah recalls that native New Yorker Witkoff was quite "globalized" when Trump appointed him yet is "very different from a diplomat" in his outlook. Witkoff, Judah argues, is very much a reflection of the second Trump Administration —which, he warns, is showing a total disregard for diplomacy during its war against Iran. "The fact is that Trump is not running an administration but a court — where the closeness and confidence of the king is key," Judah laments. "A court where (Israeli Prime Minister) Bibi Netanyahu would turn out to be the greatest courtier. The rise of Witkoff was a story of taking on more and more for the boss. The truth is, in politics, that's not always a good thing. Because when it goes wrong, it's suddenly all on you. There was no grand deal to trumpet for Trump on Fox this week." Judah continues, "Instead, Witkoff marched through making a series of nuclear justifications that will be pored over by Democrats, historians and journalists like Colin Powell’s at the United Nations on the eve of the Iraq War. Whatever happens now, Witkoff's rise will never end at a Nobel gala night in Oslo. Instead his name will forever be linked to a cataclysmic failure of diplomacy. Then again, maybe it was always thus. No crying in the casino, as they say. One's rise and success can easily turn into catastrophic disaster, with you owning the mess, if you play at the highest stakes on the world stage."

Trump envoy 'forever linked to cataclysmic failure of diplomacy': ex-UK special advisor

Ai boosters are misinformation peddlers who have been lying about this since 2023 when they lied and said gpt 4 tricked a Taskrabbit into solving a captcha (it didn’t do this btw). These lies have enriched other liars and killed people and they are responsible

And when any news outlets write about the Trump/Rubio killing of US diplomacy, they better use ACTIVE VOICE.

I am *obsessed* with Antscan's detailed 3D ants. I wish there were data like these for all critters! #ScienceAdviser @science.org www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🐜

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Before Clovis: Oregon's Ice Age Artifacts are Rewriting Human History A new discovery from Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon adds rare evidence of Ice Age clothing and early human sewing technology to the archaeological record of North America. Researchers identified fragm...

Oregon's Ice Age Artifacts are Rewriting Human History

Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon, directly radiocarbon dated to nearly 12,000 years ago, adds rare evidence of Ice Age clothing and early human sewing technology to the archaeological record of North America. 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/shorts/a7Y0L...

Enjoy the thread. My favorite part is when the author holds up Mike Johnson and Josh Hawley as examples of evangelicals making their presence felt in politics and says we need more like them

but then how will Lutnick's kids get those refunds they bought for pennies on the dollar?

he has been appointed as The Rod Of The Americas

Also, new desperate effort to avoid saying the word "war" just dropped.

"Kinetic conflict." Please.

Yesterday, the war was costing Americans $1 billion per day.

Today that figure has been ratcheted up to $2 billion per day.

Tomorrow, you can be assured that the war will be costing Americans $4 billion per day.

That’s money that could be going towards schools or healthcare or infrastructure.

‘It’s not a mild virus, it’s a severe illness,’ Utah health officials warn as measles cases keep climbing Measles cases continue to climb across Utah, with more than 350 infections reported since June. Health officials say many underestimate how severe the virus can be.

Measles cases continue to climb across Utah, with more than 350 infections reported since June. Health officials say many underestimate how severe the virus can be.

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This census data is for me the secret decoder ring of so much of what’s been going in the US in the last 20 years.

Downthread Kevin gave this context: “In 2006 and after, new home construction collapsed, and that's what moved it far from trend.”